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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF ACADEMICAL DEGREES IN GENERAL
- CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST RECORDS OF DEGREES IN MUSIC
- CHAPTER III EARLY MUSICAL STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITIES.—BOETHIUS
- CHAPTER IV THE MUSIC ACT, MUSIC SPEECH OR LECTURE, AND MUSIC SCHOOL
- CHAPTER V THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PROFESSORS OF MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITIES
- CHAPTER VI DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN REQUIREMENTS FOR MUSICAL DEGREES
- CHAPTER VII THE CULTIVATION OF MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITIES
- CHAPTER VIII ACADEMICAL DRESS.—DEGREE CEREMONIES, FEASTS.—AN EARLY EXAMINATION FOR THE B.A. DEGREE
- CHAPTER IX OXFORD GRADUATES IN MUSIC, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
- CHAPTER X CAMBRIDGE GRADUATES IN MUSIC, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
- APPENDIX: CONTAINING ACCOUNTS OF THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE MENTIONED IN HISTORY AS GRADUATES, BUT WHOSE NAMES DO NOT APPEAR IN THE UNIVERSITY RECORDS
- INDEX
CHAPTER IX - OXFORD GRADUATES IN MUSIC, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF ACADEMICAL DEGREES IN GENERAL
- CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST RECORDS OF DEGREES IN MUSIC
- CHAPTER III EARLY MUSICAL STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITIES.—BOETHIUS
- CHAPTER IV THE MUSIC ACT, MUSIC SPEECH OR LECTURE, AND MUSIC SCHOOL
- CHAPTER V THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PROFESSORS OF MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITIES
- CHAPTER VI DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN REQUIREMENTS FOR MUSICAL DEGREES
- CHAPTER VII THE CULTIVATION OF MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITIES
- CHAPTER VIII ACADEMICAL DRESS.—DEGREE CEREMONIES, FEASTS.—AN EARLY EXAMINATION FOR THE B.A. DEGREE
- CHAPTER IX OXFORD GRADUATES IN MUSIC, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
- CHAPTER X CAMBRIDGE GRADUATES IN MUSIC, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
- APPENDIX: CONTAINING ACCOUNTS OF THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE MENTIONED IN HISTORY AS GRADUATES, BUT WHOSE NAMES DO NOT APPEAR IN THE UNIVERSITY RECORDS
- INDEX
Summary
In this and the next chapter I have given a chronological list of all those musicians whose names are recorded as having taken degrees in music at Oxford and Cambridge from the year 1463. The list is probably very imperfect, as, down to the beginning of the present century, the registers rarely recorded musical degrees, and in many cases the only means of finding out dates and other particulars has been to consult the Grace-books, which occasionally contain references to these degrees. At Oxford, degrees in music were systematically omitted from the registers between 1763 and 1800, probably because they conferred no membership of the University upon the holder, and were looked upon as outside the regular course of things. The University Calendar of Cambridge, of the latter part of the last and the beginning of the present century, contains no information as to “Proceedings in Music,” and the editor frankly confesses that he can find out nothing definite about them, or the dress to be worn by musical graduates; and down to i860 the names of the few graduates which occur in the Calendar are exceptions to the general rule, which was to omit them altogether. I have naturally derived great assistance from Foster's “Alumni Oxonienses” and from the Cambridge “Catalogus Graduatorum,” which commences with 1659, and for the short biographical notices I am chiefly indebted to Sir George Grove's “Dictionary of Music,” the “Dictionary of National Biography,” and Brown's “Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.”
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- A Short Historical Account of the Degrees in Music at Oxford and CambridgeWith a Chronological List of Graduates in that Faculty from the Year 1463, pp. 64 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1893