Colin Ronald Timms is a

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

and retired academic. He was Peyton and Barber Professor of Music at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

from 1992 until 2012, when he retired. After graduating from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

with a

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degree, he completed Master of Music and

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degrees at

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, the latter in 1977 for his thesis on the chamber duets of

Agostino Steffani Agostino Steffani (25 July 165412 February 1728) was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer. Biography Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto on 25 July 1654. As a boy he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice. In 1667, ...

. He was a lecturer at

Queen's University Belfast , mottoeng = For so much, what shall we give back? , top_free_label = , top_free = , top_free_label1 = , top_free1 = , top_free_label2 = , top_free2 = , established = , closed = , type = Public research university , parent = ...

from 1970 to 1972, and the University of Birmingham from 1973. In 2004, the

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awarded him the Derek Allen Prize for Musicology."Derek Allen Prize"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 17 December 2018.

Selected publications

* ''Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music'' (

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, 2003). * (Edited with Lowell Lindgren) ''The Correspondence of Agostino Steffani and Giuseppe Riva, 1720-1728, and Related Correspondence with J. P. F. von Schönborn and S. B. Pallavicini'',

Royal Musical Association The Royal Musical Association (RMA) is a British scholarly society and charity. Founded in 1874, the Association claims to be the second oldest musicological society in the world, after that of the Netherlands. Activities include organizing and sp ...

Research Chronicle, no. 36 (2003). ISSN 1472-3808 * (Edited with Bruce Wood) ''Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel'' (

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, 2017). * (Edited with Claudia Kaufold and Nicole K. Strohmann) ''Agostino Steffani: Europäischer Komponist, hannoverscher Diplomat und Bischof der Leibniz-Zeit'' 'European Composer, Hanoverian Diplomat and Bishop in the Age of Leibniz''( V & R unipress, 2017).

References

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