{{Short description|British-American musicologist}} {{Infobox scientist | image = | name = Stephen Hinton | birth_date = January 1955 | birth_place = London, England | work_institution = [[Stanford University]] | field = [[Musicology]] | alma_mater = [[University of Birmingham]], England | known_for = Scholarship on [[Kurt Weill]], [[Music of Germany|German music history]], work on [[Paul Hindemith]] and [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Nigel Fortune]] | awards = 2013 Kurt Weill Book Prize }}
'''Stephen Hinton''' (born 1955, London, England) is a British-American [[musicologist]] at [[Stanford University]]. An authority on the composer [[Kurt Weill]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universityherald.com/articles/1675/20120411/stanford-musicologist-stephen-hinton-gets-inside-music.htm|title=Stanford Musicologist Stephen Hinton Gets Inside the Music of Kurt Weill|work=University Herald|date=11 April 2012|access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref> he has published widely on many aspects of modern German music history, with contributions to publications such as ''{{ill|Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie|de}}'', ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Opera]]'', ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', ''[[Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart]]'', and ''{{ill|Funkkolleg|de}} Musikgeschichte''. His most recent book, ''Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform'' (University of California Press: Berkeley, 2012), the first musicological study of Weill's complete stage works, received the 2013 Kurt Weill Book Prize for outstanding scholarship in music theater since 1900.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kwf.org/current-news/press-releases/657-2013-kurt-weill-prizes-awarded-to-stephen-hinton-and-christopher-chowrimootoo|title=2013 Kurt Weill Prizes Awarded to Stephen Hinton and Christopher Chowrimootoo|author=Dave Stein|publisher=Kwf.org|access-date=26 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226214652/http://www.kwf.org/current-news/press-releases/657-2013-kurt-weill-prizes-awarded-to-stephen-hinton-and-christopher-chowrimootoo|archive-date=26 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2013/10/23/stephen-hinton-wins-kurt-weill-book-prize/|title = Stephen Hinton wins Kurt Weill Book Prize | the Dish}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://artsinstitute.stanford.edu/an-interview-with-stephen-hinton-winner-of-the-2013-kurt-weill-book-prize/ |title=An Interview with Stephen Hinton, Winner of the 2013 Kurt Weill Book Prize {{!}} Stanford Arts Institute |website=artsinstitute.stanford.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209184948/http://artsinstitute.stanford.edu/an-interview-with-stephen-hinton-winner-of-the-2013-kurt-weill-book-prize/ |archive-date=2013-12-09}} </ref> The reviewer for the Journal of the [[American Musicological Society]] described the book as "a landmark in the literature on twentieth-century musical theater."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Calico|first1=Joy|title=Review of Weill's Musical Theater|journal=Journal of the American Musicological Society|date=2013|volume=66|issue= 3|pages=878–81|doi=10.1525/jams.2013.66.3.878}}</ref>
==Academic career==
Hinton graduated from the [[University of Birmingham]] (UK) with a BA in Music and German in 1978, and with a PhD in Musicology in 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/artsinstitute/cgi-bin/swhinton/cv/|title=curriculum vitae - Stephen Hinton|publisher=Web.stanford.edu|access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref> He is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, Professor of Music and, by courtesy, of German.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stephen Hinton |url=https://www.edx.org/bio/stephen-hinton |access-date=2026-03-25 |website=edX |language=en}}</ref> He also serves as the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roots of Concert Halls in the Round |url=https://www.sfcv.org/articles/music-news/roots-concert-halls-round |access-date=2026-03-25 |website=www.sfcv.org |language=en}}</ref> From 2006–2010 he was Senior Associate Dean for Humanities & Arts, and from 1997–2004 chairman of the Department of Music.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://music.stanford.edu/people/stephen-hinton|title=Stanford Music Department: Stephen Hinton|publisher=stanford.edu|access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> Before moving to Stanford, he taught at Yale University and, before that, at the Technische Universität Berlin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stephen Hinton |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/person/stephen-hinton/ |access-date=2026-03-25 |website=American Academy in Berlin |language=en-US}}</ref> At the TU Berlin he held positions as Tutor in Musicology (1982–84), research assistant to [[Carl Dahlhaus]] (1984–86), postdoctoral scholar of the [[Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]] (1986–88) and ''[[wissenschaftlicher Assistent]]'' (1988–90).<ref>{{Citation |contribution=Stephen Hinton |title=Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart |edition=2nd |editor-last=Finscher |editor-first=L. |volume=9 |publisher=Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag |publication-date=2003 |at=cols. 57–58}}</ref>
==Selected publications==
*''The Idea of [[Gebrauchsmusik]]'' (New York: Garland, 1989) *''Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera'' (Cambridge Opera Handbooks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) *"''Natürliche Übergänge'': [[Heinrich Schenker]]s Begriff von der Sonatenform", ''Musiktheorie'', 4 (1990): 101–16 *''Gebrauchsmusik'' (= Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, Auslieferung 15, Wiesbaden, 1988; reprinted in ''Terminologie der Musik im 20. Jahrhundert'', ed. H.H. Eggebrecht, Wiesbaden, 1995) *''[[Neue Sachlichkeit]]'' (= Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, Auslieferung 18, Wiesbaden, 1990; reprinted in ''Terminologie der Musik im 20. Jahrhundert'', ed. H.H. Eggebrecht, Wiesbaden, 1995) *Paul Hindemith, ''Orchesterwerke 1932–34'': Philharmonisches Konzert; Symphonie ''Mathis der Maler'' (= Complete Works II/2, Schott: Mainz, 1991) *"Defining Musical Expressionism: Schoenberg and Others", ''Expressionism Reassessed'', ed. S. Behr, ''et al.'' (Manchester, 1993), 121–9 *"Adorno's Unfinished Beethoven", ''Beethoven Forum 5'' (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), 139–53 *"Hanns Eisler and the Ideology of Modern Music", ''New Music and Ideology'', ed. M. Delaere (Wilhelmshaven, 1996), 79–85 *"Adorno's philosophy of music", in ''Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics'', ed. M. Kelly (Oxford, 1998) *"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 *(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) *''Analyse statt Ästhetik'' (= Funkkolleg Musik: Studieneinheit 24, Mainz, 1988; rev. and repr. in ''Europäische Musikgeschichte'', ed. L. Finscher et al., Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2002) *''Wider das bürgerliche Konzertleben'' (= Funkkolleg Musik: Studieneinheit 25, Mainz, 1988; rev. and repr. in ''Europäische Musikgeschichte'', ed. L. Finscher et al., Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2002) *"Romantische Ironie in der Musik?" ''Beiträge zur Kleist-Forschung'', 16 (Frankfurt Oder: Kleist-Museum, 2002), 21–35 *"Zur Epistemologie des Ursatzes", ''Musik und Verstehen'', ed. [[Christoph von Blumröder]] and W. Steinbeck (Laaber: Laaber Verlag, 2004), 74–83 *(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) *"The Emancipation of Dissonance: Schoenberg's Two Practices of Composition", ''[[Music & Letters]]'', 91, no. 4 (2010): 568–79 *"Schoenberg's Harmonielehre: Psychology and Comprehensibility", ''Tonality 1900–1950: Concept and Practice'', ed. F. Wörner, U. Scheideler and P. Rupprecht (Steiner: Stuttgart, 2012), 113–24. *''Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform'' (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2012)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://swhinton.com/ Personal web page] * [http://artsinstitute.stanford.edu/people/stephen-hinton/ Stanford University Arts Institute web page] * [https://music.stanford.edu/ Stanford Department of Music]
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