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The Oxford University Music Society (OUMS) [1] is one of the oldest societies in the University of Oxford, England, tracing its origins back to 1872. The Society was formed in 1916 by the merger of the Oxford University Musical Club , founded in 1872, and the Oxford University Musical Union , founded in 1884.
In 2008, having served as Dean of the School of Music at DePauw since 2006—during which time he oversaw the move of the School of Music into the new Joyce and Judson Green Performing Arts Center—Johnson took a leave of absence to become executive director of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (New York, New York) [29] Johnson was the last in a ...
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The society was originally founded in 1898 as the Oxford Ladies' Musical Society (OLMS). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first concert was with all-female musicians, held at 115 High Street, Oxford . However, male musicians gradually joined, including Frank Bridge , Adolf Busch , Percy Grainger , Lionel Tertis , and Hans Wessely .
The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the Middle Ages onwards. It is housed in Oxford University's Faculty of Music near Christ Church on St. Aldate's. The collection is open to the public and is available for academic study by appointment.
The Oxford Companion to Music. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866212-2. OCLC 59376677. Scholes, Percy A. (1938). The Oxford Companion to Music: Self-indexed and with a Pronouncing Glossary. Oxford: OUP. ISBN 0-19-311306-6; Wright, Simon (1998). "Oxford University Press and Music Publishing: A 75th Anniversary Retrospective."
Scholes wrote more than 30 books, mainly concerning music appreciation. His best-known work is The Oxford Companion to Music, which was first published in 1938. [9] Like Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1878–89) the Companion sought to reach out beyond professional musicians to the amateur as well. [10]
The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature ed. Abraham Rees (1802–1819) Domestic Encyclopedia (1802) English Encyclopaedia (1802) Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia (1802, second edition 1811) Minor Encyclopedia (1803), edited by Thaddeus M. Harris, in the United States; copies much of Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia