Faculty Guide

Title

Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Music

Music

Expertise

Music of Monteverdi. Bach. Wagner. Seventeenth century. Postromantic music. Twentieth-century music. Analysis.

Awards and Honors

Victor & Gwendolyn Beinfield Chair (2003)

AMS Otto Kinkeldey Award for best musicological work of 1993 (Monteverdi's Tonal Language (1993)

ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (Monteverdi's Tonal Language) (1993)

National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship (1992 - 1993)

National Endowment for Humanities Publication Grant (1989)

Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1986 - 1987)

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship (1970)

Courses Taught

MUS	42a	The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
MUS	53a	Music for the Ballet
MUS	103a	Theory and Musicianship II: Part 1
MUS	103b	Theory and Musicianship II: Part 2
MUS	123b	History of Music since 1900
MUS	133a	Classic and Romantic Music
MUS	134b	Modernism in Music
MUS	202b	Proseminar in Music of the Baroque
MUS	216a	Seminar: Topics in Bach Interpretation
MUS	219a	Seminar: Wagner
MUS	220a	Seminar: The German Postromantic Period
MUS	234a	Topics in Analysis of Early Twentieth-Century Music
MUS	235a	Topics in Twentieth-Century Music
USEM	36a	Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century Music

Scholarship

Chafe, Eric Thomas. "Bach and Hypocrisy Appearance and Truth in Cantatas 136 and 179." The Century of Bach and Mozart (2008): 121-144.

Chafe, Eric Thomas. The tragic and the ecstatic : the musical revolution of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Chafe,Eric Thomas. Analyzing Bach Cantatas. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Chafe,Eric Thomas. Monteverdi's Tonal Language. New York: Schirmer Books, 1992.

Chafe,Eric Thomas. Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach. University of California Press, 1991.

Chafe,Eric Thomas. The Church Music of Heinrich Biber. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Research Press, 1987.