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Margaret Bent Awarded Leverhulme Fellowship
Dr Margaret Bent CBE, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, has been awarded a prestigious two-year Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for work on 'Veneto musical culture in the early quattrocento'.
Dr Bent will also be a visiting professor at the Musikwissenschaftsinstitut in Basel next year, having held a visiting professorship at Harvard this past semester.
Her edited volumes on the Bologna Q15 collection have recently been published: Bologna Q15 : The Making And Remaking Of A Musical Manuscript. Q15 is a collection of masses and motets collected by a single person in the early 15th century. The many changes made over time by the copyist provide insight into the changing tastes of the period. Volume 1 is an an introductory study; volume 2 is the facsimile.
Dr Bent has also recently been the subject of a prize-winning portrait (picture left). It won top prize for the artist, Emma Wesley, at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition.