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Tovey Chair Of Music
The Tovey Professorship of Music was established as a named chair at the University of Edinburgh by an ordinance (no. 550) approved by the University Court in 1965 and by the Privy Council the following year. The first person appointed to the chair was Michael Tilmouth, in 1971. He died in 1987. The next appointment was Simon Frith Simon Webster Frith (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh. Career As a student, he read PPE at Oxford and earned a ..., OBE, who held the chair from 2006 until retiring in 2017. ''University of Edinburgh''. Retrieved 1 January 2019. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tilmouth
Michael Tilmouth (30 November 1930 – 12 November 1987) was an English musicologist. Biography Born in Grimsby, Michael Tilmouth was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1954 and completing his doctoral studies in 1960 with his thesis ''Chamber music in England, 1675–1720''. He was appointed an assistant lecturer at the University of Glasgow in 1959; promotion to lecturer followed in 1962, before he was appointed to the new Tovey Chair of Music at the University of Edinburgh in 1971. Alongside editions of 17th- and 18th-century chamber music, he edited ''Musica Britannica'', contributing two volumes of Matthew Locke Matthew Locke may refer to: * Matthew Locke (administrator) (fl. 1660–1683), English Secretary at War from 1666 to 1683 * Matthew Locke (composer) (c. 1621–1677), English Baroque composer and music theorist * Matthew Locke (soldier) (1974–2 ...'s chamber music. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Frith
Simon Webster Frith (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh. Career As a student, he read PPE at Oxford and earned a doctorate in sociology from UC Berkeley. He is the author of many influential books, including ''The Sociology of Rock'' (Constable, 1978), ''Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll'' (Pantheon, 1981), '' Art into Pop'' (Methuen, 1987 – written with Howard Horne), ''Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop'' (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and'' Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music'' (Oxford University Press, 1996). He has also co-edited key anthologies in the interdisciplinary field of popular music studies, including: ''On Record: Rock, Pop & the Written Word'' (Routledge, 1990), ''Sound and Vision: Music Video Reader'' (Routledge, 1993), and '' The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |