Talk:Master of the Queen's Music

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Isn't it traditionally spelt with a 'k'? (As in "Musick", not "Kmaster") Deb 19:15 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)

That was once the title, I think, but according to various reference works I've looked in, the official title is now spelt without a K. I'll mention Musick in the article, though, and make redirects from Master of the Queen's Musick and Master of the King's Musick. --Camembert
Musick is indeed the usual spelling, but Williamson dropped the K on his appointment. It remains to be seen whether that was an official change, i.e. will the next appointee revert to Musick? Gritchka

Does anybody know when Williamson's successor gets appointed? Is it in the New Year's Honours list? Or has somebody already been appointed when nobody was looking? --Camembert

Well, new year honours have come and gone, and I've still heard nothing about it. Maybe it'll be in the birthday honours... Or it could be that somebody has slipped into the post when we weren't looking. --Camembert
According to the article here, taken from The Independent, the position has been vacant since Williamson's death. I've mentioned this in the article. -- Vardion 00:50, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

From the article:

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was appointed in March 2004 for a ten year period unlike previous appointments which were for life.

What happens in the (extremely likely) event that the Queen does not live that long? Pakaran. 21:02, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

He goes on the funeral pyre too. Seems tough, but goes with the territory.
Heh, well that might be right, but given what's happened in the past, I think he will continue as Master of the King's Music. Walter Parratt, for example, continued in the post following the deaths of Victoria and Edward VII. But I'm just saying that on assumption - anon above could be right for all I know. --Camembert
AFAICR, technically, he would be newly-created the Master of the King's Music, and so one might think that this would last for another 10 years hence; however, he would probably be made MotKM for the remaining part of his tenure, unless the Queen's sucessor particularly liked him/his style/the Old Ways, in which case it might well become a life-tenured position again.
*shrugs*
James F. (talk) 10:54, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
From what I can gather, it was Davies himself, rather than the royal household, who insisted on the ten-year term (again, though, I may be wrong). I don't think he'd want to hold the post beyond 2014 whatever happened. --Camembert