Richard Hallowell Hoppin (February 22, 1913 – November 1, 1991) was an American

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

. Hoppin received his BA from

Carleton College Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...

in 1936 after spending two years at the

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''Ecole Normale de Musique''. He studied at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, obtaining his MA in 1938, and taught at

Mount Union College The University of Mount Union is a private university in Alliance, Ohio. Founded in 1846, the university was affiliated with the Methodist Church until the spring of 2019. In the fall of 2020, Mount Union had an enrollment of 1,958 undergraduate ...

from 1938 to 1942. After serving in

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he returned to Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in 1952. From 1949 to 1961 he taught at The

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, and from 1961 at

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. Hoppin's scholarship dealt primarily with

medieval music Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and followed by the Renaissance ...

; he specialized in the

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in the 14th and 15th centuries. He published ''Medieval Music'' in 1978, which is a standard English-language work in the field.

Books

*''The Motets of the Early Fifteenth-Century Manuscript J.II.9. in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Turin'' (dissertation, Harvard U., 1952) *''Medieval Music'' (New York, 1978; French translation, 1991; Spanish translation, 2000; Slovak translation, 2007) ith accompanying anthology

References

*Paula Morgan, "Richard Hoppin". ''

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...

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