Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content
Tom Knight

Tom Knight

Mr

  • Postgraduate research student, Music

Personal profile

Personal profile

Tom Knight is a musicologist, organist and lutenist based in Berkshire, England, working primarily on the Scottish lute manuscript corpus from the seventeenth century. A former journalist and management consultant, his focus is primarily on musical transmission between Early Modern Scotland, England, and the continent, as well as vernacular musical transmission to the lute repertoire from Scotland’s various aural traditions. His PhD project is entitled ‘The Lute in Scotland, a cultural history 1500-1700’.

Research interests

Scottish lute music; Sixteenth and seventeenth century music in the British Isles and France; Renaissance and Baroque music; Scottish vernacular/traditional music; Lute, gittern, mandore, vihuela, and other early plucked strings; Musical transmission in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Early Modern Scottish history and cultural exchange, notably with England, France and the low countries; Musical education in Early Modern Scotland; Early Modern European music history.

Affiliations

Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

Education/Academic qualification

Music, Master of Arts in Music by Research, The Skene Mandore Manuscript Re-evaluated, Royal Holloway, University of London

Award Date: 1 Feb 2026

Business, Masters in Business Administration, Open University Business School

Award Date: 1 Jun 2007

Music, Bachelor of Music, University of Glasgow

Award Date: 1 Jun 1982

Keywords

  • Musicology
  • Early Modern musical transmission
  • The Lute in the British Isles
  • Scottish history
  • Early Modern Scotland
  • Scottish Music History
  • Early Modern Material Culture
  • 2 Book/Film/Article review
  • 1 Participation in a conference
  • 1 Workshop, seminar, course or webinar.
  • 1 Invited talk