Fonds F 0169 - Frederick A. Hall fonds

Dr. Frederick Albert Hall (b. ca. late 1940s?) spent 34 years as a professor of Music and senior administrator at McMaster University. He began working at McMaster in 1974 and earned his doctorate during his early years there, successfully defending his dissertation on “The Polyphonic Italian Madrigal, 1638-1745” in 1979. He served a term as Chair of the Department of Music (1980-85), and later became Associate Dean, then Acting Dean, of the Faculty of Humanities. He ended his university career with two consecutive terms as Associate Vice-President Academic. Hall’s published work primarily appeared in the 1970s and 1980s and included examinations of musical cultures in 18th c. Halifax and the Maritimes, late 19th c. Windsor, Ontario, and late-19th/early 20th c. Hamilton, Ontario. In 2001 he co-authored an article with Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell (Director of McMaster’s Humanities Computing Centre) about the creation of a multidisciplinary database of performance in Victorian Hamilton, 1846-1946. Hall retired from McMaster in 2008, and subsequently worked as an independent music professional.

Sources: “Fred Hall – Ontario, Canada,” LinkedIn, https://ca.linkedin.com/in/fred-hall-bbb57210 ; “Another Year for Associate Vice-President Academic,” McMaster Daily News, 15 June 2007, http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca ; J. Paul Green, “Music at McMaster University,” in The Canadian Encyclopedia (Historica Canada, article published 20 October 2011, last edited 14 December 2013), https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/music-at-mcmaster-university-emc ; Hall, Frederick A., “Musical Life in Windsor: 1875-1901,” Canada Music Book / Les cahiers Canadiens de musique, vol. 6 (spring summer 1973): 110-124; “Frederick Hall” author search in Music Index database. (All accessed 17 March 2021).