The Life and Work of America’s Pioneer Music Publisher

A scholarly biography of Arthur P. Schmidt, the first music publisher to print symphonies written by American composers and an early advocate for the music of women composers.

Forthcoming from SUNY Press (May 2027). Hardcover, 208 pages.

Arthur P. Schmidt: A Pioneer Music Publisher

Public history website (2026) at https://www.APSchmidt.org.

A Music Publisher with Purpose: Arthur P. Schmidt at 150

Forthcoming feature article in the Bulletin of the Society for American Music 53, no. 1 (Winter 2027).

The Immigrant Journey of Arthur P. Schmidt: Tracing a Nineteenth-Century Music Publisher’s Social and Cultural Capital from Hamburg to Boston

American Music 41, no. 4 (Winter 2023) [backdated from 2025]: 453–475. https://jstor.org/stable/48815014.

Preface to Arthur Foote, Four Character Pieces after the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Op. 48

Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt, 1911. Plate APS 9680. Reprint. Munich: Musikproduktion Hoeflich, 2024. https://repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/.

Musical Geographies of Boston, 1865–1915

Data mapping project. Prototype version (2023). https://dstrykowski-boston.share.connect.posit.cloud.

Supported by a grant from the Digital Scholarship Studio and Network at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).

A Visual Guide to Some Nineteenth-Century Composers and Their Publishers

R-based data visualization project (2020). https://dstrykowski-visualguide.share.connect.posit.cloud.

The Negotiation of Nineteenth-Century Style: A Case Study in Composer–Publisher Relations

International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 49, no. 2 (December 2018): 217–242. https://jstor.org/stable/26844645. 

The Business of Composition: Measuring Economic Relationships at Breitkopf & Härtel, 1798–1838

Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 74, no. 4 (June 2018): 574–602. https://jstor.org/stable/26781921.

Prices of Music at Breitkopf & Härtel: Publication Lists from the Intelligenz-blatt zur Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung

Searchable data set with introduction (2018). https://dstrykowski-pricesofmusic.share.connect.posit.cloud.

Listed in Digital Resources for Musicology (Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University).

“From Hamburg to Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Music Publishing.” Paper. Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Louisville, March 2024.

“Mapping the Boston Music Trade, 1865–1905.” Virtual poster presentation. 87th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, November 2021.

“Visualizing Nineteenth-Century Music Supply Chains.” Lightning Talk. New York State–St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Colgate University, April 2021.

“Symphonies for Sale: How Composers and Publishers Negotiated the Style of Concert Music in the Long Nineteenth Century.” Paper. New England Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Amherst College, October 2015.

Hearing the Interrogative in the Cadences of Sigismondo d’India: A Quantitative Analysis of the Polyphonic Madrigals

Intégral: The Journal of Applied Musical Thought 36 (June 2023): 103–128. https://www.esm.rochester.edu/integral/36-2023/strykowski/.

Text Painting, or Coincidence? Treatment of Height-Related Imagery in the Madrigals of Luca Marenzio

Empirical Musicology Review 11, no. 2 (January 2017): 109–119. https://emusicology.org/article/id/4740/.

Response: Craig Sapp, “Suggestions for Future Corpus-Based Text Painting Analyses: A Response to Strykowski.” Empirical Musicology Review 11, no. 2 (January 2017): 120–123. https://emusicology.org/article/id/4732/. 

“Sounding the Interrogative: Cadential Attenuation as Syntactic Device in the Madrigals of Sigismondo d’India.” Paper. 85th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Boston, November 2019.

“Hearing the Interrogative in the Polyphonic Madrigals of Sigismondo d’India: A Quantitative Analysis.” Paper. Third Annual Conference on the Italian Madrigal, Colgate University, September 2018.

Buffalo’s First Piano? Telling—and Retelling—the Story of a Frontier City’s Musical Past

Upcoming conference paper. 53rd Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, Buffalo, March 2027.

Changing Attitudes About Musical Counterfeits

Review of Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Canon by Frederick Reece (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Early Music America (August 16, 2026). https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles/changing-attitudes-about-musical-counterfeits/

The Diegetic Music of Berg’s Lulu: When Opera and Serialism Collide

Journal of Musicological Research 35, no. 1 (January 2016): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2015.1082066