Angela R. Mace, Musicology

Dissertation title: Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the Formation of the "Mendelssohnian Style." Advisor: R. Larry Todd.
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Typical Courses Taught:
- MUSIC 79A, Class Piano
Synopsis
- MUSIC 106, Chamber Music
- Office Hours:
- Office hours: By appointment - or just drop by!
- Education:
Advance to Candidacy Duke University 2009 MA Duke University 2008 BMus Vanderbilt University 2006
- Specialties:
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Musicology
Keyboard
- Areas of Interest:
- - Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Late Classicists/Early Romantics
- German music in Victorian England
- 19th-century early music revival
- International pedagogical traditions
- Influence, allusion, quotation
- Duties:
- Graduate teaching assistant, 2007-2009: Jacqueline Waeber (MUS 119s: The Humanities and Music), Kerry McCarthy (MUS 190s: Music in Renaissance England), R. Larry Todd (MUS 157: Music after 1850), and Harry Davidson (MUS 49s: Shakespeare and Music). Instructor: Class Piano, Summer 2007. Duke Music Library, circulation assistant, Summer 2008 and 2009. Fellowship leave 2009/2010 (see "Grant Support" below).
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Angela R. Mace, revised and enlarged from J. Michael Cooper, 2001, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Guide to Research (Forthcoming, 2010), Routledge. [4]
- R. Larry Todd and Angela R. Mace, Mendelssohn and the Free Chorale, Choral Journal, vol. 49 no. 9 (March, 2009), pp. 49-69.
- Angela R. Mace and R. Larry Todd, Verzeichnis der Werke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys, in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, Seine Musik (August, 2008), pp. 719-746, Carus-Verlag/Reclam, Stuttgart.
- Selected Performances
- Hensel, Mendelssohn, and Schumann lieder, to open the symposium Incidental Dreaming: Hearing Shakespeare and Seeing Mendelssohn in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', April 14, 2009, Jung Oh, soprano, Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano, Angela R. Mace, piano. Nelson Music Room, Duke University
- Solo organ recital, Early Romantic Organ Music, December 08, 2008, Duke University Chapel. Flentrop Organ, 1976.
- Selected Other
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Liederbuch für Cécile, February 3, 2009, World premiere, edition prepared by Angela R. Mace, from the manuscript held by the Juilliard Manuscript Collection. Ying Huang, soprano; Thomas Bagwell, piano. Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York. [org]
- Selected Conferences
- Mendelssohn, Bartholomew, and the 'Elijah' Correspondence, Reconsidered, September 14, 2009, “The hidden composer – critical views on Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Reception from the Nineteenth Century to this day” ( „Der verkannte Komponist – kritische Überlegungen zur Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy-Rezeption vom neunzehnten Jahrhundert bis heute”), Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in cooperation with the Usedom Music Festival 2009, Heringsdorf auf Usedom, Germany. [index.php]
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, William Bartholomew, and the 'Elijah' Correspondence, Reconsidered, April 29, 2009, "Viewing Mendelssohn, Viewing Elijah: Assimilation, Interpretation, and Culture." Arizona State University. [elijah]
- Session chair, Into the Domestic Sphere: Problems in the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, March 28, 2009, Marian Wilson Kimber, University of Iowa, speaker. "Mendelssohn in Montana: A Humanistic and Artistic 200 Years Commemoration." Montana State University.
- Reception of Felix Mendelssohn's "Hear My Prayer" in England, August 1, 2008, North American British Music Studies Association, Third Biennial Conference. York University, Toronto, Canada. [asp]
- Selected Grant Support
- Summer Research Fellowship 2009, Duke University.
- Julian Price Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009/2010, Duke University.
- Dissertation Research Travel Award 2009/2010, Duke University.
Professional Affiliations: International Musicological Society; Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft; American Musicological Society; American Musicological Society, Southeast Chapter; North American British Music Studies Association; Schubert Society of the USA

