Charles McGuire

Fulbright Scholar, 2012-13

Excellence in Teaching Award, Oberlin College, 2008

Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 1994, 1995, 1996

Books:

• A Historical Dictionary of English Music (coauthored with Steven Plank; Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011)
• Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-fa Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• Elgar’s Oratorios (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2002)

Articles and Essays:

• “‘An Englishman and a Democrat:’ The Large-Scale Choral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams” (essay to be published in The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams, edited by Aidan Thomson and Alain Frogley; Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2013)
• “American Hymns, English Evangelism, and the Pastoral Temperance Cantata” (essay published in Musician Performance Culture in 19th Century Britian: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley, edited by Bennett Zon; Ashgate Press, 2012, pp. 173-194)
• “Christianity, Civilization, and Music: Nineteenth-Century British Missionaries and the Control of Malagasy Hymnology” (essay to be published in Music and Theology, edited by Martin V. Clarke; Ashgate Press, forthcoming in 2011).
• “Edward Elgar: ‘Modern’ or ‘Modernist’? Construction of an Aesthetic Identity in the British Music Press, 1895-1934” (Musical Quarterly, vol. 91, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008), pp. 8-38)
• “Elgar and Acworth’s Caractacus: The Druids, Race, and the Individual Hero” (in Elgar Studies, edited by Julian Rushton and Paul Harper-Scott; Cambridge University Press, 2007; pp. 50-77)
• “Measure of a Man: Catechizing Elgar’s Catholic Avatars” (in Elgar and His World, edited by Byron Adams; Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 3-37)
• "Music and Morality: John Curwen’s Tonic Sol-fa, the Temperance Movement, and the Oratorios of Edward Elgar” (paper published in Chorus and Community, edited by Karen Ahlquist; University of Illinois Press, 2006, pp. 111-138)
• “Functional Music: Imperialism, the Great War, and Elgar as Popular Composer” (essay published in The Cambridge Companion to Elgar, edited by Julian Rushton and Daniel Grimley; Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 214-224; 240-242)
• “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, pp. 99-115; 168-175))
• “Vaughan Williams and the English Music Festival, 1910” (paper published in Vaughan Williams Essays, edited by Byron Adams and Robin Wells; Ashgate Press, 2003, pp. 235-268)
• “Elgar, Judas, and the Theology of Betrayal” (Nineteenth-Century Music, Vol. XXIII, no. 3 (Spring 2000, pp. 236-272)
• “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), pp. 75-88; reprinted in The Best of Me: a Gerontius Centenary Companion, edited by Geoffrey Hodgkins; Rickmansworth: Elgar Editions, 1999, pp. 84-101)

Reference Sources:

• Website bibliography: “Sir Edward Elgar.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music (edited by Bruce Gustafson; Oxford University Press: July, 2011): http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/view/document/obo- 9780199757824/obo-9780199757824-0070.xml.
• Encyclopedia Article: “Elgar, Sir Edward.” In The New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2011 Supplement. Detroit: Cengage, 2011.
• Encyclopedia Article: “Johnson, John.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (revised edition; 2001)