2009 - 2010
Opera in the British Provinces in Late Victorian England
Speaker(s): Paul Rodmell (Birmingham) Chair: David Wright (RCM)
13/05/2010
Performing Editions of the Leipzig School, 1850-1900 and their Testimony to Nineteenth-Century
Speaker(s): George Kennaway and David Milsom (Leeds/LUCHIP), Chair: John Irving (IMR)
Whilst editions of the eighteenth century and before rarely contain more than the simplest performance information, some prominent editors...
06/05/2010
Pitfalls and Pleasures of Recording on a 1764 Harpsichord
Speaker(s): John Irving (IMR) and Chair: Mike Edwards
Dean's Seminar
24/03/2010
Hearing Music's Words: Imagery in Shakespeare's Theatre
Speaker(s): Christopher Wilson (Hull) Chair: John Pitcher (Oxford)
As with most of Shakespeare’s musical imagery, a knowledge and understanding of contemporary practice and theory are implicit in our...
18/03/2010
Speaking Truth to Power: The Public Policy Implications of Modern Musicology
Speaker(s): Andrew Pinnock (Southampton) and Chair: Robert Stradling (Cardiff - Emeritus)
At the time of their formation and for decades afterwards the BBC, British Council and Arts Council of Great Britain (Britain's three main...
04/03/2010
Music, Philosophy and Sexual Politics in Mozart's Music for Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte
Speaker(s): Charles Ford (IMR), Chair: Eric Clarke (Oxford)
The thought of the European, and most especially, the Viennese Enlightenment, is implicit within the chords, melodies, rhythms and textures...
11/02/2010
My Life as a Composer
Speaker(s): Adam Gorb (Royal Northern College of Music), Chair: Giles Easterbrook (Independent scholar)
I started composing at the age of ten, but I was in my thirties before I became a professional composer. I will be talking about what made...
28/01/2010
The Musicians’ Tales: Status and Identity in the Musician-Novels of the German Baroque
Speaker(s): Stephen Rose, Royal Holloway
Institute for Musical Research,
13/01/2010
New Music and Critical Cosmopolitanism
Speaker(s): Björn Heile (University of Sussex), Chair: Arnold Whittall (King's College London)
Although it has successfully spread around the globe, new music is usually regarded as ‘western’. While there are historic reasons for this...
22/10/2009
The Swan on the Barricades: Reconsidering the Case of Lohengrin
Speaker(s): Barbara Eichner (Oxford Brookes University)
Institute for Musical Research,
07/10/2009
