Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities
Stephen Hinton, Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities
Stephen Hinton, professor of music, assumed the
post of senior associate dean for the humanities in September 2006.
He has been on the Stanford University faculty since 1994, and from
1997-2004 he served as chairman of the Department
of Music. He studied at the University of Birmingham (U.K.), where
he took both a double-major in Music and German and a Ph.D. in Musicology.
His 1984 dissertation was published as The Idea of Gebrauchsmusik.
From 1990 to 1994 he taught at Yale University. Before that he was
at the Technische Universität Berlin for eight years, first as
research assistant to the late Carl Dahlhaus and then as a "wissenschaftlicher
Assistent."
His publications include Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera for the series Cambridge Opera Handbooks, the critical edition of Die Dreigroschenoper for the Kurt Weill Edition (edited with Edward Harsh), Kurt Weill: Gesammelte Schriften (edited with Jürgen Schebera, and issued in 2000 in an expanded second edition), and the edition of the Symphony Mathis der Maler for Paul Hindemith's Collected Works. He has published widely on many aspects of modern German music history, with contributions to publications such as Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Music, Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and Funkkolleg Musikgeschichte. He currently serves as editor of Beethoven Forum and is completing a book for the University of California Press entitled Kurt Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform.
