Music Research Seminar Series

Helena Gaunt, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Thursday 26 January 2017
Making it work as a professional in the performing arts: shaping identity through creative entrepreneurship

Richard Glover, Wolverhampton University
Thursday 2 February 2017
Notational developments in music of gradual process

Kenneth Hamilton, Cardiff University
Thursday 9 February 2017
Interpretation and Its Discontents: approaches to the theory and practice of interpretation

Steve Muir, University of Leeds
Thursday 16 February 2017
Performing the Jewish Archive

Ian Sapiro, University of Leeds
Thursday 23 February 2017
‘Simple, Medium, and Shebang’: Trevor Jones and the Film-Music Toolkit

James Williams, University of Derby
Thursday 2 March 2017
Expanding Ethnomusicology: Evolutions towards Ethnosonicological Research Methods

Clive McClelland, University of Leeds
Thursday 9 March 2017
Haydn, Tempesta and the Myth of Sturm und Drang

Alistair Zaldua, Canterbury Christ Church University
Thursday 16 March 2017
Notation, Translation, Improvisation

Sean Williams, Universities of Kent, Edinburgh
Thursday 23 March 2017
Instrument design and performance practice in early electronic music

Jacopo Gianninoto,  Assumption University of Bangkok, Thailand
Thursday 27 April 2017
Lute, Contemporary Music and the art work in the post-era of mechanical reproduction

Elaine King, University of Hull
Thursday 4 May 2017
Performers’ Perspectives on ‘Feel’ in Music

Christopher Haworth, University of Leeds
Thursday 29 September, 2016
Underground Music and the Internet: From Microsound to Vaporwave

Albini Saragu, University of Leeds
Thursday 6 October 2016
Developing a multicultural model of children’s Music and Movement activities

Michael Winter
Thursday 13 October 2016
Over 300 years ago, Leibniz predicted many current trends in music: a lecture/ performance

Catherine Haworth, University of Huddersfield
Thursday 20 October 2016
On the Beat with The Falcon: scoring the adventure programmer at RKO

Simo Muir, University of Leeds
Thursday 27 October 2016
Jewish musical activities in Finland during World War II

Sarah Hall, University of Leeds
Thursday 3 November 2016
The Television Music of Trevor Jones: Exploring an Audio-Visual Archive

Arne DeForce, cellist
Thursday 10 November 2016
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Peter Martens, University of Stellenbosch
Thursday 17 November 2016
Contemporary performance of the sonatas for cello and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, as informed by Carl Czerny

Rob Bentall, Leeds College of Music
Thursday 24 November 2016
Genre Hybridisation in Electroacoustic Music Composition

Derek Scott, University of Leeds
Thursday 1 December 2016
Silver-Age Operetta: The Power of an Early 20th-Century Transcultural Entertainment Industry

Alannah Halay, University of Leeds
Thursday 8 December 2016
‘avant garde’ and ‘Avant Garde’: A Practice-Led Investigation