Music Research Seminars
Seminars take place on Wednesdays 4.30 – 6.00pm in the
CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University. They are free of charge and open to all. The seminars are given by a mix of ICMuS staff and visiting speakers and cover a wide range of topics in musicology, music education, performance and composition. An archive of past seminars can be viewed here.
Semester 2, 2010/11
January 19 (Research Beehive 2.20): Mini-symposium on medieval song hosted in association with the Medieval & Early Modern Studies research group:
• Helen Deeming (RHUL): Songs and Sermons in Thirteenth-Century England
• Margaret Connolly (St Andrews U.): The Nun, the Squire and the Great Letter: Visionary Devotion and Intercession in Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire
February 9 Vic Gammon & Emily Portman (Newcastle U.), Five-Time in English Traditional Song
February 16 Martin Pickard (Opera North), J. N. von Poißl and Opera in Early Nineteenth-Century Munich
February 23 Yvon Bonenfant (Winchester U.), Making Work from Touch/Making Work that Touches
March 2 Fintan Vallely (Dundalk Institute of Technology/TCD), Head Space, Community and Place in Traditional Music
March 16 Martin Stokes (Oxford U.), How Big is Ethnomusicology? An Inquiry into the Category of Scale
March 23 Holly Rodgers (Liverpool U.), Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music
May 4 Francisco J. Mora Contreras (University of Alicante, Spain), Carmen Dauset Moreno: First muse of American cinema