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Julian Onderdonk
Assistant Professor

Department of Music History
Room 236, Swope Music Building
610-436-3234
jonderdonk@wcupa.edu

Thoughts on SOM

The School of Music offers a first-rate education for all students regardless of class or income. This is its geat strength. The varied backgrounds and evident camaraderie of the students, the quality of the faculty, and the sheer volume of music-making opportunities make the SOM a superb training-ground for music professionals.

Curriculum Vitae

Education
B.A., (magna cum laude) Bowdoin College;
M.A. New York University; Ph.D. New York University

Julian Onderdonk joined the School of Music faculty in Fall, 2001. He studied music history with Robert Bailey, Martin Chusid, Edward Roesner and Ernest Sanders; and ethnomusicology with Kay Kaufman Shelemay and James Cowdery. He has lectured on Ralph Vaughan Williams’s folksong collecting, and his publications have appeared in Folk Music Journal, Vaughan Williams Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1996), English Dance and Song, and Vaughan Williams Essays (Scholar Press, 2003). In addition, he has written book reviews for Notes, and contributed to The Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory and Criticism, and to the revised edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

He is currently working on a book that examines the social and political underpinnings of Vaughan Williams’s nationalist activities. Dr. Onderdonk received his Ph.D. in music history from New York University in 1998, and received a BA (magna cum laude) from Bowdoin College in 1986. Before coming to West Chester, he taught at Williams College, New York University, St. Francis University (Pa.), and in the Pennsylvania State University system. A 1992-1993 recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, he studied for a year in London.

Publications

Articles for The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, ed. J.R. Watson and Jeremy Dibble (Norwich, 2007)

  • “Folk Music in Hymnody”
  • “Sharp, Cecil”
  • “Shaw, Martin”
  • “Vaughan Williams, Ralph”

“Folk Songs and Hymn Tunes,” English Dance and Song 68/3 (2006).

“Folksongs in The English Hymnal,” in Strengthen for Service: One Hundred Years of                            The English Hymnal1906-2006, ed. Alan Luff (Norwich, 2005), 191-216.

Review of Simon Trezise, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Debussy, Music Library
Association Notes (2004), 236-238.

Review of Paul Rodmell, Charles Villiers Stanford, Music Library Association Notes (2004),
135-137.

“Hymn Tunes from Folk Songs: Vaughan Williams and English Hymnody,” in Byron Adams and Robin Wells, eds., Ralph Vaughan Williams Essays (Aldershot, 2003), 103-128.

Review of Charles Edward McGuire, Elgar’s Oratorios: The Creation of an Epic
Narrative, Music Library Association Notes (2003), 158-160.

Review of Alain Frogley, Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony and Simon Heffer’s
Vaughan Williams , Music Library Association Notes (2002), 350-352.

“The Revised (1904) Version of the Folk Song Society’s Hints to Collectors,” English Dance and Song 62/3 (2000), 21-25.

Article for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, revised edition (London, Macmillan, 2001):

  • “Shaw, Martin”

“Vaughan Williams and the Modes,” Folk Music Journal 7/5 (1999), 609-26.

Article for Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism (Chicago and London, 1999):

  • “Vaughan Williams. Ralph”

“Vaughan Williams’s Folksong Transcriptions: A Case of Idealization?” in Alain Frogley, ed., Vaughan Williams Studies (Cambridge, 1996), 118-38.

Review of Robert Stradling and Meirion Hughes, The English Musical Renaissance: Construction and Deconstruction, Music Library Association Notes (1995), 63-6.

Review of Michael Hurd, Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festivals, Music Library Association Notes (1995), 108-9.

Review of Ralph Scott Grover, The Music of Edmund Rubbra, Music Library Association Notes (1994), 152-3.

Review of Lewis Foreman, ed., Farewell, My Youth and Other Writings by Arnold Bax, Music Library Association Notes (1993), 595-6.

 

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