Trevor Bray

HIGHER EDUCATION 1964 Associate of the Royal Manchester College of Music
1966 Graduate of the Royal Manchester College of Music (first study, piano, with Iso Elinson and Colin Horsley, 1960-6)
1966 BMus (First), Manchester University
1967-72 PhD, St. John's College, Cambridge (on Granville Bantock)
2003-5 Certificate in Computing, Exeter University
APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE 1966-7 Part-time teacher of harmony and aural, Royal Manchester College of Music
1971-82 Lecturer in Music, The Open University
1982-9 Senior Lecturer in Music, The Open University
1989- Free-lance musician, writer and lecturer
RESEARCH INTERESTS

(i) Twentieth-century music, especially British.

(ii) Using the internet for music research.
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY (full-time)

Apart from the usual lecturing, monitoring, supervising and examining duties of a university lecturer, I was responsible for the writing of material for several of the Open University's courses (see under Publications). Other duties included:

  • Chairman of the Open University course A341, Beethoven (production 1982-7, presentation 1988-2000);
  • Chairman of the Arts Faculty Research Committee (1985-8). Editor of the Faculty of Arts Research Handbook 1984-1986, 1987, 119pp.

I also acted as an Associate Lecturer in the Open University's South Region for A314, From Baroque to Romantic: Studies in Tonal Music (1985-7) and A341, Beethoven (1988).