Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

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Daniel Leech-Wilkinson is a musicologist, who is Emeritus Professor of Music at King's College London. [1]

He studied composition, harpsichord and the organ at the Royal College of Music, and then completed an M.Mus at King's College London specialising in 15th-century music. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, on the topic of 14th century compositional processes. [2]

His publications include The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN   9780521037044) and he co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN   9780521684613).

In 2019 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society. [3] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Emeritus Professor honoured by American Musicological Society". King's College London.
  2. "Professor Daniel Leech-Wilkinson". Kings People - King’s College London. University of London. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  3. "AMS Awards 2019". American Musicological Society. Retrieved 2 November 2020.