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Lecturer in Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

J. P. E. Harper-Scott came to Royal Holloway in 2005, having taught previously at the Universities of Oxford, Nottingham, and Liverpool. He has scholarly interests in Elgar, Walton, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Strauss, Wagner, Schenkerian theory, the philosophy of Heidegger, and meaning in music.

He has three books in print and one forthcoming, all but one with Cambridge University Press. His first CUP book is a monograph, _Edward Elgar, Modernist_ (2006), which was shortlisted for the Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society. His two co-edited essay collections, for both of which he is providing introductions, are also with CUP: the first, co-edited with Julian Rushton, and for which he also provided a substantial study of the Second Symphony, is _Elgar Studies_ (2007); the second, co-edited with Jim Samson, is _An Introduction to Music Studies_, a textbook for new undergraduates written by RHUL staff. His second single-authored book is a life-and-works study of Elgar for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, _Elgar: an Extraordinary Life_, which was published in 2007, Elgar’s sesquicentenary.

Dr Harper-Scott has contributed articles to 19th-Century Music, Music Analysis, and Music & Letters, and a chapter to _The Cambridge Companion to Elgar_, ed. Daniel M. Grimley and Julian Rushton (CUP, 2004). Articles and book chapters in press consider Walton’s symphonic response to Sibelianism, the ‘nationalization’ of modernism in England, and interpersonal existential issues in Britten’s _Peter Grimes_. He is preparing a second monograph on Britten’s operas.