Ian David Bent (born 1 January 1938) is a British-born music scholar. He is now Professor Emeritus, after retiring from Full Professor of Music, at

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and Honorary Professor in the History of Music Theory at the

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.Bent, Ian (Emeritus)
, ''The Department of Music at Columbia University''.Faculty of Music: Ian Bent
, ''University of Cambridge''. He took the BA (1961), MusB (1962), and PhD (1969) all from the

before serving as a lecturer at

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in 1965, a professor at the

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in 1975, and Columbia University in 1986. His earliest research dealt with the early history of the English Chapel Royal, but later he turned to the history of theory and analysis, and is now a historian of music theory. He is the editor (since 1991) of the ''Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and

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'' series and an area editor for the second edition of ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music''. , he is the director of '' Schenker Documents Online''.Schenker Documents Online
, ''Columbia.edu''.

Published works

*''Analysis'' (Macmillan, 1987; translated into Italian and French). *''Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century'', 2 vols (CUP, 1994 & 2004). and *(edited) ''Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism'' (CUP, 1996).

References

Living people English musicologists 1938 births British expatriates in the United States Columbia University faculty Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of King's College London Academics of the University of Nottingham {{musicologist-stub