Professor Bjorn Heile

Professor of Music (post-1900) (Music)

telephone: +44 (0)141 330 5288
email: Bjorn.Heile@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 413, Music, Alexander Stone Building, 16 University Gardens, G12 8QH

Biography

I studied at the Technische Universität Berlin (MA in Musicology and English and American Literature) and the University of Southampton (PhD, 2001). After spending another year at Southampton as a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, I moved to the University of Sussex, where I spent eight years, before joining the University of Glasgow in 2010. I was Visiting Professor at the Université de Côte d'Azur (Nice) during June 2017.

I am the author of The Music of Mauricio Kagel (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) and the editor of The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), the co-editor (with Martin Iddon) of Mauricio Kagel bei den Darmstädter Ferienkursen für Neue Musik: Eine Dokumentation (Hofheim: Wolke, 2009), (with Jenny Doctor and Peter Elsdon) of Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen (New York: Oxford, 2016) and (with Charles Wilson) of The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music (London: Routledge, 2018). I am mostly interested in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a number of fairly diverse, but variously inter-related areas, such as Experimental Music Theatre and theories of embodied cognition and the global history of musical modernism, seen from a comparitive and cosmopolitan perspective.

Research interests

Research Interests

New music; experimental music theatre; music and cosmopolitanism; performance practice of experimental music; music and modernism; integrative music history; jazz studies, in particular jazz performance on screen; music and embodied cognition.

Research Projects

I have directed an AHRC-funded research project on ‘The Use of Audiovisual Resources in Jazz Historiography and Scholarship: Performance, Embodiment and Mediatised Representations’ (as part of the ‘Beyond Text’ scheme, 2010-11). Main output: Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen.

Together with Martin Cloonan, I held an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, '25 Years of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival' (Alison Eales, 2011-14).

I have led a British Academy-funded project on 'Mauricio Kagel: Estate and Legacy' (2013-14), and a project on the performance practice of Kagel's work, funded by the Kunststiftung Northrhine-Westphalia (2018).

I currently lead a Research Network on 'Towards a Somatic Music(ology): Experimental Music Theatre and Theories of Embodied Cognition', funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2010-22).

Publications

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2025

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2025) Migration, the dodecaphonic diaspora and the transnational network of musical modernism: the varied career of Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. Twentieth-Century Music, (doi: 10.1017/S147857222400015X) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 and Iddon, Martin (2024) Introduction: theory and practice of somatic music. Tempo, 78(310), pp. 5-12. (doi: 10.1017/S0040298224000330)

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 and Moran, Nikki (2024) The music of Proxima Centauri B: Three Singers on Planet M, by Oli Jan. Tempo, 78(310), pp. 47-50. (doi: 10.1017/S0040298224000342)

Campbell, Edward, De Souza, Jonathan, Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031, Jan, Chun-Yang Oli and Moran, Nikki (2024) What is it like to be a tree? Sonic layers, doubleness and ecology in Martin Iddon's Sapindales. Tempo, 78(310), pp. 25-35. (doi: 10.1017/S0040298224000366)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2024) Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009491716

2023

Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZQC5P) [Exhibitions]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2023) The Way of the Moderns: Six Perspectives on Modernism in Music. Edited by Antoni Piza. Music and Letters, 104(3), pp. 514-518. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gcad041)[Book Review]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2023) Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz. By Gretchen L. Carlson. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1-496-84084-4. Popular Music, (doi: 10.1017/S0261143023000120)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2023) Trio. [Compositions] (Unpublished)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2023) Serialism in Latin America. In: Iddon, Martin (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Serialism. Series: Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108716864

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2023) Caine, Uri. In: MGG Online. Bärenreiter.

2021

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) 3x10 Musical Actions for Three Socially Distanced Performers. [Compositions]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) Así electrizó Miles Davis el jazz. [Website]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) How Miles Davis electrified jazz. [Website]

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) Snobbery in the UK?: Musik(wissenschaft) und Klasse in Großbritannien. [Website]

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts. Ed. by Tina Frühauf. Pp. 325. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78327-496-3, £70.). Music and Letters, 102(2), pp. 391-394. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gcab042)[Book Review]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) Jennifer Walshe, Ireland: a dataset National Concert Hall, Dublin, 26 September 2020, broadcast online (Imagining Ireland Livestream Series). Sound Stage Screen, 1(2), pp. 219-223. (doi: 10.54103/sss16656)

2020

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2020) A theatre of sound and movement. Experimental music theatre and theories of embodied cognition. European Drama and Performance Studies, 15(2), pp. 217-237.

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2020) Writing on living composers and the problem of advocacy: failure and the experimental work of Mauricio Kagel. In: Aguilar, Ananay, Cole, Ross, Pritchard, Matthew and Clarke, Eric (eds.) Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook. Routledge: London, pp. 164-179. ISBN 9781138359925 (doi: 10.4324/9780429433405-13)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2020) Between ‘the disease of admiration’ and the ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’: working on living composers and musicians. In: Pace, Ian and Wiley, Chris (eds.) Writing about Contemporary Musicians: Promotion, Advocacy, Disinterest, Censure. Routledge. (Accepted for Publication)

2019

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2019) Mapping musical modernism. In: Belina, Anastasia, Kilpiö, Kaarina and Scott, Derek B. (eds.) Music History and Cosmopolitanism. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 90-105. ISBN 9781138481138 (doi: 10.4324/9781351060950-7)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2019) New music theatre and theories of embodied cognition. In: Adlington, Robert (ed.) New Music Theatre in Europe: Transformations Between 1955-1975. Series: Musical cultures of the twentieth century. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 273-293. ISBN 9781138323018 (doi: 10.4324/9780429451669-13)

2018

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2018) Renaissance or afterlife? Nostalgia in the new jazz films. In: Gebhardt, Nicholas, Rustin-Paschal, Nichole and Whyton, Tony (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies. Series: Routledge music companions. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 423-431. ISBN 9781138231160

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 and Wilson, Charles (Eds.) (2018) The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781472470409

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2018) Musical modernism, global: comparative observations. In: Heile, Björn and Wilson, Charles (eds.) The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 175-198. ISBN 9781472470409

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 and Wilson, Charles (2018) Introduction. In: Heile, Björn and Wilson, Charles (eds.) The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9781472470409

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2018) Mapping Musical Modernism. [Website]

2017

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031, Moreda Rodriguez, Eva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4512-1992 and Stanley, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2464-441X (Eds.) (2017) Higher Education in Music in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781472467324

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2017) Integrative music history: rethinking music since 1900. In: Heile, Björn, Moreda Rodriguez, Eva and Stanley, Jane (eds.) Higher Education in Music in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 55-76. ISBN 9781472467324

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 and Moreda Rodriguez, Eva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4512-1992 (2017) Introduction. In: Heile, Björn, Moreda Rodriguez, Eva and Stanley, Jane (eds.) Higher Education in Music in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781472467324

2016

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) Music, performance, theatre: Christopher Fox's stage works. In: Dodd, Rose (ed.) Perspectives on the Music of Christopher Fox: Straight Lines in Broken Times. Routledge: London, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781472428240

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) Towards a theory of experimental music theatre: 'showing doing', 'non-matrixed performance' and 'metaxis'. In: Kaduri, Yael (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art. Series: The Oxford Handbooks series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 335-355. ISBN 9780199841547 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841547.013.001)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) The New Jazz Films (and Their Old Models). [Website]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) Globalisierung. In: Hiekel, Jörn Peter and Utz, Christian (eds.) Lexikon Neue Musik. Metzler & Bärenreiter: Stuttgart, pp. 252-256. ISBN 9783476023261

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) Instrumentales theater. In: Hiekel, Jörn Peter and Utz, Christian (eds.) Lexikon Neue Musik. Metzler & Bärenreiter: Stuttgart, pp. 289-290. ISBN 9783476023261

Doctor, Jenny, Elsdon, Peter and Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) Introduction. In: Heile, Bjorn, Elsdon, Peter and Doctor, Jenny (eds.) Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen. Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 1-33. ISBN 978019934767 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199347650.003.0001)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) "Es klingt nach Kagel, erinnert jedoch an Schubert": Mauricio Kagel und das Apokryphe - ein Versuch zur Krypto-Ontologie des musikalischen Stils. In: Torkewitz, Dieter (ed.) Zwischen Bearbeitung und Recycling: Zur Situation der Neuen Musik, im Kontext der postmodernen Diskussion über Kunst und Ästhetik der Kunst. Series: Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Theorie und Interpretation der Musik (3). Praesens: Vienna, pp. 133-144. ISBN 9783706908559

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) Prospero's death: modernism, anti-humanism and Un re in ascolto. In: Le Théâtre Musical de Luciano Berio: De Un re in ascolto à Cronaca del Luogo. L'harmattan: Paris, pp. 145-160. ISBN 9782336303871

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031, Elsdon, Peter and Doctor, Jenny (Eds.) (2016) Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen. Oxford University Press: New York, NY. ISBN 9780199347650

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) Miles ahead: a film that remains (mostly) true to jazz legend Miles Davis. Conversation, 2016, 27 Apr.

2015

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2015) Erik Bergman, cosmopolitanism and the transformation of musical geography. In: Guldbrandsen, Erling E. and Johnson, Julian (eds.) Transformations of Musical Modernism. Series: Music since 1900. University of Cambridge Press: Cambridge, pp. 74-96. ISBN 9781107127210

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2015) Who wrote Duke Ellington’s music? Authorship and collective creativity in ‘Mood Indigo’. In: Rahmatian, Andreas (ed.) Concepts of Music and Copyright: How music perceives itself and how copyright perceives music. Edward Elgar, pp. 123-142. ISBN 9781783478187

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2015) Play it again, Duke: jazz performance, improvisation, and the construction of spontaneity. In: Heile, Björn, Elsdon, Peter and Doctor, Jenny (eds.) Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen. Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 238-266. ISBN 9780199347650 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199347650.001.0001)

2014

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2014) Supplement to the Music of Mauricio Kagel. UNSPECIFIED: Glasgow.

2013

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2013) Prospero's death: modernism, anti-humanism and Un re in ascolto. In: Le Theatre de Luciano Berio: Un re in Sscolto, Venice, Italy, 28 Sep 2012,

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2013) Review of: K. Gloag, Postmodernism in Music. Notes, 70(1), pp. 116-119. (doi: 10.1353/not.2013.0098)[Book Review]

2012

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2012) Review of: Klangperspektiven by Lucas Haselböck. Music and Letters, 93(4), pp. 626-629. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gcs078)[Book Review]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2012) „Nachdenken über die Komplexität der Kulturgeografie“: Reflexion kultureller Identität im Werk von Maurici. In: Altenburg, D. and Bayreuther, R. (eds.) Musik und kulturelle Identit. Bärenreiter. ISBN 9783761818374

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2012) Review of: Mauricio Kagel. Zwei-Mann-Orchester. Essays und Dokumente. Hrsg. von Matthias Kassel. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2011. Mauricio Kagel. Zwei-Mann-Orchester.Basler Fassung 2011. Basel: point de vue, 2011 [DVD]. Fontes Artis Musicae, 59(2), pp. 208-210. [Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2012) Editorial. Twentieth-Century Music, 9(1-2), pp. 3-10. (doi: 10.1017/S1478572212000175)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2012) Sam Hayden's Presence/Absence [CD liner notes]. Sam Hayden: Presence/Absence [CD],

2011

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2011) Musical modernism, sanitized. Modernism/Modernity, 18(3), pp. 631-637. (doi: 10.1353/mod.2011.0055)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2011) Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition. By Tony Whyton. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. ix + 219 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-89645-0. Popular Music, 30(3), pp. 485-487. (doi: 10.1017/S026114301100033X)[Book Review]

2010

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2010) Review of: M. Kunkel and M. Papiro, eds., Der Schall: Mauricio Kagels Instrumentarium. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 67(1), pp. 131-133. (doi: 10.1353/not.2010.0003)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2010) Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi, The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), ISBN 978-0-19-509936-2 [book review]. Twentieth-Century Music, 7(1), pp. 130-135. (doi: 10.1017/S1478572211000107)[Book Review]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2010) Review of: F. Hentschel, Die “Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik”: Über Geschichte und Historiografie aktueller Musik. Music and Letters, 91(1), pp. 132-135. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gcp042)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2010) Cook, Nicholas (John). In: Macy, L.W. (ed.) Oxford Music Online: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2010) On taking leave: Mahler, Jewishness and jazz in Uri Caine’s Urlicht/Primal light. In: Levi, E. and Scheding, F. (eds.) Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond. Series: Europea (10). Scarecrow Press: Lanham, Md., USA, pp. 105-116. ISBN 9780810863798

2009

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2009) Review of: R. Maconie, Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Music and Letters, 90(1), pp. 123-126. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gcn085)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 and Iddon, M. (Eds.) (2009) Mauricio Kagel bei den Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik in Darmstadt: Eine Dokumentation. Wolke Verlag: Hofheim. ISBN 9783936000412

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (Ed.) (2009) The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9780754662600

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2009) Introduction: new music and the modernist legacy. In: Heile, B. (ed.) The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music. Ashgate: Farnham, pp. 1-11. ISBN 9780754662600

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2009) Kagel in Darmstadt: texte und kontexte. In: Aufgehobene Erschöpfung: Der Komponist Mauricio Kagel. Series: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (214). Schott: Mainz, Germany, pp. 123-133. ISBN 9783795706869

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2009) Musikgeschichte als geschichtenerzählen: ein Argentinier in Darmstadt. MusikTexte, 120, pp. 56-60.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2009) Weltmusik and the globalization of new music. In: The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music. Ashgate: Farnham, UK, pp. 101-121. ISBN 9780754662600

2008

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2008) Review of: Amy C. Beal, New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification. Music and Letters, 89(4), pp. 686-687. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gcn008)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2008) "Composition with film": Mauricio Kagel as filmmaker. In: Stilwell, R.J. and Powrie, P. (eds.) Composing for the Screen in the USSR and Germany: Cultural Politics and Propaganda. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IN, USA, pp. 106-121. ISBN 9780253349767

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2008) Homo ludens? Spiel und spielen im werk von Mauricio Kagel. In: Klüppelholz, W. (ed.) Vom Instrumentalen zum Imaginären Theater: Musikästhetische Wandlungen im Werk von Mauricio Kagel. Wolke Verlag: Hofheim, Germany, pp. 109-127. ISBN 9783936000467

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2008) Review of: M. Rebstock, Komposition zwischen Musik und Theater: Das instrumentale Theater von Mauricio Kagel zwischen 1959 und 1965. Forum Modernes Theater, 23(1), pp. 76-77. [Book Review]

2007

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2007) Uri Caine's Mahler: jazz, tradition and identity. Twentieth-Century Music, 4(2), pp. 229-255. (doi: 10.1017/S1478572208000522)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2007) Review of: B. Vennefrohne, Die Sinfonien Hans Werner Henzes: Entstehungsgeschichtliche und werkanalytische Untersuchungen zu einer Sinfonie-Asthetik Henzes. Music and Letters, 88(3), pp. 545-547. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gcl145)[Book Review]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2007) Review of: M. Cooke, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera. Music and Letters, 88(2), pp. 347-353. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gcl107)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2007) Avantgarde, Engagement und Autonomie: Mauricio Kagel in den sechziger Jahren. In: Jakobshagen, A., Leiniger, M. and Henn, B. (eds.) Rebellische Musik: Gesellschaftlicher Protest und kultureller Wandel um 1968. Series: Musicolonia, 1. Dohr: Cologne, pp. 81-91. ISBN 9783936655483

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2007) Mauricio Kagel’s “instrumental theatre”: metaxis, framing and modes of presentation – five propositions. In: La Musique et la Scène : L’Écriture Musicale et son Expression Scénique au xxe Siècle : Actes de Colloque, Paris, le 23 et 24 Novembre 2006. Series: Collection Arts (8). L'Harmattan: Paris, pp. 183-192. ISBN 9782296044920

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2007) W poszukiwaniu Kagela: rozważania o twórczej subiektywności
[Apocrypha and Simulacra: on Kagel’s recent work]
. Res Facta: Teksty o Muzyce Wspolczesnej, 9(18), pp. 11-19.

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2007) Review of: Werner Klüppelholz, Über Mauricio Kagel, Schriften 1985-2002; Lese-Welten. Mauricio Kagel und die Literatur. Eine Ausstellung des Heinrich-Heine-Instituts der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf im Rahmen der jüdischen Kulturtage. Konzipiert und realisiert von Werner Klüppelholz. Die Musikforschung, 60(1), pp. 71-72. [Book Review]

2006

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2006) Recent approaches to experimental music theatre and contemporary opera [review article]. Music and Letters, 87(1), pp. 72-81. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gci179)[Book Review]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2006) The Music of Mauricio Kagel. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754635239

2005

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2005) Review of: R. Fearn, The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola. Music and Letters, 86(1), pp. 152-154. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gci022)[Book Review]

2004

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2004) Review of: D. Metzer, Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music. Music and Letters, 85(3), pp. 492-494. (doi: 10.1093/ml/85.3.492)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2004) ”Transcending Quotation”: Cross-cultural musical representation in Mauricio Kagel’s Die Stücke der Windrose für Salonorchester. Music Analysis, 23(1), pp. 57-85. (doi: 10.1111/j.0262-5245.2004.00195.x)

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2004) Darmstadt as other: British and American responses to musical modernism. Twentieth-Century Music, 1(2), pp. 161-178. (doi: 10.1017/S1478572205000162)

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2004) Imaginäre und imaginierte Musik im Werk von Mauricio Kagel. Musik-Konzepte, 114, pp. 83-95.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2004) Personalia entries in appendix. In: Cook, N. and Pople, A. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. Series: The Cambridge history of music. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521662567

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2004) Kagel, Bachtin und eine dialogische Theorie musikalischer Intertextualität. In: Holtmeier, L., Polth, M. and Diergarten, F. (eds.) Musiktheorie zwischen Historie und Systematik: 1. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, Dresden 2001. Wissner: Augsburg. ISBN 9783896393869

2003

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2003) Review of: K. Schmidt-Wistoff, Dichtung und Musik bei Ingeborg Bachmann und Hans Werner Henze: Der Augenblick der Wahrheit am Beispiel ihres Opernschaffens. Music and Letters, 84(1), pp. 147-149. (doi: 10.1093/ml/84.1.147)[Book Review]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2003) Review of: M.J. Grant, Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe. Music and Letters, 84(1), pp. 132-136. (doi: 10.1093/ml/84.1.132)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2003) Muziek voor open ogen: het instrumentaal theater van Mauricio Kagel. Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen, 52(297), pp. 228-232.

2002

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2002) Schamanismus und Serialit. Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, 15, pp. 47-51.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2002) Collage vs. compositional control, the interdependency of modernist and postmodernist approaches in the work of Mauricio Kagel. In: Lochhead, J.I. and Auner, J.H. (eds.) Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought. Series: Studies in contemporary music and culture (4). Routledge: New York, USA, pp. 287-299. ISBN 9780815338192

2001

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2001) Kopien ohne Vorbild: Kagel und die Ästhetik des Apokryphen. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 162, pp. 10-15.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2001) Musik an der Grenze der Empfindsamkeit: Björn Heile im Gespräch mit Mauricio Kagel [interview with Mauricio Kagel]. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 162, pp. 16-20.

2000

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2000) Review of: Analysieren lernen durch praktischen Nachvollzug. Nicolas Cook's Analysis through Composition. Musik und Aesthetik, 4(4), pp. 116-118. [Book Review]

1999

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (1999) Review of: W. Reich, Mauricio Kagel: Sankt-Bach-Passion: Kompositionstechnik und didaktische Perspektiven. Die Musikforschung, 52, pp. 267-268. [Book Review]

1998

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (1998) Neutralising history: Mauricio Kagel's String Quartet No. 3. British Postgraduate Musicology, 2, pp. 16-23.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (1998) Auseinandersetzung mit einem mythos: Mauricio Kagels streichquartette. Positionen, 34, pp. 15-19.

1996

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (1996) Mauricio Kagel. In: De la Motte-Haber, H. (ed.) Klangkunst. Prestel: Munich, Germany, p. 80. ISBN 9783791316994

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (1996) Semantisierung des instruments: das klavier in den werken Mauricio Kagels. MusikTexte, 66, pp. 22-30.

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Number of items: 98.

Articles

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 and Iddon, Martin (2024) Introduction: theory and practice of somatic music. Tempo, 78(310), pp. 5-12. (doi: 10.1017/S0040298224000330)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) Miles ahead: a film that remains (mostly) true to jazz legend Miles Davis. Conversation, 2016, 27 Apr.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2012) Editorial. Twentieth-Century Music, 9(1-2), pp. 3-10. (doi: 10.1017/S1478572212000175)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2012) Sam Hayden's Presence/Absence [CD liner notes]. Sam Hayden: Presence/Absence [CD],

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2009) Musikgeschichte als geschichtenerzählen: ein Argentinier in Darmstadt. MusikTexte, 120, pp. 56-60.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2007) Uri Caine's Mahler: jazz, tradition and identity. Twentieth-Century Music, 4(2), pp. 229-255. (doi: 10.1017/S1478572208000522)

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2004) Imaginäre und imaginierte Musik im Werk von Mauricio Kagel. Musik-Konzepte, 114, pp. 83-95.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2003) Muziek voor open ogen: het instrumentaal theater van Mauricio Kagel. Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen, 52(297), pp. 228-232.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2002) Schamanismus und Serialit. Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, 15, pp. 47-51.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2001) Kopien ohne Vorbild: Kagel und die Ästhetik des Apokryphen. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 162, pp. 10-15.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (1998) Neutralising history: Mauricio Kagel's String Quartet No. 3. British Postgraduate Musicology, 2, pp. 16-23.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (1998) Auseinandersetzung mit einem mythos: Mauricio Kagels streichquartette. Positionen, 34, pp. 15-19.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (1996) Semantisierung des instruments: das klavier in den werken Mauricio Kagels. MusikTexte, 66, pp. 22-30.

Books

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2024) Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009491716

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2014) Supplement to the Music of Mauricio Kagel. UNSPECIFIED: Glasgow.

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2006) The Music of Mauricio Kagel. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754635239

Book Sections

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2023) Caine, Uri. In: MGG Online. Bärenreiter.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2010) Cook, Nicholas (John). In: Macy, L.W. (ed.) Oxford Music Online: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (1996) Mauricio Kagel. In: De la Motte-Haber, H. (ed.) Klangkunst. Prestel: Munich, Germany, p. 80. ISBN 9783791316994

Book Reviews

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2013) Review of: K. Gloag, Postmodernism in Music. Notes, 70(1), pp. 116-119. (doi: 10.1353/not.2013.0098)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2012) Review of: Klangperspektiven by Lucas Haselböck. Music and Letters, 93(4), pp. 626-629. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gcs078)[Book Review]

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2011) Musical modernism, sanitized. Modernism/Modernity, 18(3), pp. 631-637. (doi: 10.1353/mod.2011.0055)[Book Review]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2005) Review of: R. Fearn, The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola. Music and Letters, 86(1), pp. 152-154. (doi: 10.1093/ml/gci022)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Heile, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (Ed.) (2009) The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music. Ashgate: Farnham. ISBN 9780754662600

Conference Proceedings

Exhibitions

Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZQC5P) [Exhibitions]

Compositions

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2023) Trio. [Compositions] (Unpublished)

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) 3x10 Musical Actions for Three Socially Distanced Performers. [Compositions]

Website

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) Así electrizó Miles Davis el jazz. [Website]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) How Miles Davis electrified jazz. [Website]

Heile, Björn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2021) Snobbery in the UK?: Musik(wissenschaft) und Klasse in Großbritannien. [Website]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2018) Mapping Musical Modernism. [Website]

Heile, Bjorn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-9031 (2016) The New Jazz Films (and Their Old Models). [Website]

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Grants

Leverhulme Trust, Research Fellowship, £30,223 (January-July 2022).

royal society of edinburgh, research network, 'towards a somatic music: experimental music theatre and theories of embodied cognition', £19,824.50 (march 2020-february 2022)

british academy/leverhulme small grant, ‘mauricio kagel: estate and legacy’, £9850 (august 2013 – july 2014)

carnegie trust for the universities of scotland grant, ‘three modernist composers collected by the paul sacher foundation basel’, £1560 (july 2012)

ahrc collaborative doctoral award (with professor martin cloonan), ’25 years glasgow international jazz festival’, partner: glasgow international jazz festival, 2011-2014, £52,000

‘the use of audiovisual resources in jazz historiography and scholarship: performance, embodiment and mediatised representations’, principal investigator, £111,942.49, ahrc beyond text, small grant, 2010-2011.

british academy overseas conference grant (2006): £300

british academy conference grant (for fourth biennial international conference on twentieth-century music, summer 2005): £500

music and letters trust (for fourth biennial international conference on twentieth-century music, summer 2005): £250

leverhulme special research fellowship (october 2001-september 2003): ~£25000

paul sacher foundation basel (switzerland) for studying the mauricio kagel collection (sketches and manuscripts), grant for three months’ research (2000): full stipend, ~7000,-sfr

Supervision

Victoria Miguel (October 2020), 'John Cage's Writings' (20%)

Tom Green (October 2019-), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Vocal Composition (20%)

Oli Jan (October 2018-), ‘Experimental Music Theatre and Theories of Embodied Cognition’, LKAS fellowship, first supervisor (50%)

Ju-Lee Hong (October 2018-), ‘Musical diplomacy: Isang Yun’s music in the context of the Cold War’, first supervisor (75%), FT

Linfeng Wang (January 2018-), ‘The Development of Jazz in China’, FT, first supervisor (75%)

Jon-Luke Kirton (2015-), ‘The adaptation of theatrical techniques in establishment of a deeper performance practice for the preparation of the voice in selected works for vocalising pianist’, PT, first supervisor (75%)

Miguel, Victoria
The Writing of John Cage

Suzanne Wilkins, University of Sussex (2009-2012), ‘Aesthetic Experience in Music: Case Studies in Composition, Performance and Listening’

Alison Eales, '25 Years of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival' (2011-17)

Jamie Fyffe, 'Miles Davis: Authorship and Creativity' (2012-2017)

Teaching

Musical Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Analysis: Formalist Approaches
Opera
Aspects of Modernity
Dissertation

Research datasets

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Number of items: 2.

2023

Heile, B. (2023) Composer database. [Data Collection]

Heile, B. (2023) ISCM Programmes Analysis. [Data Collection]

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Additional information

Knowledge Exchange, Impact, Public Engagement

Various blogs, CD liner notes and other writing directed at the public.

Contribution to public round table on Wendy Kirkup's ‘Touches bloquées’ (short film on György Ligeti’s ‘Touches bloquées’), 1 Royal Terrace (art gallery), 6 March 2016

Public Lecture, 'Who Wrote Duke Ellington's Music', Glasgow International Jazz Festival', 25 June 2015

Public Lecture, ‘Jazz on Screen’, Glasgow International Jazz Festival, 26 June 2014

Artistic Director, Performance of Mauricio Kagel’s Eine Brise (‘A Breeze’) with members of the public, cultural programme of the Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, 15 June 2014

Interview on BBC Scotland, ‘Classics Unwrapped’ on performance of Eine Brise, 3 June 2014

Collaborative Doctoral Award with Glasgow International Jazz Festival, ’25 Years of the GIJF’, together with Professor Martin Cloonan, award holder: Alison Eales (see above under PhD supervision)

Interview on the death of Mauricio Kagel, BBC Radio 3, ‘Music Matters’, 20 September 2009

Interview on Mauricio Kagel’s work of the 1960s on ‘Studiozeit-Musikjournal’, Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio), 16 January 2006

Live discussion on ‘Live Festival Radio’, BBC Southern Counties Radio, 11 May 2003

‘Tras los pasos porteños de Kagel’ [report on my research], La Nación (Buenos Aires), 19 April 2003

Interview on ‘Los pasos perdidos’, Radio Nacional Argentina, May 2003 (exact date unknown)

Administration

Convenor of Research, School of Culture and Creative Arts, January 2020-

Head of Subject, January 2015-July 2017; January-December 2018

Deputy Head of the School of Culture and Creative Arts, August 2014-July 2018

Research Convenor, Music Subject Area, 2010-14

REF Champion, Music Subject Area, 2010-13

Postgraduate Advisor, School of Humanities

Advisor of Studies, MA, College of Arts

Member of College Appeals Panel; Investigating Officer on Complaints

External Responsibilities

Member of College of Expert Reviewers, European Science Foundation (since 2018)

Panel Member, Research Funding Applications, Research Council of Portugal (2018)

Member of Pool of Peer Reviewers, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (since 2018)

Member of 'Think Tank Arts & Sciences', Université Côte d’Azur (Nice)

Member of AHRC Peer Review College (since January 2017)

Member of Panel 1 'Aesthetic Studies', Evaluation of the Humanities in Norway, Research Council of Norway, 2016

Member of Panel 'Aesthetic Studies', Grant Funding, Research Council of Norway, 2014/15, 2015/16

Royal Musical Association, Member of Council (2009-2012), Member of External Affairs (2008-) and Membership and Finance Committees (2009-12)

Member of Advisory Board, RMA Music and Philosophy Research Group

Member of Advisory Board, Institute of Musical Research

Member of Editorial Board, Jazz Research Journal

Member of Editorial Board, Divergence Press, <http://tinthenet.com/Home.aspx>

External Examining

External Examiner, BMus programme, Department of Music, University of Aberdeen, 2013-2017

External Examiner, BMus and MMus programmes, Department of Music and Sound Recording, University of Surrey (2009-2012) – not renewed due to change in conditions

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