Department of Music

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-3076

shinton@stanford.edu

ACADEMIC DEGREES

1984 Ph.D. University of Birmingham, England

1978 B.A. University of Birmingham, England

COLLEGE AND GRADUATE EDUCATION

1982-84 Technische Universität Berlin, Seminar für Musikgeschichte, Tutor [equivalent to Graduate Teaching Assistant], under the supervision of Professor Carl Dahlhaus 

1978-81 University of Birmingham, U.K., graduate student reading for Ph.D. in Music; adviser: Dr. Nigel Fortune

1974-78 University of Birmingham, B.A. Combined Honours in Music and German

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

2010- Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University

2006-10 Senior Associate Dean for Humanities & Arts, Stanford University

2003- Professor, Department of Music, Stanford University

1996-2004 Chairman, Department of Music, Stanford University

1994-2003 Associate Professor, Department of Music, Stanford University

1993-94 Associate Professor, Department of Music, Yale University

1990-93 Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Yale University

February and March 1993: visiting professor at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

1988-90 Technische Universität Berlin, “Wissenschaftlicher Assistent” in musicology [equivalent to Assistant Professor]

1986-88 Technische Universität Berlin, Postdoctoral Research Scholar (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

1984-85 Technische Universität Berlin, research assistant to Professor Carl Dahlhaus (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies: Final Selection Committee (since 2001)

• Editor-in-Chief, Beethoven Forum (2002-2006)

• Reviews Editor, Beethoven Forum (1998-2002)

• Advisory Board, The Journal of Musicology (since 2000) 

• Editorial Board, Kurt Weill Edition (since 1992)

• Advisory Board, Norton’s History of Western Music (1999-2001)

• Advisory Board,  Muziek & Wetenschap (since 1995)

• Editorial Board, Journal of Music Theory (since 1995)

• Editorial Board, Twentieth-Century Music (since 2003)

• Fellowship Committee (AMS 50), American Musicological Society (1997-99)

• Program Committee, American Musicological Society (1996)

• Editorial Board, Music Theory Online

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UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• University Budget Group (since 2003)

• Admit Weekend (2002-04), featured-faculty lecture on music

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• Provost’s Housing Committee (1999-2000)

• Faculty Senate (1997-99; 2003-04; 2005-07)

• Committee on Committees (1997-99)

• Dean’s Search Committee (1996)

• Yale College Executive Committee (1993-94)

FELLOWSHIPS

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• Stanford MacNamara Fellow (1996-97)

• Morse Fellowship, Yale University (1992-93)

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft Postdoctoral Fellowship (1986-88)

• Department of Education and Science Major State Scholar­ship (1978-81)

• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst [DAAD] (1979-80)

CLASSES TAUGHT

Technische Universität:

Die Theorie der Sonatenform

Das Spätwerk Franz Schuberts

Das Spätwerk Arnold Schönbergs

Theodor W. Adorno

Neoklassizismus

Wagners Musikdramen

Einführung in die Musik des Mittelalters

Heinrich Schen­ker (I+II)

Die Drei­groschenoper: Entstehung und Rezeption

Benjamin Britten

Yale University:

Opera (243a)

The Symphony (245a)

Kurt Weill and the Musical Theater (338a)

Romanticism in Music (425a)

The Concept of New Music in the 20th Century (426b)

Wagner's Music Dramas (425b)

Readings in Music Aesthetics (469b)

Theory and Aesthetics in the Modern Period (705a)

Twentieth-Century Opera (506b)

Stanford University:

Schenker in English (310)

Concepts of New Music (145)

Western Music after 1750 (41)

Western Music after 1820 (42)

Paul Hindemith (146)

Kurt Weill (Sophomore dialogue)

Twentieth-Century Opera (310)

History of Music Theory: (221A+B)

Themes and Variations (IHUM: Introduction to the Humanities)

Transformations (IHUM)

Opera and The Individual [1900-1950] (310)

DOCTORAL ADVISEES

Julie Hubbert (University of South Carolina): Mahler and Schoenberg: Levels of Influence, Ph.D., Yale University, 1996

Laura Grey (University of Waterloo): “The Symphonic Problem”: Sibelius Reception in England prior to 1950, Ph.D., Yale University, 1997

Kara Gardner (University of San Francisco): Living by the ladies’ smiles: the feminization of American music and the modernist reaction, Ph. D., Stanford University, 1999

Keith Chapin (Fordham University): From tone system to personal inspiration: the metaphysics of counterpoint in 18th and early 19th-century Germany, Ph. D., Stanford University, 2002

John Howland (Rutgers University): Between the muses and the masses: symphonic jazz, “glorified” entertainment, and the rise of the American musical middlebrow, 1920-1944, Ph. D., Stanford University, 2002.  

Eric Hung (Westminster College, Princeton): Defining Art Music in Great Britain, 1955 - 1975, Ph. D., Department of Music, Stanford University, 2003

Marcus Zagorski (University College Cork): The Nature of Material in Postwar Music, Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006

Jessica Payette (Oakland University): Seismographic screams: Erwartung’s reverberations through twentieth-century culture, Ph.D., Stanford University, 2008

Erinn Knyt (University of Massachusetts): Ferruccio Busoni and the Ontology of the Musical Work: Permutations and Possibilities, Ph.D., Stanford University, 2010

PUBLICATIONS 

Books

The Idea of Gebrauchsmusik (New York: Garland, 1989)

Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera (Cambridge Opera Handbooks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)

Paul Hindemith, Orchesterwerke 1932-34: Philharmonisches Konzert; Symphonie “Mathis der Maler” (= Sämtliche Werke II/2, Schott: Mainz, 1991)

 (with Jürgen Schebera) Kurt Weill, Musik und Theater: Gesammelte Schriften (Berlin, 1990); revised and expanded edition published as Musik und musikalisches Theater: Gesammelte Schriften (Mainz: Schott, 2000)

 (with Edward Harsh) Kurt Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper, Kurt Weill Edition I/5 (Miami: European American Music, 2000); published in a revised edition as study score with a new Preface (Vienna: Universal-Edition, 2006)

Weill’s Musical Theater: Stages of Reform – in press

Articles

“The Emancipation of Dissonance: Schoenberg’s Two Practices of Composition,” Music & Letters – in press

“Carl Dahlhaus: Biographie und Methode,” Carl Dahlhaus und die Musikwissenschaft: Werk, Wirkung, Aktualität, ed. H. Danuser et al. – in press

“Weill Contra Wagner: Aspects of Ambivalence,” in “… dass alles hätte anders kommen können”: Beiträge zur Musikgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. S. Schaal, L. Schader and H.-J. Winkler (=Frankfurter Studien 12, Frankfurt am Main: Schott, 2009), pp. 155-174.

“Zur Epistemologie des Ursatzes,” Musik und Verstehen, ed. C. v. Blumröder and W. Steinbeck (Laaber: Laaber Verlag, 2004), pp. 74-83

“Mahagonny as Conceived by Weill-Brecht and Smith: Musical Visions of Urbanity,” Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular, ed. R. Singh et al., Getty Publications – in press

“Amerikanische Musiktheorie: Disziplin ohne Geschichte?” Musiktheoretisches Denken und kultureller Kontext, ed. D. Schmidt (Schliengen: Argus-Verlag, 2005), pp.  231-246

“The Urform of Opera,” A New History of German Literature, ed. A. Kaes et al. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 2004), pp. 758-764

Review-article on recent Adorno-related publications, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 56:1 (2003), 198-213

Analyse statt Ästhetik (= Funkkolleg Musik: Studieneinheit 24, Mainz, 1988; rev. and repr. in Europäische Musikgeschichte, ed. L. Finscher et al., Kassel, 2002)

Wider das bürgerliche Konzertleben (= Funkkolleg Musik: Studieneinheit 25, Mainz, 1988; rev. and repr. in Europäische Musikgeschichte, ed. L. Finscher et al., Kassel, 2002)

“Romantische Ironie in der Musik?” Beiträge zur Kleist-Forschung, 16 (Frankfurt Oder: Kleist-Museum, 2002), 21-35 

“Gebrauchsmusik,” New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 2000)

“Foreword to the New Kurt Weill Edition,” Music Library Association Notes, 56:2 (December 1999)

“A New Edition of Die Dreigroschenoper: Challenges, Principles, and Solutions,” Music Library Association Notes, 56:2 (December 1999)

“Die Musiktheorie Heinrich Schenkers und ihre Übertragung ins Englische,” Musik als Text, ed. H. Danuser and T. Plebuch (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1999), 184-9

 “Hindemith and Weill: Cases of ‘Inner’ and ‘Other’ Direction,” Driven into Paradise, ed. Wolff and Brinkmann (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 261-78

“Die Dreigroschenoper -- ein Mißverständnis?,” Kurt Weill: Die frühen Werke 1916-1928, ed. Gunther Diehl (Munich, 1998), 130-42

“Not Which Tones? The Crux of Beethoven's Ninth,” in 19th-Century Music, 22:1 (1998), 61-77

“Hindemith, Bach and the Melancholy of Obligation,” in Bach Perspectives 3: Creative Responses to Bach from Mozart to Hindemith. (University of Nebraska Press, 1998),  133-15; reprinted in Hindemith-Jahrbuch 1998

 “Die Dreigroschenoper: The 1928 Full Score,” in Kurt Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper: A Facsimile of the Full Score, Kurt Weill Edition IV, 1 (1998)

“Adorno’s philosophy of music,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford, 1998)

“Kurt Weill’s ‘modern classical art’,” Die klassizistische Moderne in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. Hermann Danuser (Basel, 1997), 115-22

“Street Scene” and “Down in the Valley” for Pipers Enzyklopädie des Musiktheaters (Munich: Piper, 1997)

“Adorno’s Unfinished Beethoven,” Beethoven Forum 5 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), 139-53

“Emigration als Selbstfindung: Paul Hindemith in den USA,” Themenheft “Hindemith,” Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart (Stuttgart, 1995), 30-40; published in English as “Emigration and Self-Discovery,” Hindemith-Jahrbuch 1998

“Hanns Eisler and the Ideology of Modern Music,” New Music and Ideology, ed. M. Delaere (Wilhelmshaven, 1996), 79-85

“Ballad Opera,” Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 1 (Kassel, 1994)

“Großbritannien als Exilland: Der Fall Weill,” Musik in der Emigration 1933-1945: Verfolgung - Vertreibung - Rückwirkung, ed. H. Weber (Stuttgart, 1994), 213-27

“Defining Musical Expressionism: Schoenberg and Others,” Expressionism Reassessed, ed. S. Behr, et al. (Manchester, 1993), 121-9

“Germany, 1919-45,” Modern Times, Man and Music, vol. 8, ed. R. Morgan (London, 1993), 83-110 (also published in Japanese)

“Benjamin Britten,” Metzler Komponisten-Lexikon, ed. Horst Weber (Stuttgart, 1992)

“Lehrstück: an Aesthetics of Performance,” Music and Performance in the Weimar Republic, ed. B. Gilliam, Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice (Cambridge, 1994), 59-73; reprinted in Hindemith-Jahrbuch 1993/XXII, 68-96

Entries for the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. S. Sadie (London and New York, 1992):

“Kurt Weill” 

“Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny”

“Die Bürgschaft”

“Down in the Valley”

“Die Dreigroschenoper”

“Der Jasager”

“Der Kuhhandel”

“Lost in the Stars”

“Mahagonny-Songspiel”

“Der Protagonist”

“Die sieben Todsünden”

“Der Silbersee: ein Wintermärchen”

“Street Scene”

“Der Zar lässt sich photographieren”

“Zur Ästhetik des frühen Hindemith,” Kunst als Antithese: Karl Hofer Symposium 1988, ed. Heinrich Poos (Berlin, 1990), 131-41

“Vom Songspiel zur Oper,” Program booklet of the Frankfurt Opera, October 1990, 45-56

“Drops in the Dreigroschen Ocean,” [preface to a reprint of Hans Keller’s “Film Music: the Harry Lime Theme”], Kurt Weill Newsletter, 9/2 (1991), 10-11

Neue Sachlichkeit (= Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, Auslieferung 18, Wiesbaden, 1990; reprinted in Terminologie der Musik im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. H.H. Eggebrecht, Wiesbaden, 1995)

Gebrauchsmusik (= Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, Auslieferung 15, Wiesbaden, 1988; reprinted in Terminologie der Musik im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. H.H. Eggebrecht, Wiesbaden, 1995)

“Fragwürdiges in der deutschen Weill-Rezeption,” A Stranger Here Myself: Kurt-Weill-Studien, ed. H. Edler and K. Kowalke (Hildesheim, 1993), 23-33 (author’s own translation: “Issues in the German Reception of Weill,” Kurt Weill Newsletter 11 (1993), No. 1, 7-9)

“Zur Urform der Oper,” Vom Kurfürstendamm zum Broadway: Kurt Weill (1900-1950), ed. B. Kortländer et al. (Düsseldorf, 1990), 40-6

“‘Natürliche Übergänge’: Heinrich Schenkers Begriff von der Sonatenform,” Musiktheorie, 4 (1990), 101-16

“The conscience of musicology: Carl Dahlhaus 1928-1989,” The Musical Times, 130 (1989), 737-9

“Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie oder Die Frage nach der phänomenologischen Jungfräulichkeit,” Musiktheorie, iii (1988), 195-204

“Opera or Play with Music? An unsung “Dreigroschenprozess”,” Kurt Weill Newsletter, vi (1988), No. 2, 7

“The concept of epic opera: theoretical anomalies in the Brecht-Weill partnership,” Festschrift Carl Dahlhaus, ed. Danuser, de la Motte, Leopold, Miller (Laaber, 1988), 283-94

“Hindemith: pedagogy and personal style,”  Hindemith-Jahrbuch 1988/XVII (Mainz, 1992), 54-67 (also published in Italian in Paul Hindemith nella cultura tedesca degli anni venti, ed. C. Piccardi [=Musica/RealtΒ 25], Milan, 1991)

“Expressionismus beim jungen Hindemith?,” Hindemith-Jahrbuch 1987/XVI (Mainz, 1991), 18-31

“Analyse heute,” Musiktheorie, 1 (1986), 97-9

“Alte Musik als Hebamme einer neuen Musikästhetik der Zwanziger Jahre,” Bericht über den internationalen musikwissenschaftlichen Kongress Stuttgart 1985, vol. 2, ed. D. Berke and D. Hanemann (Kassel, 1987), 325-30

“Aspects of Hindemith”s Neue Sachlichkeit,” Hindemith-Jahrbuch 1985/XIV (Mainz, 1987), 22-107

“Alexander Goehr,” Konzertbuch: Kammermusik A-G, ed. I. Allihn (Leipzig, 1988), 683-8

“Weill: Neue Sachlichkeit, Surrealism and Gebrauchsmusik,” A New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill, ed. K.H. Kowalke (New Haven, 1986), 61-82

“Musik nach Mass: Zum Begriff der Gebrauchsmusik bei Paul Hindemith,” Musica, 34 (1985), 146-50

“Hanns Eisler,” Makers of Modern Culture, ed. J. Wintle (London, 1981), 150-1

Reviews

[I have published some three dozen reviews and occasional articles in the following journals: Music and Letters, Musica, Kurt Weill Newsletter, Musiktheorie, Notes, The Journal of Modern History, Musical Times, The New York Times, Brecht Yearbook]

in Music and Letters:

Hilda Meldrum Brown, “Leitmotiv and Drama: Wagner, Brecht, and the Limits of ‘Epic’ Theatre,” 78, (1992), 466-8

Wolfgang Osthoff & Reinhard Wiesend (eds.), “Colloquium Klassizität, Klassizis­mus, Klassik in der Musik 1920-1950,” 71 (1990), 126-8

Annegrit Laubenthal, “Paul Hindemiths Einakter-Triptychon,” 69 (1988), 289-91

Ernst Bloch, “Essays on the philosophy of music,” 67 (1986), 423-4.

Manfred Grabs, “Hanns Eisler: Kompositionen, Schriften, Literatur,” 67 (1986), 405-6.

Heister and Klein (eds), “Musik und Musikpolitik im faschistischen Deutsch­land,” 67 (1986), 188-90

Jürgen Schebera, “Kurt Weill: Leben und Werk,” 66 (1985), 393-4.

Paul Hindemith, “Sämtliche Werke: I/6, VI/1, VI/5,” 65 (1984), 416-19

Hanns Eisler, “Schriften: vols 2 & 3,” 65 (1984), 382-4

Paul Dessau, “Drei Intermezzi für Klavier,” “Leonce und Lena,” “Musik für 15 Streichinstrumente,” 65 (1984), 127-9

Erik Fischer, “Zur Problematik der Opernstruktur,” 65 (1984), 272-5

Albrecht Betz, “Hanns Eisler”; Hans Werner Henze, “Collected Writings,” 64 (1983), 287-90

Hanns Eisler, “Orchestersuiten,” 63 (1982), 378-9.

Kurt Weill, “Happy End,” 63 (1982), 168-9.

in Musica:

Albrecht Dümling, “Lasst euch nicht verführen: Brecht und die Musik,” 40 (1986), 271-2.

“Der 2. Kongress der internationalen Schönberg-Gesellschaft in Wien,” 38 (1984), 357-8.

Leo Karl Gerhartz, “Oper: Aspekte der Gattung,” 38 (1984), 271-2.

in Kurt Weill Newsletter:

Tamara Levitz, “Teaching New Classicality: Ferruccio Busoni’s Master Class in Composition. European University Studies 152.  Frankfurt/Main et al.: Peter Lang, 1996,”

Ronald Taylor, “Kurt Weill: Composer in a Divided World”, 10 (1992), No. 2, 17f.

Kurt Weill, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. Kölner Rundfunkorchester. Jan Latham-König, Capriccio (CD: 10-160/61), 7 (1989), No. 2, 23-4.

Csampai, Attila and Holland, Dietmar, eds. “Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper. Igor Strawinsky, The Rake’s Pro­gress: Texte, Materia­lien, Kommentare,” 6 (1988), No. 1, 18

Kurt Weill, “Scores” [four reissued vocal scores], 5 (1987), No. 1, 19-20.

Werner Hecht (ed.), “Brechts Dreigroschenoper,” 3 (1985), No. 2, 19

Leo Karl Gerhartz, “Oper” and Erik Fischer, “Zur Problematik der Opernstruktur,” 2 (1984), No. 2, 16f.

in Musiktheorie: 

David Neumeyer, “The Music of Paul Hindemith,” 7 (1988), 258-61; Engl. translation in Music Analysis, 7 (1988), 356-9

“Bericht: Cambridge University Music Analysis Conference 1986,” 6 (1987), 103-6

in Notes:

Anthony Pople, Berg: Violin Concerto, Cambridge Music Handbooks; Radovan Lorkovi, Das Violinkonzert von Alban Berg: Analysen - Textkorrekturen - Interpretationen, Musikreflektionen 3, 64/2 (1992/93)

in  The Journal of Modern History:

Robert Stradling and Meirion Hughes, The English Musical Renaissance 1860 - 1940: Construction and Deconstruction, 67/3 (1995), 709-12

In Brecht Yearbook: 

Esbjörn Nyström, Libretto im Progress: Brechts und Weills Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny aus textgeschichtlicher Sicht and Fritz Hennenberg and Jan Knopf (eds.) Brecht/Weill Mahagonny, 32 (2007)

Other publications

“Hinton, Stephen,” autobiographical article for Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart

“Weill’s Die sieben Todsünden” -- liner notes for CD by Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (singer: Anne Sofie von Otter; conductor: John Eliot Gardiner)

“Hindemith’s works for cello” – liner notes for recording issued by Bridge Records