Carol MacClintock

Mildred Carol Cook MacClintock (née 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. Originally studying music, she studied at the University of Chicago (1928–1930), before obtaining her BMus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1932 and her MMus at the University of Kansas in 1935. She also spent some time abroad studying music, including at the American Conservatory, as well as at Juilliard School. Among her piano teachers were Coenraad V. Bos, Robert Casadesus, and Camille Decreus, and Lucien Muratore taught her in singing.

She originally had a career as a classical singer, particularly as a soprano, and she performed at concerts at the premises of Southern Illinois University. 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, particularly at the School of Music.