Charles Edward McGuire is Professor of Musicology at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His areas of scholarly interest are the music of Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, the British music festival, sight-singing techniques, and the intersection of choral singing and moral reform movements. His publications include Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-fa Movement (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Elgar’s Oratorios: The Creation of an Epic Narrative (Ashgate, 2002) and The Historical Dictionary of English Music (Scarecrow, 2011), which he co-authored with Oberlin colleague Professor Steven Plank, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. McGuire has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Music of the University of York (2012-2013), and a Humanities Writ Large Fellow at Duke University (2015-2016). He is the Principal Investigator of the Musical Festivals Database, and is writing a history of British musical festivals from 1695-1940.