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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.

Anne Dhu McLucas
Professor
(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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