Stephen Banfield

Stephen David Banfield (born 1951) is a musicologist, music historian and retired academic. He was Elgar Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham from 1992 to 2003, and then Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol from 2003 to his retirement at the end of 2012; he has since been an emeritus professor at Bristol.[1][2]

Banfield was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, St John's College, Oxford, and Harvard University where he was a Frank Knox Fellow.[1] His DPhil was awarded by the University of Oxford in 1979 for his thesis "Solo song in England from 1900 to 1940: Critical studies of the late flowering of a romantic genre".[3]

In 1978, he was appointed to a lectureship at Keele University, where he was later promoted to senior lecturer in 1988. He remained there until his appointment at Birmingham in 1992. He was head of the school of performance at Birmingham between 1992 and 1997, and Birmingham's department of music from 1996 to 1998; he was also head of the School of Arts at Bristol in 2006 and from 2010 to 2012.[1][2]

Selected publications

Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early 20th Century (Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Sondheim's Broadway Musicals (University of Michigan Press, 1993).
(Editor) The Blackwell History of Music in Britain, vol. 6 (Blackwell, 1995).
Gerald Finzi: An English Composer (Faber and Faber, 1997).
Jerome Kern, Yale Broadway Masters (Yale University Press, 2006).
The Sounds of Stonehenge (Archaeopress, 2009).
(Co-edited with Nicholas Temperley) Music and the Wesleys (University of Illinois Press, 2010).
Music in the West Country: Social and Cultural History Across an English Region (Boydell, 2018).

References

"Professor Stephen Banfield", University of Bristol. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
International Who's Who in Classical Music 2009 (Routledge, 2009), p. 49.
"Solo song in England from 1900 to 1940: critical studies of the late flowering of a romantic genre", SOLO: Bodleian Library Catalogue. Retrieved 18 December 2018.

Academic offices
Preceded by Jim Samson	Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music, University of Bristol 2003–2012	Succeeded by Katharine Ellis

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[prof-1] "Professor Stephen Banfield", University of Bristol. Retrieved 18 December 2018.

[iwwcm-2] International Who's Who in Classical Music 2009 (Routledge, 2009), p. 49.

[3] "Solo song in England from 1900 to 1940: critical studies of the late flowering of a romantic genre", SOLO: Bodleian Library Catalogue. Retrieved 18 December 2018.