ABSTRACT
The University of Cambridge presented a challenge to the integration of music similar to that found at Oxford. The approaches taken in Cambridge best highlight the split between professional and liberal academic identities of 'music' and their implications. As at Oxford, the Cambridge music degrees entailed no privileges within university governance. The pursuit of sacred music sat well within the realm of vocational training. The apparent importance of a sacred music connection, however, seems to have taken Bennett unawares. While Bennett was widely recognised as a proficient theorist, his lack of ability on the organ was a problem, his engagements in London would prevent him taking up residence in Cambridge, and he was not, like Walmisley, 'a Graduate of the University'. Yet Bennett's interest moved the degrees away from their position as a static, academic oddity, and put into operation administrative channels that would enable further consideration and reform.
