James Hepokoski
James Arnold Hepokoski (born 20 December 1946) is an American musicologist.
Life and career
James Arnold Hepokoski was born on 20 December 1946 in Duluth, Minnesota.[1] He earned his master's degree and PhD in Music History from Harvard University, studying with David G. Hughes, John M. Ward, Oliver Strunk and Christoph Wolff, earning his doctorate in 1979 with a dissertation on Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff.[1] Since 1999 he has been Professor of Music at Yale University; earlier he taught at the University of Minnesota and at Oberlin College.[2] In July 2017 he became the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale.[3] His daughter is lawyer, Laura Nirider.
He is best known for his writing on
Selected publications
- Hepokoski, James; Darcy, Warren (2006). Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata. Oxford: ISBN 978-0-19-514640-0.
- —— (2020). A Sonata Theory Handbook. Oxford: ISBN 978-0-19-753681-0.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- ^ a b "James Hepokoski". Yale University. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "James Hepokoski designated the Moses Professor of Music". Yale News. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "James Hepokoski Publishes New Sonata Theory Handbook". Yale University. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
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