DISSERTATIONS

  • Paul Kreider 1999. Art songs of Daron Hagen: lyrical dramaticism and simplicity with an interpretive guide to rittenhouse songs and resuming green. DMA diss., University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

  • Edwin Powell 2002. Bandanna, an opera by Daron Aric Hagen with libretto by Paul Muldoon commissioned by the College Band Directors National Association: the origins of an artwork with a glimpse at its musical character development. DMA diss., University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.

  • Jane McCalla Redding 2002. An introduction to American song composer Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961) and his miniature folk opera: dear youth. DMA diss., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

  • Jens Staubrand 2009, Kierkegaard International Bibliography Music Works and Plays, Copenhagen.

  • Sarah Elizabeth Snydacker 2011. The new American song: A catalog of published songs by 25 living American composers. Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

  • Jacob Wallace 2015. Bandanna Overture. In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 10, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 705–714. Chicago: GIA Publications.

  • Jay B. Aiken 2016. The Choral Music of Daron Aric Hagen and a Conductor's Analysis of Flight Music. DMA, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

  • Nicole Kenley-Miller 2012-2018. Voicing Virginia: Adaptation of Woolf’s Words to Music. DMA diss., University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

  • Thomas Gamboa 2018. Wind Music from the Renaissance to the Present: A Summary of Dissertation Recitals. Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  • Shin-Yeong Noh 2019. Emily Dickinson's Poetic Imagery in 21st-century Songs by Lori Laitman, Jake Heggie, and Daron Hagen. DMA diss., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

  • Kelci Dalayne Kosin 2019. A performance guide to selected arias from Daron Hagen's opera Amelia through the study of selected Hagen art songs. DA, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

  • McKenna Milici 2023. Convention, Madness, and the Unruly Heroine in Two American Operas: Libby Larsen’s Clair de Lune and Daron Hagen’s Amelia. PhD diss., Florida State University College of Music Tallahassee, Florida.

DICTIONARIES / ENCYCLOPEDIAS

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  • Caplan, Stephen (2009) Oboemotions: What Every Oboe Player Needs to Know about the Body, United States, GIA Publications, Incorporated

  • Carpentier, Martha, (2015), Joycean Legacies, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 324

  • Clifton, Kieth E (2008), Recent American Art Song: a Guide, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md.; Toronto, pp. 67-69

  • Collins, Lucy and Matterson, editors (2011) Aberration in Modern Poetry: Essays on Atypical Works by Yeats, Auden, Moore, Heaney and Others. United States: McFarland, Incorporated, pp. 78-81

  • Elliott, Martha (2006), Singing in style : a guide to vocal performance practices, United Kingdom: Yale University Press, p. 301

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  • Greenlaw, Duncan (2008). “Legacies of Las Vegas: Paul Muldoon and the House of Cards.” Studies in the Literary Imagination Spring2008, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p69-88. 20p.

  • Hill, Douglas (2000), Collected Thoughts on Teaching and Learning, Creativity and Horn Performance, United States: Alfred Music, p. 137

  • Hintz, Martin (2007), Got Murder? The Shocking Story of Wisconsin's Notorious Killers. United States: Trails Books, p. 26

  • Holdridge, Jefferson (2008), The Poetry of Paul Muldoon, Ireland: Liffey Press

  • Jacobson, Bernard (2015), Star Turns and Cameo Appearances: Memoirs of a Life Among Musicians, United States: University of Rochester Press, p. 259

  • Kabatchnik, Amnon (2017), Blood on the Stage, 1600 to 1800: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem, United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p. 89

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  • Kimball, Carol (2013), Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music, Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, pp. 11-14

  • Kozak, Romy (2003), Sounding out : musical ekphrasis, sexuality and the writings of Willa Cather, United States: Stanford University, p. 69, 320

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  • Manning, Jane, DARON HAGEN (b. 1961) Muldoon Songs (1989 and 1992): Texts by Paul Muldoon, Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1: Works Written Before 2000 (New York, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Oct. 2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199391028.003.0032, accessed 23 Nov. 2022.

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  • McCrea, Ron (2013), Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home of Love and Loss, United States: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, p. 10

  • McDonald, Peter (2004), Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays, United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press, pp. 151-164

  • Muldoon, Paul (1994), The Prince of the Quotidian, United States, Wake Forest University Press, p. 18

  • Nersessian, A. (2015), Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, United Kingdom: Harvard University Press, pp. 239-240

  • Obert, Julia C. (2015) Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry, United States: Syracuse University Press, pp. 130, 141-54, 156

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PERIODICALS

  • Aiken, Jay B. “Daron Hagen Takes Flight With Flight Music.” The Choral Journal, vol. 59, no. 1, 2018, pp. 30–48.

  • Allison, Jonathan. “Covert Operations, a review of Daron Hagen’s Vera of Las Vegas.” Irish Literary Supplement. August 2002.

  • Bedford, William. “Counting the Syllables: Paul Muldoon as Librettist.” Agenda. Winter2013, Vol. 47 Issue 3/4, p33-37, 5p

  • Carman, Judith. “Reviewing the Daron Hagen Songbook.” NATS Journal of Singing. Mar/Apr2004, Vol. 60 Issue 4, pp. 416-416. 1/3p.

  • Cengel, Katya. “Opera Makes House Calls, Entertaining Private Audiences.” Courier - Journal, 8 Nov. 2010.

  • Dalton, Joseph. “Classical notes: Composer tackles own life story in book.” Albany Times Union. May 30, 2019.

  • Dervan, Michael. “Opera Theatre Company The Helix, Daron Hagen - Vera of Las Vegas.” The Irish Times. December 4, 2004.

  • Faro. "HAGEN: Rapture and Regret; Vegetable Verselets; Muldoon Songs; Suite; 5 Nocturnes." American Record Guide, vol. 85, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2022, p. 52.

  • Fogel, Henry. “Interview with Composer Daron Hagen.” Fanfare (Tenafly, N.J.) 43.6 (2020): 74–76.

  • Griffiths, Paul. “The Singing Architect.” The New Yorker, May 17, 1993 pp. 98-100.

  • Gurewitsch, Matthew (2011). “In the Beginning Was the Word: Aspects of the Libretto.” Parnassus. Poetry in review 32.1-2 (2011) pp. 268–.

  • Homem, Rui Carvalho. n.d. “Othello Across Borders: On an Interlocal and Intermedial Exercise.” Shakespeare Survey pp. 327–27.

  • Joslyn, Jay. "Young Composer Shows Promise." The Milwaukee Sentinel. January 5, 1978.

  • Keller, Lynn, and Paul Muldoon. “An Interview with Paul Muldoon.” Contemporary Literature 35, no. 1 (1994), pp. 1–29.

  • Kerner, Leighton. "The Wright Stuff." The Village Voice. May 5, 1993.

  • Kosin, Kelci. "Mastering the Aria through Song: Daron Hagen's Amelia, 'Apostrophe to the Stars,' and Selected Hagen Art Songs." Journal of Singing, vol. 78, no. 1, Sept.-Oct. 2021, pp. 47+.

  • Kramer, Elizabeth. "New Opera Touches on Human Trafficking." The Courier Journal (5/8/15): 23

  • Moravian Music Journal. United States, Moravian Music Foundation, 1994, p. 4.

  • Nowacki, Kim. “High-Profile Artistic Director Will Lead The Seasons’ Festival.” Yakima herald-republic 2008: n. 1

  • Oestereich, James R. “Review/Music: Shining Brow; Frank Lloyd Wright Joins Opera's Pantheon.” The New York Times. 3/28/1993.

  • Page, Tim. “Philharmonia, a Philharmonic Premiere.” New York Newsday, October 20, 1992.

  • Parsonage, Catherine. "Hagen's Bandanna and the Accessibility of Opera." Winds Music Magazine (May 2006): pp. 12–16

  • Platt, Russell (1998) Hagen’s homages: the solo string works of Daron Hagen Strings. MayJun1998, Vol. 12, p96-98. 3p.

  • Platt, Russell (1998), "Artful Simplicity: the Art Songs of Daron Hagen." NATS Journal of Singing, 55 (1): 3–11

  • Rooney, Dennis. "Duet with the Past: A Composer's Memoir." ARSC Journal. vol. 51, no. 1, 2020, p. 65+.

  • Rorem, Ned. “Learning with Daron.” Opera News. April 10, 1993, Vol. 57 Issue 15, p29, 2 p. photograph

  • Rosenblum, Joshua. “Critic’s Choice: Bandanna.” Opera News. December 2006, Vol. 71 Issue 6, p72-73. 2p. 1 Color Photograph.

  • Rosenblum, Joshua. “Critic’s Choice: Orson Rehearsed.” Opera News. August 10, 2021.

  • Smith, Patrick. "The Fall of Taliesin." The Times Literary Supplement. May 14, 1993.

  • Sterns, David Patrick. "Shining Brow Recording Review" The Philadelphia Inquirer. April 9, 2009.

  • Strini, Tom. "Frank Lloyd Wright Opera Powerful, Touching." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. April 22, 1993.

  • Tommasini, Anthony. “A Bevy of Eccentrics in a Dreaming Frenzy.” New York Times. 7/1/2003, Vol. 152 Issue 52531, pB1. 0p. 1 Color Photograph, 2 Black and White Photographs.

  • Topper, J. “Spring sounds spring seas by james nyoraku schlefer, shakuhachi; yumi kurosawa, koto” (review). Asian Music, Vol. 51(1), pp. 150-152.

  • von Rhein, John. “Shining Brow World Premiere.” The Chicago Tribune. April 23, 1993.

  • Vittes, Laurence. “21st Centrum Song Cycles.” Gramophone. Feb2018, Vol. 95 Issue 1158, pIII-V. 2p.

  • Waleson, Heidi. "On So Many Levels, a Success." The Wall Street Journal. May 10, 2010.

  • Wardle, Carolyn. “Bandanna: World Premiere.” The Las Vegas Review-Journal. March 4, 2000.

  • Webster, Daniel. "3 Musicians Who Are On the Move." The Philadelphia Inquirer (2/16/85): D01

  • Webster, Daniel. “Student Composer Displays Much More Than Just Promise.” The Philadelphia Inquirer January 19, 1983.

  • Webster, Daniel. “Helping Composers to Be Heard.” Philadelphia Inquirer, 28 Apr. 1985.

  • Wolman, David. “Classical Recordings: HAGEN Piano Trios Nos. 1-4.” Fanfare - The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors 2011: 292–293.

AS AUTHOR

  • Hagen, Daron (2019). Duet with the Past: A Composer's Memoir Jefferson, NC: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers.

  • Hagen, Daron (1992) “Everything Old is New Again” in The New Tonality, Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers, pp. 51-52

  • Hagen, Daron (1988) Various Concert Reviews by, in Ear Magazine, United States: New Wilderness Foundation, vol. 13, issues 1-9, pp. 2, 12, 13, 16, 18

  • Hagen, Daron (2012-2017) Various Articles in The Huffington Post here

  • McFall, Gardner. (2015). Amelia: The Libretto. United States: University of Washington Press.

  • Muldoon, Paul. (2010). Bandanna. United Kingdom: Faber & Faber.

  • Muldoon, Paul. (2011). Shining Brow. United Kingdom: Faber & Faber.

  • Muldoon, Paul. (2001). Vera of Las Vegas. Ireland: Gallery Books.

LIBRETTI

ARCHIVES

  • Diamond, David Box-Folder 32/5-6 Correspondence with DH / Musical Mementos; 146/4 1985 Correspondence; 115/39 correspondence 1988-2000, Library of Congress David Diamond Papers and Archive

  • Hagen, Daron Box VF 5; Majority of material found in 1981 - present, Curtis Institute of Music. (Link) https://curtisarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/9026

  • Hagen, Daron; music (American, born 1961) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Ferry Me across the Water" [Hagen, Daron],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed September 15, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/3102.

  • Muldoon, Paul Correspondence with DH, extensive work notes and collaborative drafts of Shining Brow, Bandanna, Vera of Las Vegas, Subseries 2.2, Dramatic Work and Lyrics, 1970s-2010s, Boxes 24-27, 74-77, 113,117,122, Emery Libraries Paul Muldoon Archives (1939-2016).

  • Rorem, Ned Correspondence with DH, 1981-2022, Ned Rorem Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

  • Thomson, Virgil Correspondence with DH, Box: 29A/106, Folder: 205, Call Number: MSS 29, MSS 29A, Series IV, Sub-Series XXIXA/IV.A, Yale University Virgil Thomson Papers and Archives.