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
- Richard Nicholson (1626)
- Arthur Phillips (1639)
- John Wilson (1656)
- Edward Lowe (1661)
- Richard Goodson (1682)
- Richard Goodson (1718)
- William Hayes (1741)
- Philip Hayes (1777)
- William Crotch (1797)
- Henry Bishop (1848)
- Frederick Ouseley (1855)
- John Stainer (1889)
- Hubert Parry (1900)
- Walter Parratt (1908)
- Hugh Allen (1918)
- Jack Westrup (1947)
- Joseph Kerman (1971)
- Denis Arnold (1975)
- Brian Trowell (1986)
- Reinhard Strohm (1996)
- Eric Clarke (2007)
References
- ↑ Wollenberg, Susan (1981-1982) Music in 18th-Century Oxford, Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association Vol. 108, pp. 69-99
- ↑ Mateer, David (January 2008). "Heather, William (c.1563–1627)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ↑ Deutsch, David (2015) British Literature and Classical Music: Cultural Contexts 1870-1945, Bloomsbury Publishing
- ↑ Fauvel, John, Raymond Flood and Robin J. Wilson (2006) Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals Oxford University Press
Other references
- 'The Heather Professor of Music, 1626-1976: Exhibition in the Divinity School, October 1976' (Bodleian Library pamphlet)