John Drummond (musicologist)

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Not to be confused with Jon Drummond (composer).

John Drummond (born 1944, Lancaster, Lancashire) is a New Zealand musicologist, academic, and composer.

Academic career

Drummond graduated with a BA (hons) and BMus from Leeds University before completing his PhD at Birmingham University.[1] Moving to the University of Otago in Dunedin in the 1970s, he became Blair Professor of Music in 1976,[1] a post he retained until 2014. Drummond was head of the university's music department for two decades; for his last seven years before retirement in 2014, he was also the university's Dean of Humanities.[2] He is currently Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Otago.

Life in music

Drummond has also served as president of both Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa and the International Society for Music Education. He has also participated in the production of opera in Otago as both an operatic director and as a composer.[2]

Compositions

Opera and salon opera

  • A Beleaguered City (opera - lib. Jeremy Commons)
  • The Birds (comic opera)
  • Bridge to Somewhere (comic opera)
  • Happy Arcadia (comic opera)
  • The Hawkeyed Sentinel (opera)
  • Impersonating Maurice (salon opera)
  • Larnach (opera)
  • Marriage a la Mode (salon opera)
  • Mr. Polly at the Potwell Inn (opera - lib. Jeremy Commons)
  • Plague Upon Eyam (opera - lib. Patrick Little)
  • The Stars in Orion (opera - lib. Patrick Little)

Selected other works

  • And Grandmother Played Bridge (lyrics and music for a masque)
  • Baa, Baa, Dunkelschaf (cantata)
  • Chalk (music for a film by Howard Guard)
  • Christmas Bells (four carols for childrens' voices with piano)
  • Cinderella (music and lyrics for a pantomime)
  • The Dawning Of The Year (11 poems for soprano, baritone and piano)
  • Epithalamium (wedding anthem for choir and organ)
  • Goethe's Faust (complete incidental music for parts 1 and 2)
  • The Journey Home (for soprano, tenor, baritone, choir and orchestra)
  • Meteorological Fugue
  • Narcissus (ballet music)
  • Orlando (music and lyrics for a masque)
  • Robin Hood (music and lyrics for a pantomime)
  • Sonata for Oboe and Piano
[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Composer: John Drummond", SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand music/Toi te Apūoro. July 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2016
  2. ^ a b Harwood, B. "Retiring, but contribution to music continuing", Otago Daily Times, 11 November 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  3. ^ For a full list of Drummond's compositions, see Composer: John Drummond - Works

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