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Eric Chafe, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor at Brandeis, received his BM and PhD from the University of Toronto. Chafe taught at Wilfrid Laurier and McMaster Universities, and at SUNY Stony Brook before joining the Brandeis Faculty in 1982. The recipient of numerous research grants and awards, including a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has also been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University. His books include The Church Music of Heinrich Biber (UMI, 1987), Tonal Allegory in the Music of J. S. Bach (University of California, 1991), and Monteverdi's Tonal Language (Schirmer Books, 1992), for which he received the Kinkeldey Prize of the American Musicological Society and the 1993 ASCAP-Deems Taylor award. Analyzing Bach Cantatas was published in 2000 and won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for that year. His most recent book is The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (Oxford University Press, 2005). |
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