1979–Dissertation (Harvard), ‘The Compositional History of Verdi’s Falstaff’
1981–Ten Suggestions for Scholarly Writing
1983–John Cage and the Aesthetic on Non-Intention
1989–Six Thoughts on Professional Writing in Musicology
1990–Initial Remarks, University of Minnesota Carl Dahlhaus Graduate Seminar
1990–Preface to ‘Structural Tensions’ (Central Categories of ‘Modernity’)
1991 (rev. 2006, 2009) Popular Song–Propositions (Draft)
1991–The Technique of Content Analysis (Univ. of Minnesota)
1993–‘The New Music History’–Draft Plan for an Unrealized Book
1993-95–The Concept of the Modern, 1885-1914 (DRAFT, UNPUBLISHED)
1994–Verdi, Ternary-Form Arias, Vepres Siciliennes
1994-95–Musicology and Genre–Reflections on Two Texts and a Counter-Text (DRAFT, UNPUBLISHED)
1996-97–Verdi Revisits the Past–Two Versions of ‘Je l’ai vue’ (Don Carlos)
1998–Analyzing Professional Writing on Music
1998–Issues of ‘Meaning’ in Music
1998, rev 2000, 2002–Notes on ‘Postmodernism’
2008–Email Reply to Richard Taruskin–On Musicology & Disenchantment
2020 (rev. from 2006, 2008)–The Classification of Theme Types–Period, Sentence, Hybrid