Keith Chapin

Lecturer in Musicology

B.A. Yale University, M.M. Yale School of Music, Ph.D. Stanford University

Keith Chapin teaches music history and analysis, aesthetics, and the history of music theory, specializing in the long eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A native of Fairbanks, Alaska, Dr. Chapin developed early interests in music, languages and literature, and the sciences. He studied at Yale University, earning both a liberal arts degree with a major in music and a performance degree in viola. During this time, he studied viola with Jesse Levine and chamber music with the Tokyo Quartet. He then spent two years in Germany teaching English in Dresden and studying musicology in Bamberg. For his doctoral studies in musicology, he went to Stanford University. His research brought him to Vienna for one year as a Fulbright Fellow in Vienna. From 2002 to 2007 he taught at Fordham University in New York City and in 2008 joined the staff at the New Zealand School of Music. He has continued to perform intermittently as a violist.

His research has focused on the interrelationship between aesthetics and the history of music theory, with particular respect to counterpoint. His recent publications on these topics include journal articles on Heinrich Christoph Koch and W. A. Mozart (Eighteenth-Century Music) and on Christian Friedrich Michaelis and J. S. and C. P. E. Bach (Ad parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music), as well as a book chapter on Paul Hindemith and Theodor W. Adorno for Apparitions: New Perspectives on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music (Routledge Press). He is at work on a book on the changing aesthetic and cultural implications of counterpoint over the eighteenth century. Further research interests include the music criticism and fiction of E. T. A. Hoffmann. An article on the topic appeared in Nineteenth-Century Music. Forthcoming articles on early eighteenth-century reception of French classicist aesthetics will appear in Music & Letters and Eighteenth-Century Music.

Dr. Chapin is an associate editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century Music and also sits on the editorial board of Acta musicologica: Journal of the International Musicological Society. In 2009, he will become an editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music.

Contact details
Room: 201, 92 Fairlie Terrace

Phone: +64 4 463 9787
Email: keith.chapin@nzsm.ac.nz

External links

New Zealand Humanities Research Network

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