Carol MacClintock

Mildred Carol Cook MacClintock ( Cook; November 19, 1910 – January 3, 1989) was an American musicologist and editor. Originally a soprano singer trained at Juilliard School, she had a decades-long career as a music professor, including at the Indiana University School of Music, Southern Illinois University, University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music. A 1962 Guggenheim Fellow, she published edited collections of Italian renaissance music, including the work of Flemish composer Giaches de Wert, and she published in musicology and was a widely-known expert in de Wert.

Biography Early life Mildred Carol Cook was born on November 19, 1910, in St. Joseph, Missouri, daughter of Ernest Farnham Cook. She also presented song recitals at SIU. Teaching career She worked as a professor of music at Colorado Women's College (1936–1940) and Stephens College (1940–1941), before working as a music instructor at the University of Illinois (1941–1944) and, beginning in 1944, Indiana University Bloomington, where she also worked as the director of UC's Collegium Museum. Other activities she assisted in at UC included the inception of their music doctoral program. and she also returned to IU sometimes as a lecturer.

Musicological and editing career She obtained her PhD in musicology from Indiana University School of Music in 1955; her doctoral dissertation, The Five-Part Madrigals of Giaches de Wert, was supervised by Willi Apel. In 1962, she was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow to do research on Giaches de Wert, which she did as part of a research trip in Europe. In 1966, she published Giaches de Wert (1535-1596), Life and Works, a monograph on de Wert. She and Melvin Bernstein co-edited seventeen volumes featuring Giaches de Wert music from 1961 to 1977. In 1965, she edited The Bottegari Lutebook, the Wellesley Edition's eighth volume, featuring Italian renaissance music, particularly from Cosimo Bottegari. In 1970, one sheet music collection she edited was published by . for that work's first performance since 1701; reportedly one of the first in English, it occurred at UC's Patricia Corbett Theater on May 20, 1973.

Personal life and death On March 18, 1945, she married Lander MacClintock, a French professor at Indiana University Bloomington. Her husband died on February 16, 1980, while MacClintock herself died on January 3, 1989 in Bloomington, Indiana. Giaches de Wert (1535-1596), Life and Works (1966) (ed.) Vier Madrigale und drei Kanzonetten (1970; by Giaches de Wert) (ed.) The Solo Song: 1580-1730 (1973) (ed.) Readings in the History of Music in Performance (1979)