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Stephen Crist

Stephen Crist

Associate Professor,
Music History

Music Department
Emory University
1804 North Decatur Road, #328
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-6445
404-727-0074 FAX

scrist@emory.edu


 

Stephen Crist holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and American literature and language from Harvard University, a Master of Music degree in music theory from the University of South Florida, and a Ph.D. in music history from Brandeis University. His primary areas of research concern European music of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, and jazz in the 1950s and 1960s.

His publications on J. S. Bach and his contemporaries have appeared in many books and journals, including The Cambridge Companion to Bach, Oxford Composer Companions: J. S. Bach, The World of the Bach Cantatas, Bach Perspectives, Bach (Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute), and Journal of the American Musicological Society. He also contributed the entry on “Johann Sebastian Bach” for Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music.

His work on early Lutheran hymnody includes Enchiridion Geistliker Leder vnde Psalmen, Magdeburg 1536: Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition and an article in Notes (Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association) on hymnals and other musical sources in the Kessler Reformation Collection at Emory.

In addition, he has conducted extensive archival research on the jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, which has been presented in venues such as Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, and Washington University in St. Louis. He also delivered the keynote address for the Brubeck Festival at the University of the Pacific, and has published articles on Brubeck in the Journal of Musicology and Bach Perspectives.

Dr. Crist served as contributing editor of Bach in America (University of Illinois Press, 2003) and contributing coeditor of Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations (University of Rochester Press, 2004).

He was a Senior Fellow at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (2006-2007) and is currently a member of the Associated Faculty at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. His numerous grants and awards for research and teaching include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of South Florida.

Dr. Crist has served as an officer, and on many boards and committees, in the American Musicological Society, the American Bach Society, and the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship. He also served as Chair of Emory’s Music Department (2003-2006, 2007-2010), and as Director of Graduate Studies (1997-2000).

 

 

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