Directions Seminars
A weekly series of seminars exploring new directions in musical research. From Autumn 2012 these seminars will take place on Monday evenings.
Open to the public, free of charge; no booking required.
Autumn Term 2014
Date | Time | Location | Details | Speaker |
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3 November 2014 | 17:00-18.30 | Room G35, Senate House | Who wrote Ockeghem's Requiem? | Margaret Bent (Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford) |
10 November 2014 | 17:00-18:30 | Chancellor's Hall, Senate House | Questions in Bartók Biography | Malcolm Gillies (Professor Emeritus, London Metropolitan University) |
1 December 2014 | 17:00-18.30 | Room G35, Senate House | Music, identity and the clever boy from Croydon | Nicholas Cook (University of Cambridge) |
Summer Term 2014
Date | Time | Location | Details | Speaker(s) |
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9 June 2014 | 17:00-18:30 | Senate House, Room 104 | In-Formed Graphics | Jane Alden (Wesleyan University) |
10 June 2014 | 17:00-18:30 | Senate House, Room 234 |
Shklovsky's Ostranenie as theoretical tool and creative principle Institute of English Studies seminar |
Alex Hills (Royal Academy of Music) |
23 June 2014 | 17:00-18:30 | Senate House, Room 104 | Between Art and Commerce: Music as a UK Creative Industry, 1819 |
Leanne Langley (Associate Fellow, IMR) Chair: Simon McVeigh (Goldsmiths, University of London) |
Spring Term 2014
Date | Time | Location | Details | Speaker(s) |
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3 February 2014 | 17:00-18:30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall | Reflections on Messiaen sketches | Peter Hill (Professor emeritus, University of Sheffield) |
10 March 2014 | 17:00-18:30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall |
Cultural Roots: connecting time and place in musical composition to be followed by a short concert with Irvine Arditti, violin |
Hilda Paredes |
17 March 2014 | 17:00-18:30 | Senate House, Room G35 | The Elizabethan 'dramatic' Jig: Re-uniting Words and Music | Lucie Skeaping |
Autumn Term 2013
Date | Time | Location | Details | Speaker(s) |
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14 October 2013 | 17:00-18:30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall | What we hear and what we understand: some thoughts about listening and literacy | Christopher Fox (Brunel) |
21 October 2013 | 17:00-18:30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall | Electric Schubert, '1928' | Laura Tunbridge (Manchester) |
18 November 2013 | 17:00-18:30 | Senate House, Room 104 | From Poem to Song and back: the spectre of music in 19th-century France | Helen Abbott (Sheffield) |
25 November 2013 | 19:00-21:00 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall |
Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Colin Blakemore to be followed by a concert by the Arditti Quartet |
Brian Ferneyhough and Colin Blakemore |