Frederick A. Hall

Frederick Albert Hall (born July 2, 1944 in Niagara-on-the-Lake ) is a Canadian musicologist and educator.

Hall studied piano with Earle Moss in Toronto and Lubka Kolessa in Montreal, and organ with Eric Dowling in St Catharines and Raymond Daveluy in Montreal. From 1972 to 1973 he taught at the University of Windsor and the University of Toronto . Since 1972 he has worked at McMaster University . From 1980 to 1986 he was head of the music department, and since then he has been deputy dean of the humanities faculty.

A specialist in Canadian music history, Hall has written articles for magazines and encyclopedias such as the Canadian Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . In 1982 he was a founding member of the Canadian Musical Heritage Society (CMH), for which he edited two volumes of songs. He also publishes a source book on Canadian music history since 1866.

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• Musical life in Windsor: 1875-1901 , 1973
• Hamilton, 1846-1946: a century of music , 1974
• Musical life in eighteenth-century Halifax , 1983
• (Ed.) Songs I, to English Texts , CMH, vol 3, 1985
• FA Hall and John Beckwith (Eds.), Musical Canada: Words and Music Honoring Helmut Kallmann , Toronto 1988
• Musical Yankees and Tories in Maritime settlements of eighteenth-century Canada , ( American Music , vol 5), 1988
• A prince's sojourn in eighteenth-century Canada , ( Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture , vol 19), 1989
• (Ed.) Songs III, to English Texts , CMH, vol 13, 1992