A noted hymn­ol­o­gist, Mc­Cutchan stu­died at Park Coll­ege, Park­ville, Mis­souri, and Simp­son Coll­ege, In­di­an­o­la, Io­wa (BM 1904). He went on to teach voice at Bak­er Un­i­ver­si­ty in Bald­win, Kan­sas, and found­ed the con­serv­a­tory of mu­sic there in 1910. Af­ter fur­ther stu­dy in Ger­ma­ny and France, in 1911 he be­came dean of mu­sic at De­Pauw Un­i­ver­si­ty in Green­cas­tle, In­di­a­na, serv­ing there 26 years. He helped com­pile the Meth­odist Hymn­al in 1936. His works in­clude:

• Better Mu­sic in Our Church­es, 1925
• Music in Wor­ship, 1927
• Amer­i­can Junior and Church School Hymn­al, 1928
• The Deluge of New Hymn­als (reprint from M.T.N.A. Proceedings, 1933)
• Amer­i­can Church Mu­sic Com­pos­ers of the Ear­ly Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry, Church His­to­ry, Sep­tem­ber 1933
• The Congrega­tion’s Part in the O­ffice of Mu­sic Wor­ship (North­west­ern Un­i­ver­si­ty, 1934)
• Our Hymn­o­dy (New York: The Meth­od­ist Book Con­cern, 1937)
• Aldersgate, 1738-1938, 1938
• Hymns in the Lives of Men (New York: Abing­don-Cokes­bu­ry Press, 1943)
• Hymns of the Amer­i­can Fron­tier, 1950
• Hymn Tune Names: Their Sourc­es and Sig­nif­i­cance, 1957

• Erickson, pp. 341-2
• Hughes, p. 478
• Hustad, pp. 284-5
• McCutchan, p. 33

1. Campmeeting
2. DePauw
3. Fowler