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Dr. Charles McGuire

E-Mail:
Charles.McGuire@oberlin.edu

Office:
Bibbins 205
Office Phone:
440/775-8252
Address:
77 W. College St.
Oberlin, OH 44074

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Division of Musicology

Charles McGuire
Associate Professor of Musicology

Education:
B.A. and B.Mus. degrees, Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 1992; M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 1998, Harvard University.

Professional Affiliations:
Assistant Professor, James Madison University, 2000-2001; Lecturer, University of Maryland at College Park, 1999-2000; Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Ball State University, 1999. Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University, 1998.

Grants and Awards:
Recipient of the James Madison University Faculty Summer Research Grant (2001), Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship (1999), Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship (1997-1998), Pirotta Research Fellowship (1997), Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (1994, 1995 and 1996), Oscar Schafer Fellowship (1996-1997).

Areas of Specialty:
Edward Elgar, the Oratorio, Victorian Music.

Presentations:
American Musicological Society (1998, 2000, 2003, 2005); Midwest Victorian Studies Association (2000); Music in Nineteenth Century Britain Biannual Conference (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005); North American British Music Studies Association Biannual Conference (2004, 2006); Yale-Edinburgh Group Conference (2004); Richard Murphy Musicology Colloquium at Oberlin Conservatory (1999).

Publications:
  • Elgar’s Oratorios (monograph; Ashgate Press, April 2002)
  • “Elgar and Acworth’s Caractacus: The Druids, Race, and the Individual Hero” (essay to be published in Elgar Studies, edited by Julian Rushton and Paul Harper-Scott; Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2007)
  • “Measure of a Man: Catechizing Elgar’s Catholic Avatars” (essay to be published in Elgar and His World, edited by Byron Adams; Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming in 2007)
  • “Music and Morality: John Curwen’s Tonic Sol-fa, the Temperance Movement, and the Oratorios of Edward Elgar” (essay published in Chorus and Community, edited by Karen Ahlquist; University of Illinois Press, 2006)
  • “Elgar’s Image: Music for the Empire” (essay published in The Cambridge Companion to Elgar, edited by Julian Rushton and Daniel Grimley; Cambridge University Press, 2005)
  • “From The Apostles to Sancta Civitas: Oratorios and Portraits by Elgar and Vaughan Williams” (essay published in A Special Flame: Proceedings of the International Conference on Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams (Albion Press, 2004)
  •  “Vaughan Williams and the English Music Festival, 1910” (paper published in Vaughan Williams Essays, edited by Byron Adams and Robin Wells; Ashgate Press, 2003)
  •  “John Johnson,” entry, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (revised edition; 2001)
  • “Elgar, Judas, and the Theology of Betrayal” (Nineteenth-Century Music, Vol. XXIII, no. 3 (Spring 2000)
  • “One Story, Two Visions: Textual Differences Between Elgar’s and Newman’s The Dream of Gerontius” (Elgar Society Journal, vol. 11, no. 2 (July, 1999); reprinted in The Best of Me: a Gerontius Centenary Companion, edited by Geoffrey Hodgkins; Rickmansworth: Elgar Editions, 1999)

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