Index of publications of Nigel Nettheim

The publications are given in the order: latest first. Some synopses and errata are indicated.

Some of the publications may be read on-line by clicking on the year; more are being processed for this purpose.

Book:

• 2011 Gustav Becking. How Musical Rhythm Reveals Human Attitudes: An Annotated Translation by Nigel Nettheim. Bern etc.: Peter Lang - International Academic Publishers, 2011.
  Free "Open Access" pdf from the publisher; also available here as pdf. and here as a hard copy . Pictorial Supplement, 2025.

Articles:

• 2026 "Schubert & Beethoven: a Comparison from 1928 France." The Schubertian 129, January 2026: 12-21.
• 2025 "Narrative matched to analysis: Chopin's Berceuse and F major Nocturne." Available at ResearchGate -- click on More > Download. Also available here: 2025.
• 2023c "Varying the Strophic Song: 'In der Mitternacht' D464". The Schubertian 120, October 2023: 36-41.
• 2023b "Schubert's 'Rhythmic Canon' for the 'Battle Song', D912 of 1827". The Schubertian 119, July 2023: 11-20.
• 2022e. Also available at: the journal's website. (link OK 14-Oct-2022) "A new derivation shows Schubert learning thematic work from a Beethoven sonata", Revista Vórtex, Curitiba, Brazil, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 1-21, September, 2022. [Schubert D575 IV, Beethoven Op. 26 II.]
• 2022d "Schubert's First Setting of Klopstock's 'Battle Song'". The Schubertian 116, October 2022: 42-45 ('The Quarterly Song') [Deals with Schubert's song "Schlachtgesang", D.443.]
  
• 2022c "Unsettling harmonic progressions in Schubert's 'Die Liebe hat gelogen'" The Schubertian 115, July 2022: 38-43. ('The Quarterly Song') [Deals with Schubert's song "Die Liebe hat gelogen", D.751.]
  
• 2022b "Can you hear Louisa's name in the sounds of nature?" The Schubertian 114, April 2022: 38-41. ('The Quarterly Song') [Deals with Schubert's song "Der Jüngling an der Quelle", D.300]
• 2022a "'Das Echo': How a prelude can provide a synopsis". The Schubertian 113, January 2022: 25-33. ('The Quarterly Song') [Deals with Schubert's song "Das Echo", D.990C/D.868.]
  Earlier version: 2020a "Schubert's Das Echo, illustrating the prelude as a synopsis". This aticle had at that stage been published only on this website, ResearchGate and scribd.
• 2020b "Vale Lord Bob May: famous Australian scientist & keen chess-player", Australian Chess Federation Newsletter, 31 May 2020.
• 2019c "Can you hear the fish in Fischerweise? The Schubertian 103, July 2019: 38-41 ('The Quarterly Song').
• 2019b "What is the real meaning of Schubert's famous Wiegenlied?" The Schubertian 102, April 2019: 18-23. ('The Quarterly Song') (Also available at SIUK with a member's password.)
• 2019a "Overcoming piano-roll limitations: Pachmann plays Sabouroff's Polka" MPR, Music Performance Research 9: 128-161. (The earlier link http://mpronline.net/Issues/Volume%209%20[2019]/MPR0135.pdf is not presently (18-June-2022) functional for the audio in the article.)
• 2017 "Vladimir de Pachmann and Chopin". Chopin 1810-2010: Ideas, Interpretations, Influence. The Third International Chopin Congress, Warsaw, 25 February to 1 March 2010., edited by Irena Poniatowska and Zofia Chechlinska. Warsaw: The Frederyk Chopin Institute, 2017, volume 2: 17-26.
• 2016b (link OK 27-Jan-2021) "Studies in the Computer Rendition of Piano Pedalling", Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online, Vol. 13, 2015-2016. (Click on "Vol.13" in the column on the right side of the page; then scroll down to this article and click on its title. One can also click on "Abstracts and keywords" and on "Information on Contributors", near the top left of the Vol.13 page.)
• 2016a "The highly original piano technique of Vladimir de Pachmann", Piano Journal (European Piano Teachers Association) 109: 14-17.
• 2013 pdf Also available in an html version. "The reconstitution of historical piano recordings: Vladimir de Pachmann plays Chopin's Nocturne in E Minor". MPR, Music Performance Research 6: 97-125. (The earlier link http://mpronline.net/Issues/Volume%206%20 is not presently (18-June-2022) functional for the audio in the article.)
• 2008 "Pachmann at Age Twelve". Published on this web site in October 2008 and on scribd in January 2018.
• 2007b (link OK 25-Oct-2016) "How World Views may be Revealed by Armchair Conducting: Composer-Specific Computer Animations" JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning, 5 (Summer 2007). This is an online journal.
• 2007a "Lateral Thinking and Literal Thinking in Schubert's Morgengruss". So far published only on this web site.
• 2005b "The composer with whom Schubert has the closest affinity" (Essay competition). The Schubertian, 49 (October 2005): 8-11.
• 2005a "Schubert's Low Notes". The Schubertian, 47 (April 2005): 13.
• 2003b "'Armchair conducting' animations for Mozart and Schubert". Kopiez, Reinhard, Andreas C. Lehmann, Irving Wolther and Christian Wolf, editors: Proceedings of the 5th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Hanover University of Music and Drama, September 8-13, 2003 (pp.111-115).
• 2003a "Two Mozart Fingerprints Related to the Becking Conducting Curve". So far published only on this web site.
• 2002 "A Composer-specific Conducting Simulation". Australian Association for Research in Music Education. Proceedings of the XXIVth Annual Conference, Adelaide 2002. Melbourne: AARME, 2002 (pp.127-137).
• 2001e "Vladimir de Pachmann, Pianist (1848-1933): a Discography / Rollography". So far published only on this web site.
• 2001d "Maryla Jonas, Pianist (1911-1959): a Discography". So far published only on this web site.
• 2001c "A Musical Microscope Applied to the Piano Playing of Vladimir de Pachmann". So far published only on this web site.
• 2001b (link OK 14-Aug-2009) "Vladimir de Pachmann". Article in: Stanley Sadie & John Tyrrell, eds, The Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Hampshire: Macmillan, 2001. (Vol.18, p.857.)
• 2001a "Schubert's implied simile". The Schubertian, 31 (January 2001): 2-3.
• 2000 "Matching Schubert's Scores to his Conducting Beat". Paper presented by video from Australia on 1 July 2000 at the Leeds International Schubert Conference, 29 June - 2 July 2000.
• 1999b: "The Deceptive Simplicity of Mozart's Sonata K. 283". Clavier 38/10 (December 1999): 25-28.
• 1999a "The Statistics of Schubert's Keys". The Schubertian, 26 (September 1999): 2-3.
• 1998d "A Schubert Fingerprint related to the theory of Metre, Tempo and the Becking Curve". Systematische Musikwissenschaft (Systematic Musicology), 6 (1998): 363-413 (published in 2000).
• 1998c "Melodic Pattern-Detection Using MuSearch in Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin". Chapter 8 (pp.159-164) in Melodic Similarity: Concepts, Procedures, and Applications. Computing in Musicology 11, edited by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998.
• 1998b "Discovering Franz Schubert". The Schubertian 22 (September 1998): 8-9.
• 1998a "A song without words and a song with words". Key Vive 86 (January 1998): 8. [Mendelssohn Op. 92, Schubert D957/3.]
• 1997d "A Bibliography of Statistical Applications in Musicology". Musicology Australia 20 (1997): 94-106.
• 1997c "Schubert's Schoolboy Humour". The Schubertian 19 (December 1997): 10-11. [Schubert D15, "Hickory, dickory, dock".]
• 1997b "Computers and Music", "Hmelnitsky". Articles in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Oxford University Press, Melbourne (1997): 144-5, 275-6.
• 1997a "Accompanying Schubert's 'Der Lindenbaum'". Piano Journal 18, No. 52 (1997): 15-21.
• 1996 "How Musical Rhythm reveals Human Attitudes: Gustav Becking's Theory". International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 27/2 (1996): 101-122. [Errata: p.107 line -4: Schütz -> Schulz; p.121 line -3: Weldbild -> Weltbild.]
• 1996 "Schubert's G-flat Impromptu Interpretation". Clavier 35/4 April 1996): 16-19,34. [Errata July 1996 p.46.]
• 1993d "The pulse in German folksong: a statistical investigation". Musikometrika 5 (1993): 69-89. [Proof corrections were not implemented in the printed paper—a corrected copy is available from the author.]
• 1993c "The Derivation of Chopin's Fourth Ballade from Bach and Beethoven". The Music Review 54/2 (1993): 95-111 (published May 1996). [Chopin Op. 52, Bach WTC I/22 etc., Beethoven Op. 57/3; Chopin Op. 28/24, Beethoven Op. 57/I.]
  Also published in Spanish translation by Juan Carlos Lores as "La Derivación de la Cuarta Balada de Chopin a partir de Bach y de Beethoven", Quodlibet 29 (2004): 122-144.
• 1993b "On the Accuracy of Musical Data, with Examples from Gregorian Chant and German Folksong". Computers and the Humanities 27 (1993): 111-120.
• 1993a "Comment on 'Patterns of expressive timing in performances of a Beethoven minuet by nineteen famous pianists' [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 88, 622-641 (1990)]". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 94 (1993): 3001-3003 (refereed Letter to the Editor, with Reply pp.3004-3005).
• 1992b "On the spectral analysis of melody". Interface: the Journal of New Music Research 21 (1992): 135-148.
• 1992a "De Pachmann's Piano Fingerings". Clavier 31/3 (March 1992): 14-16. [Chopin Op. 57.]
• 1991 "How the young Schubert borrowed from Beethoven". The Musical Times (July 1991): 330-331. [Schubert D48; Beethoven Op. 13/I, Op. 57/III, Op. 3-2/I.]
• 1990 "The Language of Music in Schubert's Corpse-Fantasy". The Music Review 51/4 (1990): 290-295 (published late 1992). [Schubert D7, Cooke (1959).]
• 1987 (with I. Hmelnitsky) "Weight-bearing Manipulation: A Neglected Area of Medical Science Relevant to Piano Playing and Overuse Syndrome." Medical Hypotheses 23 (1987): 209-17.
• 1982 (with M.Clynes) "The Living Quality of Music - Neurobiologic Patterns of Communicating Feeling", Chapter 4 (pp. 47-82) of Music Mind and Brain: The Neuropsychology of Music, ed M.Clynes, Plenum Press, New York, 1982.
• 1979b "Comment on a Paper by Gabriel on Cooke's Theory". Psychology of Music 7 (1979): 32-33.
• 1979a "Keyboard Design and Psychophysics". Psychology of Music 7 (1979): 36-41.
• 1965b (http://www.nla.gov.au/copiesdirect/ select "Article" and enter the title) (link OK 25-Sep-2009) "A Spectral Study of "Overadjustment" for Seasonality". American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section (1965); also published as U.S.Census Bureau Technical Paper and as Stanford University Technical Report No 1 (1965).
• 1965a "Fourier Methods for Evolving Seasonal Patterns". Journal of the American Statistical Association 60 (1965): 492-502.

Occasional notes:

• 2026 "Correspondence with Charles Rosen (1996)". [On my 1993 article "The Derivation of Chopin's Fourth Ballade from Bach and Beethoven".]
• 2023 "Editorial alterations in the Paderewski edition of Chopin".
• 2014 "Music psychology in science fiction".
• 2013 "Paper with Igor Hmelnitsky".

Reviews:

      Book Reviews:

• 2023 "The Arts of Song and Accompaniment" by Paul Ulanowsky. The Schubertian, January 2023: 7-8.
  2 September 2025: As the website holding Ulanowsky's book is presently facing some problems I am, with the kind encouragement of the editor Philip Ulanowsky, providing a link, on this present site, to the book reviewed: Ulanowsky's book "The Arts of Song and Accompaniment".
• 2003 "Schubert the Progressive - a few details". The Schubertian, July 2003: 23.
• 1995 "The Pianist's Talent" by Howard Taylor. Key Vive, May 1995: 14-15.
• 1994 "Aspects of Cortot" by Thomas Manshardt. Key Vive, Sep 1994: 10-12.

      CD Review:

• 2011 Schubert: Mass in E flat D950 (1928). The Schubertian, January 2011: 21-23.

      Video Reviews:

• 1998b "Artur Rubinstein: The Last Recital for Israel". Vol 6 No. 4 1998: 223.
• 1998a "The Anatomy of a Piano". Vol 6 No. 3 1998: 166-167.
• 1997c "The Art of Singing". Vol 5 No. 6 1997: 391.
• 1997b "Vladimir Horowitz: A Reminiscence". Vol 5 No. 4 1997: 248.
• 1997a "The Glenn Gould Collection: Mostly Strauss". Vol 5 No. 4 1997: 248-249.
• 1996c "Heifetz, Piatigorsky". Vol 5 No. 2 1996: 111-112.
• 1996b "Russian Archives: Oistrakh and Richter". Vol 5 No 1 1996: 44.
• 1996a "Claudio Arrau: The 80th Birthday Recital". Vol 4 No 6 1996: 427.
• 1995d "In Celebration of the Piano". Vol 4 No 5 1995: 362.
• 1995c "Maria Callas: Paris Debut, 1958". Vol 4 No 4 1995: 290.
• 1995b "The Art of Conducting". Vol 4 No 3 1995: 216.
• 1995a "The Golden Age of the Piano". Vol 4 No 2 1995: 133-134.

Electronic text:

• 1994 (link OK 14-Aug-2009) "Franz Schubert's Letters and Other Writings", translated by Venetia Savile, prepared and released on the Oxford Text Archive.

Computer program:

• 1990 ESSCORE, incorporated into the University of Essen's system MAPPET: Musik, Analyse, Play-in and Play-back für Esac Transkriptionen. (Translates ESAC music data files into SCORE music data files.)

Dissertations:

• 1999 "Schubert's Early Progress: On the Internal Evidence of his Compositions up to Gretchen am Spinnrade", Ph.D., UNSW. (File size 7.81MB) (Can also be downloaded from UNSW website. Hard copies are held in some libraries, including the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds, UK.)
• 1990 "Schubert's earliest works: an analytical study", M.Litt., UNE.
• 1988 "On the early pianoforte fantasies of Schubert—a study of the development of his compositional resources", B.Mus., NSW Conservatorium of Music.
• 1966 (link OK 20-Feb-2015) "The Estimation of Coherence", Ph.D., Stanford University.
• 1964 "The Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Data by Spectral Methods", M.Ec., ANU.
• 1960 "Regression Analysis in Sample Surveys", B.Ec. honours, Sydney University.

Miscellaneous Publications:

• 2024b "A German / Austrian Lullaby in Japan (Interview)", Akshar Wangmay Lullaby Special Issue, 7 May 2024, 536-555. (Interviewed and edited by Arun Prabhune, the whole issue in Marathi with English translation; this chapter deals with Schubert's Wiegenlied D498.)
• 2024a "Sir John Cornforth, The First NSW Boys Chess Champion". Junior Chess, Quarterly Magazine of the NSW Junior Chess League, Issue 162, Autumn 2024: 52-57.
• 2007 (link OK 14-Aug-2009) (first publication — later republished elsewhere) "A Quick Introduction to Chess Problems and Endgame Studies", republished in Australian Chess, Vol. 5 No. 6 (November 2007): 38-43.
• 2001 "The Bradman Legacy". The Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, Vol. 28 No. 2, June 2001, 66. (Correspondence with Sir Donald Bradman.)
• 1996, 1998 Annotated Membership List. Musicological Society of Australia, July 1996; September 1998. (Booklets.)

Musical Compositions:

• 2008 (link OK 14-Aug-2009) "Poems on Music", poems by Kenneth Slessor, for voice and piano, composed Sydney, 1991a. Stiles Music Publications (S68, 2008).
• 2003 (link OK 14-Aug-2009) "Seven Songs from a Journey", poems by Judith Wright, for voice and piano, composed Sydney, 1991b. Stiles Music Publications (S59, 2003).
• 1970's Shakespearean Songs, for voice and piano, Toronto (unpublished).
• 1972 Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, for woodwind quintet, Toronto (unpublished).

Letters to the Editor:

• 1998 "Whisk it or Risk It". Clavier, October 1998, p.2.
• 1997 "Hofmann or Godowsky?". Clavier, February 1997, p.2 (with response).
• 1996c "Four questions". The Schubertian, November 1996, p.10.
• 1996b "Horowitz's Playing". Clavier, November 1996, pp.4,44. (Response Vol 36/5 May/June 1997 p.2.)
• 1996a "Richter Friends". Clavier, July/August 1996, p.40. (Response Vol 35/10 December 1996 p.38.)
• 1995b "President's Remarks". Printscreen, October 1995, pp.2,20 (Magazine of the Sydney PC Users Group).
• 1995a "A Time-oriented Taxonomy of Computer Music", Computer Music Journal, 19/1, Spring 1995, p.5.
• 1994b "Freezing out our visitors". Uniken, 29th July 1994, p.12.
• 1994a "Schumann's maxims". Key Vive, No.74, January 1994, p.3.
• 1993b "Competitive Improvisation". Key Vive, No.72, May 1993, p.12.
• 1993a "On Repp's analysis of pianists' timings". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1993 -- see Publications).
• 1992 "Barere article". Key Vive, No.69, May 1992, p.2.
• 1991f "Pedaling Puzzle". Clavier, September 1991, p.4.
• 1991e "The Importance of Hyphens". Uniken, 2nd August 1991, p.12.
• 1981d "Bring Back Improvisation". Sydney Morning Herald, 30th July 1981.
• 1981c "Fuming at the quayside". Sydney Morning Herald, 13th July 1981.
• 1991b "The Ultimate Test". Sydney Morning Herald, 5th April 1991, p.10.
• 1991a "Tone Controversy". Clavier, March 1991, p.4.
• 1980b "Late-night television 'disturbing'". Toronto Star, Canada, 13th May 1980, p.A9.
• 1980a "Hark Hark the Lark". Sunday Star, Toronto, Canada, 2nd March 1980, p.B4.
• 1972 "Longevity at the piano keyboard". Toronto Star, Canada, 24th January, 1972, p.?.

Published Solutions to Mathematical Problems:

      Mathematics Magazine, Mathematical Association of America:

• 1971 Vol 44/3 May 1971 p.168 ("Prime Decomposition")
• 1970 Vol 43/4 Sept 1970 pp.229-230 ("Parallelepiped Volume")
• 1969 Vol 42/4 Sept 1969 pp.216-218 ("Twelve-Tone Scale?")