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Cedric Thorpe Davie OBE (30 May 1913 – 18 January 1983) was a musician and composer, most notably of film scores such as The Green Man in 1956. A high proportion of his film and documentary music and his concert pieces have a Scottish theme.
Cedric Thorpe Davie. Cedric Thorpe Davie was born into a musical family in London in 1913. His father, Thorpe Davie, was a remarkable Scot who had a successful career as a singing teacher and trainer of choirs.
In 1945, Cedric Thorpe Davie was appointed to the Music department of St. Andrews. He was meticulous in his teaching and believed that all music should have form, hence his excellent book Musical Structure and Design.
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Biography. Cedric Thorpe Davie (30 May 1913, Lewisham, South London – 18 January 1983) was a Scottish composer, music educator, conductor, organist and hornist. Thorpe Davie studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow, among others by William Gillies Whittaker and R. Harold Thomson.
Cedric Thorpe Davie was a musician, composer and academic who taught in St Andrews from 1945 until his retirement in 1978, and lived here until his death in 1983. Born and classically trained in London, he pursued his musical studies in Glasgow, Budapest and Helsinki before settling in Fife.
The collection includes manuscript scores, sketches, working scripts, miscellaneous items and correspondence between Cedric Thorpe Davie and publishers, broadcasters, performers, other composers, friends, fellow academics, family and acquaintances.
