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1984. "Metrical Displacement in Handel's Instrumental Works," unpublished seminar paper, Columbia University, 1984.

1988. "Chromaticism and the Mediant in Four Late Haydn Works," Theory and Practice 13 (1988): 79-114.

1989. "Analysis and Interpretation in the Performance of Handel's Concerto Grossi, Op. 6," Musical Times 130 (March 1989): 138-141.

1990. "Handel's Borrowings from Telemann: An Analytical View," in Trends in Schenkerian Research: 145-168.

1991. "The Two-length Bar Revisited: Handel and the Hemiola," Göttinger Händel-Beiträge 4 (1991): 208-231.

1992. "Nascent Periodicity and Bach's Progressive Galanterien," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AMS, Pittsburgh, 1992.

1995a. "Adjacency and Counterstress: Applying Durational Reduction to Baroque Music," paper presented at the annual meeting of SMT, New York, 1995.

1995b. "Sequential Expansion and Baroque Phrase Rhythm," paper presented at the annual meeting of AMS, New York, 1995.

1996a. "Austrian Collection in the New York Public Library: Heinrich Schenker's Papers in the Oster Collection," paper presented at the Millenium Conference, Ottawa, 1996. Publication plans by the Editor of the conference proceedings, Walter Kreyszig, have been abandoned.

1996b. "Bach's Periodicities Re-Examined," in The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995: Selected Proceedings, Vol. 1: 86-102.

1996c. "Beethoven and Handel: The Significance of a Borrowing," paper presented at the Millenium Conference, Ottawa, 1996.

1996d. "Handel, the Sarabande, and Levels of Genre: A Reply to David Schulenberg," Music Theory Online 2/7 (November 1996), at http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.7/
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1996e. "More on Handel and the Hemiola: Overlapping Hemiolas," Music Theory Online 2/3 (March 1996), online at http://smt.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.96.2.3/
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1998. "Stress and Counterstress: Accentual Conflict and Reconciliation in J.S. Bach's Instrumental Works," Music Theory Spectrum 20/2 (Fall 1998): 280-304.

1999. "Sequential Expansion and Handelian Phrase Rhythm," in Schenker Studies 2: 192-221.

2000. "Domenico Scarlatti and the Hidden Voice Exchange," paper presented at the annual meeting of SMT, Toronto, 2000.

2006. "Baroque Styles and the Analysis of Baroque Music," in Structure and Meaning in Tonal Music: Essays for Carl Schachter.
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2007. "Bar 0 and the Suppressed Hyperdownbeat"
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2007. "Kirnberger's 4/4 Meters and Handel's Basic Paces: The Growth of Temporal Narrativity Across Four Decades of Composition."
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2007. "Metrical Displacement and Metrically Dissonant Hemiolas." [original version]
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2007. "Mozart and the English Suites: Borrowings, Isorhythm, and Plasticity"
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2007. "On Irregularity in Baroque Phrase Rhythm"
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2007. "The Polyphonic Ursatz"
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2009. "Beethoven and Handel: The Significance of a Borrowing"
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2009. "Sequential Expansion and Baroque Phrase Rhythm"
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2009. " Then and Now: Heinrich Schenker's Analysis of the Sarabande from Bach's E minor English Suite "
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2010. "Domenico Scarlatti and the Hidden Voice Exchange."
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2013. "Metrical Displacement and Metrically Dissonant Hemiolas," Journal of Music Theory 57/1 (Spring 2013): 87-118 [an expanded revision of 2007, above].

2015. "Ernst Oster's Vision of Hidden Repetitions and Motivic Enlargements in J. S. Bach's Short Keyboard Works," in Bach to Brahms: Essays on Musical Design and Structure, edited by David Beach and Yosef Goldenberg (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2015): 157-170.

NB: More complete bibliographic information on the collections in which some of these articles are published is listed in the Bibliography under the title of the collection.

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