IMR Seminars

‘Directions in Musical Research’ 

Thursdays, 5-6.30pm

Senate House, Malet Street, London

South Block, Ground Floor (room G35 except where noted below)

(Nearest tubes: Euston Square, Russell Square, Goodge Street)

 

Through a focus on the processes involved in work on specific projects, this seminar series encourages the exchange of perspectives and ideas between different areas within the discipline.

 

2 February

Monika Hennemann (Birmingham)
Chair: John Deathridge (KCL)

Jewish cupids and Scottish valkyries: once more Mendelssohn and Wagner


16 February

Elaine Streeter (York)

Chair: Catherine Carr

Understanding dynamic music improvisation: the application of computational music analysis techniques to the analysis of music therapy


23 February

Arnold Whittall (Professor Emeritus, KCL)

Chair: J.P.E. Harper-Scott (RHUL)

Distressed surfaces: British musical expressionism since 2001

 

1 March

Grenville Hancox and Stephen Clift (Canterbury Christ Church University)

Chair: Norma Daykin (University of the West of England)

Applying music; singing on prescription

 

8 March

Naomi Waltham-Smith (Indiana University)

Chair: J.P.E. Harper-Scott (RHUL)

Music and the deconstruction of touch, 1700-1900

 

15 March

Celia Duffy and Stephen Broad (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)

Chair: Claire Mera-Nelson (Trinity Laban)

Practising research, playing with knowledge

 

22 March

Malcolm Miller (IMR/Open)
Chair: David Pear (IMR)

Spinning the Yarn: Wagner's use and reuse of his songs in his music dramas

 

29 March

Senate House, Room 265

Caroline Potter (Kingston)
Chair: Anthony Gritten (RAM)

Satie and Mechanical Music

 

IMR/Brunel CCMP seminar

Monday 16 April at 10.30am

Senate House, Chancellor's Hall

Wolfgang Rihm (Karlsruhe) and Tom Service (BBC)

Jacob Lenz

Wolfgang Rihm talks about his opera Jacob Lenz with Tom Service



Free of charge. All welcome. No advance booking necessary.  

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