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, 2012:
15th February, Dr Desi Wilkinson (Lecturer, Newcastle University): From Donegal to Senegal: An experience of the process of collaboration in intercultural ensemble practice.
February 22nd, Dr Phillip Tagg, (Senior Professor (retired) Université de Montréal): Troubles with Tonal Terminology and the Symbiosis of Epistemic Inertia.
February 29th, Dr Vic Gammon (Senior Lecturer (retired) ICMuS): Approaches to the history of Bell ringing in the Nineteenth Century.
March 7th, Internal Assessment Seminar.
March 14th, David Stackenas with Bennett Hogg (Leading Swedish improvising guitarist David Stackenas with Bennett Hogg, Lecturer ICMuS): Improvisation and extended guitar techniques.
22nd April, Dawn Weatherston (ICMUS staff and Doctoral candidate at Durham University): The pursuit and creation of opportunity: perspectives from a study of entrepreneurial music students in the North East of England.
2nd May, Dr Martin Iddon (Senior Lecturer in Music, School of Music, University of Leeds): The Accidental Serialists, or, the Darmstadt School and how it got that way.
May (date tbc), Ed Cross (PhD candidate Newcastle University): Musical timing in early-twentieth century violin playing.
Semester 1, 2011:
12th October, Dr Jamie Savan (Lecturer and Head of Performance, Newcastle University): From hornet to cornett: in search of the ‘missing link’.
26th October, Marie Thompson (Doctoral candidate, Newcastle University): Productive Parasites: Thinking of Noise as Affect.
2nd November, Professor S. David Wall (Criminology, SASS, Durham University): 'Intellectual property’ Copyright law and music.
16th November, Dr Tony Langlois (MI college, University of Limerick): "Reggada": Tradition, Pop Music and Islam in Eastern Morocco.
23rd November, Elodie Roy (Newcastle PG student): Ghost Box Records- Phantoms in the Phonograph.
30th November, Dr Martin Parker, (Lecturer, Edinburgh University): Strategies for improvisation with live electronics.
7th December, Professor David Clarke, (Newcastle University): Consciousness in Indian thought and Indian classical music.
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