Professor Peter Hill - Publications
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
Xenakis and the performer', Tempo 112 (March 1975), pp. 17–22
'The Chinese song-cycles of Brian Dennis', Tempo 137 (June 1981), pp. 23–9.
'Riding the thermals: the piano music of Howard Skempton', Tempo 148 (March 1984), pp. 8–11.
'Authenticity' in contemporary music', Tempo 159 (Dec. 1986), pp. 2–8.
'Why the pianist needs a good ear', Proceedings of the RAMP (Research into aural and musical perception) conference (April 1987), pp. 52–6.
'For the birds' (article on performing Messiaen), Musical Times, Sept 1994, pp. 552–5.
'Nuove strutture, un nuovo virtuosismo: la musica per pianoforte di Messiaen dopo gli anni '40', in Le tentazioni della virtuosita, ed. Enzo Restagno, Milan, 1997, pp 195–217.
`Il Catalogue d´oiseaux di Messiaen´ (from Ovunque lontano dal mondo, ed. Enzo Restagno, Longanesi & C., Milan, 2001, pp 203–217).
`Score into sound´, in Musical Performance: A Guide to Study and Practice, ed. John Rink, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 129–143.
`Messiaen recorded: the Quatre études de rythme´, in Messiaen: Music, Art, Literature, ed. Christopher Dingle and Nigel Simeone, Ashgate, forthcoming.
Books
The Messiaen Companion, Faber & Faber, 581pp. (1995) – published in the United States by Amadeus Press (1996).
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Cambridge University Press, 170 pp. (2000).
Book at press
Messiaen (co-authored with Nigel Simeone) Yale University Press (publication scheduled for September 2005).
Books in preparation
A Messiaen Reader (with Nigel Simeone).
Messiaen and Claire Delbos (with Nigel Simeone).
Messiaen´s `Catalogue d´oiseaux´.
Selected Research Papers
'Problems of interpretation in Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux', Columbia University, December 1990.
'Structure and performance in Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux', Colloquium at the Institute for Advanced Musical Studies,King's College, University of London, 20 January 1993.
`The performance history of The Rite of Spring, Saul Seminar, The British Library, 2 November 1999.
`Composers recorded: historic performances and the challenge to today´s performers´ (given as part of `Music and recording: a century of change´ – study day at The British Library, 24 March 2001).
`The performance history of Messiaen´s Quatre études de rythme´ – keynote paper at the `Messiaen 2002´ conference, University of Sheffield, June 2002.
`Messiaen in the 1950s´ – paper given at Berkeley for a conference organised jointly by the San Francisco Opera and the Faculty of Music to coincide with the production of Messiaen´s Saint François d´Assise.
`Messiaen in the 1950s´ – revised versions of this paper were also given during 2002-3 at the universities of Bangor, Nottingham and Cambridge, at Queen´s University Belfast, and at the Royal Northern College of Music.
`Messiaen´s last decade´, Birmingham Conservatoire, December 2003.