Directions Seminars - Spring Term 2012

Spring Term 2012

Date Time Location Details Speaker(s)
Thursday 2 February 2012 17:00 - 18.30 Senate House, Room G35 Jewish cupids and Scottish valkyries: once more Mendelssohn and Wagner Monika Hennemann (Birmingham)
Chair: John Deathridge (KCL)
Thursday 16 February 2012 17:00 - 18.30 Senate House, Room G35 Understanding dynamic music improvisation: the application of computational music analysis techniques to the analysis of music therapy Elaine Streeter (York)

Chair: Catherine Carr

Thursday 23 February 2012 17:00 - 18.30 Senate House, Room G35 Distressed surfaces: British musical expressionism since 2001 Arnold Whittall (Professor Emeritus, KCL)

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

Thursday 1 March 2012 17:00 - 18.30 Senate House, Room G35 Applying music; singing on prescription Grenville Hancox and Stephen Clift (Canterbury Christ Church University)

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

Thursday 8 March 2012 17:00 - 18.30 Senate House, Room G35 Music and the deconstruction of touch, 1700-1900 Naomi Waltham-Smith (Indiana University)

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

Thursday 15 March 2012 17:00 - 18.30 Senate House, Room G35 Practising research, playing with knowledge Celia Duffy and Stephen Broad (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)

Chair: Claire Mera-Nelson (Trinity Laban)

Thursday 22 March 2012 17:00 - 18.30 Senate House, Room G35 Spinning the Yarn: Wagner's use and reuse of his songs in his music dramas Malcolm Miller (IMR/Open)
Chair: David Pear (IMR)
Thursday 29 March 2012 17:00 - 18.30 Senate House, Room 265 Satie and Mechanical Music Caroline Potter(Kingston)
Chair: Anthony Gritten (RAM)