Maxine Fawcett-Yeske, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Music
Nebraska Wesleyan University
mfy@nebrwesleyan.edu
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Title: "The Fuging Tune in America, 1770-1820: An Analytical Study"
Abstract: A type of early American sacred music, the fuging tune sparked controversy because of its polyphonic texture and the spirited manner with which it was performed. This study identifies reasons why Americans initially embraced the form with such enthusiasm and through analysis of British and American compositions distinguishes characteristics in common and dissimilar between the two to establish stylistic contributions that were distinctively American.
--Winner of the 1997 University of Colorado Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities Award
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"Community Building: The Laterna in Twentieth-Century Greek Culture." co-authored and presented with Dr. Rick Cypert and Mr. Panayiotis Stathopoulos, Great Plains Chapter of the College Music Society, Annual Conference, University of Nebraska, Kearney, Nebraska, March 11, 2006
"Discovering the Music of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright." Faculty Scholarship Dinner, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 5, 2005
Early American Choral Music and the First New England School" American Choral Directors Association, Student Chapter Meeting, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska, September 13, 2004
"Too Many Notes?: A Look at Form in Classical Music" Teaching Demonstration presented to Faculty of Nebraska Wesleyan University, Fall Conference, August 18, 2004
"Writing Across the Curriculum: Research and Writing in the Music History Sequence." co-authored and presented with Dr. Rick Cypert, Great Plains Chapter of the College Music Society, Annual Conference, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 21, 2004
"Professors and Scholars: What's in a Syllabus?" co-authored and presented with Dr. Rachel Pokora, Peer Review Project Meeting, Nebraska Wesleyan University, November 7, 2002
"Literary, Textual, and Musical Connections in Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum." Great Plains Chapter of the College Music Society Annual Conference, Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska, March 23, 2002
"Aspects of Allegory in Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum." Religion and Popular Culture Conference, hosted by the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Dept. of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 12, 2001
"American Singing Schools and the Evolution of a Musical Style (1720-1820)." International Conference of the College Music Society, Limerick, Ireland, July 10, 2001
"The American Fuging Tune, 1770-1820: Marks of Distinction." Great Plains Chapter of the College Music Society, Annual Conference, Manhattan, Kansas, March 2, 2001
"The American Fuging Tune, 1770-1820: Marks of Distinction." Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections, International Conference bringing together 15 professional music societies from around the world. Society for American Music Program, November 2000
"Stylistic Development in the Fuging-Tunes of William Billings." National Conference of the Sonneck Society for American Music, Washington D.C., March 1996
"Stylistic Development in the Fuging-Tunes of William Billings." Rocky Mountain Chapter of the College Music Society, Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 1996
"Aspects of Allegory in Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum." Rocky Mountain Region American Musicological Society, Annual Conference, Boulder, Colorado, April 1992
"Stylistic Development in the Fuging-Tunes of William Billings: A Preliminary Study." Rocky Mountain Region American Musicological Society, Annual Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado, April 1991
PUBLICATIONS
An Anthology of American Fuging Tunes. Recent Researches in American Music Series. Editor of this volume. Madison: A-R Editions. [in preparation]
Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia. Contributing author of article entitled "Essentialism." Greenwood Press, 2002. [Recognized as one of the top reference books for the year 2002 by Library Journal]
Two Connecticut Composers: The Collected Works of Eliakim Doolittle (1772-1850) and Timothy Olmsted (1759-1848). Music of the New American Nation Series, v. 15. Co-authored and co-edited with Karl D. Kroeger. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999.
"Aspects of Allegory in Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum" Early Music Colorado Quarterly, Spring 1997.
"Stylistic Development in the Fuging-Tunes of William Billings," The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, Spring 1996.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of: Daniel Read, Musica Ecclesiae, or Devotional Harmony. Edited by Karl and Marie Kroeger, Recent Researches in American Music, 48-50, Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2004, in American Music Research Center Journal, 2005.
Review of: Donald Davie, The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1996.