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Margaret Bent awarded honorary doctorate
Dr Margaret Bent, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College and Member of the Music Faculty, is to be honoured by the Université de Montréal, Canada, on 22 October with the award of their first ever honorary doctorate in musicology.
Dr Bent is currently in Canada delivering a series of invited lectures on the topic of 'Quand les sons s’évanouissent: sens et non-sens dans la musique ancienne' ('When sounds disappear: sense and nonsense in early music').
In his citation, Professor Jean-Jacques Nattiez of the Montréal department, writes:
'Margaret Bent is a grande dame of musicology, among the most admired and respected at an international level. Dr Bent is a world authority in the realms of English, French and Italian music of the 14th to 16th centuries. The publication of her most recent work is always a major event for our profession.'
The honorary degree from Montréal takes Dr Bent's tally to three, to add to those from the University of Glasgow (1997) and Notre Dame University, USA (2002).
Dr Bent continues to convene the Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music at All Souls. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2009 was made CBE for services to musicology.