The Royal Musical Association

Wed 18 Jan

U of Glasgow

George Biddlecombe (Royal Academy of Music): Femininity, Culture, and Commerce: Sheet Music Illustration and Popular Song as Promotional Vehicles for 19th-century Female Opera Singers

Thu 19 Jan

U of Edinburgh

Warwick Edwards (Glasgow University): Words and Music, c.1500: The Humanistic Fallacy

Thu 26 Jan

U of Edinburgh

Paul Harkins (Edinburgh Napier University): Tomorrow’s Music Today: The Fairlight CMI and early experiments in digital sampling

Wed 1 Feb

U of Glasgow

Laura Tunbridge (University of Manchester): Lieder in London Between the Wars

Thu 2 Feb

U of Edinburgh

Trevor Wishart

Wed 8 Feb

U of Glasgow

Jean-Luc Guionnet (Improviser, Composer, Theorist and Artist): Propositions for an Inhabited Architecture of Listening

Thu 9 Feb

U of Aberdeen

Dr Adrienne Janus (Aberdeen University)

Thu 9 Feb

U of Edinburgh

Heike Fricke (Berlin): Origins of the British Sound: London Clarinets in the 18th century

Wed 15 Feb

U of Glasgow

Rachel Beckles Wilson (Royal Holloway, University of London): Music and Doing Good

Thu 16 Feb

U of Aberdeen

Dr Eduardo Miranda (University of Plymouth)

Thu 16 Feb

U of Edinburgh

Ann Heymann (Minnesota): Lecture-performance: ‘Reconstructing Gaelic harp performance practice through musicological and organological research’

Wed 22 Feb

U of Glasgow

Annette Davison (University of Edinburgh): ‘A beautiful mine’?: Title Sequences for Contemporary Television Serials

Thu 23 Feb at 3pm

U of Edinburgh

Kieran Curran: ‘White Trash That Talks Back’ – The Fall and ‘primitive/avant garde’

Thu 23 Feb

U of Edinburgh

Sean Williams: Noise and Fidelity: Poles apart?

Thu 1 Mar

U of Aberdeen

Dr Frances Wilkins (Aberdeen University)

Thu 1 Mar

U of Edinburgh

John Cunningham (Bangor University): ‘I have brought you variety of noises’: Ben Jonson and Music, beyond the Seventeenth Century

Fri/Sat 2–3 Mar

The Arches, Glasgow

Sound Thought 2012. Organised by postgraduate music students at the U of Glasgow to provide a platform for music composition, performance and scholarship, and to bring music research to public audiences. With financial support from the RMA.

Thu 8 Mar

U of Aberdeen

3 Cities: Prof Stollery, Dr Suk-Kim, Ross Whyte

Thu 8 Mar

U of Edinburgh

David Irving (King’s College, London): Psalms (Mazmur) and Hymns (Tahlil) in the Malay World, 1600–1900

Wed 14 Mar

U of Glasgow

Tony Myatt (University of York): New Aesthetics in Computer Music

Thu 15 Mar

U of Aberdeen

Nicola Miller (Aberdeen University)

Thu 15 Mar

U of Edinburgh

Herbert Heyde (New York): Four lutes of 1594 – built or not built on proportions?

Thu 22 Mar

U of Aberdeen

Professor Keith Howard (University of Sydney)

Thu 22 Mar

U of Edinburgh

Gill French: Follow the Band: Scottish Borders Brass Bands and the Common Ridings
Lisa Norman: Some novel approaches to brass instrument organology

Thu 29 Mar

U of Edinburgh

Pedro Rebelo (Queen's University Belfast): Distributed Performance: Collaborative Strategies in the Network

Thu 5 Apr

U of Edinburgh

Lauren Hayes: (A)live Electronics: Multimodal and enactive approaches to digital music from the performer's perspective
Nearchos Panos: The evolution of the musical and cultural genre of Lullaby in the repertoire music of Western Europe and its establishment as a musical topos during the Romantic period

Thu 19 Apr

U of Aberdeen

Joan Cumming (Aberdeen University)