Eric Thomas Chafe (born 1946) is an American

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

specializing in the music of

Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string instrument, string player. A composer of both Secular music, secular and Church music, sacred music, and a pioneer ...

, Heinrich Biber,

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...

and

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

. Chafe holds a PhD in musicology from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

. He teaches at

Brandeis University Brandeis University () is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational university, Bra ...

, near Boston. His former student include Nancy Raabe (Miller).

Bibliography

* * ''Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach'', University of California Press, 1991''Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach''
/ref> * * * * ''Bach's Johannine Theology: The 'St. John Passion' and the Cantatas for Spring 1725'', New York, Oxford University Press, 2014 * ''Tears into Wine: J. S. Bach's Cantata 21 in its Musical and Theological Contexts'', New York, Oxford University Press, 2015

References

External links

on brandeis.edu
Review of Eric Chafe. Analyzing Bach Cantatas
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chafe, Eric 1946 births Living people American musicologists Brandeis University alumni University of Toronto alumni