Bent, Margaret (Hilda)
Bent, Margaret (Hilda)
Bent, Margaret (Hilda), English musicologist; b. St. Albans, Dec. 23, 1940. She was an organ scholar at Girton Coll., Cambridge (B.A., 1962; B.Mus., 1963), and also studied with Dart, receiving her Ph.D. in 1969 from the Univ. of Cambridge with the diss. The Old Hall Manuscript: A Palaeographical Study. She taught at King’s Coll. (1965–75); also, concurrently, at Goldsmiths’ Coll. from 1972. In 1975 she joined the faculty of Brandéis Univ. at Waltham, Mass. She joined the faculty of Princeton Univ. in 1981; she also served as president of the American Musicological Soc. (1985–86). In 1992 she became senior research fellow of All Souls Coll., Oxford. With A. Hughes, she ed. The Old Hall Manuscript in the Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae series, XLVI (1969–73); with her former husband, Ian Bent , and B. Trowell, she ed. the revised edition of Dunstable’s works in the Musica Britannica series; also publ. a valuable study, Dunstaple (London, 1981).
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