Colloquia and seminars
The Department of Music organises frequent music colloquia and seminars. Please see below for further information.
The Music Colloquia start at 4:30pm in the Endsleigh Room B7 (first floor) in the Department of Music. The colloquia are open to all – everyone welcome! Admission is free and refreshments will be provided.
Spring Semester 2012
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Tuesday 31 January
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Jeremy Barham (University of Surrey)
"Delusion, Untimeliness, Immemory? Fragments of Improper Music Historiography from Mahler to Jazz and Beyond"
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Tuesday 7 February
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Nick Sackman (University of Nottingham)
"Searching for the 'Messiah'"
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Tuesday 21 February
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***This seminar has been postponed***
Laurie Stras (University of Southampton)
"'Heaven Help the Yankees!': The Southern Belle and the Movie Musical in the 1940s"
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Tuesday 28 February
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Juan Ruiz Jiménez (independent researcher, Granada, Spain)
'Seville as an urban context for some Spanish music manuscripts from the early sixteenth century'
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Tuesday 6 March
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Alastair Williams (Keele University)
"Music in Germany since 1968: Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm"
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Tuesday 20 March
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Phillip Tagg (University of Huddersfield)
"Tidying Tonal Terminology"
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Tuesday 1 May
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Laurie Stras (University of Southampton)
"'Heaven Help the Yankees!': The Southern Belle and the Movie Musical in the 1940s"
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Other events
MoSS lectures and events
Postgraduate research events
The Postgraduate reading groups, presentations, and training days occur at various times and places throughout the year.
Lakeside Music programme
Past Events
Autumn Semester 2011
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Tuesday 11 October
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Prof. Barbara Kelly (Keele University)
'Towards a musical consensus after Debussy'
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Tuesday 25 October
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Dr. Nathan Seinen (University of Cambridge)
'Ideal versus Real Man: Prokofiev's Final Opera and Late Stalinist Subjectivity'
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Tuesday 8 November
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Dr. Virginia Anderson (University of Nottingham)
'Blowing up Brahms: Later British Experimental Music and Its Alternative 'Cannons''
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Tuesday 22 November
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Prof. Max Paddison (Durham University)
'Musical Images: Adorno and the Ideology of Nature'
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Tuesday 6 December
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Prof. Sarah Hill (Cardiff University)
'Psychedelia and Its High Other in 1960s San Francisco'
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Spring 2010/11
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1 February
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Prof. Michael Spitzer (Liverpool)
Analyzing Musical Emotion: Fear in Schubert
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8 February
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Prof. Laurenz Luetteken (Univerität Zürich)
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1 March
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Dr. Joanna Bullivant (Nottingham) Communist Anti-Colonialism:
Empire and Nationalism in Alan Bush’s The Sugar Reapers
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15 March
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Dr. Simon Barber (Birmingham City)
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29 March
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Prof. Penelope Gouk (Manchester)
Music and Spirit in Early Modern Thought
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Autumn 2010/11
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12 October
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Prof. Glenda Dawn Goss (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki)
Biography in Musical Scholarship Today
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26 October
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Dr. Ben Winters (Oxford)
Moments of Desperation and Peril: Hollywood and Concert Performance
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09 November
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Prof. Adam Krims (Nottingham)
What is a Musically Creative City?
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23 November
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Dr. Robert Adlington (Nottingham)
"Van oranje tot rood”: Louis Andriessen's Volkslied and the "Internationale"
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07 December
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Dr. William Quillen (Cambridge)
Cage in the USSR
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Music Colloquia 2009/10
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23 February
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Prof Mark Evan Bonds (North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
'The Spatial Representation of Musical Form’
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9 March
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Dr Ingrid Sykes (Warwick)
'Blindness and the Romantic Virtuoso’
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23 March
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Dr Andy Fry (Kings College London)
‘Remembrance of Jazz Past: Sidney Bechet in 50s France’
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6 October
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Professor Stephen Rumph (Washington)
Allegory and Ideology in Beethoven’s Fidelio
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20 October
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Dr. Benjamin Piekut (Southampton)
Experimental Subjectivity: Charlotte Moorman and John Cage
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3 November
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Dr. Nanette Nielsen (Nottingham)
Music, Beauty, and Ethics
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17 November
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Dr. David Code (Glasgow)
Debussy’s Figures of Modern Listening (a Prolegomenon)
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1 December
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Dr. Timothy Hughes (Surrey)
The Riff of the Century’: The Paradoxical History and Nature of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Superstition’
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