WALTER BAILEY
Associate Professor of Musicology

B. Mus. (1976) Lewis and Clark College M.A. (1979), Ph.D. (1982) University of Southern California. 1102 Alice Pratt Brown Hall 713-348-3493 wbbailey@rice.edu

WALTER BAILEY, Associate Professor of Musicology, received a bachelor of music in composition from Lewis and Clark College and master of arts and Ph.D. degrees in musicology from the University of Southern California. He joined the Shepherd School faculty in 1982. His research interests include opera, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music, American music, and the music of Schoenberg.

Bailey has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Rice University. His articles and reviews have been published in the Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute , the Musical Quarterly , and the Journal of Southern History. He is the author of Programmatic Elements in the Works of Schoenberg , co-author of Radie Britain: A Bio-Bibliography , and editor of the Arnold Schoenberg Companion , to which he also contributed several articles. Bailey teaches music literature, twentieth-century music, American music, and seminars on the music of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Richard Strauss.

Presentations
"The Rice Lectureship in Music: An Important Source for Documenting the Musical Consciousness of Houston in the 1920s." Sonneck Society for American Music National Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, March 11, 1999. Also: American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter Meeting, Baylor University, April 17, 1999.

"Nationalism and Internationalism in the Music of Villa Lobos and Ginastera," Houston Music Teacher's Association, 12 January 1994.

"Introduction to Classical Music." Rice University Continuing Studies. A series of eight classes offered each year, 1990-94.

"Bellini's Norma : Background and Musical Style." Houston Grand Opera Guild, 7 April 1987.

"Strauss, Wilde, and Salome ." Precurtain talk for Houston Grand Opera performances, Jones Hall, Houston, 28 March 1987.

"Aspects of Expressionism in Music," in conjunction with the exhibit "Expressionism, Sight and Sound." Sewall Hall Gallery, Rice University, 29 April 1987.

"The Avant Garde in Houston: A View from Academia." Symposium on Avant Garde Music in the Third Coast Region, New Music America. Houston, 11 April 1986.

"Conservative Elements in Schoenberg's Music." Goethe Institute Lecture Series: Who's Afraid of the Second Viennese School. Houston, 6 April 1984.

"Programmatic Elements in Schoenberg's String Trio." American Musicological Society Annual Meeting. Louisville, Kentucky, 28 October 1983.

Research
The Rice Lectureship in Music in the 1920s .
The Reception of Schoenberg's Music in America, circa 1910-1935.

Publications
"Six Songs, Op. 3," "Eight Songs, Op. 6," and "Six Orchestral Songs, Op. 8" for Schoenberg-Interpretationen seiner Werke (Vienna: Laaber Verlag). In preparation.

"Review of Schoenberg and His World, edited by Walter Frisch (Princeton University Press, 1999," Notes, September 2000, 143-144.

"Schoenberg, Arnold," in The Twentieth-century Music Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitzky. New York: Greenwood (forthcoming).

"Britain, Radie," in The Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Forthcoming.

"Changing Views of Schoenberg," "Biography," and "Schoenberg's Tonal Beginnings," in The Schoenberg Companion, edited by Bailey. New York: Greenwood Press, 1998.

"Review of Susan Curtis; Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin," The Journal of Southern History 61/3 (August 1995), 629-630.

"The Chamber-Ensemble Arrangements of the Orchestra Songs, Opus 8: Realizing Schoenberg's Instructions to his Students." Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 13/1 (June 1990), 63-88.

"Prophetic Aspects of Musical Style in Schoenberg's Early Unpublished Songs." The Musical Quarterly 74/4 (1990), 491-520.

Radie Britain: A Bio-Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. With Nancy Gisbrecht Bailey.

"'Filling in the Gaps': Jean and Jesper Christensen's From Arnold Schoenberg's Literary Legacy, a Catalog of Neglected Items." Book review. Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 12/1 (June 1989), 91-97.

Programmatic Elements in the Works of Schoenberg. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984.

"Oscar Levant and the Program for Schoenberg's Piano Concerto." Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 6/1 (June 1982), 56-79.

"Composer Versus Critic: The Schoenberg-Schmidt Polemic." Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 4/2 (November 1980), 119-37.

"Schoenberg's Published Articles: A List of Title, Sources, and Translations." Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 4/2 (November 1980), 156-91.