Publications
Publications
Book chapters
“Criteria for Analysis: A Reassessment of Riemann’s Mature Theory of Meter.” In Riemann Studies, eds. Alexander Rehding and Ed Gollin. New York, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“The ‘Tempest’ Exposition: A Springboard for Form-Functional Considerations.” In Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata: Perspectives of Analysis and Performance. Ed. Pieter Bergé, co-eds. Jeroen D’hoe and William E. Caplin, 87–125. Leuven: Peeters, 2009.
“Schoenberg’s ‘Second Melody,’ Or, ‘Meyer-ed’ in the Bass.” In Communicative Strategies in Late 18th-Century Instrumental Music, eds. Danuta Mirka and Kofi Agawu, 160–88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
“The Genesis of the Countersubjects for the Grosse Fuge.” In The String Quartets of Beethoven, ed. William Kinderman, 234–61. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
“Theories of Musical Rhythm in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” In The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, ed. Thomas Christensen, 657–94. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
“Structural Expansion in Beethoven’s Symphonic Forms.” In Beethoven’s Compositional Process, ed. William Kinderman, 27–54. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.
Conference proceedings
“Zur Klassifizierung harmonischer Fortschreitungen.” In Musiktheorie zwischen Historie und Systematik: 1. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, Dresden 2001, ed. Ludwig Holtmeier, Michael Polth, and Felix Diergarten, 245-54. Augsburg, 2004.
“Harmonic Variants of the ‘Expanded Cadential Progression.’” In A Composition as Problem II: Proceedings of the Second International Estonian Music Theory Conference,” ed. Mart Humal, 49–71. Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Music, 2000.
“Analysis Symposium: The Andante of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor.” In A Composition as Problem II: Proceedings of the Second International Estonian Music Theory Conference,” ed. Mart Humal, 155–62. Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Music, 2000.
Articles in journals
“On the Relation of Musical Topoi to Formal Function.” Eighteenth-Century Music 2/1 (2005): 113–24.
"North American Approaches to Musical Form." Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 2, no. 2 (2005): http://www.gmth.de/www/artikel/2005-04-10_11-04-06_7/.
“The Classical Cadence: Conceptions and Misconceptions.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 57/1 (Spring, 2004): 51–117. Winner of 2006 Prix Opus for “Article of the Year,” Conseil québécois de la musique.
“The Classical Sonata Exposition: Cadential Goals and Form-Functional Plans.” Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie 6/3 (2001): 195–209.
“Hybrid Themes: Toward a Refinement in the Classification of Classical Theme Types.” Beethoven Forum 3 (1994): 151–65.
“History of Theory in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Survey of Recent Research.” Music Theory Spectrum 11/1 (1989): 29–34.
“The ‘Expanded Cadential Progression’: A Category for the Analysis of Classical Form.” Journal of Musicological Research 7 (1987): 215–57.
“Funktionale Komponenten im achttaktigen Satz.” Musiktheorie 1/3 (1986): 239–60.
“Riemann’s Theory of Dynamic Shading: A Theory of Meter?” Theorea 1 (1985): 1–24.
“Moritz Hauptmann and the Theory of Suspensions.” Journal of Music Theory 28/2 (1984): 251–69.
“Tonal Function and Metrical Accent: A Historical Perspective.” Music Theory Spectrum 5 (1983): 1–14.
“Harmony and Meter in the Theories of Simon Sechter.” Music Theory Spectrum 2 (1980): 74–89.
“Der Akzent des Anfangs: Zur Theorie des musikalischen Taktes.” Zeitschrift für Musiktheorie 9/1 (1978): 17–28.
reviews
The Rhythms of Tonal Music, by Joel Lester. Journal of the American Musicological Society 41/2 (1988): 382–92.
Viennese Harmonic Theory from Albrechtsberger to Schenker and Schoenberg, by Robert Wason. Music Theory Spectrum 8 (1986): 140–43.
The Strict Art of Musical Composition, by Johann Philipp Kirnberger, trans. David Beach and Jurgen Thym. Journal of Music Theory 28/1 (1984): 124–28.
Beyond Schenkerism, by Eugene Narmour. Zeitschrift für Musiktheorie 9/2 (1978): 52–54.
Analyzing Classical Form: A Text. New York: Oxford University Press, under contract, anticipated date of publication, 2012; ca. 550pp.
Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998; paperback ed., 2001. Winner, 1999 Wallace Berry Book Award, Society for Music Theory.
William Caplin, James Hepokoski, and James Webster. Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections. Ed. Pieter Bergé. Leuven: University of Leuven Press, 2009.
Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata: Perspectives of Analysis and Performance. Ed. Pieter Bergé, co-eds. Jeroen D’hoe and William E. Caplin. Leuven: Peeters, 2009.
Books