Craig M. Wright

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Craig M. Wright is the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale University. He obtained a M.A. and a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University, which he completed in 1972. He moved to Yale in 1973, serving as the chair of the department of music from 1986 to 1992.[1]

Wright specialises in music history. His early work concentrated on Middle Ages and renaissance music. More recently, he started to work on Mozart.[2] In 2004 he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago and in 2010 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

On May 15, 2013, Wright was named the first Academic Director of Online Education at Yale University.

Publications

Music at the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419: A Documentary History (Institute of Mediaeval Music, Ltd., Henryville, Ottawa, Binningen, 1979), 271 pp.

Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550 (Cambridge University Press, 1989), 400 pp.

Listening to Music (West Publications, St. Paul, 1992), 419 pp; 2nd edition (West Publications, St. Paul, 1996), 435 pp; 3 rd edition (Wadsworth, 2000), 451 pp.; 5th edition (Wadsworth, 2007), 451 pp.; 7th edition (Schirmer-Cengage, 2014, 488 pp.

The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology and Music (Harvard University Press, Cambrdge, MA, 2001, paperback edition, 2004), 351 pp.

Music in Western Civilization (Wadsworth-Schirmer, 2006)

The Essential Listening to Music (Schirmer-Cengage, 2013)

References

  1. ↑ "Craig M. Wright designated the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music". Yale Bulletin&Calendar. 27 January 2006. Retrieved 17 March 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Yale Department of Music > People > Faculty". Retrieved 17 March 2011. 


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