collegium musicumn.
/kəˈliːdʒɪəm ˈmjuːzɪkəm/ Originally (in Germany and elsewhere), a musical society whose members performed vocal and instrumental music for pleasure; now, a musical group, often connected with a university, that studies and plays early or little-known music, either privately or in public performance (see quots. 1873, 1938).
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1873 R. A. Grider Mus. in Bethlehem, Penn. 22/2 The Collegium Musicum, and the Indian School... Two clubs. Some members belonging to both serenaded regularly every Saturday evening... This was before 1750.
1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 209/2 In Germany the Institution of the Collegium Musicum..had a large influence in the bringing into existence of concert organizations. This was a private gathering... The name ‘Collegium Musicum’, revived by Riemann, when Professor of Music at Leipzig, is now used in several universities for series of historical concerts given by their music departments.
1943 N.Y. Times 25 Apr. ii. 6/5 A Collegium Musicum devoted to the works of the early seventeenth century will be presented by the Yale University School of Music... Seventeenth century instruments will be used.
1953 Musical Amer. June 25/1 Paul Hindemith led the Collegium Musicum from Yale University in vocal and instrumental music from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries... Ordinarily, collegia musica are conducted by musicologists whose interests in early music tend to be..clinical.
1980 Early Music 8 29/1 Dr Borroff describes her strongest motivation as ‘a commitment to performance as the single most illuminating path to the understanding of music’, a commitment she has vested in a number of university collegia musica.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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