James Hepokoski
American musicologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Arnold Hepokoski is an American musicologist. He is best known for his work with Warren Darcy on developing sonata theory, first fully explained in their 2006 book Elements of Sonata Theory. Life and career James Arnold Hepokoski was born on 20 December 1946 in Duluth, Minnesota. 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. Since 1999 he has been Professor of Music at Yale University; earlier he taught at the University of Minnesota and at Oberlin College. In July 2017 he became the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale. His daughter is lawyer, Laura Nirider.
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- Elements of sonata theory : norms, types, and deformations in the late eighteenth-century sonata (2006) (310)
- Elements of Sonata Theory (2006) (310)
- The Medial Caesura and Its Role in the Eighteenth-Century Sonata Exposition (1997) (64)
- Back and Forth from Egmont: Beethoven, Mozart, and the Nonresolving Recapitulation (2001) (62)
- Beyond the Sonata Principle (2002) (60)
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (1993) (52)
- The Dahlhaus Project and Its Extra-Musicological Sources (1991) (43)
- Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections (2009) (33)
- Genre and content in mid-century Verdi: ‘Addio, del passato’ (La traviata, Act III) (1989) (32)
- Beethoven reception: the symphonic tradition (2001) (21)
- Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre - paperback: Three Methodological Reflections (2010) (14)
- Masculine. Feminine. Are Current Readings of Sonata Form in Terms of a 'Masculine' and 'Feminine' Dichotomy Exaggerated? James Hepokoski Argues for a More Subtle Approach to the Politics of Musical Form (1994) (14)
- Vladimir Jankélévitch's Philosophy of Music (2012) (13)
- Formulaic Openings in Debussy (1984) (12)
- Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff (1984) (12)
- Sonata Theory and Dialogic Form (2010) (11)
- Giuseppe Verdi: Otello (1987) (8)
- A Sonata Theory Handbook (2021) (8)
- Framing Till Eulenspiegel (2006) (8)
- The second cycle of tone poems (2010) (6)
- Fiery-Pulsed Libertine or Domestic Hero? Strauss’s Don Juan Reinvestigated (2017) (6)
- Sonata Theory, Secondary Themes and Continuous Expositions: Dialogues with Form‐Functional Theory (2016) (6)
- Under the Eye of the Verdian Bear: Notes on the Rehearsals and Première of Falstaff (1985) (5)
- Temps Perdu. Revolutionary or Reactionary? James Hepokoski Delves into a Fundamental Paradox at the Heart of Charles Ives' Musical Style (1994) (5)
- Comments on William E. Caplin’s Essay “What Are Formal Functions?” (2010) (4)
- Formal Process, Sonata Theory, and the First Movement of Beethoven’s “Tempest” Sonata (2010) (4)
- Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "Magnificent Translation": A Study in the Genesis of the Otello Libretto (1988) (3)
- The Operas of Verdi, Vol. III: From "Don Carlos" to "Falstaff" . Julian Budden . (1982) (2)
- Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays (2009) (2)
- Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre - paperback (2010) (2)
- Verdi, Giuseppina Pasqua, and the Composition of "Falstaff" (1980) (2)
- Abstract: Compositional Emendations in Verdi's Autograph Scores: Il trovatore, La traviata, Un ballo in maschera (1985) (1)
- Abstract: Verdi's Ternary Structures in Les Vêpres siciliennes (1996) (1)
- The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini: Dahlhaus’s Beethoven-Rossini Stildualismus : lingering legacies of the text-event dichotomy (2013) (1)
- Abstract: Overriding the Autograph Score: The Problem of Textual Authority in Verdi's 'Falstaff' (1995) (1)
- Culture Clash. James Hepokoski Revisits Dvorak's New World Symphony (1993) (1)
- Review: The Operas of Verdi, Vol. III: From Don Carlos to Don Carlos by Julian Budden (1982) (1)
- Verdi's Macbeth: A Sourcebook . David Rosen , Andrew Porter , Verdi . (1986) (0)
- Abstracts from the Sarasota Conference on Verdi's Revisions (1997) (0)
- Beethoven, String Quartet in E Minor, op. 59 no. 2/i (Allegro) (2021) (0)
- Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (1993) (0)
- Abstract: Entrances, Set Pieces, and Exits: Reflections on the Structure of Verdi's Otello (1991) (0)
- Haydn, String Quartet in G, op. 76 no. 1/i (Allegro con spirito) (2021) (0)
- Jean Sibelius: The Hameenlinna Letters: Scenes from a Musical Life, 1874-1895@@@Jean Sibelius: A Guide to Research (1998) (0)
- Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata (First Movement). Five Annotated Analyses for Performers and Scholars (2012) (0)
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 5: Introduction: Sibelius and the problem of ‘modernism’ (1993) (0)
- Sibelius Studies and Notions of Expertise@@@Sibelius Symphony No. 5@@@Symphonic Unity: The Development of Formal Thinking in the Symphonies of Sibelius (1995) (0)
- Abstracts from the Belfast International Verdi Congress (pt. 2) (1995) (0)
- Program Music (2021) (0)
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 5: Select bibliography (1993) (0)
- Beethoven, Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 36/i (Adagio molto–Allegro con brio) (2021) (0)
- One More Time on Beethoven ’ s “ Tempest , ” From Analytic and Performance Perspectives : A Response to William E (2016) (0)
- What Is Sonata Theory? (2021) (0)
- Schubert, String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810/i (Allegro) (2021) (0)
- Brahms, Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, op. 68/iv, finale (Adagio; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio) (2021) (0)
- Comments on James Webster’s Essay “Formenlehre in Theory and Practice” (2010) (0)
- The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius: Finlandia awakens (2004) (0)
- In the Beginning: Anna Bolena and the Artistic Maturity of Gaetano Donizetti . Philip Gossett. (1988) (0)
- Mozart, Piano Sonata in B-flat, K. 333/i (Allegro) (2021) (0)
- The Basics (2021) (0)
- The Minor-Mode Sonata (2021) (0)
- Review: Verdi's Macbeth: A Sourcebook by David Rosen, Andrew Porter, Verdi (1986) (0)
- Response to the Comments (2010) (0)
- “Listen and Be Amazed!”: Odeon, Künneke, and the First Recordings of Complete Symphonies (2023) (0)
- Modalities of National Identity: Sibelius Builds a First Symphony (2011) (0)
- Sibelius Builds a First Symphony: Modalities of National Identity (2008) (0)
- Haydn, Symphony No. 100 in G, “Military,” first movement (Adagio–Allegro) (2021) (0)
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 5: Editions and performance tempos: a brief note (1993) (0)
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 5: The crisis, 1909–14: ‘Let's let the world go its own way’ (1993) (0)
- Of Heaven's door and migrating swans: composing a confession of faith (1993) (0)
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 5: Reassessed compositional principles, 1912–15: the five central concepts (1993) (0)
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