Dilling, Margaret Walker.

Margaret [Marnie] Walker Dilling (b. Minnesota, 25 Oct 1939; d. Tierra Santa, 13 May 1997). Religious of the Sacred Heart and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego, died of cancer. An educator for 35 years, she received her doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Berkeley, and masters degrees in English from Lone Mountain College and piano performance from Yale University. Dr. Dilling taught at the Sacred Heart Schools in El Cajon, Menlo Park, and San Francisco before joining the UCSD Department of Music in 1990. As a scholar of music within cultural contexts, Dr. Dilling specialized in Korean music, particularly its rhythmic system and contemporary transformations of genres rooted in Korean folk practices, like nongak and sinawi. UCSD honored her contributions to education in world musics at a reception on campus. She served on the council of the Society for Ethnomusicology and was a founding member of the Association for Korean Music Research. -- Excerpt from SEM Newsletter 31/4.

From the description of Margaret [Marnie] Walker Dilling Collection, 1936-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79096950