Heather Professor of Music

The Heather Professor of Music is the title of an endowed chair at the University of Oxford. The post and the funding for it come from a bequest by William Heather (c. 1563 – 1627). Following the example of his friend William Camden who had left property to fund the establishment of a chair of history at Oxford in 1622, Heather founded a music lecture at Oxford and proposed to present the university "with some instruments and music books to promote a weekly music practice". He included specific instructions for music practice on Thursday afternoons during term times (except during Lent) and that there should be a Master of the Musicke. This master was to look after the musical instruments and the music books and to undertake rehearsals and provide both a theoretical and practical training in music.[1][2][3][4]

List of Heather Professors of Music

References

  1. ↑ Wollenberg, Susan (1981-1982) Music in 18th-Century Oxford, Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association Vol. 108, pp. 69-99
  2. ↑ Mateer, David (January 2008). "Heather, William (c.1563–1627)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Deutsch, David (2015) British Literature and Classical Music: Cultural Contexts 1870-1945, Bloomsbury Publishing
  4. ↑ Fauvel, John, Raymond Flood and Robin J. Wilson (2006) Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals Oxford University Press

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