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books authored

• Schubert: the Music and the Man (Gollancz/University of California Press, 1997; paperback reissue 1999)
  "A magisterial survey by our leading Schubert scholar, who writes in fascinating detail about this composer's tragically short life. Newbould is wonderfully eloquent on Schubert's music." The Independent (No.1 of Charles Osborne's selection from the best of the year's classical music titles.)
  "A remarkable feat" New York Times
  "We can almost hear the music through his words" BBC Music Magazine
  
• Schubert and the Symphony: a New Perspective (Toccata Press, 1992; paperback reissue 1999).
  "Succinct, sensible and incisive, this is by far the best study of the Schubert symphonies to date." (Fanfare)
  "A model of urbane, questing scholarship." (Sunday Telegraph)
• Schubert's Workshop (Routledge, 2022): Vol.1 Towards an Early Maturity, Vol.2 Mastery and Beyond
  "The more one becomes immersed in the breadth and detail of the compositions the more the wonder grows. These volumes add significantly to that wonder." (The Schubertian)

books edited

• Schubert Studies (Ashgate, 1998).
• Schubert the Progressive (Ashgate, 2003).

articles/chapters

• "Ravel's Pantoum", in Musical Times, 116/1585 (March 1975), pp.228-31.
• "A New Analysis of Brahms's Intermezzo in B minor, Op.119, No.1", in Music Review, 38/1 (February 1977), pp.33-43.
• "Schubert's Other Unfinished", in Musical Times, cxix/1625, July 1978, pp.597-599.
• "Music to an Unpurged Ear", (University of Hull, 1981: inaugural lecture), 24pp.
• "Completing Schubert's Unfinished Orchestral Works", in Ovation, v/11, December 1984, pp.22-25.
• "Schubert's Last Symphony", in Musical Times, cxxvi/1707, May 1985, pp.272-275.
• "A Working Sketch by Schubert (D.936a)", in Current Musicology, No.43 (1987), pp.22-3.
• "A Schubert Palindrome", in 19th-Century Music, XV/3 (Spring 1992), pp.207-14.
• "Schubert", in Companion to the Symphony, ed. Robert Layton, Simon & Schuster, 1993, pp.107-23.
• "Schuberts D 936A: Ein sinfonische Hommage an sich selbst?", in Schubert durch die Brille, 16/17, January 1996, pp.123-9.
• "'Never done before': Elgar's Other Enigma", in Music & Letters, 77/2 (May 1996), pp.228-241.
• "Schubert", in The Nineteenth-Century Symphony, ed. D. Kern Holoman, Schirmer/Prentice Hall, 1997, pp.1-16.
• "Schubert's 'Great' C major Symphony: the autograph revisited", in Schubert Studies, ed. Newbould, Ashgate, 1998, pp.127-152
  "Particularly persuasive ...asks discerning questions of facts. Source studies and archival research ...show their worth ...when they relate decisively to musical performance, as [here]." Journal of the American Musicological Society.
• "Schubert im Spiegel", in Musiktheorie, Heft 2 (1998), pp.101-10.
• "Schubert and the Fantasy", in Schubert-Jahrbuch 1999 (Bärenreiter, 2001), pp.129-39.
• "Schubert without End: completing the Unfinished", in In Other Words (Festivalbum 2001, Festival van Vlaanderen Internationaal, pp.50-74.
• "Schuberts D936A: Een Symfonische Eerbetoon aan Zichzelf?", in Nieuwsbrief Schubert Stichting Amsterdam, 6/1, March 2001, pp.16-20.
• "Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat", in Meddelelse, No.16 (Schubert Selskabet Danmark, 2002), pp.
• "Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat", in The Schubertian, No.36 (Schubert Institute UK, July 2002), pp.9-15. (Reprint of the above, in English).
• "Cornered in the Middle Eight: Dance Miniaturism vis-à-vis Sonata", in Schubert the Progressive, ed. Newbould, Ashgate, 2003, pp.107-16.
• "Eine nordische Nuance beim späten Schubert", in Text & Kontext - Zeitschrift für germanistische Literaturforschung in Skandinavien, ed.Klaus Bohnen & Bjørn Ekmann (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Heft 26.1, 2004), pp.175-184.
• "Schubert, Kaleidoscopes, Caterpillars and the Incarnation", Goethe and Schubert: Across the Divide, ed. Lorraine Byrne & Dan Farrelly, Carysfort, 2004, pp.193-213.
• "Elgar and 'his ideal', Schumann", in Elgar Society Journal, 14/6, November 2006, pp.33-9.
• "Elgar and academicism 1: the untutored genius", in Musical Times, 146/1891, Summer 2005, pp.71-84.
• "Elgar and academicism 2: practice beyond theory", in Musical Times, 146/1892, Autumn 2005, pp.25-41.
• "Elgar and academicism 3: devices and contrivances", in Musical Times, 146/1893, Winter 2005, pp.29-44.
• "Composing with the 'nursery apparatus': thoughts prompted by two lesser-known Schubert works", in The Unknown Schubert, ed. Barbara M Reul & Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Ashgate, 2008), pp.201-17.
• "The Other Schubert", in The Schubertian, 74, April 2012, pp.5-17.
• "Chorale as Texture in Symphonic Music", in Bruckner Society Journal, 2013.
• "Die Zauberharfe: salvaging Schubert's 'lost' opera - a new orchestral suite", in The Schubertian, 100, October 2019.
• "On Mozart 1: Mozart and Recreative Analysis", in Musical Times, 160/1947, Summer 2019, pp.3-14.
• "On Mozart 2: Mozart and the Prague Terraces", in Musical Times, 160/1948, Autumn 2019.
• "On Mozart 3: When Space is Music", in Musical Times, 160/1949, Winter 2019, pp.25-36.
• "Rhythm in classical music", in Musical Times, 162/2021, Spring 2021, pp.61-8.
• "Schubert, Brahms and the sarabande", in Musical Times, 162/1955, Summer 2021, pp.65-76.
• "Schubert and Bach 1", in Musical Times, 162/1956, Autumn 2021, pp.41-50.
• "Schubert and Bach 2", in Musical Times, 162/1957, Winter 2021, pp.35-45.
• "Schubert's Mozart year", in Musical Times, 163 1958, Spring 2022, pp.3-11.
• "Chorale as texture in symphonic music 1", in Musical Times, 163/1960, Autumn 2022, pp.3-14.
• "Chorale as texture in symphonic music 2", in Musical Times, 163/1961, Winter 2022, pp.85-95.
• "Mozart makes ends meet", in Musical Times, 164/1962, Spring 2023, pp.23-34.
• "Double passing notes and the 'siesta sfiorata'", in Musical Times, 164/1964, Autumn 2023, pp.53-60.
• "Dissonance in Tonal Music 1", in Musical Times, Spring 2024.
• "Dissonance in Tonal Music 2", in Musical Times, Summer 2024.
• "Dissonance in Tonal Music 3", in Musical Times, Autumn 2024.
• "Dissonance in Tonal Music 4", in Musical Times, Winter 2024.

editions of music

• Schubert: Stabat Mater in G minor, D.175, for SATB Chorus and Orchestra. Edited and with a keyboard reduction. Faber Music, 1989.
• Schubert: Mass in G, D.167, for SATB chorus, soloists and orchestra. Edited, with reference to the autograph parts in Klosterneuburg Monastery. Faber Music, 1996.
• Schubert: Magnificat in C, D.486, for SATB chorus, soloists and orchestra. Edited. Faber Music, 2000.

original compositions

• Berceuse, for piano. (1953).
• The Babe in Bethlem's Manger Laid. (carol, 1957). Pre Central Hall, Bristol, 1957.
• Hymn: Beverley. (1983).
• Patrick, for narrator and chamber orchestra. 1984. Pre Hull University Menagerie/Leaver, 1985.
• Canzonetta and Moto Perpetuo for ten players (4ww, hn + str). 1988. Pre Hull University 1988.
• Toccata for piano. 1995. Pre Fiona Newbould, 1996.
• Fantasy Sonata after Schubert, for clarinet and piano. 2000. Pre James Campbell+.

transcriptions

• Brian's Bouquet: A collection of Schubert keyboard dances transcribed for piano trio. Pre Gould Piano Trio, Champs Hill, Sussex, January 2022 (RES 10320).

press articles, reviews, CD booklets, festival programme notes

• The Guardian, Glasgow Herald, the Scotsman, Radio Times, Jewish Echo, Times Educational Supplement, Ovation, Times Higher Education Supplement, Notes; Philips/Phonogram, Chandos, Hyperion, Toccata, Linn, Resonus, Warner Classics, GIB Classics, Naim; Edinburgh Festival, Camden Festival, Harrogate Festival, Henry Wood Proms; Editor, Music Journal (ISM)(1970-76).