Through a focus on the processes involved in work on specific projects, the ‘Directions in Musical Research’ series is designed to encourage the exchange of perspectives and ideas between different areas within the discipline.
27 April (Room N336) Margaret Bent (All Souls, Oxford)
Chair: Alexander Lingas (City University)
What is Isorhythm?
4 May (Room NG15) Christopher Wintle (King’s College, London)
Chair: Arnold Whittall (King’s College, London)
Towards a Holistic Musical Analysis: Benjamin Britten’s Night-Piece (Notturno) in Context
11 May (Room N336) Sharon Choa (University of East Anglia)
Chair: Amanda Glauert (Royal Academy of Music)
Cultural Translations in Music from Li Po to Mahler
18 May (Room N336) Peter Wiegold (Brunel University)
Chair: Keith Howard (SOAS)
The Silk Road: Meetings with Musicians of Other Cultures
25 May (Room NG15) Jessie Ann Owens (Brandeis University)
Chair: Stephen Rose (Royal Holloway)
Rethinking Music Education in Seventeenth-Century Britain: the Case of
Charles Butler and his Principles of Musick (1636)
1 June (Room N336) Stephen Walsh (Cardiff University)
Chair: Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway)
Kurtág and Beckett: in the Beginning the Word
8 June (Room NG15) Peter Elsdon (University of Hull)
Chair: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (King’s College, London)
Gesture and the Improvised in the Music of Keith Jarrett
15 June (Room NG15) Laudan Nooshin (City University)
Chair: John Baily (Goldsmiths)
Underground, Overground: Rock Music and Youth Discourses in Contemporary Iran
5 October Nicola Dibben (University of Sheffield) Room NG14
Chair: Richard Witts (Goldsmiths/University of Surrey)
Technology and Nature in the Music of Bjork: a Utopian Function for Music?
12 October Stephen Downes (University of Surrey) Room NG14
Chair: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (KCL)
Wave Deformations: an Aspect of Post-Wagnerian Form and Expression
19 October Nicholas Marston (University of Cambridge) Room NG14
Chair: Daniel Chua (KCL)
Schenker's 'Hammerklavier'
26 October Thomas Schmidt-Beste (University of Bangor) Room ST275
Chair: Michael Fend (KCL)
On the Relationship of Imitation, Mensuration and Text-setting in the 16th Century
9 November Ronald Woodley (UCE Birmingham Conservatoire) Room ST275
Chair: Simon McVeigh (Goldsmiths)
Pianism, Performing Style and Instinct in Newly Recovered Recordings by Ilona Eibenschutz
16 November Sarah Hill (University of Southampton) Room NG14
Chair: Allan Moore (University of Surrey)
Historicising Memory: San Francisco and the Long 1960s
23 November Simon Shaw-Miller (Birkbeck/Royal Academy of Music) Room ST275
Chair: Suzanne Fagence (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Sighting Music: Audition and the Senses
30 November Paula Higgins (University of Nottingham) Room NG14
Chair: Elizabeth Eva Leach (RHUL)
Authorship, Ingenuity and Technologies of Secrecy in the Naples 'L'homme armé' Masses
7 December Stephen Cottrell (Goldsmiths) Room NG14
Chair: Lucy Green (Institute of Education)
The Gendered Saxophone
14 December Martin Butler (University of Sussex) Room NG14
Chair: Christopher Fox (Brunel University)
If It's Broke, Why Fix It? Composers, Self-critique, and the Case against Revision
18 January Guido Heldt (University of Bristol) Room NG14
Chair: Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths)
Where the Music Comes From. Narrative Perspectives on Composer Biopics
25 January Bonnie Blackburn (Wolfson College, Oxford) Room NG14
Chair: Michael Fend (KCL)
Two Treasure Chests of Canonic Antiquities: The Collections of Hermann Finck and Lodovico Zacconi
1 February Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music) Room NG14
Chair: Lauren Stewart (Goldsmiths)
The Art and Science of Musical Memory
8 February David Crilly (Anglia Ruskin University) Room NG14
Chair: Paul Banks (RCM)
Text and Intertext: Reading and Misreading Benjamin Britten
CANCELLED
22 February Helen Deeming (University of Southampton) Room ST275
Chair: Elizabeth Eva Leach (RHUL)
Picturing Sound: Towards a Cultural History of Music Writing
1 March Jim Samson (Royal Holloway) Room NG14
Chair: Rachel Harris (SOAS)
Music Displaced: Case Studies from the Balkans
8 March Jonathan Stock (University of Sheffield) Room NG14
Chair: John Baily (Goldsmiths)
Fieldwork at Home: Reflections of an English Ethnomusicologist Studying
Sessions in South Yorkshire
15 March Martin Clayton (Open University) Room NG14
Chair: Richard Widdess (SOAS)
Analysing Sound and Gesture in Indian Raga Performance
22 March Linda Merrick (Royal Northern College of Music) Room NG14
Chair: Simon Bainbridge (RAM)
The Composer–Performer Dynamic: Conflict or Collaboration?
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.
26 April Keith Negus (Goldsmiths), Lee Marshall (University of Bristol) Room NG14
Chair: Allan Moore (University of Surrey)
Bob Dylan as Musician and Star
Please note: this extended-length seminar will start at 4pm
3 May David Crilly (Anglia Ruskin University) Room NG14
Chair: Paul Banks (RCM)
Text and Intertext: Reading and Misreading Benjamin Britten
10 May Fabrice Fitch (University of Durham) Room NG14
Chair: Alexander Lingas (City)
Late Flowerings for Early Music? Rhizomes and Roots in my Agricologies Cycle
17 May Rachel Cowgill (University of Leeds) Room NG14
Chair: Leanne Langley (Goldsmiths)
Redeeming the Requiem: the early English reception of Mozart's last work
24 May Dai Griffiths (Oxford Brookes University) Room NG14
Chair: Tim Hughes (University of Surrey)
File under popular (with some under 'classical'): The music of Elvis Costello
31 May Suzel Reily (Queen's University, Belfast) Room NG14
Chair: Henry Stobart (RHUL)
Parades, Processions and the Public Space: a dialogue between Brazil and Northern Ireland
(This seminar replaces the one previously advertised, which will now take place in the autumn.)
7 June Jonathan Cross (Christ Church, Oxford) Room NG14
Chair: Arnold Whittall (KCL)
Paradise lost: neoclassicism and the melancholia of modernism
Extra seminar by Jeremy Day O'Connell, Monday 10 December, 5.30 - 7pm, Stewart House Room 273
Debussy, Pentatonicism, and the Tonal Tradition
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.
11 October (Room NG14) Lucy Durán (SOAS)
Chair: Laudan Nooshin (City)
Segu Blue: slaves, warriors, and the blues in the recreation of nineteenth-century Bamana music (central Mali) by Bassekou Kouyate
18 October (Room N336) at 5.15pm Deborah Mawer (University of Lancaster)
Chair: Andy Fry (KCL)
Hylton and Stravinsky’s Mavra at the Paris Opéra: ‘Jazzing a Classic’?
25 October (Room NG 14) Francis Rumsey (Institute of Recorded Sound, University of Surrey)
Chair: Mark Levy (QMUL)
'The Talking Wonder will talk, sing, laugh, crow, whistle, repeat cornet solos...': evolving notions of fidelity in reproduced sound
8 November (Room NG 14) Janet Halfyard (UCE Birmingham Conservatoire)
Chair: Julie Brown (RHUL)
Cue the big theme! Batman, Elfman and the musical construction of a superhero
15 November (Room NG14) Paul Attinello (University of Newcastle)
Chair: Keith Potter (Goldsmiths)
AIDS rage: paranoia and anger in music about AIDS
22 November (Room NG 14) Roe-Min Kok (McGill University / IMR)
Chair: David Pear (IMR)
Internationalising musical discourse? The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and the British Empire
29 November (Room NG14) Rebecca Herissone (University of Manchester)
Chair: Stephen Rose (RHUL)
Pen and Paper, Performance and Place: Approaches to Understanding Musical Creativity in Restoration England
6 December (Room NG14) Melania Bucciarelli (City University)
Chair: Roger Parker (KCL)
Armida's mirror: Literary (and non-literary) motives in Vivaldi's Armida al campo d'Egitto (Venice, 1718) CANCELLED
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.
10 January (Room NG14) Reinhard Strohm (University of Oxford)
Chair: Simon Keefe (City)
The classicist ideology: a new interpretation of 17th- and 18th-century musical culture
17 January (Room NG14) John Potter (University of York)
Chair: David Nice (Goldsmiths)
The belcantification of the Soviet Union: narrative versus truth
24 January (Room NG 14) Helen Reddington (University of Westminster)
Chair: Patricia Schmidt (Surrey)
Forgotten Stories: genre and gender in British punk music
31 January (Room NG 14) Sara Gonzales Castrejón (IMR)
Chair: Bonnie Blackburn (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Musical iconography, law and the origins of civilization in early modern political culture
7 February (Room NG14) Colin Timms (Birmingham)
Chair: Stephen Rose (RHUL)
Accounting for cantatas in late Baroque Italy
21 February (Room NG 14) Trevor Wiggins (Dartington)
Chair: Janet Topp Fargion (BL Sound Archive)
Asking the right questions? Using western musical concepts to consider African music
28 February (Room NG14) Sophie Fuller (Trinity Laban)
Chair: Matthew Head (KCL)
The Maconchy/Williams correspondence (provisional title)
6 March (Room NG14) Alexandra Wilson (Oxford Brookes)
Chair: Helen Julia Minors (Roehampton)
The land without opera? Investigating twentieth-century British operatic culture
13 March (Room NG14) Barley Norton (Roehampton)
Chair: David W. Hughes (SOAS)
The second American Invasion? Hip hop and the history of popular music in Vietnam
24 April (Room NG14) Melania Bucciarelli (City)
Chair: Roger Parker (KCL)
Armida's mirror: literary (and non-literary) motives in Vivaldi's Armida al campo d'Egitto
(Venice, 1718)
1 May (Room NG14) Tony Whyton (Salford)
Chair: Andy Fry (KCL)
Deconstructing the jazz tradition
8 May (Room NG14) Katherine Brown (Leeds)
Chair: Owen Wright (SOAS)
The idea of South: North Indian music, ‘classicisation’, and comparative imperial histories
15 May (Room NG14) Mercedes Pavlicevic (Nordoff-Robbins Centre for Music Therapy)
Chair: Gail Brand (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
Between musics? Making sense of spontaneous group musicking in music therapy
29 May (Room NG14) Robert Adlington (Nottingham)
Chair: Julian Johnson (RHUL)
Organising labour: composers, performers and the 'renewal of musical practice' in early 1970s Amsterdam
5 June (Room NG14) Thomas Irvine (Southampton)
Chair: David Pear (IMR)
Between Gebrauchsmusik and Savoy Opera: locating Walter Leigh in the
turbulent thirties
2 October (Room NG16) Stephanie Pitts (Sheffield)
Chair: Richard Witts (Edinburgh)
Musical Audiences: Understanding the Experience of Live Music Listening
9 October (Room NG14) Kirsten Gibson (Newcastle University)
Chair: Bonnie Blackburn (Oxford)
Prefatory Negotiations: Figuring the Author in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century English Printed Music Books
16 October (Room NG14) Carola Nielinger-Vakil (London)
Chair: Christopher Fox (Brunel)
Solving the Enigma of Nono's Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima
23 October (Room NG14) David Charlton (RHUL)
Chair: Michael Fend (KCL)
Sight Meets Sound: Fifty Years of Musical Scenography at the Opéra-Comique, 1756-1806
30 October (Room NG14) Sara Cohen and Brett Lashua (Liverpool)
Chair: Keith Negus (Goldsmiths)
Mapping the Beat: Music Sites and Experiences in a Context of Urban Change
13 November (Room NG14) Susan Rutherford (Manchester)
Chair: Roger Parker (KCL)
Verdi, Opera, Women
20 November (Room NG14) Paul Barker (Central School of Speech and Drama)
Chair: Nicholas Till (Sussex)
Words Toward Opera Without Words
27 November (Room NG14) Neil Sorrell (York)
Chair: Sophie Fuller (Trinity Laban)
The Woman in Front of the Man: Assessing Maud MacCarthy's Influence on John Foulds and the Globalisation of Indian Music
4 December (Room NG14) Max Paddison (Durham)
Chair: Charlie Ford (IMR)
Mediation, Modernism and Musical Performance: Rethinking Adorno
15 January (Room NG14) Sarah Day-O’Connell (Knox College)
Chair: Matthew Head (KCL)
Time and Pastime in Songs of Haydn’s London
22 January (Room NG14) Tia DeNora (University of Exeter)
Chair: Lucy Green (Institute of Education)
Musical Space as Social Space: Methods, Concepts and Theoretical Resources from Sociology
29 January (Room NG14) Maiko Kawabata (University of East Anglia)
Chair: Simon McVeigh (Goldsmiths)
Violinists and Self-Expression: Towards a Theory of the ‘Performing Self’
5 February (Room NG14) Eduardo Miranda (University of Plymouth)
Chair: Peter Bentley (UCL)
A-Life for Music: On Making Music with Computer Models of Living Systems
19 February (Room NG14) Chris Collins (Bangor University)
Chair: Samuel Llano (Birmingham)
Manuel de Falla’s Formative Years: Filling in the Gaps
26 February (Room NG14) Liza Lim (University of Huddersfield)
Chair: Peter Wiegold (Brunel)
'Fugue of the senses; geometry of desire': a Discussion of my Recent Opera The Navigator
5 March (Room NG14) Arnold Myers (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Bradley Strauchen (Horniman Museum)
Identity and Change in Brasswind Design
12 March (Room NG14) Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge)
Chair: Alex Lingas (City)
How Ritual Changes Space: from Pantheon to Sancta Maria ad Martyres
19 March (Room NG14) David Pear (IMR)
Chair: Stephen Banfield (Bristol)
Perceptions of Ethnicity and Nationality in a Selection of Early-twentieth-century British and Colonial Composers
30 April (Room NG14) John Morgan O'Connell (Cardiff)
Chair: Abigail Wood (SOAS)
Functional Harmony: Music in War and Peace
7 May (Room NG14) John Sloboda (RHUL)
Chair: Susan Hallam (Institute of Education)
Music in Everyday Life: the Role of the Emotions
21 May (Room NG14) Jeanice Brooks (Southampton)
Chair: Ann Van Allen-Russell (Trinity Laban)
Singing Home and Family: Women's Sheet Music Albums in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
28 May (Room NG14) Nicholas Reyland (Keele)
Chair: Robert Samuels (Open)
Listening for the Plot: Towards a Reader-response Theory of Musical Narrativity
4 June (Room NG14) Elaine King (Hull)
Chair: Anthony Gritten (Middlesex)
Analytical Considerations in the Study of Performers' Physical Gestures
11 June (Room NG16) Francis Silkstone (Goldsmiths) with Michael Young (Goldsmiths)
Chair: Keith Howard (SOAS)
Developing Methodologies for Intercultural Composition (with Indian and Western Musicians): Can we Progress Beyond Re-inventing the Wheel?
8 October Barbara Eichner (Oxford Brookes University)
Chair: John Deathridge (KCL)
The Swan on the Barricades: Reconsidering the Case of Lohengrin
15 October Caroline Bithell (Manchester University)
Chair: Stephen Cottrell (Goldsmiths)
The Natural Voice, Community Choirs and World Song
22 October Björn Heile (University of Sussex)
Chair: Arnold Whittall (KCL)
New Music and Critical Cosmopolitanism
5 November Peter Hill (University of Sheffield)
Chair: Roderick Chadwick (Royal Academy of Music)
Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux
12 November Ben Winters (Christ Church, Oxford)
Chair: Julie Brown (RHUL)
Reel Performers: the Concert on Screen
26 November John Milsom (Independent Scholar)
Chair: Stephen Rice (Southampton)
A Composition Lesson with Josquin des Prez
3 December Jonathan Impett (University of East Anglia)
Chair: Geraint Wiggins (Goldsmiths)
Interactive Computer Music and Virtual Art as Models for Contemporary Understanding (t.b.c.)
10 December Marita Buanes (IMR)
Chair: Sarah Niblock (Brunel)
Flip it and reverse it: Appropriation, gender and race in Missy Elliot's video "Work it"
14 January Stephen Rose (RHUL)
Chair: Tim Crawford (Goldsmiths)
The Musicians' Tales:Status and Identity in the Musician-novels of the German Baroque
21 January Rupert Ridgewell (British Library)
Chair: David Wyn Jones (Cardiff)
Biographical Myth and the Publication of Mozart's Piano Quartets
28 January Adam Gorb (RNCM)
Chair: Giles Easterbrook(Independent Scholar)
My Life as a Composer
4 February Helena Gaunt (GSMD)
Chair: Sean Gregory (Barbican Centre)
The Concept and Practical Exploration of Improvisation as a Shared Dimension of Expertise in Music, Acting and Nursing
11 February Charles Ford (IMR)
Chair: Eric Clarke (Oxford)
Music, Philosophy and Sexual Politics in Mozart's Music for Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte
18 February Ilias Chrissochoidis (Stanford/UCL/IMR)
Chair: Berta Joncus (Goldsmiths)
Handel, Us and Them: Reflections on Handelian Historiography
25 February Lucy Robinson (RWCMD)
Chair: Richard Langham Smith (RCM)
Mr Simpson's 'ingenious text': The Division-Viol - an Exploration of its Context, Revisions and Content
4 March Andrew Pinnock (Southampton)
Chair: Robert Stradling (Cardiff - Emeritus)
Speaking Truth to Power: The Public Policy Implications of Modern Musicology
11 March Jane Alden (Wesleyan/IMR)
Chair: Helen Deeming (RHUL)
On the Page and Across the Centuries: Notation in the Study of Musical Culture
18 March Christopher Wilson (Hull)
Chair: John Pitcher (Oxford)
Hearing Music's Words: Imagery in Shakespeare's Theatre
29 April Holly Rogers (Liverpool)
Chair: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool)
Sounding the Gallery: Video Installation and the Rise of Art-Music
6 May George Kennaway and David Milsom (Leeds/LUCHIP)
Chair: John Irving (IMR)
Performing Editions of the Leipzig School, 1850-1900 and their Testimony to Nineteenth-Century Performing Practices
13 May Paul Rodmell (Birmingham)
Chair: David Wright (RCM)
Opera in the British Provinces in Late Victorian England
3 June David R.M. Irving (Cambridge)
Chair: Katherine Butler Brown (KCL)
Polyphonic Politics, Music and the Idea of Sovereignty in the Early Modern World
10 June Michael Edwards (Edinburgh)
Chair: Michael Vaughan (Keele)
Computational Thinking in Music Composition: A Personal Perspective
21 October John Cowley (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Chair: Shihan De Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Biguine Amoureuse: Caribbean Music in Paris between the Two World Wars
28 October Katharine Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Chair: Delphine Mordey (University of Cambridge)
The Politics of French Plainchant, 1882-1905
4 November Elizabeth Eva Leach (University of Oxford)
Chair: Helen Swift (University of Oxford)
Did Medieval Audiences Cry when they Heard Machaut's Music?
11 November David Wright (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Chair: Dave Smith (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Electrophysiological Correlates of Music Skill Learning
18 November Giles Hooper (University of Liverpool)
Chair: David I Clarke (Newcastle University)
Object, Objectivity, Objection: Music in the Age of 'Post-Disciplinarity'
25 November Nanette Nielsen (University of Nottingham) (Stewart House, Room STB7)
Chair: Axel Körner (UCL)
Paul Bekker's Ambivalent Modernism
2 December Yati Durant (University of Edinburgh) (Room G37)
Chair: Julie Brown (RHUL)
New Music in Silent Film - Or Vice Versa?
9 December Danield Leech-Wilkinson (King's College London) (Room G26)
Chair: Jonathan Summers (British Library)
Making Music with Alfred Cortot
20 January David Pear (IMR)
Chair: Paul Jackson (Anglia Ruskin)
Grumpy Old Men of Music: Holbrooke and Grainger
27 January Yati Durant (Edinburgh)
Chair: Miguel Mera (City)
New Music in Silent Film – Or Vice Versa?
3 February Benjamin Walton (Cambridge)
Chair: Katharine Ellis (RHUL)
The Idea of Global Opera
10 February Viram Jasani, Tarun Jasani and Simon Reveley
(Asian Music Centre, London)
The Digital Gurus of Indian Music
17 February Laurence Dreyfus (Oxford)
Chair: John Deathridge (KCL)
Behind Wagner’s Erotics: Some Methodological Confessions
24 February Nicholas McKay (Sussex)
Chair: Michael Spitzer (Liverpool)
Music Semiotics as a Hermeneutic Tool for Musical Interpretation and Analysis
10 March Pauline Fairclough (Bristol)
Chair: Erik Levi (RHUL)
Don’t Sing it on a Feast Day: Sacred Music Performance in the Soviet Union
17 March Goffredo Plastino (Newcastle)
Chair: Franco Fabbri (Turin)
Rethinking Neapolitan Song
5 May Alex Constansis (IMR)
Chair: John Irving (IMR)
Hybrid Vocality in Byzantine and 'Baroque' Times
12 May Christine Beckett(Concordia University, Montreal)
Chair: Geraint Wiggins (Goldsmiths)
Music is Spatiotemporal: International Music Perception & Cognition (MPC) Research on Movement, Dance and Time
26 May Saida Daukeyeva(IMR)
Chair: Veronica Doubleday (Brighton)
Music, Gender and Identity among the Kazakhs of Mongolia
2 June Tom Perchard (Goldsmiths)
Chair: Andy Fry (King's College London)
Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memory and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s
9 June Wiebke Thormählen (Southampton)
Chair: Penelope Gouk (Manchester)
The Musical Virtuoso and the Anxiety of Subjectivity
13 October
Keith Howard (SOAS)
Chair: Nathan Hesselink (University of British Columbia)
'Sea of Blood': A Night at the North Korean Opera
20 October
Rachel Cowgill (Cardiff)
Chair: Meirion Hughes
Borderland Views of the British Musical Renaissance: The Cultural Politics of the English Eisteddfod
IMR/Brunel CCMP seminar
27 October
Paul Griffiths
Chair: Bob Gilmore (Brunel)
3 November
Nicola Dibben (Sheffield)
Chair: Keith Negus (Goldsmiths)
Digitisation not Dematerialisation: The Musical Artefact in the Digital Age. A Case Study of Björk's 'Biophilia'
(Senate House, Room 104)
10 November
Nick Stylianou (Independent Researcher)
Chair: Bruno de Florence (Independent Researcher)
An Intuitive Spatial Representation of Microtonal Relational Structures
(Senate House, Room 104)
IMR/Brunel CCMP seminar
17 November
François-Bernard Mâche
Chair: Bob Gilmore (Brunel)
24 November
Nanette Nielsen (Nottingham)
Chair: Julian Johnson (RHUL)
Paul Bekker's Ambivalent Modernism
8 December
Danuta Mirka (Southampton)
Chair: David Wyn Jones (Cardiff)
Absent Cadences
Spring 2012
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 - CANCELLED
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
Thursdays, 5-6.30pm, Senate House
Free of charge. All welcome. No advance booking required.
