Books
Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Augusta Browne Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America
The 2021 H. Robert Cohen/RIPM committee of the American Musicological Society expressed “high respect” for the “superlative quality of Bonny Miller’s work” and awarded Honorable Mention as a “mark of distinction” for Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America. The H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Award is awarded by the AMS each year for outstanding work based on the musical press.
“Bonny H. Miller’s Augusta Browne is a superb piece of musicological scholarship. Every chapter reveals methodological mastery, nuanced analysis, engaging writing, and contagious enthusiasm for restoring a historical figure who has been undeservedly neglected.” [Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music]
“This biography is an inspiration and should be included in any graduate-level research methods class for future scholars to learn from Miller’s methodologies.” [Music Library Association Notes]
“The author deftly sets up the forces in Browne’s life, both from her family, training, and social class, and from the wider cultural world surrounding her.” “engagingly written” “richly contextualized” [Journal of Musicological Research]
“The book provides a rich social history of the 19th-century music marketplace.” [Choice]
Chapters and Articles
“‘The Telegraph of the Heart’: American Songs of Augusta Browne.” Journal of Singing 76, no. 5 (May/June 2020): 517–31.
“Education, Entertainment, Embellishment: Music Publication in the Lady’s Magazine.” In Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England, edited by Linda Austern, Candace Bailey, and Amanda Eubanks Winkler, 238–56. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2017.
“Augusta Browne: From Musical Prodigy to Musical Pilgrim in Nineteenth-Century America.” Journal of the Society for American Music 8, no. 2 (May 2014): 189–218.
“A Songbook and a Sea Voyage: The Legacy of Louisa Wells Aikman.” Bulletin of the Society for American Music 36, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 1–3.
“Voices of a Nation: Reflections of World War I in American Magazine Music.” Bulletin of the Society for American Music 24, no. 2/3 (Summer/Fall 2000): 40–44.
“Household Periodicals: An Unstudied Source of American Music.” Fontes Artis Musicae 42, no. 4 (Oct./Dec., 1995): 311–19.
“A Mirror of Ages Past: The Publication of Music in Domestic Periodicals.” Notes 50, no. 3 (March 1994): 883–901.
“Ladies’ Companion, Ladies’ Canon? A Century of Women Composers in American Magazines.” In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, edited by Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 156–82. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1993. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/38rmf6dd9780252063411.html
“Magazine Music of the Jugendstil and Expressionist Movements.” Periodica Musica 9 (1991): 1–13.
“The Josef Hofmann Years at the Ladies’ Home Journal.” Piano Quarterly no. 149 (Spring 1990): 25–35.
“Mathilde Marchesi and the Ladies’ Home Journal.” NATS Journal 46, no. 2 (Nov./Dec., 1989): 4–8.
“A Research Report on Magazine Music Published in Non-Musical Periodicals.” Periodica Musica 4 (1986): 18–20.
“Schoenberg’s Herzgewächse and the Blaue Reiter Almanac.” Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 7, no. 2 (Nov., 1983): 197–221.