She has been cited by
Allen Forte, co-winner of the 1997 Wallace Berry Distinguished Book Award of the
Society for Music Theory for her significant contribution to his 1995 book, "The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924–1950: A Study in Musical Design.".[15] Dave Headlam, winner of the 1997
Deems Taylor award in the
Symphonic Books category of the
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), cited her for her contribution on interval cycles in
Karol Szymanowski's works, in his 1996 book "The Music of
Alban Berg".[16] Kristine H. Burns in her 2002 book, "Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia [Two Volumes]" cited her for her work on the music of
Franz Schubert and
Karol Szymanowski.[17] She has also been cited in reviews of music in the 2004 edition of "New Historical Anthology of Music by Women" edited by James R. Briscoe.[18]
Contribution to music's digital revolution
McNamee is the co-writer of the
Moonalice song "It's 4:20 Somewhere".[19] The lyrics of the song were referenced in the 2011 book, "The Fall of the House of
Forbes: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire" by Stewart Pinkerton.[20]
In August 2012 the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced that the digital logs for "It's 4:20 Somewhere" had been acquired for its library and archives, describing the Moonalice logs as helping to "...tell the story of music's digital revolution; specifically the rise of direct-from-artist (DFA) distribution. Moonalice is the first band without a label to achieve one million downloads of a song from its own servers, direct-from-artist. "It's 4:20 Somewhere" has been downloaded over 4.6 million times".[21][22]
Contribution to musical theater
Having retired from performing with Moonalice in October 2012 to pursue a career in musical theater,[23] she co-wrote a musical, Love Bytes, together with
Roger Love.[24] Six of the songs from Love Bytes were performed during a public performance in October 2012.[25] She is collaborating on a second musical, Other World, with
Hunter Bell,
Jeff Bowen and
Wētā Workshop (Wellington, NZ), initially developing the project as part of the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals in 2014.[26]Other World was selected as the inaugural project at the 2016 Spring Space in
Saratoga Springs, New York,[27] and held its First Preview at Bucks County Playhouse on March 14, 2020.[28] A preview of Other World was streamed as a part of the New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series on June 23, 2021.[29]Other World began its world-premiere engagement February 24, 2022 at Delaware Theatre Company co-starring
Bonnie Milligan, with performances through March 20, 2022.[30] The production won best New Play or Musical at the Broadway World awards for Delaware 2022.[31] Invitation-only staged readings to Other World were held on Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17, 2023 at Open Jar Studios in New York City.[32] It was announced at the New York
Comic Con in November 2023 that Other World has also been released as a comic book series.[33]
Personal
She has a B.A. in Music from Wellesley (1975) and a PhD in Music Theory from Yale University (1980).[34] She has been married to the venture capitalist
Roger McNamee since 1983 and, with her husband, is a co-founder of the Haight Street Art Center, which will be run as a co-op for artists, and will include a fine art print shop as well as exhibition space.[35]
Along with
Jack Markell, former Governor of Delaware, created “
Charlottesville,” a song celebrating the life of
Heather Heyer, and “The Silence of the Good,” featuring Dr.
Clarence B. Jones, which includes the lyric, “As history has taught us, the Reverend understood, the bad get their power from the silence of the good.” This song is inspired by
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s The Letter from Birmingham Jail, where the civil rights leader was detained after a rally in 1963.[36]
^McNamee, Ann (1985). "Bitonality, Mode and Interval in the Music of Karol Szymanowski". Journal of Music Theory. 29 (1): 61–84.
doi:
10.2307/843371.
JSTOR843371.
^McNamee, Ann (1985). "The Role of the Piano Introduction in Schubert's Lieder". Journal of Music Theory. 4 (1/2): 95–106.
doi:
10.2307/854237.
JSTOR854237.
^Briscoe, James R.
"New Historical Anthology of Music by Women"(PDF). New Historical Anthology of Music by Women (review). Indiana University Press. Archived from
the original(PDF) on December 27, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
^Institute For Social Justice & Nonviolence (October 8, 2020).
""The Silence of the Good"". University of San Francisco. University of San Francisco. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
^McNamee, Ann.
"Discography". annmcnamee.com. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
^McNamee, Ann.
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^McNamee, Ann.
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