Publications

Current Research

David Ponsford is currently writing a monograph The French Organ in the reign of Louis XIV: Inspiring the Baroque from Couperin to JS Bach for Cambridge University Press. He is also contributing a chapter on seventeenth-century performance practice for The Cambridge History of Musical Performance (CUP, 2009), and is collaborating with Professor Kenneth Gilbert on a new edition of the Livre d’orgue by Nicolas de Grigny.

Book Chapter

‘A Question of Genre’, in ed. Shirley Thompson, New Perspectives on Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, in press).

Journal articles 

‘The Organs of Gottfried Silbermann’, Choir & Organ (March 1997), 16-18; (May 1997), 16-18; (July 1997), 22-24.

‘Unwriting the Unwritable’, Musical Times, 138 (April 1997), 24-26.

‘Inégalité and Récits: Genre Studies in Seventeenth-Century French Organ Music’, The Organ Yearbook, 28 (1998/1999), 61-77.

 ‘J. S. Bach and the Nature of French Influence’, The Organ Yearbook, 29 (2000), 59-74.

‘Buxtehude defined’, Choir & Organ (March/April 2000).

‘Towards a reappraisal of François Couperin’s organ masses’, Journal of the British Institute of Organ Studies, 27 (2003), 40-57.

‘Charpentier’s Messe pour plusieurs instruments au lieu des orgues (H 513)’, The Organ Yearbook, 33 (2004), 63-72.

‘Touching the Past’, International Piano 51 (May/June 2007), 20-23.

‘Spirit of the Age’ [Tercentenary article on Buxtehude’s choral music], Choir & Organ 15/3 (May/June 2007), 29-31.

Edition

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas, 3 vols. (Bologna: Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2007).

Preface to edition 

JS Bach, ‘48 Preludes & Fugues’ (Stowmarket: Kevin Mayhew, 2003).

PhD dissertation

‘Genre and Notes inégales in the Livres d’orgue of François Couperin and Nicolas de Grigny’ (Cardiff University, 1999). An exploration of seventeenth-century performance practices in French Classical organ repertory through genre studies.

Reviews

Regular reviews of books, music and CDs contributed to The Organ Yearbook and Choir & Organ.