
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
APPENDIX: CONTAINING ACCOUNTS OF THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE MENTIONED IN HISTORY AS GRADUATES, BUT WHOSE NAMES DO NOT APPEAR IN THE UNIVERSITY RECORDS
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
The following persons are mentioned in history as graduates in music, but no record of their degrees has been found in the University registers:—
Mus. Doc.—John Hamboys. Flourished 1470. See p. 15.
Mus. Bac.—John Floyd, a Gentleman of the Chapel of Henry VIII., who made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. After his return, he died in the King's Chapel, and was buried in the Savoy Church; and the following inscription was placed on his tomb: “Johannes Floyd, virtutis et religionis cultor. Obiit 3 Ap. 1523.” There is a composition by him in the British Museum. Add. MSS. 31,922.
Mus. Bac.—Ambrose Payne. “Of your charity pray for the soul of Sir Ambrose Payne, Parson of Lambeth and Bachelor of Music, and Chapleyn to the lords Cardinals Bonsar and Morton, who departed May the XXVIII., A.D. 1528.” This inscription was found on a tombstone in Lambeth Parish Church.
Mus. Doc.—Musgrave Heighington. Born in 1680; was organist of Yarmouth, and afterwards of Leicester. He apparently practised the profession of music at Dublin for some time. His compositions are six select odes and music to “The Enchanter, or Harlequin Merlin,” a pantomime published at Dublin. It is not known at which University he graduated.
Mus. Bac.—George Marson, one of the contributors to “The Triumphs of Oriana,” in 1601. Some of his services and anthems are extant in MS.
Mus. Bac.—Thomas Hunt; contributed to “The Triumphs of Oriana.” The Barnard MS. Collection contains an anthem by him.
1463. Item, admissus fuit Henricus Abyngton in musica bachalaureus, 22 die Febr. cuius communa 2od.—Cambridge Grace Book, A., p. 28a.
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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. 152 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1893