Music Research Seminar Series

The School of Music, Humanities and Media is proud to present its Music Research Seminar Series, 2019-20 (1st Semester). The talks are open to all without prior registration, and we especially encourage postgraduate students and researchers with an interdisciplinary interest to attend. Seminars take place in room 1, Richard Steinitz Building, on Thursdays between 15:15 and 16:45 (see dates below).

 

3 October: Daniel Grimley (University of Oxford): ‘In Defence of Form: Deryck Cooke and the Delius Violin Concerto’

10 October: Arnd Adje Both (University of Huddersfield): ‘The Teotihuacan Sound Mapping Project: Exploring the Sonic Sphere of the City of the Gods, Mexico’

17 October: Edward Spencer (University of Oxford): ‘The Fall of PLUR: Listening to the drop and the (anti)social web’

24 October: Thomas Buckner and Philip Thomas: ‘Performing Robert Ashley – A conversation with Thomas Buckner’

31 October: Christina McMaster: ‘To An Angel; Ruth Crawford Seeger – composer, poet, folk music transcriber, mother and pioneer of American Music’

7 November: Angela Slater: ‘Composing the natural world: my music, gender and the canon’

14 November: Michelle Assay (University of Huddersfield): ‘Post-Thaw Hamlets: Individualism, Convention and Political Allegory’

28 November: Freya Jarman (University of Liverpool): ‘The queerness of vocal high notes’

12 December: John Freeman (University of Huddersfield): ‘Ethics, Opportunity and Opportunism’

 

For more information, contact Mia Pistorius (J.Pistorius@hud.ac.uk) or Igor Contreras (I.ContrerasZubillaga@hud.ac.uk)