Dr Paul Fleet
Lecturer in Music

  • Email: paul.fleet@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 3577
  • Personal Website: www.paulfleet.co.uk
  • Address: Address: International Centre for Music Studies,
    School of Arts and Cultures,
    University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
    Newcastle upon Tyne,
    NE1 7RU

Background

Paul completed his PhD in March 2007 under the supervision of Prof. David Clarke. He has since published a monograph titled Ferruccio Busoni: A Phenomenological Approach to his Music and Aesthetics (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009): ISBN 978-3-8383-2390-9 (Available through Amazon).  Paul is Lecturer in Music and Degree Programme Director for the BA in Contemporary and Popular Music at Newcastle University, where he is also the Head of Music Skills provision across the department's four degree programmes and is Chair of Undergraduate Board of Studies.  His research interests include metatonal musics, fusion musics, progressive rock guitar techniques, embodied learning strategies, and phenomenology.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Chair of Undergraduate Board of Studies

- Lecturer in Music 

- Degree Programme Director BA in Contemporary and Popular Music

- University Programme Coordinator for the FdA in Music Production and the FdA in Popular Music for Newcastle College

- Research supervisor for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students

 

Most Recent External Activities

 - Lecture on Ferruccio Busoni and Time-Consciousness given to Master's Students at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (25th March 2013)

- Chair of Board of Examiners for the Foundation Degrees in Music Production and Popular Music at Newcastle College (2011 - present). 

- External Academic Representative for the revalidation of BA (HONS) Music Enterprise course at Newcastle College (2011).

- External Academic Representative for the revalidation of Foundation Degree in Popular Music Performance and Production at City College Norwich (2011).

- External Academic Representative for the validation of the BA in Creative Practice at City College Norwich (2011).


 

Research Interests

  • The practice, development and theory of 'Music Skills'
  • Embodiment Learning Strategies for the teaching of music theory
  • Analysis as a practical tool for the exploration of music
  • The music and aesthetics of Ferruccio Busoni
  • The fin-de-siècle period and the 'de-tonation' of harmony

Other Expertise

  • Schenkerian Analysis
  • Post-Tonal Theory
  • The music and technique of Steve Vai
  • Minimalism, particularly Philip Glass and John Tavener

Future Research

  • ‘Revelling in the Bins?: Towards a Postmodern Analysis of the “Other”’ with John Ayers (University of Newcastle): Following a productive collaboration on an undergraduate module concerning Postmodernism, John and I are working on explorative techniques with regard to postmodern popular musics and, in particular, his compositions as part of Guessmen.
  • 'The Vanity Project': a group formed between myself and Graham Parker that involves current and past students from across the four degree programmes in writing and recording original popular and contemporary music.

Undergraduate Teaching

Module Leader and Lecturer

MUS_AURAL: Music Skills (Aural Training) 

MUS1020: Music Skills (Common Practice)

MUS1023: Contemporary Musical Materials 

MUS1030: Music Skills (Vernacular) 

MUS1050: Music Skills (Folk and Traditional)

MUS2044: Practising Music Analysis 

MUS2050: Music Skills 2 (Folk and Traditional) 

MUS3095: Music Enterprise (Semester 2)  


Lecturer 

MUS3013: Major Specialist Study Dissertation

MUS3015: Major Specialist Study Project

MUS3017: Minor Specialist Study Dissertation 

MUS3019: Minor Specialist Study Project 


 

Postgraduate Teaching

Supervisor for Dan Dixon on MMus Programme