James Hepokoski’s

James Hepokoski’s book coauthored with Warren Darcy, Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata (Oxford University Press, 2006), was awarded the Wallace Berry Prize (best book) from the Society for Music Theory in 2008.  He has also had two new books published in 2009.  The first, co‑authored with William E. Caplin and James Webster, is an exchange about foundational principles of music analysis and interpretation: Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections, ed. Pieter Bergé (Leuven University Press; distributed in the USA by Cornell University Press).  The second is a selection of fifteen of his writings on various musicological topics from 1984 to 2008: Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays (Ashgate).   Hepokoski’s keynote lecture at the 11th annual meeting of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory (Leuven, Belgium, February 2009), “Clouds and Circles: Rotational Form in Debussy’s Nuages,” will appear next year in the forthcoming issue of the Dutch Journal of Music Theory.  An expanded version of Hepokoski’s sociologically inflected study of Sibelius’s symphonic folk‑inflections and their implications, “Building a First Symphony: Modalities of National Identity” (Musurgia, 15 [2008]) is scheduled to appear in 2010 in The Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music, ed. Jane Fulcher.

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