CHEN, JEN-YEN Assistant Professor in Musicology Email: jenyenc@ntu.edu.tw

Jen-yen Chen

Education

Ph.D., Historical Musicology, Harvard University, 2000

M.M., Historical Piano Performance, New England Conservatory of Music, 1994

Special Student, Piano Performance, Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 1991-1992

A.B., Music, Harvard University, 1991

Dissertation

¡§The Tradition and Ideal of the Stile Antico in Viennese Sacred Music, 1740-1800.”  Harvard University, 2000.  Adviser: Christoph Wolff.  284 pages.

Publications

¡§Fux, Caldara, and Their Canonic Masses as Evidence of Professional Rivalry,¡¨ proceedings of symposium on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Fux-Gesellschaft, Schloss Seggau, Austria, 14 to 16 October 2005 (forthcoming).

¡§Johann Christian Bach and the Church Symphony,¡¨ About Bach, essays in honor of Christoph Wolff (forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press).

¡§Church Music, ¡¥Classical¡¦ Style, and the Dialectic of Old and New in Late Eighteenth-Century Musical Culture,¡¨ Music in 18^th-Century Life:  Cities, Courts, Churches, proceedings of the meeting of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Washington, DC, 30 April to 2 May 2004 (forthcoming from Steglein Press).

¡§Missa Constantiae,¡¨ Johann Joseph Fux:  Sämtliche Werke (forthcoming from Akademischer Druck und Verlaganstalt Graz).

¡§Three Masses from Vienna:  A Cappella Masses by Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Georg Reutter, and Leopold Hofmann,¡¨ Recent Researches in Music of the Classic Era (Middleton, WI:  A-R Editions, 2004).

¡§The Sachsen-Hildburghausen Kapelle and the Symphonies of Christoph Willibald Gluck,¡¨ Ad Parnassum I/ii (2003), 81-109.

¡§Palestrina and the Influence of ¡¥Old¡¦ Style in Eighteenth-Century Vienna,¡¨ The Journal of Musicological Research 22/1-2 (2003), 1-44.

¡§Missa Confidentiae,¡¨ Johann Joseph Fux:  Sämtliche Werke I/8 (Graz:  Akademischer Druck und Verlaganstalt, 2002).

Presentations

¡§Aristocratic Patronage, the Musical Public, and the Symphony in Late Eighteenth Austria,¡¨ eighteenth congress of the International Musicological Society, Zürich, Switzerland, 10-15 July 2007.  Earlier version delivered for Instrumental Music and the Industrial Revolution, International Conference, Cremona, 1-3 July 2006.

 ¡§Fux, Caldara, and Their Canonic Masses as Evidence of Professional Rivalry,¡¨ symposium on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Fux-Gesellschaft, Schloss Seggau, Austria, 14-16 October 2005.

¡§Musical Life in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna and Habermas¡¦ Conception of the Public Sphere,¡¨ fortieth annual meeting of the Royal Music Association, Birmingham, England, 12-14 November 2004.

¡§The Virtue Masses of Johann Joseph Fux:  Constancy and Fortitude in Sacred Music at the Court of Charles VI,¡¨ Eleventh Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Manchester, England, 15-18 July 2004.

¡§Church Music, ¡¥Classical¡¦ Style, and the Dialectic of Old and New in Late Eighteenth-Century Musical Culture,¡¨ Music in 18^th-Century Life:  Cities, Courts, Churches, meeting of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Washington, D.C., 30 April to 2 May 2004.

¡§The Aristocratic House Orchestras of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Austria:  Private Context and Public Expression in the Genre of Symphony,¡¨ sixty-ninth annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Houston, Texas, 13-16 November 2003.

¡§Fux¡¦s Gradus ad Parnassum and the Ideal of a Timeless Music,¡¨ Early Music:  Context and Ideas, International Conference in Musicology, Cracow, Poland, 18-21 September 2003.  Earlier version delivered at the seventeenth annual meeting of New England Conference of Music Theorists, Boston, Massachusetts, 16-17 March 2002.

¡§Historiographical Conceptions of the Symphony and the Hauskapellen of Eighteenth-Century Austria,¡¨  Music Historiography, thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Royal Music Association, Cardiff, Wales, 12-14 September 2003.

 ¡§The Assimilation of Symphonic Style in the Revision of the Dürnitz Sonata, K. 284 (205b),¡¨ Mozart and the Keyboard, second biennial meeting of the Mozart Society of America, Ithaca, New York, 28-30 March 2003.

¡§Palestrina as Compositional Ideal in Eighteenth-Century Vienna:  The Modernism of the Stile Antico,¡¨ seventeenth congress of the International Musicological Society, Leuven, Belgium, 3 August 2002.  Earlier version delivered at the Winter 2001 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 3 February 2001.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University, 2006 to present.

Graduate Seminar:  Mozart¡¦s Operas and the Enlightenment, fall 2006

First Nights, fall 2006

Jazz, fall 2006

Assistant Professor, Occidental College, 2003-2006.

Music in Western Culture:  From Chant to 1600, fall 2003, fall 2005.

Music in Western Culture:  1600-1800, fall 2004.

Music in Western Culture:  Romanticism, fall 2003, spring 2005.

Music in Western Culture:  From Modernism to the Present, spring 2004, fall 2004, fall 2005.

Senior Seminar:  The Mass from the Middle Ages to the Present, fall 2005.

Senior Seminar:  Mozart¡¦s Operas and the Enlightenment, spring 2004.

Topics in Opera, spring 2005.

Topics in Popular Music, spring 2004.

Materials of Music, fall 2003.

Lecturer, Harvard University, Fall 2001.

Mozart¡¦s Vienna.

Lecturer, Northeastern University, 2000-2001.

Music of the Romantic Era, spring 2001.

Historical Traditions:  Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Music, fall 2000.

Head Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

The Swing Era, Professor Robert Levin, spring 2002.

Soundscapes, Professor Kay Kaufman Shelemay, spring 2001, fall 2001.

First Nights, Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly, fall 1998.

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

First Nights, fall 2000, spring 1997.

Tutorial:  Music History and Repertory, Professor Carol Babiracki, 1997-1998.

Ethnography of the Early Music Movement in Boston, Professors Carol Babiracki, Thomas Forrest Kelly, and Kay Kaufman Shelemay, fall 1996.

Fellowships and Awards

Oscar Straus Schafer Award, Department of Music, Harvard University, for teaching excellence, 2002-2003.

Packard Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, for dissertation completion, 1999-2000.

Graduate Society Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, for dissertation research in Vienna, Austria, 1998.

John Knowles Paine Fellowship, Department of Music, Harvard University, for dissertation research in Vienna, Austria, 1997.

Ford Foundation grant, for senior thesis research in West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, 1990 (thesis:  ¡§The Autograph Manuscripts of Mozart¡¦s Piano Sonata in B flat major, K. 333 and Piano Concerto in C major, K. 503¡¨).

American Musicological Society

Society for Eighteenth-Century Music (Planning Committee member, 2006)

Haydn Society of California