Research Interests
music historyjazzethnomusicology
Opportunities
Work Study Positions Available: No
Grant Funded Positions Available: No
Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No
Volunteer Research Positions Available: No
Biography
Julian Onderdonk joined the Wells School of Music faculty in Fall, 2001. He studied music history with Robert Bailey, Edward Roesner and Ernest Sanders; jazz with Lewis Porter; and ethnomusicology with Kay Kaufman Shelemay and James Cowdery. He has lectured on Ralph Vaughan Williams' folksong collecting and hymn-tune arrangements and his essays have appeared inFolk Music Journal,Current Musicology,Notes,English Dance and Song,Vaughan Williams Studies(1996),Vaughan Williams Essays(2003),Strengthen for Service: 100 Years of the English Hymnal(2006),The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology(forthcoming),The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams(forthcoming), and theNew Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
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.