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Frederic Basil Rowley Smallman (30 June 1921 – 8 December 2001), commonly known as Basil Smallman, was an English music scholar. Born in
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on 30 June 1921,''International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory'' (1977), p. 783. Smallman was educated at
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,
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, and the
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.''Who's Who in Music'' (1962), p. 195. After war service, he completed the Bachelor of Music degree at Oxford in 1946–47,
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"Basil Smallman"
''Thurlestone, Bantham and Buckland Village Voice'', no. 117 (October–November 2002), p. 15. and then completed a Diploma in Education in 1947.''The Academic Who's Who'' (Adam and Charles Black, 1973), p. 426. He was then the music master at
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between 1947 and 1949, before he was appointed to a
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in music at the
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in 1950; for a time after 1955 he also worked as an
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with the
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. Promotion to a senior lectureship at Nottingham in 1961 was followed in 1964 by his appointment to the James and Constance Alsop Chair of Music at the
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. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts there between 1969 and 1971, Public Orator between 1972 and 1973, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor between 1973 and 1976; on retirement in 1985, he was appointed an
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professor.For his term as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, see also "University news", ''The Times'', 28 July 1973, p. 14. Smallman was especially interested in the German
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Passion and
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; in retirement, he expanded his academic output, and published three monographs. He died on 8 December 2001, and was survived by his three children and his wife Ann, ''née'' Hesketh-Williams.


Selected publications

* ''The Background of Passion Music'' (
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, 1957; 2nd ed. 1970). * ''The Music of Heinrich Schütz'' (Mayflower Enterprises, 1985). *
The Piano Trio: History, Technique, and Repertoire
' (
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, 1990). *
The Piano Quartet and Quintet: Style, Structure, and Scoring
' (
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, 1994). * ''Schütz'', Master Musicians Series (
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, 2000).


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Smallman, Basil 1921 births 2001 deaths People from Croydon Alumni of New College, Oxford Academics of the University of Nottingham Academics of the University of Liverpool 20th-century British musicologists