Education
He studied at Harvard University, obtaining his Master of Arts in 1938, and taught at Mount Union College from 1938 to 1942.
( The captivating "history" of the figure of Orpheus, his...)
The captivating "history" of the figure of Orpheus, his enduring legacy as the force and muse of creation itself. For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet, and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work, Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, tracing the man and the power he represents through the myriad versions of a fantastical life: his birth in Thrace, his studies in Egypt, his voyage with the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece, his love for Eurydice and the journey to Hades, and his terrible death. We see him tantalizing Cicero and Plato, and breathing new music into Gluck and Monteverdi; occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau; scandalizing the Fathers of the early Church, and filling Rilke with poems like a whirlwind. He emerges as not simply another mythical figure but the force of creation itself, singing the song of light out of darkness and life out of death.
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He studied at Harvard University, obtaining his Master of Arts in 1938, and taught at Mount Union College from 1938 to 1942.
Hoppin received his Bachelor from Carleton College in 1936 after spending two years at the Paris Ecole Normale de Musique. After serving in World World War II he returned to Harvard, completing his Doctor of Philosophy in 1952. From 1949 to 1961 he taught at The University of Texas, and from 1961 at Ohio State University.
Hoppin"s scholarship dealt primarily with medieval music
He specialized in the Music of Cyprus in the 14th and 15th centuries. He published Medieval Music in 1978, which is a standard English-language work in the field
( The captivating "history" of the figure of Orpheus, his...)