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Dr DAVID MAW, MA, DPhil (Oxon)
David Maw's musical career began in his teens as a church organist andas a keyboard player and composer with the National Youth Orchestra of GreatBritain. He read music as Organ Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxfordand then for a doctorate as John Brookman Graduate Organ Scholar at WadhamCollege, Oxford. He currently holds Lectureships at Oriel, Corpus Christi,The Queen's and St Hugh's Colleges in Oxford, and is Organist of ChristChurch, Hampstead.
His principal area of research to date has been French secular music ofthe thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. His doctorate (`Words and Music inthe Secular Songs of Guillaume de Machaut') dealt with textual, stylisticand aesthetic aspects of the relationship between poetry and music inMachaut's virelais, ballades and rondeaux, developing criteria for resolvingdifferences in word underlay between the manuscript sources. Beyond this, hehas worked on tonality and the prosodic basis of musical setting in Frenchsong of the period.
He has also undertaken research into `The New Complexity' and Jazz (bothfor Lectures in the Faculty of Music) and has begun an analytical projectstudying the compositional consequences of `curved' tonal space ineighteenth- and early nineteenth-century instrumental music.
He continues to be active as a composer.
Publications
"Machaut's `Parody' Technique," Context 21, 2001
"Metre and Word Setting: Revising Machaut's Monophonic Virelais," Current
Musicology 74, 2002
Reviews in the Times Literary Supplement and Notes and Queries
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Dr David Maw
Oriel College
Oxford
OX1 4EW