Writings

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John F. Keep

Dissertation
“Brahms’s Re-Creativity in Opp. 80-90.” Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester (2020). Advised by Jonathan Dunsby.

Publications
“Brahms ‘versus’ Liszt: The Internalization of Virtuosity,” in Liszt and Virtuosity, edited by Robert Doran, University of Rochester Press (2020). 

Conference Talks
“Failed Musical Memory and Intertextuality in Brahms’s Op. 83 Andante.” Society for Music Theory, San Antonio, TX (November 2018).

“Analysis, Intuition, and Performance: Brahms’s Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38, II. Minuet and Trio” (with Daniel Ketter). Music Theory Society of New York State, New York, NY (April 2018).

“Developing Variation as Formal Determinant: Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Perspectives.” Texas Society for Music Theory, Dallas, TX (February 2018).

“Failed Musical Memory and Intertextuality in Brahms’s Op. 83 Andante.” Music Theory Society of New York State, Geneva, NY (April 2017).

Lecture Recitals
“Listening to Clara: Intertextuality in Dichterliebe” (with Sarah VandenBrink, Jung Woo Kim, and Mihai Craioveanu). Hope College (October 2020). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-LnAmJwikY

“The Brahms Violin Sonatas: Three Evenings of Performances and Lectures” (with Paul Hauer). Lawrence University (May 2017).

“The Intrusion of the Fairy Tale: Shades of Lyric Time in Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 4.” Indiana University (April 2012).

Invited Lectures
“Perspectives on Mahler’s ‘Blumine’ and ‘Rückert Lieder.” Pre-Concert Talk for the Minnesota Orchestra (January 2020).

“Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7 and its Intertextual Resonances.” Performing Clara Schumann: Keyboard Legacies and Feminine Identities in the Long Romantic Tradition, Conference at Cornell University (November 2019).
 
“How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place: Brahms’s German Requiem.” Lecture for the Basilica Cathedral Choir at The Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis, MN (October 2019).
 
“Failed Musical Memory and Intertextuality in Brahms’s Op. 83 Andante.” Guest Lecture, Music and Memory Seminar, Lawrence University (May 2017).