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David Clarke is Professor of Music at Newcastle University. He is a music theorist with wide a range of interests, encompassing analytical, philosophical, cultural and critical approaches to music. With Eric Clarke he is co-editor of and contributor to Music and Consciousness (OUP 2011). He is also a specialist on the music of Michael Tippett, with publications including his monograph The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett: Modern Times and Metaphysics (CUP, 2001). He is making incremental headway as a vocalist in the North Indian khyāl style – an interest which has latterly begun to inform his research on several fronts.