Eric Chafe

Eric Thomas Chafe
Born	1946 (age 78–79)
Education	University of Toronto
Occupation	Musicologist
Organizations	Brandeis University

Eric Thomas Chafe (born 1946) is an American musicologist specializing in the music of Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Biber, Johann Sebastian Bach and Richard Wagner.

Chafe holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Toronto. He teaches at Brandeis University, near Boston. His former student include Nancy Raabe (Miller).

Bibliography

• The Church Music of Heinrich Biber. Studies in musicology. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. 1987. p. 305. ISBN   0835717704. OCLC   15053153. Chafe1987.
• Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach, University of California Press, 1991 ^[1]
• Monteverdi's tonal language (in French). New York: Schirmer Books. 1992. p. 442. ISBN   0028704959. OCLC   470332536. Chafe1992.
• Analyzing Bach cantatas. Oxford University Press. 2003. pp. XVII-286. ISBN   0-19-516182-3. OCLC   470375905. Chafe2003.
• The tragic and the ecstatic; the musical revolution of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Oxford University Press. 2005. p. 333. ISBN   019534300X. OCLC   233542079. Chafe2005.
• 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

1. Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach

External links

• Presentation on brandeis.edu
• Review of Eric Chafe. Analyzing Bach Cantatas.