Dr Margaret Bent

CBE, FBA, PhD

Musicology

Emeritus Fellow since 2008

Margaret Bent's publications range over English, French and Italian polyphonic musical repertories, manuscripts, compositional processes, notation and theory of the 14th to 16th centuries. Recent publications include a study and facsimile of the early 15th-century Veneto manuscript Bologna Q15 (2008), and (with Robert Klugseder) a reconstructed Liber cantus from the Veneto (2012). Her current work explores networks of musicians in the Veneto, and she has just completed a monograph relocating the origins of Jacobus, the author of the Speculum Musicae, from Liège to Spain (2015).

Research Areas

English, French and Italian Music of the 14th-16th Centuries

Selected Publications

Magister Jacobus de Ispania, author of the Speculum musicae, RMA monograph

(Farnham: Ashgate, 2015).

(with Robert Klugseder), Ein Liber cantus aus dem Veneto: Fragmente in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München und der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien. A Veneto Liber cantus (c. 1440):

Fragments in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, and the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Reichert: Wiesbaden, 2012).

Bologna Q15: The Making and Remaking of a Musical Manuscript: Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition

(Lucca: Libreria Italiana Musicale, 2008).

Counterpoint, Composition, and Musica Ficta

(London and New York: Routledge, 2002).

ed. with Andrew Wathey, Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music and Image in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS français 146

(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).

Additional Publications

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Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (1992-2008)
Professor, Music Department, Princeton University (1981-1992)
Visiting Professor then Full Professor and Chairman, Music Department, Brandeis University (1975-1981)
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, London (1972-1975)
Teaching for universities of London and Cambridge (1964-1972)
Undergraduate and postgraduate work, Girton College, Cambridge (organ scholar) (1959-1964)

Membership and Roles

Royal Musical Association, Dent Medal (1979)
American Musicological Society, President 1984-6. Corresponding Member (from 1995)
Fellow of the British Academy (from 1993)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (from 1994)
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (from 1995)
Member of Academia Europea (from 1995)
Glasgow University, Honorary D. Mus (1997)
Notre Dame University, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (2002)
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (from 2002)
Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (from 2004)
Institute of Musical Research (London University School of Advanced Study), founding chair of Advisory Council (from 2005 to 2009)
F. Ll. Harrison medal, Society for Musicology in Ireland (2007)
Honorary Fellow, Academy of Saint Cecilia (from 2007)
Honorary Fellow, Girton College Cambridge (from 2007)
Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Advanced Study (from 2010)
Université de Montréal, Doctor honoris causa (2010)
Appointed CBE 2008
International Member, American Philosophical Society (from 2013)

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship (from 1983 to 1984).
Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship (from 2010 to 2011).
Many small or collaborative awards, including for DIAMM.