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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Recording practices of classical music |
Supervisor: |
Nicholas Cook |
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PhD Part-time |
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'Wunderkinder' - Musical prodigies in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European concert life |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Clive Brown |
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DPhil Full-time |
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Subject: |
Nineteenth-Century English Oratorio Festivals: Monuments to the Masses |
Supervisor: |
Roger Allen |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Composition |
Supervisor: |
Dr Michael Zev Gordon |
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PhD Part-time |
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Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University |
Subject: |
Music technology in school education |
Supervisor: |
Mr Lewis Jones |
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PhD Full-time |
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The Expression of Passions in Baroque Dance |
Supervisors: |
Dr Caroline Wood and Dr Graham Sadler |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The repertoire, performance and reception of chamber music in the suburbs of Edwardian London, 1895-1915 |
Supervisor: |
Dr Christina Bashford |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
The life of and enculturation in the music of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins |
Supervisor: |
Dr Malcolm Floyd |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
A Critical Re-Evaluation of Taneyev's 'Oresteia' |
Supervisors: |
Dr. Stephen Muir and Professor Clive Brown |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Modernism and modernity in Portuguese music of the first half of the twentieth century: interdisciplinary approaches to the role and eclectic work of Luis de Freitas Branco (1890-19955) |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Nicholas Cook |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
The music manuscripts 1600 to 1850 in the National Library of Scotland in the context of printed contemporary sources with special reference to the relationship between vocal and instrumental Scottish repertories. (working title) |
Supervisors: |
David Smith and James Porter |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Musical Criticism of Herbert Thompson |
Supervisors: |
Dr Rachel Cowgill and Dr Bryan White & Dr Michael Allis |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Composition Portfolio |
Supervisors: |
Philip Cashian and Brian Lock |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
'In search of a nation's music': The role of the Royal College of Music in re-establishing Britain's musical identity, 1883-1924 |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Jeremy Dibble |
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DPhil Full-time |
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Subject: |
Music in late medieval Warwick |
Supervisor: |
David Skinner |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Robertson Scrapbook: A Biographical, Contextual and Analytical Study of W. J. Robertson and his Writings as Music Journalist in Manchester 1882-7 |
Supervisor: |
Dr Barry Cooper |
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DPhil Full-time |
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Subject: |
Musical modernism and socialism in Britain, 1929-39 |
Supervisor: |
Professor Jonathan Cross |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Images of the Middle East in Eighteenth-century Opera |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Julian Rushton |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Perspectives on Rock Music (Notions of Value and Meaning in Modern Popular Music) |
Supervisor: |
Dr Sarah Hill |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Portfolio of Original Compositions |
Supervisors: |
Dr. Mic Spencer and Prof. Philip Wilby |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Music and Politics at the Court of Elizabeth I |
Supervisors: |
Stephen Rose and Elizabeth Eva Leech |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The late orchestral works of William Walton: An analytical and critical re-evaluation |
Supervisor: |
Prof. David Cooper |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Struggling at the margins: musical education in Lisbon (1860-1910) |
Supervisor: |
Katharine Ellis |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Schenker's Chopin: the analyses from the Ernst Oster Collection at the New York Public Library |
Supervisor: |
Dr William Drabkin |
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Mode: |
PhD Part-time |
Institution: |
Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University |
Subject: |
The Yidaki (Didjeridu) |
Supervisor: |
Lewis Jones |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Portfolio of Compositions with commentary |
Supervisor: |
Dr Anthony Powers |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Sacred Cantatas Printed in Bologna in the Seventeenth Century |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Colin Timms |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Relationship of Music and Theology in Early Methodism |
Supervisor: |
Dr Bennett Zon |
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Mode: |
DMus Part-time |
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Subject: |
The Chamber Music of Ernő Dohnányi; Innovation and Tradition |
Supervisors: |
Prof. Colin Lawson and Jane Roper |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Portfolio of Compositions with commentary |
Supervisor: |
Dr Anthony Powers |
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PhD Part-time |
Institution: |
School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield |
Subject: |
Opera in Manchester in the Victorian Era, 1837-1901 |
Supervisor: |
Dr Graham Cummings |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The manuscript Bologna University 2216 |
Supervisor: |
Prof. David Fallows |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
An Evaluative Theory of Music: Investigating the forces that drive us to achieve music in composition, performance and listening |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Nicholas Cook |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Music for the Privy Chamber: Studies in the Consort Music of William Lawes (1602-45) |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Peter Holman |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
The interaction of words and music in the Shakespeare settings of Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine): Writer/composer; score/performance. |
Supervisors: |
John Rink and Erik Levi |
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PhD Part-time |
Institution: |
Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University |
Subject: |
The Baroque bassoon: its form, construction, development, acoustics, and playing qualities |
Supervisor: |
Dr Lewis Jones |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Perceptual and emotional responses to tonal and atonal music |
Supervisors: |
Dr Elaine King and Dr Alastair Borthwick |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Working area: The Northern Mythologies in the History of Metal Music and Culture. |
Supervisors: |
Dr Michael Allis and Simon Warner |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Aesthetic and Ideological trends in the reception of Mendelssohn's orchestral music in mid-nineteenth-century Germany |
Supervisors: |
James Garratt and Crawford Howie |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Music as an academic discipline in British universities c.1890-1935 |
Supervisor: |
Dr Christina Bashford |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Musical spaces: exploring the interaction between performers, audiences and concert venues |
Supervisors: |
Dr Stephanie Pitts and Prof. Chris Spencer |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Role of the Puppet in European Musical Modernism |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Katharine Ellis |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
The performance practice of English provincial church music c.1700-1850 |
Supervisor: |
Dr Peter Holman |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
The Pierrot Ensembles |
Supervisor: |
Christopher Wintle |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The life and works of Gottlieb Muffat |
Supervisors: |
Professor Yo Tomita and Professor Ian Woodfield |
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MPhil Full-time |
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Subject: |
Evolution and retrospection in the chamber music of Arthur Bliss |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Bruce Wood |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Key Characteristics and Meaning in Beethoven's Vocal Music |
Supervisor: |
Dr. David Wyn Jones |
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PhD Full-time |
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Working thesis title: "Historiographyzthe problem of the year 1600; Performance practice in the lighter vocal forms of Sigismondo d''India." |
Supervisors: |
Jonathan Wainwright and John Potter |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Music Making in Eighteenth Century Durham City (1710-1811) |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Jeremy Dibble |
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PhD Full-time |
Institution: |
Department of Music, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London |
Subject: |
The Culture of Jazz Improvisation, a hermeneutical study |
Supervisor: |
Keith Howard |
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MMus Full-time |
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Subject: |
Social music-making in England |
Supervisor: |
Dr Jonathan Impett |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Music as daemonic voice in late 18th- and early 19th-century German culture |
Supervisor: |
Dr Matthew Head |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Learning the lute in early modern England |
Supervisor: |
Dr. Jeanice Brooks |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Marcel Dupré: an aesthetical and philosophical approach to the interpretation of his organ works demonstrated through performance |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Graham Barber |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
'What shall we do with Music?': Music and Academia in Victorian Britain. |
Supervisor: |
Katharine Ellis |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Aspiring to Manliness: Issues of Masculinity and Imperialism in the Life and Works of Edward Elgar |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Nicholas Cook |
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MMus Full-time |
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Subject: |
Music and manuscript culture in late-medieval French and Burgundian lay devotion |
Supervisor: |
David Trendell |
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Mode: |
PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Frames of Reference: The Aesthetics of Music Titled after a Painting |
Supervisors: |
Dr Charles Wilson and Dr Ken Gloag |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Interwar Piano Music of Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Perspectives from performance and analysis |
Supervisors: |
Deborah Mawer and Ed Venn |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Analysis and tempo fluctuations of Hans Swarowsky; his legacy to conducting in the 21st century. |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Robin Stowell |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Arabic Islamic Cultural Influence on the Jewish Paraliturgical Song |
Supervisor: |
Dr Ruth Davis |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
The transverse flute in the 16th and 17th centuries: a history and handbook of performance techniques and repertoire |
Supervisor: |
Dr Peter Holman |
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MMus Full-time |
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Subject: |
Accompanied Keyboard Music, c. 1670–1710 |
Supervisor: |
Dr Peter Holman |
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Mode: |
DMus Part-time |
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Subject: |
The Vocal Quartets of Johannes Brahms |
Supervisor: |
Dr. Natasha Loges |
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Mode: |
PhD Part-time |
Institution: |
School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield |
Subject: |
An exploration into the uses of extended techniques in works for the saxophone, and how their application may be informed by a contextual understanding of the works themselves. |
Supervisors: |
Dr Philip Thomas and Dr. James Saunders |
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PhD Full-time |
Institution: |
International Centre for Music Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
Subject: |
An approach to Hermetic composition theory and techniques: Historical enquiry and portfolio of original compositions |
Supervisors: |
Dr Agustín Fernández and Dr Paul Attinello |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Aspects of the Role of Music in Twenty-First-Century Anglican Monasticism |
Supervisor: |
Professor John Irving |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The absorption of information-theoretical ideas into music analysis and composition, its roots and influence. |
Supervisor: |
Dr Jonathan Impett |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
(mis)understanding complexity: disentangling the strands in individual and group identity in British New Music from 'Transit' to Toop (1977-88). |
Supervisors: |
Dr. Michael Spencer and Dr. Lois Fitch |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Music, Gender, Film noir: The RKO scores of Roy Webb |
Supervisors: |
Prof. David Cooper and Dr Rachel Cowgill |
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DPhil Full-time |
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Subject: |
The English Music Trade c.1647-1720 |
Supervisor: |
Dr Hélène La Rue |
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PhD Part-time |
Institution: |
International Centre for Music Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
Subject: |
Sounding Trauma in the Postmodern Era:American Classical Music Responses to the Holocaust, AIDS and 9/11 Since 1980 |
Supervisors: |
Dr Paul G. Attinello and Professor David Clarke |
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DPhil Full-time |
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Subject: |
Mapping the high-low debate in Erik Satie’s circle: A case study of modernism, entertainment and suburbia in early twentieth-century Paris |
Supervisor: |
Prof Peter Franklin |
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PhD Part-time |
Institution: |
International Centre for Music Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
Subject: |
Border Ballads |
Supervisors: |
Vic Gammon and Sandra Kerr |
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Mode: |
DMus Part-time |
Institution: |
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Subject: |
Psychology (with a focus on emotion) and film music |
Supervisor: |
Dr Aaron Williamon |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Religious, national identity and gender in Newman's poem and Elgar's oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius |
Supervisors: |
Dr Barbara Kelly and Mr J. McLaverty |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
French Grand Opéra in Nineteenth-Century London |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Roger Parker |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Cello Performing Tradition on Record: An Empirical Analysis |
Supervisor: |
Dr Stephen Cottrell and Tim Crawford |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The social ontology of music |
Supervisor: |
Dr Alastair Williams |
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MPhil Part-time |
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Subject: |
Composition |
Supervisors: |
Prof. Philip Wilby and Dr Mic Spencer |
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MPhil Part-time |
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Subject: |
Free Composition |
Supervisors: |
Philip Wilby and Derek Scott |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Fantasias and Sonatas of Henry Purcell |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Laurence Dreyfus |
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Mode: |
PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Composition |
Supervisor: |
Professor Anthony Powers |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Fatalisms in nineteenth-century instrumental music |
Supervisor: |
Prof. John Deathridge |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Chapel Royal Part-Books in Eighteenth-Century England |
Supervisor: |
Rebecca Herissone |
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PhD Part-time |
Institution: |
Department of Music and Performance, Thames Valley University |
Subject: |
The Life and Main Published Songs of Robin Milford |
Supervisor: |
Prof. John Howard |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Evolution of Modernism in the Chamber Music of Frank Bridge |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Stephen Banfield |
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DPhil |
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Subject: |
Ancient Greek Music and its Heirs: Reflections of ancient musical theory and practice in contemporary European and Near Eastern traditional music. |
Supervisor: |
Prof. David Osmond Smith |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Cello Performance Practice in the Nineteenth Century |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Clive Brown |
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PhD Part-time |
Institution: |
School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield |
Subject: |
British Harpsichord Repertoire: 1714-60 |
Supervisor: |
Dr Graham Cummings |
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PhD Full-time |
Institution: |
Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University |
Subject: |
Piano-making in nineteenth-century England: an investigation of the workforce. |
Supervisor: |
Lewis Jones |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Dreamscapes and the nocturnal in the music of Benjamin Britten |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Mervyn Cooke |
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MPhil Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Rise of Modern Opera and Apotheosis of Lyric Theatre in Cadiz under Fernando VII (1816-1830) - From its Restoration to Ópera Italiana in the age of Rossini |
Supervisor: |
David Charlton |
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Subject: |
Music in Transmission: Constructing French Cultural Memory at the BBC |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Katharine Ellis |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Madame Vestris and the Royal Olympic Theatre |
Supervisor: |
Dr Rachel Cowgill |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Aesthetics of Improvisation in Frederic Rzewski's solo piano works |
Supervisors: |
Dr Peter Johnson and Prof. Mark Racz |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Audio-analgesia and Musical Rehabilitation: An Investigation into Chronic, Post-operativeand Recuperative Phases of Pain |
Supervisors: |
Professor Nigel Osborne and Professor Ian Power |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Audio-Visual Composition Portfolio |
Supervisors: |
Dr Ewan Stefani and Prof David Cooper |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Handel's use of flauto and traverso with particular reference to his chamber music |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Robin Stowell |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The Tonus Peregrinus in the Polyphony of the Western Church |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Michael Talbot |
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Mode: |
PhD |
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Subject: |
Musical Life in 18th- and 19th-century Chester |
Supervisor: |
Dr Rachel Cowgill |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
British representations of non-European musicians in the other popular arts in the long nineteenth century, with a focus on H. Rider Haggard and issues of orientalism, gender and sexuality |
Supervisor: |
Dr Bennett Zon |
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PhD Part-time |
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Subject: |
Acceptance and Approval: George Gershwin and early 20th-century American culture |
Supervisors: |
Dr Kevin Malone and Prof. David Fanning |
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Mode: |
PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Harmony, Tonality and Structure in Vaughan Williams's Music |
Supervisor: |
Dr Ken Gloag |
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Mode: |
PhD Full-time |
Institution: |
Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University |
Subject: |
The Distribution, Dispersal, and Decline of the ‘Citole’ in the Latin West, circa 1200-1400 |
Supervisor: |
Lewis Jones |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
The representation of subjectivity in the music of Charles Ives |
Supervisor: |
Dr Ken Gloag |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
Cultural codes and hierarchies in the mid-cinquecento villotta |
Supervisor: |
Dr Laurie Stras |
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PhD Part-time |
Institution: |
Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University |
Subject: |
Pitch Resources for New Music: An Integrated Approach to Instrument Development and Composition |
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Lewis jones and Javier Garavaglia |
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PhD Part-time |
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Scottish music collecting (1801-1878) and the shaping of Scottish music history |
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Dr Warwick Edwards |
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PhD Part-time |
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The creative process of improvisation in Cuban Charanga performance, with a specific focus on the work of Richard Egües and Orquesta Aragón |
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Dr Kevin Dawe and Dr Luke Windsor |
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MPhil Part-time |
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Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University |
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The English cello 1750 - 1820 : its characteristics and principal makers |
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Lewis Jones and Michael Fleming |
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PhD Full-time |
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La Péri, poème dansé (1911, Paul Dukas) in its cultural, historical and interdisciplinary contexts |
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Dr. Deborah Mawer |
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PhD Full-time |
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Parisian msuical life during the first world war. |
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Prof. Katharine Ellis |
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PhD Full-time |
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The musical press in Spain during the earlier Francisco Franco´s regime (1939 - mid 1950s) |
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Erik Levi |
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PhD Full-time |
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Sacralizing Secular Society: Musical Theatre as Liturgy |
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Prof. Stephen Banfield |
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PhD Part-time |
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Roman Catholic church music in Scotland 1800-1950 |
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Dr David Smith and Dr Edward Campbell |
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PhD Full-time |
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Understanding The Rite of Spring Through the Creative Responses of Listeners |
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Prof. Nicholas Cook |
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PhD Full-time |
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Vasilis Tsitsanis as composer and performer:An analysis and critical assessment of his songsfrom commercial recordings |
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Kevin Dawe and Derek B. Scott |
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PhD Full-time |
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Joseph Haydn's German Lieder: Context - Criticism - Reception |
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Philip Weller |
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PhD Part-time |
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Angelica Catalani: a singer's negotiation of operatic London |
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Prof. Katharine Ellis and Gilli Bush-Bailey |
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PhD Part-time |
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A Schenkerian/Semiotic Approach to Tonality in the Music of Cark Nielsen |
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Dr David Fanning |
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PhD Part-time |
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The life and works of Frederic H. Cowen (1852-1935) |
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Dr Jeremy Dibble |
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PhD Full-time |
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Postmodernism, Minimalism and the New Musicology |
Supervisors: |
Dr Kenneth Gloag and Prof. Christopher Norris |
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PhD |
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Silence and Music as Expressed in Twentieth-Century Choral Music of the English Cathedral Tradition |
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Dr. Bennett Zon |
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PhD Full-time |
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Twentieth Century Russian Music as Transcendental Art |
Supervisor: |
Dr Robert Adlington |
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PhD Full-time |
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Studies in the film soundtracks of Derek Jarman |
Supervisor: |
Dr Rachel Cowgill |
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PhD Full-time |
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The Piano Music of Vianna da Motta and Related Repertoire |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Graham Barber |
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DPhil Part-time |
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The origin and development of Roman Oratorio from the Oratory established by St Filippo Neri (1515-1595), including his contribution in establishing a central focus for its future development and use as a counter Reformation initiative. |
Supervisor: |
Dr Nicholas McKay |
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PhD Full-time |
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Portfolio of Compositions with written commentary focusing on the use of mathematical processes and the creation of a microtonal triple harp. |
Supervisors: |
Dr Michael Spencer and Dr Kia Ng |
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PhD Full-time |
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Finding the Time: Aspects of Time Signatures and Tempo in the Music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier |
Supervisors: |
Dr Shirley Thompson and Prof. Ronald Woodley |
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PhD |
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The role of the recorder as a symbol in Vanitas art |
Supervisor: |
Mr Anthony Pryer |
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PhD Full-time |
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Analysis and lyric melody: style and aesthetics in the mature Beethoven and his contemporaries |
Supervisors: |
Nicholas Cook and Stephen Rose |
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PhD Full-time |
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Nostalgia in Francis Poulenc's Instrumental Sonatas |
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Dr Deborah Mawer |
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PhD Full-time |
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Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University |
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The nineteenth-century Viennese guitar and its influence in North America: form, use, stringing, and gender associations. |
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Lewis Jones |
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PhD Full-time |
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Modernity on record: performances of Webern |
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Prof. Daniel Leech-Wilkinson |
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PhD Full-time |
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School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield |
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Approaching the flute music of Astor Piazzolla (1921 -1992) for interpretation and performance |
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Dr. Philip Thomas and Dr. Monty Adkins |
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PhD Part-time |
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Department of Music and Sound Recording, University of Surrey |
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Shaping A Line: On the Blues Antecedents of Eric Clapton's Style. |
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Professor Allan Moore and Dr Timothy Hughes |
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PhD Part-time |
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Assessment of the collaboration between Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Harry Kessler in stage works prior to 1914 |
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Dr Fiona Jane Schopf (Rose Bruford College) and Dr John London |
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PhD Part-time |
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The consort suite in the German speaking lands, 1660-1710 |
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Dr Peter Holman |
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PhD Full-time |
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Mainstreams and Cross-currents in post-war Italian 'new' music 1943-1960. |
Supervisors: |
Dr Tim Howell and Dr Jenny Doctor |
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PhD Full-time |
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Joachim and his successors on the violin: a performance practice study of Auer, Schnirlin and Rabinof |
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Dr. Kenneth Hamilton |
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PhD Full-time |
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The Life and Career of Sir Henry Rowley Bishop |
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Dr Rachel Cowgill |
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PhD Part-time |
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Scoring the Score: the Role of the Orchestrator as Exemplified in the Film Scores of Trevor Jones |
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Prof. David Cooper |
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PhD Full-time |
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Mátyás Seiber: Composition in Exile |
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Dr Erik Levi and Dr Rachel Beckles-Willson |
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PhD Full-time |
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Nederpop in New Europe |
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Prof. Adam Krims |
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PhD Part-time |
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Ottaviano Petrucci's Lamentationum liber primus and liber secundus (1506/1 and 1506/2); a bibliographical, contextual and analytical study. |
Supervisor: |
Dr Fabrice Fitch |
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PhD Part-time |
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Digital Sampling of Bodily Sound in Contemporary Composition: towards an embodied analysis |
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Dr Catherine Laws and Dr David Prior |
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PhD Part-time |
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Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University |
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The application of modern manufacturing technology to the production of traditional Indian musical instruments |
Supervisors: |
Lewis Jones and Dipti Bhagat |
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PhD Part-time |
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Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten and the Collapse of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Operatic Project |
Supervisors: |
John Deathridge and Roger Parker |
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DPhil Full-time |
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“That’s me in the corner…”: The band REM (1980-1991) and the Alternative Rock Movement. |
Supervisors: |
Dr. Kevin Dawe and Simon Warner |
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PhD Full-time |
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School of Music, Media and Performance, University of Salford |
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Northern Soul: Identity, Subjectivity and Music Cultures |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Derek Scott |
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PhD Part-time |
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The absorption of seconda prattica techniques within English sacred vocal music during the seventeenth century |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Peter Aston |
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PhD Full-time |
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Leon Goossens: A forgotten legacy |
Supervisors: |
Dr Michael Allis and Dr Bryan White |
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PhD Full-time |
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Music Publishing and Compositional Activity in Restoration England, 1650-1700 |
Supervisor: |
Dr. Rebecca Herissone |
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PhD Full-time |
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Spiritual Conflict in Mahler's First and Second Symphonies |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Julian Rushton |
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PhD |
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Rehabilitating the Canon: A History of Handel's Messiah in Performance |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Nicholas Cook |
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MMus Full-time |
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Feria and Cantigas: rotated cycle of thematic-identities and textural transformation in Magnus Lindberg's late orchestral music |
Supervisor: |
Julian Anderson |
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PhD Full-time |
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The promotion, popularisation and consumption of classical music since the 1990s |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Nicholas Cook |
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PhD Full-time |
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Rhetoric and the Discourse of Free Improvised Music |
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Dr Jonathan Impett |
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PhD |
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Theorising the Film Musical |
Supervisor: |
Prof. David Cooper |
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PhD Part-time |
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Composition - A Contrarian Application of Huron's Theory of Musical Expectation |
Supervisors: |
Dr Mic Spencer and Dr Ewan Stefani |
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PhD Full-time |
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Adorno's Augenblick and the Ethics of late Beethoven |
Supervisor: |
Dr Daniel Chua |
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PhD Part-time |
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The Performance Teacher as Music Analyst; Ways of bridging the gap between performance and analysis |
Supervisor: |
Dr Luke Windsor |
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DPhil Part-time |
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The relationship between acts of performance and traces of performance in experimental music and performance art from 1950-1985 |
Supervisors: |
Prof. David Osmond-Smith and Dr Paul Davies |
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DPhil Full-time |
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Historicism and Cultural Politics in Three Interwar-Period Operas by Richard Strauss: 'Arabella' (1933), 'Die schweigsame Frau' (1935) and 'Friedenstag' (1938) |
Supervisor: |
Peter Franklin |
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PhD Full-time |
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Rewriting Composers' Lives: critical historiography and musical biography, 1850-1950 |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Katharine Ellis |
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PhD Full-time |
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Musical Borrowing in Hip-hop Music: Theoretical Frameworks and Case Studies |
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Prof. Adam Krims |
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PhD Full-time |
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Social History of New Classical Music in London in the 20th Century |
Supervisors: |
Katharine Ellis and Henry Stobart |
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PhD Full-time |
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Tracking Pop: Cover Versions, Remixes,zMash-ups in Popular Music |
Supervisor: |
Nicholas Cook |
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PhD Full-time |
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Subject: |
ierre Boulez: Compositions and Discourse at the Turn of the Century |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Jonathan Dunsby |
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PhD Full-time |
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English Keyboard Sources and their Context, c. 1660-1720 |
Supervisor: |
Dr Peter Holman |
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PhD Full-time |
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The influence of Christian Gottlob Neefe on Ludwig van Beethoven |
Supervisor: |
Dr Barry Cooper |
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PhD Full-time |
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Canon in Popular Music |
Supervisor: |
Dr Kenneth Gloag |
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PhD Part-time |
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Social networks and popular music-making in 19th-century Bedfordshire |
Supervisor: |
Prof. Trevor Herbert |