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David Nicholls (musicologist) (born in 1955, Birmingham, United Kingdom) is a British musicologist and composer. Since August 2000 he has been Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. From 1987 to 2000 he was Professor of Music and Research Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Keele University. Between 1984 until 1987 Nicholls was based at Selwyn College, Cambridge as a Keasbey Fellow in American Studies.
He is a former editor of the American Music (2000–2005). Until 1998 he was also active as a composer, and his works were performed and broadcast in the UK and in Europe, America, Australia, and South Africa.
Nicholls read Music at St. John's College, Cambridge, and graduated with a first.[3] In 1986 he completed a Ph.D. at Cambridge with a thesis on the compositional techniques of Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage, and other experimental composers.
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