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Anne Dhu McLucas
(541) 346-5605
amclucas@uoregon.edu
Anne Dhu McLucas is professor of music, specializing in ethnomusicology
and music history. She is chair of the music history department.
She served as Dean of the University of Oregon from School of Music
from 1992-2002.
She began her college studies at the University
of Colorado. After two years as a language
major, she took time off to study music at
the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg, Austria,
where she completed a certificate in accompanying.
Returning to the University of Colorado to
complete her B.A. in Italian and German, McLucas
was a professional accompanist at the School
of Music there, accompanying such artists as
Andor Toth and Aksel Schiøtz. She graduated Magna cum laude and was a Presidential
Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa. She received both
a Woodrow Wilson and a Danforth Foundation
Fellowship for graduate study.
After one year of graduate work at the University
of Southern California, she transferred to
Harvard University where she completed her
master's and Ph.D. in music and continued to
perform harpsichord, piano and fortepiano,
with coaching by Alan Curtis and Gustav Leonhardt.
While her performance career led in the direction
of Baroque and Classical chamber music, her
musicological studies began to focus on the
traditional folk music of Britain, Ireland,
and America. After completing a master's thesis
on Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, she wrote her doctoral
thesis on the "tune-family theory,"
a theory of tune relationships in the British-American
oral tradition.
While completing her doctoral thesis, she
taught at Boston College, was a pre-doctoral
Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, and
began teaching at Wellesley College, where
she continued for six years. From 1980-1987
she was an assistant professor at Harvard University,
teaching a variety of music history and American
music courses, and co-teaching a seminar in
ethnomusicology.
During these years McLucas developed a collaborative
field experience at the Mescalero Apache reservation
with Dr. Inés Talamantez, professor
of religious studies at the University of Santa
Barbara and a woman of Apache heritage, with
whom she also wrote an article. Additional
fieldwork experience was gained during a year
of teaching at The Colorado College, where
Professor McLucas taught a course on Native-American
music of the Southwest.
In 1987 McLucas was hired to develop a new
Department of Music at Boston College. Besides
founding the department and serving as its
chair for three years, McLucas developed a
concert series and an annual Festival of Irish
Music. In her final year at Boston College,
McLucas directed an institute supported by
the National Endowment for the Humanities on
teaching American music, titled "Rethinking
American Music: New Research and Issues of
Cultural Diversity."
McLucas has been an officer in several national
organizations: she served as president of the
Sonneck Society for American Music (now the
Society for American Music) from 1997-99; as
president of The College Music Society; council
member for the Society for Ethnomusicology;
chair of the Annual Program Committee for the
American Musicological Society's 50th Anniversary
Meeting, and editorial board member for that
organization's journal. She was editor-in-chief
of the College Music Symposium from
1993-96 and review editor for Ethnomusicology, 1990-93.
She has received several grants: a Fulbright
Distinguished Scholar award for research and
teaching in Scotland in 2003 and two grants
from the NEH for her research and fieldwork.
She has published three books and numerous
articles. Recent publications include The
Song Repertoire of Amelia and Jane Harris, co-authored with Emily Lyle and Kaye McAlpine,
and several articles and book chapters on Apache
music and British-American folk-song.
She is the mother of one son, Jacob Shapiro,
a musician and public radio executive who lives
in Boston.
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Anne Dhu McLucas
Professor Emerita (2008)
(musicology, ethnomusicology)
B.A., 1965, Colorado
M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1975, Harvard
(1992)
PUBLICATIONS
• Later Melodrama in America : Monte Cristo (Ca.1883) --
Charles Fechter et al.; Hardcover Vol 4 (December 1994) Garland
Pub
• The Song Repertoire of Amelia and Jane Harris, co-edited
with Emily Lyle (Edinburgh: The Scottish Text Society) (2002)
• Edition of Monte Cristo (1884), Nineteenth-Century
American
Musical Theater (New York: Garland Press) (1994)
• Edition of Charles Dibdin's The Touchstone, or Harlequin
Traveller (1779), Music for London entertainment, Series D.
(London: Stainer and Bell) (1990)
• Editor, Music and Context: Essays for John M. Ward (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University) (1985)
SELECTED ARTICLES
• ”Musical Counterpoint and Governance Problems in EU
Law,”
with Andrew Evans in European Public Law 9 (June 2003),
269-294. (2003)
• "Music and Social Class" for The Garland Encyclopedia
of World
Music, Vol. 3, The United States and Canada. (2001)
• "Monodrama," "Schetky," "Taylor,"
"Pelissier," "Tune Families"
articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Stanley Sadie, editor; London: MacMillan Publishers, revised
edition (2001)
• “ Mescalero Ceremonial Music” in Music in
Indigenous Religious Traditions Editors: Karen O’Keefe
and Graham Harvey (in press) (2000)
• "On the Importance of Music and Music Education to
the
Community," Oregon Humanities: a Journal of Ideas and
Perspectives,
Spring 1999, pp. 31-33 (1999)
• “Musical Theater as a Link Between Folk and Popular
Traditions,” with Paul F. Wells, for Vistas of American
Music: Essays and Compositions in Honor of William K. Kearns. Detroit:
Harmonie Park Press (1999)
• "Louis Moreau Gottschalk and the American Obstacle
Course,"
Oregon Festival of American Music Program Book, pp. 12-14
(1997)
• “The Multi-Layered Concept of ‘Folk Song’
in American Music: The Case of Jean Ritchie’s ‘The
Two Sisters’,” Themes and Variations:Writings on
Music in Honor of Rulan Chao Pian, ed. Bell Yung and Joseph
S.C. Lam (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Music Department, 1994),
212-230. (1994)
• "Nineteenth Century Melodrama: from A Tale of Mystery
to Monte Cristo," Bits and Pieces: Music for Theatre, ed.
Lowell Lindgren, special edition of Harvard Library Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 2, no. 4, Winter 1991, pp. 54-73. (1992)
• Dictionary articles on "John Bray," "melodrama"
"monodrama" and
" duodrama" for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London: Macmillan Press). (1992)
• "Black Sacred Song and the Tune-Family Concept" In Search of
NewPerspectives in Music: Festschrift Eileen Southern, eds.
Josephine Wright and Samuel Floyd. (Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press).
(1992)
• "A Critique of Current Research on Music and Gender," The World
of Music 33/2, pp. 5-13. (Journal published by the Internationales
Institute für Vergleichende Musikstudien und Dokumentation,
Berlin) (1991)
• "Music and gender: Another look," The Sonneck
Society for American Music Bulletin vol. 17, no. 2, summer
1991, p. 58-60. (1991)
• "Music in the Service of Ritual Transformation,"
in Proceedings
of the Conference on Music and Child Development (MMB Music,
St.
Louis MO). (1990)
• Editor, Musicology and Undergraduate Teaching, CMS
Report No. 7 (Boulder, Colorado: The College Music Society) (1990)
• "Sounds of Scotland in 19th-Century America," American Music 8, pp. 71-83. (1990)
• "The Mescalero Girls' Puberty Ceremony, the Role of
Music in Structuring Ritual Time," with Prof. Inés
Talamantez, Yearbook of the
International Council for Traditional Music 18 (1986)
• Articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
in
the United States, London: MacMillan. Biographies of John
Bray, Jean
Gehot, Francis Mallet, John Rowe Parker, Victor Pelissier; survey
articles on Melodrama and Pantomime. (1986)
• "Regional Song styles: The Scottish Connection,"
in Music and
Context: Essays for John Milton Ward, Cambrige, MA: Harvard
Univ. (1985)
• "Action Music in American Pantomime and Melodrama," American
Music 2, pp. 49-72 (1984)
• Articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Stanley Sadie, editor; London: MacMillan Publishers. Biographies
of Jean Gehot, Victor Pelissier, George Schetky, Rayner Taylor
(1980)
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