• "Right-Hand Technique and Style Change in Early Cinquecento Lute Music," Los Angeles, 1964.
• "Lute Music: Tablatures, Textures and Transcription," Study Session panelist, Chicago, 1973.
• "Dissertation Topics in Lute Music," panelist, Vancouver, 1980.
• "The Rostock Tablatures," Cleveland, 1983.
• "Marco dall'Aquila and Style Change in Lute Music around 1520," Philadelphia, 1984.

Articles, Reviews and Papers:

• "A Letter from Melchior Newsidler," Music and Context: Essays for John M. Ward,  ed. Anne Dhu Shapiro (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985): pp. 352-69.

James Tyler: The Early Guitar: A History and Handbook (London: Oxford University Press, 1980), Lute & Guitar 20 (Jan. 1982): 37.

• Rev. Wolfgang Boetticher: Handschriftlich überlieferte Lauten- und Gitarrentabulaturen des 15. bis 18 Jahrhunderts, RISM Bvii (Munich 1979), Journal of the American MusicologicalSociety, 34 (1981): 339-45 (featured review). 
• Rev. Istvan Homoloya and Gyula Gulyas: Valentine Bakfark: Lutenist from Transylvania (Budapest, 1984), MLA Notes, 44 (1988): pp. 479-9.
• Rev. Vladimir Ivanoff: Das Pesaro-Manuskript: Ein Beitrag zur fruhgeschichte der Lautentabultur (Tutzing, 1988) and Idem., Eine zentrale Quelle der fruhen italienischen Lautenpraxis (Tutzing, 1988), Notes, 46 (1990): pp. 939-41.
• Rev. C. Howell Almonte and Warren E. Hultberg, eds., Fray Thomas de Sancta Maria: Arte de Tañer Fantasia (Pittsburgh, 1991), Notes, 51 (1995): pp. 919-20.

"A Lautenbuch for Princess C. A. A. d'A. from Wilhelm Tappert's Collection," Celebremus: 1984. XII. 14 (Birthday Offering for Martin Bernstein)  NYU Music Department. Re: Canzoni devotti . . . da me J. M. Sciurius. Mus Ms 40151 in Cracow (ex-Berlin)

• Jean-Michel Vaccaro, ed.: Guillaume Morlaye: Oeuvres pour le luth, II: Manuscrits d'Uppsala (Paris 1989), and Andre Souris, et al., eds.:  Nicolas Vallet: Oeuvres pour luth seule: Le Secret des Muses Paris 1989), Notes, 49 (1992): pp. 795-7.

Review, Thysius Lute Book (Dutch Lute Society, 2010), Journal of the Lute Society of America  40 (2007 issued 2010), 78-9.

 

"Briefly Noted: A Physician's Lute Book," Ibid., 81. Re: the Donauseschingen MS (now in Stuttgart)

Articles for The New Grove of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmilan, 1980): 

• Albuzio (Giovanni Giacopo)
• Balletti (Bernadino)--rev.
• Barberiis (Melchiore de)
• Becchi (Angonio di)--rev.
• Bendusi, Francesco)--rev.
• Bianchini (Domenico)
• Bianchini (Francescho)--rev.
• Capirola (Vincenzo)
• Francesco Canova da Milano
• Giovanni Maria da Crema
• Hofstetter (Georg)
• Panhormitano (Bartolomeo lieto)
• Marco dall'Aquila
• Testagrossa (Giovanni)
• Sources of Lute Music (ca. 1490-1800)--37 cols.

Articles for The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, ed. Don Randel (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1986):

Canzona    Capriccio       Fantasia        

Prelude      Ricercar     Tablature  Tiento    Toccata

Toccata di durezze e ligature      Intabulation      

Inganno            Tuck               Tusch            Tocatin

Rasgueado      Sennet            Toc                Glosa

Editions:

The Lute Works of Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543), Harvard Publications in Music, 3 & 4 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), 2-vols.in one; xxxii + 474 pp.

 

Tablature de luth italienne, dit Siena Manuscrit . . . fac-simile du Ms. 28.B.39, La Haye, Gemeentemuseum, Geneva. Minkoff 1988, 18 pp. + 113 fols.

 

(with J. M. Ward), The Königsberg Manuscript: A Facsimile of Ms 285-MF-LXXIX, . . . Vilnius (Columbus [Ohio], Editions Orphee, 1989), 52 + 183 pp. [I researched and penned the preface, "The Manucript and its Context."  John Ward only provided concordances for the English pieces, and accordingly does not even include this work in the bibliography of editions in his biographical article in New Grove.]

 

Teaching and Research Positions:

 

·        Harvard University, Teaching Assistant (G. Wallace Woodworth): “Music One.”

·        New York University, Research Assistant to Gustave Reese

·        University of Southern California (Los Angeles), School, of Music, Instructor/Assistant Professor of Music History and Literature.  Courses: Bibliography and Research Methods, Music before/after 1750, Music Appreciation, Music in Middle Ages, Music in Renaissance, Music in Classical Period, The Bach Cantatas, History of Lute Music, thesis and dissertation advisement, etc.

·        Daemen College (Buffalo, N.Y.). Chairman, Department of Music, and Associate Professor of Music.  Courses: History of Music, Chamber Music Literature, Research Methods, Music Appreciation, etc. Juried all student recitals.  Supervised professional recital series, and wrote press releases for same.

·        State University of New York at Buffalo, State University College at Fredonia.  Adjunct Professor of Music.  Courses: Music History, Music of Bach, History of Lute Music, thesis and dissertation advisement,  etc.