Publications
Books
- Bach's Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works. Studies in the History of Music, 3. Harvard University Press, 1987. 264 pp.
- Bach and the Patterns of Invention. Harvard University Press, 1996, 270 pp., paperback edition, 2004. [‘Bach e i modelli dell’Invenzione’ in Ovunque lontano dal mondo: Elogio della Fantasia, ed. Enzo Restagno (Milan, Longanesi & C, 2001), 7-46, trans. Giovanni Bietti - chapters 1 and 8]
- Wagner and the Erotic Impulse. Currently in draft (62,000 words) [under contract to Harvard University Press to be published in 2011.]
Articles
- J.S. Bach's Experiment in Differentiated Accompaniment: Tacet-Indications in the Organ Parts to the Vocal Works. Journal of the American Musicological Society 32 (1979), 321-334.
- Early Music Defended against its Devotees: A Theory of Historical Performance in the Twentieth Century. The Musical Quarterly 69 (1983), 297-322. Muzyka dawna wzieta w obrone przed jej enthuzjastami: teoria wykonania historycznego w XX wieku [translation into Polish by Magdalena Nowak with author's 1997 Postscriptum], Canor 19 (1997), 27-39; translation into Korean by Hae-Guen Kang in Journal of the Music Research Center, Hangyang University (Seoul) 16 (2002), 89-115. English version of postscript available at http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/human/music/staff_rooms/acstaff/ldreyfus/
- The Metaphorical Soloist: Concerted Organ Parts in Bach's Cantatas. Early Music 13 (1985), 237-247. Also in J.S. Bach as Organist: His Instruments, Music, and Performance Practices, ed. George Stauffer and Ernest May. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986, 172-189.
- J.S. Bach's Concerto Ritornellos and the Question of Invention. The Musical Quarterly 71 (1985), 327-358.
- The Articulation of Genre in Bach's Instrumental Music. The Universal Bach: Lectures Celebrating the Tercentenary of Bach's Birthday. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1986, 10-37.
- J.S. Bach and the Status of Genre: Problems of Style in the G-Minor Sonata, BWV 1029. Journal of Musicology 5 (1987), 55-78.
- The Hermeneutics of Lament: A Neglected Paradigm in a Mozartian Trauermusik. Music Analysis 10 (1991), 329-343.
- Mozart as Early Music: A Romantic antidote. Early Music 19 (1992), 295-309.
- Matters of Kind: Genre and Subgenre in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. A Bach Tribute: Essays in Honor of William F. Scheide, ed. Paul Brainard and Ray Robinson. Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, and Chapel Hill: Hinshaw, 1993, 101-119.
- Hermann Levi’s shame and Parsifal’s guilt: A critique of essentialism in biography and criticism. Cambridge Opera Journal 6:2 (1994), 125-145.
- Bachian invention and its mechanisms in The Cambridge Companion to Bach, ed. John Butt. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 171-192.
- Hermann Levi, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001.
- Music and Motive in Thomas Mann’s Wälsungenblut, Resounding Concerns, London German Studies VIII, ed. Rüdiger Görner (Munich: iudicium verlag, 2003), 86-113.
- Tannhäuser y el erotismo musical en Wagner [Tannhäuser and Wagner’s musical erotics]. ABAO-OLBE [Programme book of the Bilbao Opera Society], 55 (2006), 90-97
- Beyond the Interpretation of Music, Dutch Journal of Music Theory – Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie 12:3 (2007), pp. 253-272.
- Christopher Peacocke’s ‘The Perception of Music’, British Journal of Aesthetics 49 (2009), 293-97.
- The Triumph of ‘Instrumental Melody’: Aspects of Musical Poetics in Bach’s St. John Passion in Bach Perspectives 8, ed. Daniel Melamed (publication in February 2010)
- Siegfried’s Masculinity, Wagner in der Diskussion, ed. Tobias Janz “ (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, scheduled for publication, 2010)
Inaugural Lecture
- Bach as Critic of Enlightenment, delivered at King's College London, 2 June 1994
Published Congress and Colloquium Papers
- Zur Frage der Cembalo-Mitwirkung in den geistlichen Werken Bachs. Bachforschung und Bachinterpretation heute. Bericht über das Bachfest-Symposion 1978 der Philipps-Universität Marburg, ed. Reinhold Brinkmann. Leipzig: Neue Bach-Gesellschaft, 1981, 178-184.
- The Capellmeister and his Audience: Observations on 'Enlightened' Receptions of Bach. Alte Musik als ästhetische Gegenwart: Bericht über den internationalen musikwissenschaftlichen Kongreß Stuttgart 1985, ed. Dietrich Berke and Dorothee Hanemann. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1987, 180-189.
- [Problems of Teaching and Research.] The Contemporary Humanities: Theory and Practice. Proceedings of a symposium on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, April 1987. New York: Columbia University, 1988, 42-44.
- Early Music and the Repression of the Sublime. Papers from ‘The Early Music Debate: Ancients, Moderns, Postmoderns’, Berkeley Early Music Festival and Symposium 1990. Journal of Musicology 10 (Winter, 1992), 108-112.
- Music Analysis and the Historical Imperative. Papers from a Round table on “Music Analysis: Systematic vs. Historical Models” held at meetings of the International Musicological Society, Madrid, 1992, Revista de Musiologia: Actas del XV Congreso de la SIM, 16: 1 (1993) [1994], 407-419.
- Idiomatic Betrayals: François Couperin as composer for the viol. François Couperin: Nouveaux Regards. Actes des Rencontres de Villecroze 4 au 7 octobre 1995, III: 3. Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1998, 205-221.
Musical Editions
- Jean Baptiste Bréval. Drei leichte Sonaten für Violoncello und Bass (with Anne-Marlene Gurgel). Leipzig: Edition Peters, 1980.
- Johann Sebastian Bach. Drei Sonaten für Viola da Gamba und Cembalo, BWV 1027-1029 [with Concluding Remarks and Critical Notes]. Frankfurt and Leipzig: C.F. Peters, 1985.
Edited Texts
- Abstracts of Papers Read at the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. 4-8 November 1992. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ed. Laurence Dreyfus. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, Inc., 1992.