Faculty: Theory/Analysis, Musicology

Jennifer Oates
Assistant Professor, Queens College and the Graduate Center
Head of the Music Library, Queens College
(Ph.D., Florida State University)



Aaron Copland School of Music, Music Library, Room 225
Queens College, Flushing, NY 11367
718-997-3901 Jennifer.Oates@qc.cuny.edu

Jennifer Oates is a musicologist specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British music. Additional research interests include women and music, Scotland in music, and American music. She received the 2004 Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship, the Music Library Association’s 2003 Walter Gerboth for research, and won the 2002 National Opera Association Scholarly Paper Competition. She is also a founding member of the North American British Music Studies Association.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS: 

Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): A Musical Life. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, forthcoming.

Three Overtures of Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916): The Dowie Dens o’ Yarrow, Land of the Mountain and the Flood, and The Ship o’ the Fiend, full-score edition. Recent Researches in Music of the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries. Madison, WI: AR Editions, forthcoming.

“Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916): A Scottish National Composer?,” in Europe, Empire and Spectacle in 19th-Century British Music, edited by Rachel Cowgill and Julian Rushton, pp. 145-57. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006.

“Practical Ways to Bring Information Literacy into the Undergraduate Music Curriculum,” College Music Symposium 44 (2004): 74–82.

“Music Librarianship Education: Problems and Solutions,” Music Reference Services Quarterly 8/3 (2004): 1–24.

“The Making of Scottish National Opera: Hamish MacCunn’s Jeanie Deans,” The Opera Journal, 35/2–3 (June-September 2002): 3–28.