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Education
Courework toward PhD intended Fall 2008
MA Musicology, University
of Minnesota (2007)
- Symphonia Caritatis:
The Cistercian Chants of Hildegard von Bingen
- Symphonia
Caritatis (PDF 1,233 Kb)
Donna
Cardamone Jackson, adviser
BA Philosophy, minor Classical Languages, Luther
College (1992)
- Rooting the Arts: A Home for the Musician in the Philosophy of
Simone Weil*
Kent Simmonds, thesis adviser / Loyal
D. Rue, student adviser
Richard
Simon Hanson, mentor / Wilfred F. Bunge (Greek N.T. Textual Criticism)
-Study Abroad, University
of Nottingham, U.K. (1990-91)
** Recent Metaphysics and Epistemology (Robert
Kirk and Terry
E. Wilkerson)
** Moral Philosophy of Hume and Kant (Roger
Gallie and Michael
Clark)
** Philosophy of Science (Robert
Black and Dieter
Peetz)
Teaching Experience
Augsburg
College, Faculty
MUS-130 - Introduction to Music in the Fine Arts
MUE-129 A / B - Improvisation / Rock / Jazz Ensembles
MUP-116,216,316,416 - Electric Bass Instruction
MUS-319 - History of Western Art
Music I: Chant to Bach
MUS-329 - History of Western Art Mus II: Mozart to Today
MUS-118 - History of Popular Music in America
MUS-109-S An Analytical Survey
of Western Art Music 800CE to present
MUS-109 - Introduction to
Music History
Past Teaching Assistantships:
University of
Minnesota
Music 1804: The Worlds of Music (assisting Miriam
Gerberg for Mirjana
Lausevic)
Music 3029/Humanities 3029: Music in the 20th Century (assisting Donna
Cardamone Jackson)
Past Work Experience:
Schmitt
Music
Store
Manager: Maplewood (1997-2001)
Sales & Product Trainer / Combo Instrument Specialist: Brooklyn
Center (1994-1997)
Presentations & Publications
- Symphonia Caritatis: The Cistercian Chants of Hildegard von
Bingen at 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies May 8-11,
2008
- Hildegard and the Cistercian Plan at International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies, 25th Anniversary, "Bridges to Infinity" at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia May 2008
- Symphonia Caritatis: The Cistercian
Chants of Hildegard von Bingen Forthcoming in SONUS
Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest, musicologist, Web-master & board member (2004-present)
- 2007-08, 2005-06, 2004-05
Minnesota High School Listening Contest Study Guide and Exams
Author and Host. 100-129 pages with three audio CDs, engineered and produced in personal studio Grianeala Publishing.
Memberships and Affiliations
American
Musicological Society
American Composers Forum
Center for Medieval Studies, UofM
International Musicological Society
* Cantus Planus - IMS Study Group
Minnesota Chorale, baritone;
elected singer representative to the board 2002-2003; 2003-2004
Biography
Christian McGuire holds a Master of Arts in Musicology from the University
of Minnesota and a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Latin and Ancient
Greek from Luther College (Decorah, IA) having spent his junior year
at the University
of Nottingham, UK. His musical interests however reflect a lifetime
love of all kinds of music.
Since moving to the Twin Cities in 1993, he has worn many hats in the musical arena as educator, performer, conductor, composer, clinician, recording artist, and music retail manager (Schmitt Music in Maplewood from 1997-2001).
Born into an extended family of career musicians, farmers and ranchers, he was raised in Hudson, Iowa. He learned to read music by turning pages for his father William F. McGuire, a professional organist and Director of Music at Nazareth Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls, IA. He also provided him with his first lessons in counterpoint. His mother Esther E. (Rosfeld) McGuire is a former Nebraskan ‘cowgirl’ turned career music educator. She introduced him to the horn (‘the Rosfeld family instrument’) and ensured his exposure to all sorts of music ranging from Stevie Wonder, Parliament-Funkadelic, The Beatles, Kiss, Dave Brubeck, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Strauss, Mozart etc. In 1988 he was one of five recipients awarded the Iowa Scholarship for the Arts, which was presented to him by Governor Terry E. Brandstad.
As an instrumentalist, Christian has formally studied horn with Thomas Tritle at the University of Northern Iowa and voice with Harriet McCleary at Saint Olaf College. He has also studied orchestration with Judith Lang Zaimont and electronic music composition with Dr. Christopher Hopkins at the University of Minnesota. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by jr. high, high school, and college choirs in a number of states. Since 2004, he has served as musicologist and author of the Minnesota Music Listening Contest Study Guide and is currently an instructor of Music History at the McNally-Smith College of Music in St. Paul, MN and Electric Bass / Improv Ensembles as Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
As
a performer, Christian began playing electric bass in 1983. His junior
high band director rightly insisted that the jazz band needed a bassist,
so he gave him Carol Kaye’s
How to Play Electric Bass and a recording of Jaco
Pastorius and said “Learn this.” Since then he has had
a steady side career as an electric bassist playing with Nero’s
House Band and Green
Pyramids as well as with various progressive rock, southern-rock
biker bands, bluegrass ensembles, and just about anyone else who needs
a bassist / vocalist.
Today he can be found in various recording studios, musical theatre orchestra pits, big bands, rock bands etc. as bassist, or on stage at Orchestra Hall where he sings in the Minnesota Chorale, the official chorus of the Minnesota Orchestra, with his wife Krista Sandstrom. They live in St. Paul with their children, two tabby cats, and German shepherd.
Final note * Always critically inquisitive, Christian is largely self-taught. In this manner, he holds as his heroes, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and Arnold Schoenberg. From his early schooling through his undergraduate degree, he often sacrificed assigned homework to pursue that which he found more stimulating (it wasn't until his senior year in college that he finally figured out how to balance the two). In the 1980s, he preferred to pour through his father's graduate school music texts (and 1st edition Grout) rather than his own high school homework. His solid music background enabled him to test out of the core undergraduate music theory/aural skills sequence including 20th century techniques. For music history he scored in the top 3 of all entering graduate students at the University of Minnesota in 2003. (The readings/discussions at this level however often seemed nothing more than rehashing the philosophical, linguistic, textual crticisim, gendered and anthropoligical concepts he learned as an undergrad-- only now applied music.)
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Professor Jackson's
comments regarding the Blue Book portion of my MA exam shortly after
she was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis (ALS)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna
Jackson" <jacks001@umn.edu>
To: Christian McGuire
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: Master's exam
> Hi Christian, I received your exam from Chris Loomis yesterday
and I
> spent this morning reading it. Your exam ranks among the best that
I
> have ever read and it demonstrates a solid understanding of early
music.
> On the oral, I will give you opportunities to expand on certain
issues,
> as you requested. If you want to postpone the oral to spring semester,
> that would be easiest for me.... All best, Dr.
Jackson
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Research interests
* 12th Century liturgical practices
of Northern Germany and the Low Countries
* Early Music Paleography and Codicology
* Early Music performance practice
/ Middle Eastern Music
* Mozart Opera
* History, Performance, and Orchestral
Timbres of the Electric Bass
* Late 1960s/early 1970s Heavy Blues
and Progressive Rock
* Cultural adaptation of Pre-Socratic,
Gnostic, Hermetic, and other marginalized philosophical thought in Western
music (textual criticism).
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Research
Interests CANTUS
- A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant DScriptorium - Digital Scriptorium
-- Le
Jeu de Robin et de Marion - Bibl. Mejanes MS. 166 Aix-en-Provence
Medeival
Manuscripts in Facsimile - some medieval musical notation The
Vindolanda Tablets Online
Online
Hebrew Tutorial A
Cool Latin Website - www.grexlat.com Latin
Teaching Materials
Welsh
and Other Celtic Links -- Welsh Book of Common Prayer -- William Morgan Welsh Bible 1588 - facsimile --
Welsh
Grammar Online
Online
E-Texts
LIBRARIES
& MUSEUMS
My Television viewing (when time permits) American
Experience -
Fun Links The
Minnesota Vikings: I Love American Football
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DOCUMENTS
for STUDENTS Quick Reference Grammar Sheet - For whom did I write this?
Unplublished
but copyright papers (mostly drafts)
A Comparison of Leporello
and Giovanni - April 2004 Blues Theory - Idiomatic development of the Blues. Introduction
to Combo Instruments - guitars, basses, amps
Global
warming is THE "Sanctity of Life Issue"
Current
Issues
American
History and Related Links Benjamin
Franklin online exhibit - Friends
and Relatives
Jethro
Tull - Ian Anderson et al. Fencing
Lessons Online DiGrasse, His True Art of Defence *
DiGrasse - Abridged version Basic
Guards of Medieval Longsword U.S.
Fencing Association
Longbow
Archers - a UK organization
EJournal
of Martial Arts and Sciences British
Quarterstaff Association
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OTHER USEFUL SOURCES