Margaret Bent

Margaret Bent is an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a fellow of the British Academy. Between 1975 and 1992 she taught at Brandeis and Princeton Universities and served as president of the AMS. International honorific memberships and awards include three honorary doctorates and the CBE. Over 150 articles, books, and editions range over English and continental music of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, as well as the critical edition of Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia. Since retirement she has published a study and facsimile of the fifteenth-century Veneto manuscript Bologna Q15 (2008), a reconstructed Liber cantus from the Veneto (with Robert Klugseder, 2012), and Magister Jacobus de Ispania, Author of the “Speculum musicae” (2015).