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

AMS subvention grant to Oxford University Press for my book, "Bach's Johannine Theology: The 'St. John Passion' and the Cantatas for Spring 1725" (in press, to be published this year) (2010)

Victor & Gwendolyn Beinfield Chair (2003)

ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for "Analyzing Bach Cantatas" (2001)

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

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

National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship (1992 - 1993)

AMS subvention grant for my book "Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach" (1990)

National Endowment for Humanities Publication Grant (1989)

Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1986 - 1987)

Canada Council Dissertation Fellowship (1970)

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship (1970)

Courses Taught

MUS	42a	The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
MUS	51b	The Symphony
MUS	54b	Music and Poetry in the German Art Song During the Nineteenth Century
MUS	133a	Classic and Romantic Music
MUS	133b	History of Music II: Late Baroque and Classical
MUS	135a	History of Music III: Romantic and 20th Century
MUS	171a	Form and Analysis
MUS	187b	Proseminar in Music of the Baroque
MUS	192a	Topics in Analysis of Early Twentieth-Century Music
MUS	194a	Topics in Twentieth-Century Music
MUS	214b	Seminar: Baroque Topics
MUS	216a	Seminar: Topics in Bach Interpretation
MUS	219a	Seminar: Wagner
MUS	220a	Seminar: The German Postromantic Period
USEM	36a	Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century Music

Scholarship

Chafe, Eric Thomas. ""Bach's Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11): God's Kingdoms and their Representation"." Bach Perspectives 8 8. (2010).

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.