Current Research

Professor Stowell is currently writing a monograph, The Violin, for Yale University Press. He is also engaged in research into historical recordings of chamber music, and he has recently been invited to co-author a scholarly volume on the history of performance.

Research Papers, Public Lectures and Seminars

Recent

·         ‘Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Op. 61: A Franco-Austrian patchwork?’, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 29 April 2005

·         ‘ Henryk Wieniawski: Polish, French, Franco-Belgian, German, Russian, Italian or Hungarian?’, Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society 2nd International Conference, Academy of Music, Poznan, 10 March 2005

·         ‘ Whither the String Quartet?’, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 21 October 2004

·         ‘ The Significance of Early Recordings in 19th-century Performance-Practice Studies’, Queen’s College/CUNY, New York, 19 October, 2004

·         ‘Beethoven's Violin Concerto Op. 61 and Joseph Joachim - a Case Study in Performance Practice’, Harvard University, Boston, 15 October 2004; Mannes College, New York, 18 October 2004

Selected Publications

Books

·         (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (Cambridge: CUP, 2003)

·         The Early Violin and Viola (Cambridge: CUP, 2001)

·         (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Cello (Cambridge: CUP, 1999)

·         (ed.) The Violin Book (London and San Francisco: Outline Press and Miller Freeman, 1999)

·         (with Colin Lawson) The Historical Performance of Music: An Introduction (Cambridge: CUP, 1999; Spanish trans., Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2005)

·         Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Cambridge: CUP, 1998)

·         (ed.) Performing Beethoven (Cambridge: CUP, 1994)

·         (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (Cambridge: CUP, 1992; Chinese trans., Taipei: Mercury Publishing House, 1996)

·         Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge: CUP, 1985)

Book Chapters, Journal Articles and Published Papers

·         'The Viotti School of Violin Playing - Style and INfluence', in press (Ad Parnassum, 2006)

·         'Performance Practice in the Eighteenth-Century Concerto', in Simon P. Keefe (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto (Cambridge: CUP, 2005), 192-226

·         'Developments in Instruments, Bows and Accessories', 'Extending the Technical and Expressive Frontiers' and 'Traditional and Progressive Nineteenth-Century Trends: France, Italy, Great Britain and America', in Robin Stowell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), 19-37, 149-74 and 250-65

·         'Strings', in Anthony Burton (ed.), A Performer's Guide to Music of the Romantic Period (London: ABRSM, 2002), 45-55

·         'Viotti's "London Concertos (Nos. 20-29)": Progressive or Retrospective?', in David Wyn Jones (ed.), Music in Eighteenth-Century England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), 282-98

·         'Breaking with Tradition', 'Violin Teaching in History', 'Performers of the Romantic Period' and 'Vioilin Music of the 20th Century', in Robin Stowell (ed.), The Violin Book (London and San Francisco: Outline Press and Miller Freeman, 1999), 40-1, 64-7, 80-5 and 110-17

·         'The Sonata', 'Other Solo Repertory' and (with David Wyn Jones) 'The Concerto', in Robin Stowell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Cello (Cambridge: CUP, 1999), 116-36, 137-59 and 92-115

·         'Paganini, the Violin Virtuoso in excelsis?', Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis, 20 (1996), 73-93

·         'The Violin Concerto op.61: Text and Editions', in Robin Stowell (ed.), Performing Beethoven (Cambridge: CUP, 1994), 150-94

·         'The Nineteenth-Century Bravura Tradition', 'Technique and Performance Practice', 'The Concerto', 'The Sonata', 'Other Solo Repertory' and 'The Pedagogical Literature', in Robin Stowell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (Cambridge: CUP, 1992), 61-78, 122-42, 148-67, 168-93, 194-209 and 224-33

·         'Leopold Mozart Revised: Articulation in Violin Playing during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century', in Peter Williams and R. Larry Todd (eds), Perspectives on Mozart Performance (Cambridge: CUP, 1991), 126-57

·         'The Classical Era - Strings' and 'The 19th Century - Strings', in Howard M. Brown and Stanley Sadie (eds), Performance Practice, vol.2 of Music after 1600 (London: Macmillan, 1989), 239-51 and 394-408

·         'Good Execution and other Necessary Skills - the Role of the Concertmaster in the Late 18th Century', Early Music, 16 (1988), 21-33

·         'Building a Library: Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo', The Musical Times, 128 (1987), 250-6

·         'Violin Bowing in Transition - a Survey of Technique as Related in Instruction Books c.1760-c.1830', Early Music, 12 (1984), 317-27

Other Output

·         contributions to Oxford Composer Companion: Haydn (2002), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition (2001), Oxford Composer Companion: J. S. Bach (1999), The Mozart Compendium (1990)

·         reviews of books, music and recordings for Eighteenth-century Music, Early Music, The Strad, Double Bassist, Early Music Today, Music & Letters, Piano International. Ad Parnassum, Haydn Society Newsletter, Haydn Yearbook and Vlaanderen

·         pre-concert talks (e.g. Queen Elizabeth Hall), radio broadcasts, CD booklet essays, programme notes (Edinburgh International Festival, Wigmore Hall and other major venues)