Hugh Wiley Hitchcock

Education

After study under Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he took his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in 1954.

Career

He is best known for founding the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1971. The institute was recently renamed the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music in his honor. Hitchcock received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1944 and an Master of Arts from the University of Michigan in 1948.

He taught there from 1950 to 1961 and then at Hunter College from 1961 to 1971.

He taught in the City University of New York system until 1993, when he retired. He served as president of the Music Library Association, 1966–1967, the Charles Ives Society, 1973–1993, and the American Musicological Society, 1990–1992.

Hitchcock did much work on music of the early Baroque in France and Italy, especially on Marc-Antoine Charpentier. He also made important contributions to the understanding of musical traditions in America, both popular and cultivated, and his text in this field is a standard reference work.

In addition to Charles Ives, he focused particular attention on contemporary American composers including Virgil Thomson, John Cage, and Henry Cowell.

He was the co-editor of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and a consultant for American music for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Works

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  • Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction (4th Edition)

    ( This book provides a chronological look at American mu...)

  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Oxford Studies of Composers)

    (Marc-Antoine Charpentier is emerging from long neglect as...)

  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Oxford Studies of Composers)

    (The French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier is emerging ...)

  • MUSIC IN THE UNITED STATES: A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION (HIST. OF MUSIC S)

    (Part 1 To 1820 - Sacred Music in New England and Other Co...)

  • Ives Celebration: Papers and Panels of the Charles Ives Centennial Festival (Music in American life)

    (This is a very good hardcover copy of the book, with blue...)

  • Music in the United States;: A historical introduction (Prentice-Hall history of music series)

    (Music in the Unites States. A historical introduction.)

  • Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction (Prentice-Hall History of Music Series) by Hitchcock H. Wiley (1974-04-01) Paperback

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock (1988-11-01)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction by Hitchcock Hugh Wiley (1988-11-01) Paperback

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction (Prentice-Hall History of Music Series) by H. Wiley Hitchcock (1974-04-03)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Music In the United States a Historical Introduction

    (A history of music.)

  • Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction (Prentice-Hall History of Music Series)

    (Fine Book. 6 By 9'' 2nd Edition, 8th in the History of Mu...)

  • After 100 <> years: the editorial side of Sonneck ; in memoriam, Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, 1873-1928 : a lecture (Volume 2)

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  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Pestis Mediolanensis: (The Plague of Milan): Dramatic
  • After 100{!} Years: The Editorial Side of Sonneck
  • 2ND (SECOND) EDITION: MUSIC IN THE UNITED STATES: A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION (PRENTICE-HALL HISTORY OF MUSIC SERIES)
  • Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction

Connections

Father:

Hugh Wellman Hitchcock

Mother:

Charlotte (Wiley) Hitchcock

Spouse:

Janet Cox-Rearick Hitchcock

child:

Hugh Hitchcock

child:

Susan Hitchcock