Professor Nicholas Cook FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2001
- Subjects
- Music
Summary
Nicholas Cook is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge; he previously worked at the Universities of Hong Kong, Sydney, and Southampton, as well as Royal Holloway, University of London. He works across many areas of music studies, and his books include A Guide to Musical Analysis (1987); Music, Imagination, and Culture (1990); Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (1993); Analysis Through Composition (1996), Analysing Musical Multimedia (1998), and Music: A Very Short Introduction (1998), which is published or forthcoming in sixteen languages. The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siecle Vienna won the SMT's 2010 Wallace Berry Award. His most recent book, based on his work as Director of the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, is Beyond the Score: Music as Performance (2013), while he recently completed an AHRC-funded study of recordings of Webern's Piano Variations Op. 27. A book entitled Music as Creative Practice (his contribution to the AHRC Research Centre for Music as Creative Practice) is nearing completion; he is also working on a project entitled 'Music encounters: studies in relational musicology', for which he was awarded a British Academy Wolfson Professorship. He is a Fellow of Academia Europaea.
Current post
Emeritus 1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge
Past appointments
University of Cambridge 1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge
2009 -
University of Southampton Research Professor of Music, University of Southampton
1999 -
University of Southampton Research Professor of Music, University of Southampton
1999 -
University of Southampton Professor, Research Professor of Music
1990 -
The University of Hong Kong Lecturer in Music
1982 - 1990
Publications
The Schenker project: culture, race, and music theory in fin-de-siecle Vienna
Nicholas Cook - Published in 2007 by Oxford University Press
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
Nicholas Cook - Published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press
Music: a very short introduction
Nicholas Cook - Published in 1998 by Oxford University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Daniel MacGregor Grimley FBA
Daniel M. Grimley is the Head of Humanities and Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at Merton College.
Professor Martin Stokes FBA
Ethnomusicology and anthropology of music, with particular reference to Europe, the Middle East and the Islamic World
