Back

Violin      Composition      Improvisation      Shows      Links      Biography      Research      Research Group     C.V.     email me

Books













Books:

Hearing with the Mind: Proto-Cognitive Music Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment. In press, Oxford University Press

Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory, edited by Thomas Christensen, Lester Hu, and Carmel Raz. Under contract, the University of Chicago OPS.

Lexikon Schriften über Musik III: Musikästhetik in globaler Perspektive., edited by Carmel Raz, Felix Wörner and Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann. Under contract, Baerenreiter Verlag.       

The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity, 1800-1930, edited by Francesca Brittan and Carmel Raz. Under contract, the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Sound and Sense in British Romanticism, edited by James Grande and Carmel Raz. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Open Access:   https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277839     Download.

Articles:

“Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 75.1 (2022): 1-37.       Link

“‘To ‘Fill Up, Completely, the Whole Capacity of the Mind’: Listening with Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland.” Music Theory Spectrum 44.1 (2022): 414-154.       Link

“The Kinetic Universe of Philippe Leroux’s De La Texture (2007): Drum Rudiments, Waveform Profiles, and Process Polyphony.” Music Theory and Analysis 8.2 (2021): 327-340.           Link

“Séances, “Sperrits,” and Self-Playing Accordions: Musical Instruments in Victorian Spiritualism.” Journal of Musicology 38.2 (2021).       Link

“How the Sheng became a Harp,” Journal of Sound Studies 6.2 (2020): 239-256. doi 10.1080/20551940.2020.1794648.       Link    

“Attention, Anxiety, and Audition’s Histories,” (co-authored with Francesca Brittan), introduction to colloquy on “Music and Forms of Attention in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72.2 (2019), 541–546.       Link    

“Talking to the Hand: The “Hysterical Epistemology” of the Migrating Sensorium,” Colloquy on “Music and Forms of Attention in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72.2 (2019), 552–557.       Link     Download

“An Eighteenth-Century Theory of Musical Cognition?: John Holden’s Essay Toward a Rational System of Music (1770),” Journal of Music Theory 62.2 (2018): 205–248.       Link     Download

“Anne Young’s Introduction to Music (1803): Pedagogical, Speculative, and Ludic Music Theory,” SMT-V: Videocast Journal of the Society for Music Theory 4.3 (October, 2018).       Link

“Anne Young’s Musical Games (1801): Music Theory, Gender, and Game Design,” SMT-V: Videocast Journal of the Society for Music Theory 4.2 (September, 2018).      Link

“Music, Theater, and the Moral Treatment: the Casa dei Matti in Aversa and Palermo.” Special issue on “Italian Music and the Medical Sciences,” Laboratoire italien 20.2 (2017).      Link    Download

“‘The Expressive Organ Within Us’: Ether, Ethereality, and Early Romantic Ideas about Music and the Nerves.” 19th-Century Music 38.2 (2014): 15–144.      Link     Download

“The Lost Movements of Ernst Toch’s ‘Gesprochene Musik,’” Current Musicology 97 (2014): 37–59.     Link     Download

“From Trinidad to Cyberspace: Reconsidering Toch’s Geographical Fugue.” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 9.2 (2012): 227–243.      Link     Download

“Wagnerpunk: A Steampunk Reading of Patrice Chéreau’s Staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen (1976).” Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies 4.2 (2011): 91–107.     Link     Download




Special Issue

Francesca Brittan and Carmel Raz, Eds. Colloquy on “Music and Forms of Attention in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72.2 (2019), 541–80.



Chapters:

“Of Sound Minds and Tuning Forks: Neuroscience’s Vibratory Histories.” In The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future, ed. Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, Psyche Loui, and Deirdre Loughridge. MIT Press, 2023, 115-129.

“Operatic Fantasies in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry.” In Staging the Scientific Imagination, ed. David Trippett and Benjamin Walton. Cambridge University Press, 2019, 63–83.

Carmel Raz and Stanley Finger, “Musical Glasses, Metal Reeds, and Broken Hearts: Two Cases of Melancholia Treated by New Musical Instruments.” In The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Wellbeing: Historical and Scientific Perspectives, ed. Penelope Gouk, Jacomien Prins, Wiebke Thormaehlen, and James Kennaway. Routledge, 2018, 77–92.

“At Adama: A Musical Vignette.” In Art Musics of Israel, edited by Malcolm Miller, Brepols. Forthcoming

“Tafillalt’s ‘Soulmate’ and the Israeli Piyyut Revival.” In Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas: Musical Exodus, edited by Ruth F. Davis. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 165–180.     Link     Download



Reviews:

Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism by Deirdre Loughridge, Music and Letters 99.1 (2018): 126–128.    Link     Download

Music and the Nerves, 1700–1900, ed. James Kennaway, Social History of Medicine. DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkw003.     Link    Download

“Ossian’s Folk Psychology” by John Savarese, Journal of Literature and Science 7.2 (2014): 90-91 DOI: 10.12929/jls.07.2.10.     Link     Download

“Cute Boy, Charming Girl: Children's Songs of the Modern Hebrew Nation (1882-1948)” Asian Music (2014), 45:2, 132–133.     Link      Download



Other Writings:

Entries in Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press.
    “John Holden” In Press.
    “Walter Young’” In Press.
    With Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, “Anne Gunn’” In Press.

Entries in the Lexikon der musikalischen Schriften, edited by Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann and Felix Wörner. Bärenreiter Verlag, 2022.
    “John Holden, Essay towards a Rational System of Music;” pp. 388–390.
    “James Beattie, ‘Essays: On Poetry and Music, As They Affect the Mind;’” pp. 92–94.
    With David E. Cohen, “Karl Philipp Moritz, ‘Die Wirkungen der äussern Sinne in psychologischer Rücksicht: Über das musikalische Gehör.’” pp. 605–607.

“Music of the Squares: David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics,” The Public Domain Review, May 16, 2019.     Link      Download

“Going Global, in Theory,” (co-authored with David E. Cohen, Roger M. Grant, Andrew Hicks, Nathan J. Martin, Caleb Mutch, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Felix Wörner, and Anna Zayaruznaya). Musicological Brainfood 3.1 (2019).     Link      Download

“Of Sound Minds and Tuning Forks: Charcot’s Acoustic Experiments at the Salpêtrière, Musicology Now, October 2015.     Link.

Program notes on Ahinoam Nini, Yair Dallal, and Ensemble Tafillalt, “Sounds of Israel” Festival, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, 2012.     Download

“Shulamit Ran’s First String Quartet: In Tune with the Audience and Performer,” Israel Music Institute Presents 2 (2008).     Download