Dennis G. Waring, Ph.D.
(860) 347-5354
dwaring@wesleyan.edu
www.waringmusic.com
Ethnomusicologist:
General World Music; Western
Musicology; Popular World Musics; Organology; Music of Latin America, Music and
Folklore of North America; Music of Africa and the African Diaspora
Educator: University lecturer in Western and
non-Western music and multicultural education; Consultant in curricular
development and teacher education; Forty years teaching experience
Performer: Multi-instrumentalist
musician; Woodwind specialist; Performance skills in classical, folk, jazz, and
world genres
Presenter: Applied
ethnomusicology; Multicultural specialist; Presenter for educational
conferences, in-service workshops, institutes, clinics, school programs, and
community outreach; Arts advocacy facilitator
Instrument Maker: Expert
woodworker/luthier; Design and make traditional and original musical
instruments; Organology specialist; Museum curator; Instrument collector; Author
of six books on musical instruments
Doctor of
Philosophy:
Ethnomusicology;
World Music; Music of the
Master of Arts:
Ethnomusicology;
World music; Music and Folklore of the
Bachelor of Music
Education:
K-12 specialist in
general and instrumental music; Curricular development in the humanities
Consultant,
Wesleyan World Music Department,
Curator,
Wesleyan World Music Collection of Instruments, 1980-87, 2003-09
Faculty, Graduate Liberal Arts Program, American Music Course, 1987-90, 2005
Faculty,
Center For Creative Youth, Gifted and Talented Summer Program, 1985-90
Institute
for Shipboard Education, Semester at Sea, Ethnomusicologist for around the world
voyage. Ports of call included
Adjunct
Faculty, World Music, 2006
Guest
Lecturer In Music Education, 1989-92, 2002
Adjunct Faculty in Music
Education and World Music,
Full-time
Faculty, 1993-94
Visiting
Faculty, 1988
Summer
Faculty, Multicultural Specialist,
Visiting
Lecturer in Multicultural Education,
Visiting
Lecturer in Course on Creativity,
Visiting
Lecturer in Ethnomusicology,
Eastern
Adjunct
Faculty in Fine Arts and Continuing Education, Willimantic, Ct. 1985-96
Consultant/Composer
for ECSU Theater Department, 1994-96
New England
Conservatory
Summer
Faculty, Intercultural Institute,
Visiting
Lecturer in Ethnomusicology,
Visiting
Faculty In World Music, Continuing Education,
Summer
Faculty and Guest Lecturer In World Music,
Southern
Guest
Lecturer, Multicultural Institute for Teachers,
Education
Specialist, Multicultural Music Education, 1991:
Visiting
Artist, Summer Institute,
Instructor,
Summer Arts Programs,
Administrator,
“The Free University,” Continuing Education Outreach, 1972-73
Public Sector
Teaching Experience
Master Teaching Artist, 1975-2009
Hundreds
of assemblies, presentations, workshops, and residencies in schools and other
community centers
Full-time Teaching Positions
Grades K-8, Elementary and General Music
Grades 4-8, Instrumental Music
Jr. and
Instrumental Programs and Bands
Maplewood-South Orange School District, N.J.
1970-72
Grades 4-12, Instrumental Programs, Concert Bands, Marching Bands,
Orchestra
Shawnee Mission School District, Kansas
City, 1967-70
Junior High Instrumental Program
Part-time Positions Held
Farmington School District,
Farmington, Ct., 1993-94
Multicultural Consultant at High School, Scholar-In-Residence Program
Hartford Academy For the Performing Arts, Hartford,
Ct. 1991
Gifted and Talented Program in Music, Dance and Theater
Center For Creative Youth, Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Ct. 1986-90
Summer Program for Gifted and Talented High School Arts Majors
Whitby
Montessori Center, Greenwich, Ct., Grades 4-6, Instrumental Music, 1985-86
Making Drums. Sterling/Tamos Publication, New York, N.Y. 2003
Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs
and Consumer Culture In Victorian America.
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Ct. 2002
Make Your Own Electric Guitar and Bass (with David Raymond). Sterling/Tamos
Publication, New York, N.Y.
2001
Cool Cardboard Instruments. Sterling/Tamos Publication, New York,
N.Y. 2000
Samba Batucada: A Course In Brazilian Samba (with Philip Galinsky). Waring Music, Middletown, CT 2002
Great
Folk Instruments To Make and Play. Sterling/Tamos Publication, NYC., 1999
Making
Folk Instruments In Wood. Sterling
Press, New York, N.Y. 1981
Folk
Instruments: Make Them & Play Them.
Hyperion Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1979
Curriculum Guide For Classroom Music. Manitoba Department of Education, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1978
Articles and
Consultant
Music! Its Role and Importance In Our
Lives, Glencoe/McGraw Hill, Consultant, 2005
Share the Music Series,
McGraw/Hill School Division, Consultant, 1995,1998
Connecticut
Music Educators News
“World Music: The Early Days” 1996
“Making Musical Instruments: Science and Sound” 1995
“Musical Instruments: Cultural Sonic Symbols” 1994
Sforzando
(Minnesota Music Educators Association Magazine)
“Worlds of Musical Instruments” 1993
The
Reed Organ Society Quarterly
“Manufacturing the Muse” Article and Keynote Speech for 2005
Conference
“Advertising Music: Trade Card Iconography In Nineteenth-Century
America” 1988
Papers and
Presentations
Scores
of Lecture Presentations including:
Society
for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, 1993
“Popular Music and the Victorian Reed Organ”
Brattleboro
Historical Society (Vermont), 1991, 2005, Keynote Speaker
“Manufacturing the Muse”
The American Musical Instrument Society (N.Y.C.), 1989
“Victorian Advertising and America's Emerging Music Industry”
Miss
Porter's School (Farmington, Ct.), 1989, Annual Lecture Series,
“Trends In African Music”
Smithsonian
Institution (Washington, D.C.), 1983
Musical Instrument Lecture Presentations at the American Museum of
History
Winnipeg
Folklore Center (Manitoba, Canada), 1975-79
Lecture/Performance Series on Appalachian Folk Music
The Peter Whyte Gallery (Banff) and Harborfront Gallery (Toronto,
Canada), 1978
“Revivals: Modern Lutherie In North America”
Educational
Conference and Institute Workshop Presentations
“Integrating
Multicultural Arts In the Classroom”
Multiple presentations for Connecticut
Music Educators Conferences, 1990-2008
World Music Press Presentation,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2002
Central
Connecticut State University, New Britain, 1993-98
University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1992
“The TransAtlantic Experience: Music
From Africa To the Americas”
Johns Hopkins University, Peabody
Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, 1998
Midwestern
Music Educators Conference, Ann Arbor, 1997
National
Orff-Schulwerk Association, Memphis, 1996
Tennessee
Music Educators State Convention, Nashville, 1995
“Introduction To
Latin American Music”
Johns Hopkins University, Peabody
Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, 1998
Eastern
Regional Music Educators National Conference, Baltimore, 1997
New
Jersey Music Educators Convention, Atlantic City, 1995
Hartt
School of Music, Hartford, 1994, 1997, 2000
Massachusetts
Music Educators Association, Boston, 1994, 2001
“Making
Musical Instruments ”
New
Jersey Music Educators Convention, Atlantic City, 1995
Connecticut
Music Educators Convention, Watertown, 1993-95, 1997, 2001
Columbia
Teachers College, NYC, 2001
Waring Music, Proprietor, 1987-2009
Multi-faceted
enterprise involving performance, educational facilitation, publishing, and
musical instrument marketing and
manufacturing.
Public
ethnomusicology - presentations and services including concerts, assembly
presentations, lectures, arts facilitation and resources for educational and
community institutions. Affiliation with Young Audiences of Connecticut.
Sirius Coyote
Music, 1985-2009
Trio
specializing in Latin, Native American and pan-African musics. Incorporate
native, folk, jazz and world music styles. Credits include three CDs, five audio
cassette
Viper’s Dream, 1984-85
Jazz
quartet featuring various styles of traditional jazz including early swing,
Dixieland,
Stompers Old Time
String Band, 1982-85
Traditional
string band featuring music from folkloric America and the British Isles.
Repertoire included Appalachian play party music, shape note hymnody, Bluegrass
music, old time mountain music, the blues, sea shanties, ballads and gospel.
Ten Penny Bit, 1973-79
Folk
troupe featuring the folk music of the USA, Canada and British Isles. Important
resource in Winnipeg, Manitoba for various folklife activities in conjunction
the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Principle
Clarinetist
Kansas
City Civic Symphony Orchestra, 1967-70
University
of Kansas, 1963-67
Concert Band, Marching Band, Symphonic and Opera Orchestra, Chamber Music
The Connecticut
Commission on Culture and Tourism, 2006-09
Connecticut
Master Teaching Artist: Community Educational Concerts and Programs
The Connecticut
Commission on the Arts, 1987-2005
Appointed
official “Connecticut State Troubadour,” 2003-04
Master
Teaching Artist: Community and Public School Programs, Workshops, and
Residencies
HOTs
(Higher Order Thinking) School Program: 1998 Summer Institute Instructor;
Multiple Residencies
The Crosby
Foundation, 1998
Funding
for advanced research leading to publication with Wesleyan University Press
Young Audiences of
Connecticut, 1997-2009
Hundreds
of School Presentations and Teacher In-service Programs
Connecticut
Department of Environmental Protection,
2004-05
Educational
Workshops for Educators
Exhibitor
and Keynote Speaker - “Art from Connecticut Forests” sponsored by the
Connecticut
Department of Education, 1980-93
Teacher
In-service Institutes and Seminars In Multicultural Education
Capital Region
Education Council (CREC), 1988-90
Connecticut
Institute for Teaching and Learning
Institutes
In Multicultural Awareness
The Connecticut
Humanities Council
Festival
of New England Folk Music, 1984
Awarded
Scholar/Artist Residency, Bridgeport and Fairfield, 1989
Wesleyan
University,
1980-84
Graduate
Assistantships
Bright Solutions,
Inc.,
1983-90
Funding
for Artist-in-Schools residencies and state sponsored educational institutes
Traveling Artists
and Performers Company (TAPCO),
1982-84
Funding
for Artist-in-Schools Programs
Manitoba Arts
Council, Manitoba, Canada, 1977-80
Development
of Educational Programs for Minorities
Artist-In-Schools
Programs
Advanced
Research, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Support
for Publishing Book, “Folk Instruments: Make Them and Play Them”
Manitoba
Department of Education, 1978-80
Development
of Provincial Curriculum Guide for Music Teachers
Produced
Instructional Video Programs for Public Schools
Manitoba
Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs, 1977-80
Music
Training for Recreational Supervisors
Educational Video
Productions:
From
Trash To Tunes – Awarded Platinum Best of Show, The Aurora Awards 2007,
Produced by MyLibraryDV/Recorded Books
Art
As a Way of Knowing -
Farmington High School Music and Art Departments, 1993
Documentary Video
Soundtracks:
The
Noble Savage by Bernard Moreau, 1990
Train
Ride In the Sky - Paraview Productions, NYC., 1992
Audio Productions:
Canciones
Para Ninos - Sirius
Coyote CD, Latin American songs for children, 2006
Todo
Lo Bueno - Sirius Coyote
CD, Original compositions, 2002
From
the Land of the Nahuatl - Sirius
Coyote CD, Featuring ancient, folkloric and
contemporary Latin American music, 1999
Baila
Bonito - Sirius Coyote
Music, Dance music of Latin America, 1994
Let’s
Get Serious - Sirius Coyote Music, Music from Latin America, 1993
El
Retorno de Quetzalcoatl - Sirius Coyote with Puente de Wirikuta, 1992
Dedicated
To the Wild - Sirius Coyote,
Music from Africa and Latin America, 1991
The
El Dorado Tapes - Collaboration with the NYC Bozon Band, World Music, 1989
The
Stompers - Stringband Music of Ireland and the USA, 1986
The
Ten Penny Bit - Music of the British Isles, Folk Music, 1978
Music Composed for
Theater:
The
Ice Wolf by Joanna Halpert
Kraus, Harry Hope Theater, Eastern Connecticut State
University, 1996
The
Good Woman of Szechwan by Bertolt
Brecht, Harry Hope Theater, Eastern Connecticut State
University,
1995
The
Art of Dining by Tina Howe,
Studio Theater, University of Connecticut, 1994
Board of Trustees:
Estey Organ Museum, Brattleboro, Vt.,
2008-09
Board of
Directors: Connecticut Folklife Project,
Non-profit organization dedicated to
Curator: Consultant and Curator of Wesleyan’s
World Music Instrument Collection, 2003-09
Editorial Consultant: Macmillan/McGraw
Hill music book series, 2004-05
Multicultural Column for Connecticut
Music Educators Association, 1994-97
Chairman: Connecticut Music Educators Association
Multicultural Committee, 1994-95
Entrepreneur:
Waring
Music: “Resources for a Diverse World,” 1987-2009
Sirius
Coyote Music: Public ethnomusicology, Watertown, Ct., 1986-09
The
Woodwrights: Woodworking business, Winnipeg, Canada, 1975-79
Organizer:
Multicultural
Music Area for the CMEA Conference, 1994
Conference
on “Folk Music Traditions of New England,” Wesleyan University, 1984
Seminar
on “Grantsmanship In the Arts,” Wesleyan University, 1984
President:
Wesleyan
Graduate Student Association 1984-85, Executive Council, 1993-94
“The
Wesleyan Friends of Old Time Music,” 1984-87
University of Kansas Chapter of the Music Educators National Conference, 1967