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Samuel Basil Deane (27 May 1928 – 23 September 2006), known as Basil Deane, was a musicologist and academic. After studying at Queen's University Belfast and under
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, he lectured at the universities of
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,
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and
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, produced biographies of Roussel, Cherubini and Hoddinott, and co-presented several television programmes about music. He held a number of high-level academic; he was James Rossiter Hoyle Professor of Music at the
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(1968–74), Professor of Music at the
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(1974–80), director of the
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(1983–87) and Peyton and Barber Professor of Music at the
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(1987–92). Deane was also music director of the Arts Council (1980–83), during which time he prioritised funding for new touring groups, but oversaw the funding cuts which forced the
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to close.


Life

Deane was born on 27 May 1928 in Bangor, County Down, the son of Canon Richard Deane who was rector of St Thomas's,
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. After the Methodist College in Belfast and
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, he was educated at Queen's University Belfast;John Turner
"Obituary: Basil Deane"
''The Guardian'', 8 November 2006. Retrieved 20 December 2018. his parents did not encourage his interest in studying music at university (he had learnt to play the
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), so his first undergraduate degree, obtained in 1948, was in French and German. With the recommendation of
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degree at Queen's, which he completed in 1950. He then studied the cello in
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under
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."Professor Basil Deane"
''The Independent'', 14 October 2006. Retrieved 20 December 2018."Professor Basil Deane", ''The Times'' (London) 23 November 2006, p. 80. In 1953 Deane was appointed to an assistant lectureship at the
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, and was promoted to a full lectureship three years later. He also embarked on a PhD on Albert Roussel, which was awarded by Glasgow in 1958. The following year, he moved to the
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to be a senior lecturer; while there, he and Bill Fitzwater presented a programme on
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called ''What is Music?''. They went on to present ''Cities of Music'' and ''Music is...'', as well as a biography of
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for the
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(1969) and a documentary about Erik Satie (1972). Deane returned to England in 1966 to lecture at the
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. In 1968, he was appointed James Rossiter Hoyle Professor of Music at the
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, and served in that post until 1975 when he became professor of music at the
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. In 1980, he became music director for the Arts Council; he cut funding to the
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(which "caused him some pain", according to ''The Guardian''), but allocated greater funding to
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and the Contemporary Music Network. Then three years later moved to
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to be director of the
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. He then held – as his final academic post – the Peyton and Barber Professorship of Music at the
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between 1987 and 1992, when he retired. While at Birmingham, he established a student-run music festival in the final week of the summer term. Deane's retirement came a year after the death of his wife, Norma (''née'' Greig). In 1994, he moved back to Northern Ireland with his partner Ana de Brito and worked with the Belfast Chamber Music Society. He settled in
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, County Down, before moving to Matosinhos in
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. He died on 23 September 2006. ''
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'' remarked in his obituary that he "enjoyed an energetic academic career .. andleft a trail of institutional and pedagogical improvements behind him". John Turner wrote in ''
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'' that Deane's career helped to "build a new musical heritage" in the United Kingdom; he "was the urbane and politically adept director of music for the Arts Council of Great Britain during one of its most difficult periods". A commemorative concert for Deane was held at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester in September 2007, and was the inspiration for a tribute CD issued in 2013. Two songs - ''The Rose Tree'' and ''I am of Ireland'', setting
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, were found among his papers, with just the vocal line. They were arranged (as specified by Deane) for soprano, recorder and cello by Raymond Warren.''Rawsthorne and Other Rarities'', Divine Art CD DDA25169 (2018)


Selected publications

* ''Albert Roussel'' ( Barrie and Rockliff, 1961). * ''Cherubini'' (
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, 1965). * ''Alun Hoddinott'' (
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, 1978).


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deane, Basil 1928 births 2006 deaths British musicologists Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Academics of the University of Glasgow University of Melbourne faculty Academics of the University of Nottingham Academics of the University of Sheffield Academics of the University of Manchester Academics of the University of Birmingham 20th-century musicologists