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John Platoff
Professor of Music, Emeritus
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Trinity College faculty member since 1984
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  • Platoff, John. “Francesco Benucci, Nancy Storace, and Sarti’s Fra i due litiganti in Vienna.” International Conference “Giuseppe Sarti,” Berlin, July 18, 2014.
  • Platoff, John.  “Searching for Sincerity in Mozart’s String Quartet K. 421: The Legacy of Romanticism (with Reflections on the Career of Ice Cube),” Annual Meeting, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, Texas, March 23, 2012.
  • Platoff, John.  “The Beatles and the Rolling Stones Get Political: ‘Revolution’ and ‘Street Fighting Man’,“ Boston University, November 29, 2011.
  • Platoff, John. Review of Mozart’s Viennese Instrumental Music: A Study of Stylistic Re-Invention, by Simon P. Keefe (Woodbridge, UK, and Rochester, NY, 2007) and Mozart’s Piano Music, by William Kinderman (Oxford and New York, 2006).  Journal of the American Musicological Society 61 (2008), 615-25.
  • Platoff, John. “John Lennon, 'Revolution', and the Politics of Musical Reception.”  The Journal of Musicology 22 (2005): 241-67.
  • Platoff, John. "Operatic Ensembles and the Problem of the Don Giovanni Sextet."  In Opera buffa in Mozart’s Vienna, edited by Mary Hunter and James Webster, Cambridge, 1997, 378-405.
  • Platoff, John. "Myths and Realities about Tonal Planning in Mozart’s Operas."  Cambridge Opera Journal 8 (1996): 3-15.
  • Platoff, John. "Catalogue Arias and the 'Catalogue' Aria."  In Wolfgang Amadè Mozart: Essays on His Life and Music, edited by Stanley Sadie, Oxford, 1996, 296-311.
  • Platoff, John. "Tonal Organization in 'Buffo' Finales and the Act II Finale of 'Le nozze di Figaro'." Music and Letters 72 (1991): 387-403.
  • Platoff, John. "Musical and Dramatic Structure in the Opera Buffa Finale."  The Journal of  Musicology 7 (1989): 191-230.
  • Platoff, John, and David L. Brodbeck. "Dissociation and Integration: The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 130." Nineteenth Century Music 7 (1983-84): 149-62.