Dear Jamie Moreira
Thank you for the advice re University of Toronto, which will help me with
my research.
Best wishes
Ruairidh Greig
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From: Jamie Moreira <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 16 April 1999 03:04
Subject: Re: W.A.Barrett
> At 11:26 PM 4/15/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >Why
> >would W.A.Barrett ( editor of English Folksongs, Novello, London
(1891) )
> >be awarded an honorary doctorate in music by the University of Toronto
in
> >the 1880s? Ruairidh Greig
>
> Can't help with the first question, but Barrett's degree may have been
> conferred in honour of or expectation of the founding of the Royal
> Conservatory of Music in Toronto in 1886. I strongly suspect that his
work
> on choral music, church music, or music history in general earned him the
> award, as Canadian universities outside of Memorial (and perhaps
especially
> U of T and the Royal Conservatory) have never been very receptive to the
> study of traditional song and music.
>
> Cheers
> Jamie Moreira
>
>
>
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