H. Bruce Lobaugh

Lobaugh, H. Bruce

H. (Harold) Bruce Lobaugh. Teacher, administrator, clarinetist, musicologist, b Toledo, O, 19 Feb 1930; B SC education (Muskingum, O) 1952, M MUS (ESM, Rochester) 1960, PH D (ESM, Rochester) 1968. Lobaugh taught at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, 1960-4 and began teaching in the music department of University of Regina in 1966, serving as chairman 1969-75 and again beginning in 1988. During the 1960s and 1970s he appeared in Regina as a clarinetist, both in solo recital and in woodwind quintet programs. He was principal clarinet with the Regina Symphony Orchestra 1966-9 and in 1974 became assistant principal clarinet; he also wrote the program notes for the orchestra 1981-91. Lobaugh has composed a march for band, Regina, Saskatchewan (1987) and a ceremonial march for piano and clarinet (1989) and has arranged music from the Florilegium of the 16th-century lutenist, Adrian Denss, for recorder quartet in Ten Renaissance Dances (Berandol 1969). His PH D dissertation was on three German lute books from the late renaissance era. He has contributed articles to the Journal of the Lute Society of America, the Lute Society Journal (UK), and The Clarinet, and he wrote several articles, primarily on lutenists, for The New Grove Dictionary.