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Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Margaret Hilda Bent CBE, FBA (n e Bassington) (b. 23 December 1940) is an English musicologist. She was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Acton School and Girton College, Cambridge University (where she read Music, was Organ Scholar, and is now an Honorary Fellow), receiving her BA in 1962 and Ph. D in 1969. She taught at Cambridge and King's College London after 1963, and became a lecturer at Goldsmiths' College in 1972. In 1975 she was appointed professor at Brandeis University and in 1981 at Princeton University, and served as department Chair in both. Bent was president from 1984-86 of the American Musicological Society, of which she is now a Corresponding Member. She returned to England in 1992 as the first female Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, where she is now an Emeritus Fellow. Bent's study of the Old Hall Manuscript (both her 1969 dissertation and the edition, co-edited with Andrew Hughes, published in the Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 1969-73) ), was a key work in scholarship on early English music. Her research centres on English, French and Italian music of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries and includes work on the medieval motet.