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Cecil Adkins, Professor Emeritus |
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Prof. Adkins at the post-performance Collegium party Fall 2002
Students honor Dr. Adkins at his retirement party
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B.F.A.,
University of Omaha; M.M., University of South Dakota; Ph.D., University
of Iowa. In 1985 Cecil
Adkins was appointed Regents Professor in the College of Music, where he
has taught since 1963. During
this time he has directed the activities of the Collegium Musicum, of
which Les Petits Violons is the major ensemble.
Professor Adkins is well known as a musicologist and
bibliographer. His numerous
publications include thirty annual editions of Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology (with co-editor Alis Dickinson of the
music faculty), performing editions and translations of operas by Joseph
Haydn and Ignaz :Pleyel, Renaissance madrigal comedies, and many books
and articles on musical instruments, among them significant studies of
the monochord, trumpet marine, positive organ, and the
eighteenth-century oboe. He
also has constructed and restored a number of early musical instruments,
many of which are in use in the university early music ensembles.
He has served as president of the American Musical Instrument
Society (1987-1991), registrar of the American Musicological Society
(1969-1978), and president of the Southwest Chapter of the latter
organization (1965-67). He
was the Univ. of North Texas Toulouse Scholar in 1991.
In 1992 the American Musical Instrument Society awarded Professor
Adkins the Francis Densmore Award for the best article on musical
instruments, and he has been designated the 1999 recipient of the Curt
Sachs Medal for significant contributions to the study, history, and
preservation of musical instruments. |
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