Anne B. Yardley
ayardley@drew.edu
973/408-3419
Administrative Assistant
Alma Tuitt
atuitt@drew.edu
973/408-3419
Anne B. Yardley, Associate Professor of Music, became Associate Academic Dean in 2001. Her office focuses particularly on the curricular and academic aspects of the Theological School with responsibility for working with the Academic Standing Committee, the Curriculum Committee, and the Admissions Committee. She works with Dean Beach on faculty development with particular responsibility for hiring of adjunct faculty. This office works extensively with students around their particular academic needs and interests as well. Ms. Tuitt and Dean Yardley work with seniors on a variety of activities during their final year at Drew.
About Dean Yardley
Professor Yardley was born in Seattle, Washington in 1950.She spent her elementary school years in California, moving to Lopez Island, Washington for her last two years of high school. She attended Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington from 1968-1971, earning a B.A. degree with a major in music. Graduate work took her to Columbia University in New York City where she earned an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D (1975). Her dissertation was on "Music in Medieval English Nunneries." Yardley taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from 1975-77 before moving to Morristown, NJ in 1977. She taught part time at Drew University from 1985-1995. She has been full time in the Theological School since 1995. Yardley assumed the role of Associate Academic Dean in July, 2001.
Visit Dean Yardley's personal Web page, or you can read her blog at deanyadz.livejournal.com for her random reflections on life.
Courses Taught
Pasth 505, 506 The Church at Worship (annually 1991-2002)
Pasth 557 Liturgical Music of the Judeo Christian Tradition
Pasth 669 Music of the World Religions (spring 2004)
Litst/Logon 735 Hymnology (fall 2003, fall 2005)
Litst 731 Liturgical Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (spring 2005)
Pasth Church Music of the USA -- new course Fall 2004
Selected Publications
Yardley, Anne Bagnall, Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries, New York: Palgrave Press, 2006.
Columnist since January 2003 for The Hymn – a quarterly column on “Hymns in Periodical Literature.”
Yardley, Anne Bagnall, “Teaching Music in the Seminary,” Teaching Theology and Religion 6:3 (July 2003): 169-75.
Yardley, Anne Bagnall, “Babel or Pentecost: Music as (In)Hospitality in Worship,” Liturgical Ministry 11 (Fall 2002): 187-194.
Yardley, Anne Bagnall, “Music in the Body of Christ,” The Chorister (August 2000): 6-8.
"Choirs in the Methodist Episcopal Church: 1800-1860," American Music 17:1 (Spring, 1999)
"What besides hymns? The Tune-Books of Early American Methodism," Methodist History 37:3 (April 1999) 189-201.
"Was Anonymous a Woman? The Composition of Music in English Nunneries," in Sylvia Glickman and Martha Furman Schliefer, eds. Women Composers: An Historical Anthology Vol. I (New York, G.K. Hall, 1996)
"Bridgettine Spirituality and Musical Practices at Syon Abbey," in James Hogg, ed., Studies in St. Pirgitta and the Brigittine Order, vol. 2 in Analecta Cartusiana 35: 19 (Salzburg, 1993)
"The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: A Late Medieval Source of the 'Consecratio Virginum,'" in Brian Seirup, ed. Festschrift for Ernest Sanders: Studies in Medieval Music (Columbia University, 1991)
"'Full weel she soong the service dyvyne': The Cloistered Musician in the Middle Ages," in Jane Bowers and Judith Tick, eds., Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. (University of Illinois Press, 1986)
Work in Progress
4 Chapters on Church Music in America 1900 - 1950 for a book on American Church Music to be published by Yale University Press, edited by Robin Leaver.
A CD-Rom on hymnology.
