Writings
See full list of writings and presentations at the Norwegian Research Information Repository.
(Book) Music of Absence: An Aesthetics of Loss in the New Millennium (2026). Eds. Christine Dysers, Peter Edwards, Judith Lochhead (Edinburgh University Press).
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The Lament, Loss and the Power of Speaking in Music, in Music of Absence: An Aesthetics of Loss in the New Millennium. (2026) eds. Christine Dysers, Peter Edwards, Judith Lochhead (Edinburgh University Press).
En oppdiktet musikk. Irrasjonell logikk og ekspressiv tilblivelse i Adrian Leverkühns Dr. Fausti Veklage (2025). Agora vol 43, issue 3-4.
Critical Composition, Creativity and Style in "Le Grand Macabre" (2024). In Hiekel, Jörn Peter & Eule, Johann Casimir (Ed.), Zwischen Apokalypse und Groteske György Ligeti: LE GRAND MACABRE. Edition text+kritik (et+k). pp. 85–96.
Death in Music and Music in Death: Reflections on Mortality and Listening in the Performances of Marino Formenti. Co-authored with Uta Sailer (2023). In Marx, Wolfgang (ed.), Music and Death. Boydell & Brewer, 155–169.
Analysing the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: Apparitions of the Past and Future (2022). In Marx, Wolfgang (ed.), I Don’t Belong Anywhere: György Ligeti at 100. Brepols.
En karriere i sang (Frode Olsen interviewed by Peter Edwards) (2022). Scenekunst.no.
Om å synge Fin de partie (Frode Olsen interviewed by Peter Edwards) (2022). Scenekunst.no.
Ideology, Performance, and Ironic Distance in Musical Slapstick (2021). In Ervin Malakaj & Alena E. Lyons (ed.), Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter).
Levy, Benjamin R., Metamorphosis in Music: the Compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s (2021). Music Analysis (vol. 40, issue 2) (Critical review essay).
Bartók, Ligeti and the Innovative Middle Road (2017). In Amy Bauer & Márton Kerékfy (eds.), György Ligeti's Cultural Identities (Routledge).
(Book) György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque (2016) (Routledge).
Convergences and Discord in the Correspondence between Ligeti and Adorno (2015. Music & Letters, 96 (2).
Resisting Closure: The Passacaglia Finale from György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (2015). Music Analysis, 34(3).
Remembrance and Prognosis in the Music of György Ligeti (2015). in Transformations of Musical Modernism, ed. by E. E. Guldbrandsen and J. Johnson, Cambridge University Press.
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