Ian Spink (Emeritus Professor) MA Birmingham, BMus London, FTCL, ARCM

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Ian Spink is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of London, having been Head of the Music Department at Royal Holloway (1969-92) and Professor of Music (1974-1997). His research field is English Music from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, with special emphasis on seventeenth-century song, and church music between 1660 and 1750. In addition to articles and reviews in various journals his publications include English Song from Dowland to Purcell (1974, 2/1986), Restoration Cathedral Music, 1660-1714 (1995), and Henry Lawes: Cavalier Songwriter (2000). Scholarly editions of music are published in The English Lutesongs (vols. 17, 18 and 19), Musica Britannica (vols 33 and 42) and The Works of Henry Purcell (vols 2, 4, 20, 22a, 22b). His most recent research is into the music of St Paul's Cathedral from 1540 to 1800, in preparation for a book on the cathedral to be published in 2004 - the fourteen-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the see. (Further details in The New Grove, 2nd ed., (2001) xxiv, 187; also Who's Who, etc.)