Denis Midgley Arnold (

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, 15 December 1926 –

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, 28 April 1986) was a British musicologist.

Biography

After being employed in the extramural department of Queen's University, Belfast, he became a Lecturer in Music at the

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, and from 1969 to 1975 was Professor of Music at

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. From 1975 he was Heather Professor of Music at

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. He served as editor of '' Music & Letters''. He is best known for his editing of ''The

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'' (1983, Oxford University Press), which under his editorship grew to a two-volume work of some 2000 pages, with a broader coverage than Percy Scholes' original; and for his work on the music of Monteverdi,

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and Giovanni Gabrieli. A frequent broadcaster, he also reviewed a great many recordings (mostly in the field of Renaissance music) for ''

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''. The Denis Arnold Hall at the University of Oxford and the Denis Arnold Music Library at the University of Nottingham are both named after him.

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* 1926 births 1986 deaths Musicians from Sheffield Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Academics of the University of Nottingham Academics of Queen's University Belfast Academics of the University of Hull Heather Professors of Music 20th-century British musicologists Monteverdi scholars {{UK-academic-bio-stub