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Previous awards for his work include the Jerome Roche Prize (Royal Musical Association) and the McCredie Musicological Award (Australian Academy of the Humanities).
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His monographs include 'Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila' (Oxford University Press, 2010) and 'The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century' (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Irving has also made important contributions to the history of the early music movement, with a particular focus on its global dimensions. He currently chairs the International Musicological Society’s Study Group ‘Global History of Music’.
Irving studied at Griffith University, the University of Queensland, and the University of Cambridge (PhD 2007). He subsequently took up post-doctoral positions at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and King’s College London.
Irving has made major contributions to the study of music and colonialism, the global history of music, and the role of music in early modern intercultural contact.
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The Dent Medal 2026 is awarded to David R. M. Irving, who is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, in Barcelona.
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Call for Proposals: BFE-RMA Research Students' Conference 2027
The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) and Royal Musical Association (RMA) Research Students’ Conference will be hosted by the...
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RMA Members have long received a physical copy of the latest issue of Journal of the Royal Musical Association, released twice yearly. Owing to new contractual arrangements with our publisher, Cambridge...
