Dr. Stephen Duncan
Phone: 409-766-5866
Email:
StephenDuncan@gisd.org
Degrees and Certifications:
Doctorate (DMA)
MM Music Education (Vocal and Instrumental)
BME Instrumental Music Education
BA Sacred Music
EC-12 Music Texas Teacher
Dr. Duncan is a long time educator, world traveler, and a man who wears many hats as a professor, a teacher, an administrator and clergyman.
He grew up in Lawton, Oklahoma graduating first with a 4.0 from MacArthur High School in 1980
He attended SWSU in Weatherford, Oklahoma receiving:
BA Sacred Music 1983 summa cum laude
BME Instrumental Education 1984 summa cum laude
MM in Music Education 1987
He studied with the Holy Cross Fathers (CSC) at Moreau Seminary at the University of Notre Dame.
He served as Director of Sacred Music for the Catholic Diocese of Memphis as he worked on his doctorate at the University of Memphis receiving his DMA in Sacred Music 1991
The dissertation is available as: A Genre of Hindusthani Music (Bhajans) as Used in the Roman Catholic Church
His second academic book is also published by the Edwin Mellen Press A History of the Sacred Musical Life of An Orthodox Church in America
Both are also available through Amazon.com Several other books on music and Liturgy are available through Lulu.com
Memberships:
TMEA
TMAC
The Society for Ethnomusicology
(past president and secretary SW chapter, former webmaster for education materials, national website, member national ethics committee)
The Society for Traditional Music
Past member Acoustical Society of America (national instruments committee)
Kappa Kappa Psi Honorary Band Fraternity
Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity
Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor Society
Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society
Memphis Tia Piah Society (Big River Clan -- Kiowa Tia Piah Society)
Galveston Rotary Club and Sgt at Arms
Board of Directors of the Galveston Railroad Museum
Admiral - Texas Navy, Chaplain for the Hawkins Squadron
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Chaplain to the Edward Lee Camp #2
69th NYSV Historical Society, Chaplain
BSA Chaplain Bay Area Council
Eagle Scout, Ad Altare Dei, Pope Pius XII, Hornaday Award for Conservation, Vigil Honor Order of the Arrow, Scouter's Training
Award, Varsity Scout Leader Letter, Scouter's Key, Cross of Saint George, Woodbage - permanent Fox Patrol Leader SC 452.
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