Fields
Bach studies: source criticism, performance practice, and musico-theological issues. Notational and temporal procedures in 17th- and 18th-century music.
Teaching
Baroque passion and oratorio; Mozart-DaPonte operas; Wagner’s Ring; Concerto, Fugue, and Dance in the Music of J.S.Bach; Collegium Musicum
Selected Honors/Awards
Honorary Member of the American Bach Society, 2014
University of Augsburg (Germany), Visiting Professor, 2003
Visiting Fellow, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 2000
Indiana University, Bloomington, Visiting Professor, 1999
University of Louisville, Bingham Professor of Humanities, 1998
President, American Bach Society, 1992–96
Member of Direktorium, International Neue Bachgesellschaft, 1987–92
Hochschule der Künste, West Berlin, Visiting Professor, 1977–79
IREX Fellowship (German Democratic Republic), 1976–77
Selected Publications
Theologische-musikalische Kommentar der Kirchenkantaten Johann Sebastian Bachs, in collaboration with Martin Petzoldt, University of Leipzig. Vol. 1. (Georg Olms, 2004).
Bach Studies (editor and contributor), Cambridge University Press, 1989.
“The Role of the ‘Actus Structure’ in the Libretto of J. S. Bach’s Matthew Passion” in: Music and Theology: Essays in Honor of Robin A. Leaver, ed. Daniel Zager, Scarecrow Press, 2006, 121–139.
“Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s 1789 Matthew Passion as Pasticcio and Parody” in Passion, Affekt und Leidenschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit. Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zu Barockforschung ed. by J.A. Steiger, in collaboration with Ralf Georg Bogner, Ulrich Heinen, Renate Steiger, Melvin Unger und Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005), 637–654.
“Composing in Time: Bach’s Temporal Design for the Goldberg Variations,“ in: Bach Studies from Dublin, Irish Musical Studies 8, ed. Anne Leahy and Yo Tomita, Four Courts Press, 2004, pp. 103–128.
"Viewing Bach's Goldberg Variations as a Musico-Mathematical Matrix." In Dortmunder Bach-Forschungen, Bd. 6, ed. Martin Geck. Klangfarbern Musikverlag, 2003, pp. 231–250
"Das Verhältnis zwischen Taktart und Kompositionstechnik im Wohltemperierten Klavier I." In Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I. Tradition, Entstehung, Funktion, Analyse. Ed. Siegbert Rampe. (Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften, Bd. 38.) Musikverlag Katzbichler, 2002, pp. 147–158.
"Aspekte von Proportion und Dimension in Johann Sebastian Bachs Missa von 1733." In Leipziger Beiträge zur Bachforschung, Bd. 5, ed. Ulrich Leisinger, Georg Olms, 2002, pp. 219–254.
"The Libretto of Bach's John Passion and the 'Doctrine of Reconciliation': An Historical Perspective." In Proceedings of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, ed. A. A. Clement, Vol. 143 (1995), 179–203.
"The Fermata as Notational Convention in the Music of J. S. Bach." In Convention in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Music, ed. Allanbrook, Levy, and Mahrt (New York: Pendragon Press, 1992), 345–81.
"Reconstructing the Urpartitur for WTC II: a study of the 'London Autograph'" (BL Add. MS 35021)." In Bach Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 240–77.
Papers Read
Since 2000, Prof. Franklin has read papers at Biennial conferences on Baroque music held in Manchester (England), and Dublin (Ireland), at international Bach conferences at Oxford University and in Leipzig and Dortmund (Germany), and at an Interdisciplinary Baroque Studies conference in Wolfenbüttel (Germany).
Consulting
Reviewer, Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS), 2006
Reviewer, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Stipendienprogramm, 2005
Reviewer, Penn State graduate programs in Music History and Theory, 2004.
Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 2000, 1999
Reviewer, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1996
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanitites, 1996, 1985–87
Reviewer, Cambridge University Press, 1995, 1993, 1991, 1990
Activities
Advisory Board, International Arbeitsgemeinschaft für theologische Bachforschung, 1995–
Chair, Performance Committee for National Meeting American Musicological Society, 2002
General editor, Bach Perspectives, 1993–96
Member, Editorial Board, Bach (Journal of the Riemenschneider-Bach Institute), 1993-
Advising editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies (Journal of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), 1992–95
Advisory Board, Riemenschneider-Bach Institute, 1988–
Chair, Department of Music, 1990–96, 1978–84
Selected Performances
Conductor, Bach and the Baroque ensemble.
Modern premiere of Antonio Bertali’s Missa Novi Regis, 2005
American premiere of G.P. Telemann's 1750 Matthew Passion, 2004.
First modern performance of CPE Bach's 1789 Matthew Passion, 2004.
First American performance of G.P. Telemann's Die Auferstehung, 2001.
Current Projects
Tempo, Proportion and Dimension in the music of J.S. Bach. Compositional procedure and musico-theological structure in late 18th-century liturgical
Education & Training
- Emeritus Faculty