R. O. Morris

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Reginald Owen Morris was a renowned teacher of Music, educated at Harrow School, New College and the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London.

He was famous as an exceptional teacher of counterpoint, and wrote several texts including Introduction to Counterpoint, Contrapuntal Technique in the Sixteenth Century, Foundations of Practical Harmony and Counterpoint, and The Structure of Music. Students of Morris included composers Gerald Finzi, Sir Michael Tippett, Constant Lambert, Anthony Milner, Edmund Rubbra, and Jean Coulthard.  Morris was also a composer, producing separate works for string orchestra, string quartet, solo voice, chamber orchestra with winds, as well as voices.