Here are two of the major research projects that I’m working on:
Music Publishing in the Nineteenth Century. Most of my work investigates the world of nineteenth-century music publishers and their artistic influence on the style of composers from the period. The groundbreaking German-American music publisher Arthur P. Schmidt is now a particular focus. Read more…
Sixteenth-Century Polyphony. I also enjoy subjecting corpora of sixteenth-century polyphony to formal empirical analysis, taking a quantitative approach to questions of text setting in the Italian madrigal. Read more…
Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
- “The Immigrant Journey of Arthur P. Schmidt: Tracing a Nineteenth-Century Music Publisher’s Social and Cultural Capital from Hamburg to Boston.” American Music 41, no. 4 (March 2025) [backdated to Winter 2023]: 453–475. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/952152
- “Hearing the Interrogative in the Cadences of Sigismondo d’India: A Quantitative Analysis of the Polyphonic Madrigals.” Intégral: The Journal of Applied Musical Thought 36 (June 2023): 103–128. https://www.esm.rochester.edu/integral/36-2023/strykowski/
- “The Negotiation of Nineteenth-Century Style: A Case Study in Composer–Publisher Relations.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, vol. 49, no. 2 (January 2019) [backdated to 2018]: 217–242. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26844645
- “The Business of Composition: Measuring Economic Relationships at Breitkopf & Härtel, 1798–1838.” Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, vol. 74, no. 4 (June 2018): 574–602. https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2018.0034
- “Text Painting, or Coincidence? Treatment of Height-Related Imagery in the Madrigals of Luca Marenzio.” Empirical Musicology Review, vol. 11, no. 2 (January 2017) [backdated to 2016]: 109–119. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i2.4903
- “The Diegetic Music of Berg’s Lulu: When Opera and Serialism Collide.” Journal of Musicological Research, vol. 35, no. 1 (January 2016): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2015.1082066
Score Preface
- Arthur Foote, Four Character Pieces after the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Op. 48 (Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt, 1911), plate A.P.S. 9680. Reprinted with preface by Derek Strykowski (Munich: Musikproduktion Hoeflich, 2024). https://repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/en/product/foote-arthur-8/
Digital Projects
- Musical Geographies of Boston, 1865–1915. Data mapping project (ongoing). https://dstrykowski.shinyapps.io/boston/
- “Arthur P. Schmidt & Company: A Walking Tour of Old Boston.” ArcGIS StoryMap (2023). https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/09d7987f3d2f41ed9b1112cdf728130b
- A Visual Guide to Some Nineteenth-Century Composers and Their Publishers. Data visualization project (2020). https://dstrykowski.shinyapps.io/visualguide/
- “Prices of Music at Breitkopf & Härtel: Publication Lists from the Intelligenz-blatt zur Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung.” Data set with introduction (2018). https://dstrykowski.shinyapps.io/pricesofmusic/
My complete C.V. is available on request.
Derek R. Strykowski 