Revised 17 October 2008

Publications of Nigel Nettheim.

The publications are given in the order: latest first. Some synopses and errata are indicated.

Some of the publications (as indicated) may be read on-line. More are being processed for this purpose.

Articles:

  1. "Pachmann at Age Twelve". [So far published only on this web site], October 2008. Read on-line.
  2. "How World Views may be Revealed by Armchair Conducting: Composer-Specific Computer Animations" JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning, 5 (Summer 2007). This is an online journal at http://musicandmeaning.net/issues.php.
  3. "Lateral Thinking and Literal Thinking in Schubert's Morgengruss". [So far published only on this web site], 16 March 2007. Read on-line
  4. "The composer with whom Schubert has the closest affinity" (Essay competition). The Schubertian, 49 (October 2005): 8-11.
  5. "Schubert's Low Notes". The Schubertian, 47 (April 2005): 13.
  6. "'Armchair conducting' animations for Mozart and Schubert". Kopiez, Reinhard, Andreas C. Lehmann, Irving Wolther and Christian Wolf, editors: Proceedings of the 5th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Hanover University of Music and Drama, September 8-13, 2003 (pp.111-115). Published on a CD which may be ordered from Reinhard Kopiez (kopiez@hmt-hannover.de).
  7. "A Composer-specific Conducting Simulation". Australian Association for Research in Music Education. Proceedings of the XXIVth Annual Conference, Adelaide 2002. Melbourne: AARME, 2002 (pp.127-137).
  8. "Two Mozart Fingerprints Related to the Becking Conducting Curve". [So far published only on this web site], 25 January 2003. Read on-line
  9. Gustav Becking: Der Musikalische Rhythmus als Erkenntnisquelle (Musical Rhythm as a Source of Insight), German text and English translation of the Introductory chapter. [So far published only on this web site], 1 December 2001. Read on-line
  10. "Vladimir de Pachmann, Pianist (1848-1933): a Discography / Rollography". [So far published only on this web site], 30 November 2001. Read on-line
  11. "Maryla Jonas, Pianist (1911-1959): a Discography". [So far published only on this web site], 10 September 2001. Read on-line
  12. "A Musical Microscope Applied to the Piano Playing of Vladimir de Pachmann". [So far published only on this web site], 23 August 2001. Read on-line
  13. "Vladimir de Pachmann". Article in: Stanley Sadie & John Tyrrell, eds, The Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Hampshire: Macmillan, 2001. (Vol.18, p.857.) Read on-line
  14. "Schubert's implied simile". The Schubertian, 31 (January 2001): 2-3. Read on-line
  15. "Matching Schubert's Scores to his Conducting Beat". Paper presented by video from Australia on 1 July 2000 at the Leeds International Schubert Conference, 29 June - 2 July 2000.
  16. "A Schubert Fingerprint related to the theory of Metre, Tempo and the Becking Curve". Systematische Musikwissenschaft (Systematic Musicology), 6 (1998): 363-413 (published in 2000). Read on-line
  17. "The Deceptive Simplicity of Mozart's Sonata K. 283". Clavier 38/10 (December 1999): 25-28.
  18. "The Statistics of Schubert's Keys". The Schubertian, 26 (September 1999): 2-3. Read on-line
  19. "Melodic Pattern-Detection Using MuSearch in Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin". Chapter 8 (pp.159-164) in Melodic Similarity: Concepts, Procedures, and Applications. Computing in Musicology 11, edited by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998.
  20. "Discovering Franz Schubert". The Schubertian 22 (September 1998): 8-9. Read on-line
  21. "A Bibliography of Statistical Applications in Musicology". Musicology Australia 20 (1997): 94-106. Read on-line
  22. "A song without words and a song with words". Key Vive 86 (January 1998): 8. [Mendelssohn Op. 92, Schubert D957/3.] Read on-line
  23. "Schubert's Schoolboy Humour". The Schubertian 19 (December 1997): 10-11. [Schubert D15, "Hickory, dickory, dock".]
  24. "Computers and Music", "Hmelnitsky". Articles in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Oxford University Press, Melbourne (1997): 144-5, 275-6.
  25. "How Musical Rhythm reveals Human Attitudes: Gustav Becking's Theory". International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 27/2 (1996): 101-122. [Errata: p.107 line -4: Schütz -> Schulz; p.121 line -3: Weldbild -> Weltbild.] Read on-line
  26. "Accompanying Schubert's 'Der Lindenbaum'". Piano Journal 18, No. 52 (1997): 15-21. Read on-line
  27. "The Derivation of Chopin's Fourth Ballade from Bach and Beethoven". The Music Review 54/2 (1993): 95-111 (published May 1996). [Chopin Op. 52, Bach WTC I/22 etc., Beethoven Op. 57/3; Chopin Op. 28/24, Beethoven Op. 57/I.] Read on-line
    Also published in Spanish translation by Juan Carlos Lores as "La Derivación de la Cuarta Balada de Chopin a partir de Bach y de Beethoven", Quodlibet 29 (2004): 122-144.
  28. "Schubert's G-flat Impromptu Interpretation". Clavier 35/4 April 1996): 16-19,34. [Errata July 1996 p.46.]
  29. "The pulse in German folksong: a statistical investigation". Musikometrika 5 (1993): 69-89. [Proof corrections were not implemented in the printed paper — a corrected copy is available from the author.] Read on-line
  30. "On the Accuracy of Musical Data, with Examples from Gregorian Chant and German Folksong". Computers and the Humanities 27 (1993): 111-120.
  31. "Comment on 'Patterns of expressive timing in performances of a Beethoven minuet by nineteen famous pianists' [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 88, 622-641 (1990)]". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 94 (1993): 3001-3003 (refereed Letter to the Editor, with Reply pp.3004-3005).
  32. "The Language of Music in Schubert's Corpse-Fantasy". The Music Review 51/4 (1990): 290-295 (published late 1992). [Schubert D7, Cooke (1959).]
  33. "On the spectral analysis of melody". Interface: the Journal of New Music Research 21 (1992): 135-148. Read on-line
  34. "De Pachmann's Piano Fingerings". Clavier 31/3 (March 1992): 14-16. [Chopin Op. 57.]
  35. "How the young Schubert borrowed from Beethoven". The Musical Times (July 1991): 330-331. [Schubert D48; Beethoven Op. 13/I, Op. 57/III, Op. 3-2/I.] Available online at Jstor.
  36. (with I. Hmelnitsky) "Weight-bearing Manipulation: A Neglected Area of Medical Science Relevant to Piano Playing and Overuse Syndrome." Medical Hypotheses 23 (1987): 209-17. Read on-line
  37. (with M.Clynes) "The Living Quality of Music - Neurobiologic Patterns of Communicating Feeling", Chapter 4 (pp. 47-82) of Music Mind and Brain: The Neuropsychology of Music, ed M.Clynes, Plenum Press, New York (1982).
  38. "Comment on a Paper by Gabriel on Cooke's Theory". Psychology of Music 7 (1979): 32-33.
  39. "Keyboard Design and Psychophysics". Psychology of Music 7 (1979): 36-41.
  40. "A Spectral Study of Overadjustment for Seasonality". American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section (1965); also published as U.S.Census Bureau Technical Paper and as Stanford University Technical Report No 1 (1965). Purchase hard-copy.
  41. "Fourier Methods for Evolving Seasonal Patterns". Journal of the American Statistical Association 60 (1965): 492-502.

Reviews:

Book Reviews:

  1. "Schubert the Progressive - a few details". The Schubertian, July 2003: 23.
  2. "The Pianist's Talent" by Howard Taylor. Key Vive, May 1995: 14-15. Read on-line
  3. "Aspects of Cortot" by Thomas Manshardt. Key Vive, Sep 1994: 10-12. Read on-line

Video Reviews in Australian Music Teacher:

  1. "Artur Rubinstein: The Last Recital for Israel". Vol 6 No. 4 1998: 223.
  2. "The Anatomy of a Piano". Vol 6 No. 3 1998: 166-167.
  3. "The Art of Singing". Vol 5 No. 6 1997: 391.
  4. "Vladimir Horowitz: A Reminiscence". Vol 5 No. 4 1997: 248.
  5. "The Glenn Gould Collection: Mostly Strauss". Vol 5 No. 4 1997: 248-249.
  6. "Hiefetz, Piatigorsky". Vol 5 No. 2 1996: 111-112.
  7. "Russian Archives: Oistrakh and Richter". Vol 5 No 1 1996: 44.
  8. "Claudio Arrau: The 80th Birthday Recital". Vol 4 No 6 1996: 427.
  9. "In Celebration of the Piano". Vol 4 No 5 1995: 362.
  10. "Maria Callas: Paris Debut, 1958". Vol 4 No 4 1995: 290.
  11. "The Art of Conducting". Vol 4 No 3 1995: 216.
  12. "The Golden Age of the Piano". Vol 4 No 2 1995: 133-134.

Electronic text:

"Franz Schubert's Letters and Other Writings", translated by Venetia Savile, prepared and released on the Oxford Text Archive, 1994.

Computer program:

ESSCORE 1990, incorporated into the University of Essen's system MAPPET: Musik, Analyse, Play-in and Play-back für Esac Transkriptionen. (Translates ESAC music data files into SCORE music data files.)

Dissertations:

  1. "Schubert's Early Progress: On the Internal Evidence of his Compositions up to Gretchen am Spinnrade", Ph.D., UNSW (1999). This can be read or downloaded at http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20010517.134520/index.html.
  2. "Schubert's earliest works: an analytical study", M.Litt., UNE (1990).
  3. "On the early pianoforte fantasies of Schubert — a study of the development of his compositional resources", B.Mus., NSW Conservatorium of Music (1988).
  4. "The Estimation of Coherence", Ph.D., Stanford University (1966).
  5. "The Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Data by Spectral Methods", M.Ec., ANU (1964).
  6. "Regression Analysis in Sample Surveys", B.Ec. honours, Sydney University (1960).

Miscellaneous Publications:

  1. "A Quick Introduction to Chess Problems and Endgame Studies", Australian Chess, Vol. 5 No. 6 (November 2007): 38-43. First published at http://www.actjcl.org.au/ausjuniors2007/introtoproblems.php
  2. "The Bradman Legacy". The Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, Vol. 28 No. 2, June 2001, 66. (Correspondence with Sir Donald Bradman.)
  3. Annotated Membership List. Musicological Society of Australia, July 1996; September 1998. (Booklets.)

Musical Compositions:

  1. "Seven Songs from a Journey", poems by Judith Wright, for voice and piano, Sydney, 1991. Stiles Music Publications (S59, 2003).
  2. "Poems on Music", poems by Kenneth Slessor, for voice and piano, Sydney, 1991 (unpublished).
  3. Shakespearean Songs, for voice and piano, Toronto, 1970's (unpublished).
  4. Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, for woodwind quintet, Toronto, 1972 (unpublished).

Letters to the Editor:

  1. "Whisk it or Risk It". Clavier, October 1998, p.2.
  2. "Hofmann or Godowsky?". Clavier, February 1997, p.2 (with response).
  3. "Four questions". The Schubertian, November 1996, p.10.
  4. "Horowitz's Playing". Clavier, November 1996, pp.4,44. (Response Vol 36/5 May/June 1997 p.2.)
  5. "Richter Friends". Clavier, July/August 1996, p.40. (Response Vol 35/10 December 1996 p.38.)
  6. "President's Remarks". Printscreen, October 1995, pp.2,20 (Magazine of the Sydney PC Users Group).
  7. "A Time-oriented Taxonomy of Computer Music", Computer Music Journal, 19/1, Spring 1995, p.5.
  8. "Freezing out our visitors". Uniken, 29th July 1994, p.12.
  9. "Schumann's maxims". Key Vive, No.74, January 1994, p.3.
  10. "Competitive Improvisation". Key Vive, No.72, May 1993, p.12.
  11. "On Repp's analysis of pianists' timings". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1993 -- see Publications).
  12. "Barere article". Key Vive, No.69, May 1992, p.2.
  13. "Pedaling Puzzle". Clavier, September 1991, p.4.
  14. "The Importance of Hyphens". Uniken, 2nd August 1991, p.12.
  15. "The Ultimate Test". Sydney Morning Herald, 5th April 1991, p.10.
  16. "Tone Controversy". Clavier, March 1991, p.4.
  17. "Bring Back Improvisation". Sydney Morning Herald, 30th July 1981.
  18. "Fuming at the quayside". Sydney Morning Herald, 13th July 1981.
  19. "Late-night television 'disturbing'". Toronto Star, Canada, 13th May 1980, p.A9.
  20. "Hark Hark the Lark". Sunday Star, Toronto, Canada, 2nd March 1980, p.B4.
  21. "Longevity at the piano keyboard". Toronto Star, Canada, 24th January, 1972, p.?.

Published Solutions to Mathematical Problems:

Mathematics Magazine, Mathematical Association of America:

  1. Vol 44/3 May 1971 p.168 ("Prime Decomposition") Read on-line
  2. Vol 43/4 Sept 1970 pp.229-230 ("Parallelepiped Volume") Read on-line
  3. Vol 42/4 Sept 1969 pp.216-218 ("Twelve-Tone Scale?") Read on-line
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