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xcvi Annual Report of the Delegacy FACULTY OF MUSIC Number of Students Mus Postgraduate 22 28 Faculty Notes Mr Oxenbury resigned as from the beginning of the Session He was the last founding-member to leave the Faculty and his work has been much missed Dr Ian Bent became Sub-Dean in his place Professor Howard Brown is to leave at the end of the Session and return to the University of Chicago His two-year tenure of the Chair has marked an important period of innovation both in the life of the Faculty at King's College and for music in the University Professor Brian Trowell who was awarded titular Chair during the Session has been elected to succeed him as King Edward Professor Dean of the Faculty and Head of Department Mr Thomas Walker Harvard and Dr Pierluigi Petrobelli Dottore in Lettere Rome Princeton joined the teaching staff at the beginning of the Session Dr Petrobelli's seminar on the operas of Verdi is welcome move in the direction of postgraduate nineteenth- century studies Postgraduate study in the Faculty has become seminar- based during this Session and has included seminar by Professor Brown on Renaissance ornamentation and seminar by Dr Bent on the analysis of Boulez's Third Piano Sonata The in its allocation of funds for the current quinquennium has approved the University's request that sum of money be ear- marked for the establishment of an Institute of Advanced Musical Studies to be housed at and financed through King's College which will have some responsibility for postgraduate work in music through- out the University Plans for the Institute have been drafted and submitted to King's College for approval and were put before the University Board of Studies for comment series of colloquia was held at King's College under the aegis of the Institute There were twelve meetings during the Session five of them by present or past Faculty members seven of them by visitors The latter included colloquia by Leo Treitler Brandeis Oral and written tradition in Gregorian Chant' Colin Slim California Irvine Ά Motet for Machiavelli's Mistress and Martyr' Leeman Perkins Texas 'The Mellon Chansonnier' Stephen Leadbetter 'Luca Maren-