Presentations
“Mendelssohn, MacCunn, and Scottishness in Music”
North American British Music Studies Association Biennial Conference
York University, Toronto, Canada, 31 July–3 August 2008
“Mendelssohn, MacCunn, and Ossianic Topos”
Proposal submitted to the Music in the Nineteenth Century Biennial Conference
Dublin, Ireland, 25 June–29 June 2008
“Brigadoon: Lerner and Loewe’s Scotland”
Musical Theatre in 1957 Symposium
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 9–10 November 2007
“Beyond the Music: American Music in General Reference Databases”
Music Library Association, Annual National Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA, 26 February–3 March 2007
“Eclecticism and Englishness in Five Tudor Portraits: A Portrait
of Vaughan Williams's Musical Style?”
North American British Music Studies Association, Saint Michael's
College, Colchester, VT
4-5 August 2006
“(Mis)Appropriations of History: Constructions of the English Musical
Renaissance” panel presentation with Byron Adams, Jenny Doctor, Deborah
Heckert, James Kuykendall, Leanne Langley, Charles McGuire, Eric Saylor
American Musicological Society, National Meeting, Washington, D.C.
27-30 October 2005
“Hamish MacCunn and Imperialism: A Scot Glorifies the Empire?”
American Musicological Society, National Meeting Washington,
D.C.
27-30 October 2005
“A Scot Glorifies the Empire: Hamish MacCunn’s Imperialistic
Compositions”
Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conference, Nottingham, UK
7-10 July 2005
“Revisiting New Grove Online” with Alisa Rata (Southern
Methodist University)
Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association, Vancouver
13-20 February 2005.
“The Ship o’ the Fiend: Hamish MacCunn as a Scottish
bard”
North American British Music Studies Association, Oberlin College
18-19 June 2004
“Nineteenth-Century British Music and the Press: The Rise and Fall
of Hamish MacCunn” CUNY Junior Faculty Colloquium
15 April 2004.
“Hamish MacCunn (1868-1914): A Scottish National Composer?”
Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conference at the University of Leeds,
UK
24-27 July 2003
“An Intersection of Opera Traditions and Scottish Nationalism: Hamish
MacCunn’s Jeanie Deans (1894)”
American Musicological Society, Southern Chapter, Tallahassee,
Florida,
31 January - 2 February 2002
Twelfth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Leeds,
UK
4-7 July 2002
“The Making of Scottish National Opera: Hamish MacCunn’s Jeanie
Deans”
National Opera Association national meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
15-17 February 2002
Annual British Musical Renaissance Study Day at Birmingham University, UK
9-10 June 2000
“Amy Beach’s Robert Burns Songs: American Nationalism?”
College Music Society Southern Chapter Meeting in Valdosta, Georgia
1-3 March 2001
“George Thomson’s Beethoven: A Mere Folk Song Arranger?”
Carolinas Symposium on British Studies and the Capital Chapter of the American
Musicological Society in Fredericksburg, Virginia,
1-3 October 1999
American Musicological Society, Souther Chapter, Birmingham, Alabama
12-13 February 1999
Jennifer Oates