This page provides access to selected lectures given by Allen Sapp. Some of these lectures were prepared in advance and given in public presentations. There is also a set of transcripts from selected extemporaneous classroom lectures.

Contents

  • Inside the Composer’s Mind: Lectures on Musical Masterworks. Transcripts of extemporaneous classroom lectures by Allen Sapp, ca. 1982. Edited by Edward Komara (SUNY-Potsdam) and Alan Green (The Ohio State University), 2023.
  • “The Composer and Tradition.” Thomas James Kelly Lecture Series, 17 April 1979, Patricia Corbett Theatre, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
  • “The Composer and Process.” Thomas James Kelly Lecture Series, 19 April 1979, Patricia Corbett Theatre, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music .
  • “The Composer and Expression.” Thomas James Kelly Lecture Series, 24 April 1979, Patricia Corbett Theatre, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
  • “Facts amidst Appearances.” Thomas James Kelly Lecture Series, “Obvious Questions, Impossible Answers,” 28 January 1980, Patricia Corbett Theatre, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (post in preparation)
  • “In Time Take Time While Time Doth Last, for Time Is No Time When Time Is Past.” Thomas James Kelly Lecture Series, “Obvious Questions, Impossible Answers,” 30 January 1980, Patricia Corbett Theatre, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (post in preparation)
  • “Silence More Musical Than Any Song.” Thomas James Kelly Lecture Series, “Obvious Questions, Impossible Answers,” 31 January 1980, Patricia Corbett Theatre, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (post in preparation)