Eric Chafe

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 students 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