Robert Thurston ("Bob") Dart (3 September 1921 – 6 March 1971), was a United Kingdom musicology conductor and keyboard player. From 1964 he was Professor of Music at King's College London He studied keyboard instruments at the Royal College of Music in London from 1938 to 1939, and also studied mathematics at University College, Exeter (B.Sc. 1942). In 1947 he was appointed assistant lecturer in music at the University of Cambridge subsequently lecturer (1952), and professor (1962). During this time at Cambridge, Dart was the most effective British supporter of the modern early music revival, in part through his influence on those who ultimately formed such groups as the Early Music Consort of London In 1964 he was appointed King Edward Professor of Music in the University of London (Kings College). As a Basso continuo player he made numerous appearances on the harpsichord and made many harpsichord, clavichord and organ recordings, especially for the L'Oiseau-Lyre label; he was also a conductor. He served as editor of the Galpin Society Journal from 1947 to 1954 and secretary of Musica Britannica from 1950 to 1965. His book, The Interpretation of Music(London, 1954), was highly influential; he also wrote numerous seminal articles on aspects of musical sources, performance and interpretation. In the 1950s he participated in annual concerts featuring four harpsichordists, the three others being George Malcolm (musician) Denis Vaughan and Eileen Joyce In 1957 this group also recorded two of Vivaldis Concertos for Four Harpsichords, one in a Bach arrangement, with the Pro Arte Orchestra under Boris Ord. They also recorded Malcolms Variations on a Theme of Mozarthttp://callawaymedia.arts.uwa.edu.au/unrestricted/documents/joyce/EileenJoyceTimeline.pdf Eileen Joyce (1908-1991) Timeline] Darts distinguished students included the composer Michael Nyman conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and conductor/musicologist Christopher Hogwood
He made one of the first historically informed recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos with the Philharmusica of London He later worked with Neville Marriner on a recording of both the Brandenburg Concerti and the four Orchestral suites though Dart died before this was complete.

Further reading

*Bent, Ian, ed. (1981). Source materials and the interpretation of music: a memorial volume to Thurston Dart London: Stainer & Bell. ISBN 0-85249-511-0.

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