James Hepokoski
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James Hepokoski earned his Masters and PhD in Music History from Harvard University and has been professor at the Yale Department of Music since 1999, he is also director of Graduate Studies.
He is best known for his writing on the sonata form and its relation to the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Jean Sibelius, as well as examinations of the symphony tradition and Verdi's late operas. He has recently published, with Warren Darcy, a work entitled Elements of Sonata Theory which makes a large scale argument about the relation of genre to musical structure and choices. He is the author of the entry on Jean Sibelius in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
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