Dr Reuben Phillips

Library Fellow
Reuben Phillips

Dr Reuben Phillips

Library Fellowship, September - December 2020

Reuben Phillips is a musicologist whose work focuses on Austro-German music and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His doctoral dissertation (Princeton University, 2019) examined the composer Johannes Brahms’s engagement with German Romantic literature in the 1850s and ‘60s and was supported by a research grant from the DAAD and awarded the Karl Geiringer Scholarship of the American Brahms Society. He has interests in the history of music theory, particularly Schenkerian analysis, and has also undertaken a research project on the exhumation and reburial of composers in late nineteenth-century Vienna. With Nicole Grimes (University of California, Irvine) he is currently editing a collection of essays that will be published by Oxford University Press under the title Rethinking Brahms.

Since completing his graduate studies Reuben has been the recipient of an Edison Fellowship from the British Library and of short research fellowships from the DAAD and the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung in Berlin. In January 2021 he will take up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford.

 

Project title: Reading Music: A Social History of the Miniature Score, 1875-1925

 

 

Publications arising from IASH Fellowship

Article

‘Handling Tovey’s Bach’. Music & Letters 103 (2022): 464–92.

Blogpost

‘Tovey’s Analyses’, Website of The European Network for Theory & Analysis of Music, https://europeanmusictheory.wordpress.com/tovey-analyses/(published September 2021).