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Craig Milton Wright (born 1944) is the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale University. He studied at the Eastman School of Music from 1962-1966, and at Harvard University from 1966 and 1972, where he obtained an M.A. and a Ph.D. in musicology. Wright completed his Ph.D. in 1972 with a thesis titled Music at the court of Burgundy, 1364-1419. After a year teaching at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, he moved to Yale in 1973, serving as the chair of the department of music from 1986 to 1992.
Wright specialises in music history. His early work concentrated on Middle Ages and renaissance music. More recently, he started to work on Mozart. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. In 2004 he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago and in 2010 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
On May 15, 2013, Wright was named the first Academic Director of Online Education at Yale University
Publications
Music at the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419: A Documentary History (Institute of Mediaeval Music, Ltd., Henryville, Ottawa, Binningen, 1979), 271 pp.
Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550 (Cambridge University Press, 1989), 400 pp.
Listening to Music (West Publications, St. Paul, 1992), 419 pp; 2nd edition (West Publications, St. Paul, 1996), 435 pp; 3 rd edition (Wadsworth, 2000), 451 pp.; 5th edition (Wadsworth, 2007), 451 pp.; 7th edition (Schirmer-Cengage, 2014, 488 pp.
The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology and Music (Harvard University Press, Cambrdge, MA, 2001, paperback edition, 2004), 351 pp.
Music in Western Civilization (Wadsworth-Schirmer, 2006)
The Essential Listening to Music (Schirmer-Cengage, 2013)