Nicholas Cook, (born 5 June 1950COOK, Prof. Nicholas (John)’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011 ; online edn, Nov 201
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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 m ...

and writer born in

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, Greece. From 2009 to 2017, he was the 1684 Professor of Music at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

, where he is a Fellow of Darwin College. Previously, he was professorial research fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he directed the

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Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). He has also taught at the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the f ...

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, and

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, where he served as dean of arts. He is a former editor of the ''Journal of the

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'' and was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2001.

Books

* (Edited by Patrick N. Juslin & A. Sloboda) ''Handbook of Music and Emotion : Theory, Research, Applications'' - (co-written with Nicola Dibben) ''Chapter 3 : Emotion in culture and history: perspectives from musicology''. Oxford University Press, 2010. * (Co-edited with Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, and John Rink) '' The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. * ''The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. * ''Music, Performance, Meaning: Selected Essays''. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. * (Co-edited with Anthony Pople) ''The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. * (Co-edited with Eric Clarke) ''Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. * (Co-edited with Mark Everist) ''Rethinking Music''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. * ''Music: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. * ''Analysing Musical Multimedia''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. * ''Beethoven: Symphony No. 9''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. * ''Music, Imagination, and Culture''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. * ''Musical Analysis and the Listener''. New York: Garland, 1989. * ''A Guide to Musical Analysis''. London: Dent, 1987.

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Biography (includes list of publications)
1950 births Living people British musicologists Fellows of the British Academy Members of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Music Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge University of Sydney faculty Academics of the University of Southampton Professors of Music (Cambridge) {{UK-music-bio-stub