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Email:

mup208@bangor.ac.uk

Mode:

MPhil Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Wales, Bangor

Subject:

Evolution and retrospection in the chamber music of Arthur Bliss

Supervisor:

Prof. Bruce Wood

Email:

carriechurnside@hotmail.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Birmingham

Subject:

Sacred Cantatas Printed in Bologna in the Seventeenth Century

Supervisor:

Prof. Colin Timms

Email:

muxpn@bristol.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Bristol

Subject:

Sacralizing Secular Society: Musical Theatre as Liturgy

Supervisor:

Prof. Stephen Banfield

Email:

mr304@cam.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge

Subject:

The Arabic Islamic Cultural Influence on the Jewish Paraliturgical Song

Supervisor:

Dr Ruth Davis

Email:

mch49@cam.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge

Subject:

French Grand Opéra in Nineteenth-Century London

Supervisor:

Prof. Roger Parker

Email:

garethchurchill@hotmail.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, Cardiff University

Subject:

Portfolio of Compositions with commentary

Supervisor:

Dr Anthony Powers

Email:

CookeP1@Cardiff.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, Cardiff University

Subject:

Portfolio of Compositions with commentary

Supervisor:

Dr Anthony Powers

Email:

keith_griffiths@hotmail.com

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, Cardiff University

Subject:

Analysis and tempo fluctuations of Hans Swarowsky; his legacy to conducting in the 21st century.

Supervisor:

Prof. Robin Stowell

Email:

nicola_jayne@hotmail.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, Cardiff University

Subject:

Handel's use of flauto and traverso with particular reference to his chamber music

Supervisor:

Prof. Robin Stowell

Email:

davidmanning@postmaster.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, Cardiff University

Subject:

Harmony, Tonality and Structure in Vaughan Williams's Music

Supervisor:

Dr Ken Gloag

Website:

http://www.geocities.com/davidjmanning2004

Email:

bryanmarshall75@hotmail.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, Cardiff University

Subject:

The representation of subjectivity in the music of Charles Ives

Supervisor:

Dr Ken Gloag

Email:

jonescw2@cf.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, Cardiff University

Subject:

Canon in Popular Music

Supervisor:

Dr Kenneth Gloag

Email:

BeccaLin1@yahoo.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England

Subject:

The Aesthetics of Improvisation in Frederic Rzewski's solo piano works

Supervisors:

Dr Peter Johnson and Prof. Mark Racz

Email:

adecpuk@yahoo.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England

Subject:

Finding the Time: Aspects of Time Signatures and Tempo in the Music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Supervisors:

Dr Shirley Thompson and Prof. Ronald Woodley

Email:

giles@brightwell.com

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Durham University

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

Email:

m.v.clarke@durham.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Durham University

Subject:

The Relationship of Music and Theology in Early Methodism

Supervisor:

Dr Bennett Zon

Website:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.v.clarke/

Email:

simon.fleming@durham.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Durham University

Subject:

Music Making in Eighteenth Century Durham City (1710-1811)

Supervisor:

Prof. Jeremy Dibble

Email:

Christopher.Parker@dur.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Durham University

Subject:

The life and works of Frederic H. Cowen (1852-1935)

Supervisor:

Dr Jeremy Dibble

Email:

p.j.d.scott@durham.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Durham University

Subject:

Ottaviano Petrucci's Lamentationum liber primus and liber secundus (1506/1 and 1506/2); a bibliographical, contextual and analytical study.

Supervisor:

Dr Fabrice Fitch

Email:

c.l.walsh@durham.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Durham University

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

Email:

E.Fosbrooke-brown@uea.ac.uk

Mode:

MMus Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of East Anglia

Subject:

Social music-making in England

Supervisor:

Dr Jonathan Impett

Email:

V.Hawes@uea.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of East Anglia

Subject:

The absorption of information-theoretical ideas into music analysis and composition, its roots and influence.

Supervisor:

Dr Jonathan Impett

Email:

john.stevens@uea.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of East Anglia

Subject:

The absorption of seconda prattica techniques within English sacred vocal music during the seventeenth century

Supervisor:

Prof. Peter Aston

Email:

cevill@yahoo.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of East Anglia

Subject:

Rhetoric and the Discourse of Free Improvised Music

Supervisor:

Dr Jonathan Impett

Website:

http://www.cevill.com

Email:

K.McAulay@rsamd.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Glasgow

Subject:

Scottish music collecting (1801-1878) and the shaping of Scottish music history

Supervisor:

Dr Warwick Edwards

Email:

chollier@rcm.ac.uk

Mode:

DMus Part-time

Institution:

Music Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Subject:

Psychology (with a focus on emotion) and film music

Supervisor:

Dr Aaron Williamon

Email:

jl.hong@gold.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Music Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Subject:

A Case study in Prokofiev's Cello Music

Supervisors:

Dr Stephen Cottrell and Dr Craig Ayrey

Email:

mup01agp@gold.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Music Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Subject:

Freemasonry and musical culture in eighteenth-century Britain

Supervisor:

Prof. Simon McVeigh

Email:

recorderplayer@hotmail.com

Mode:

PhD

Institution:

Music Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Subject:

The role of the recorder as a symbol in Vanitas art

Supervisor:

Mr Anthony Pryer

Email:

lizcooper22@aol.com

Mode:

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

Email:

p.kent@hud.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield

Subject:

British Harpsichord Repertoire: 1714-60

Supervisor:

Dr Graham Cummings

Email:

rickybarros@aol.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Music Department, University of Hull

Subject:

The Expression of Passions in Baroque Dance

Supervisors:

Dr Caroline Wood and Dr Graham Sadler

Email:

norma.h@btinternet.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Music Department, Keele University

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

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Music Department, Keele University

Subject:

The social ontology of music

Supervisor:

Dr Alastair Williams

Email:

chris.dromey@tiscali.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Department of Music, King's College, University of London

Subject:

The Pierrot Ensembles

Supervisor:

Christopher Wintle

Email:

alan.d.howard@kcl.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, King's College, University of London

Subject:

The Fantasias and Sonatas of Henry Purcell

Supervisor:

Prof. Laurence Dreyfus

Email:

kieran_philip_hulse@hotmail.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, King's College, University of London

Subject:

Fatalisms in nineteenth-century instrumental music

Supervisor:

Prof. John Deathridge

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, King's College, University of London

Subject:

Adorno's Augenblick and the Ethics of late Beethoven

Supervisor:

Dr Daniel Chua

Email:

stephanieburgis@yahoo.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

Images of the Middle East in Eighteenth-century Opera

Supervisor:

Prof. Julian Rushton

Email:

sally.drage@iclway.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

The performance practice of English provincial church music c.1700-1850

Supervisor:

Dr Peter Holman

Email:

nancy@nhadden.freeserve.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

The transverse flute in the 16th and 17th centuries: a history and handbook of performance techniques and repertoire

Supervisor:

Dr Peter Holman

Email:

mus9cmh@leeds.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

Music, Gender, Film noir: The RKO scores of Roy Webb

Supervisors:

Prof. David Cooper and Dr Rachel Cowgill

Email:

njh@bandsman.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

Composition

Supervisor:

Prof. Philip Wilby

Website:

http://www.bandsman.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

Madame Vestris and the Royal Olympic Theatre

Supervisor:

Dr Rachel Cowgill

Mode:

PhD

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

Musical Life in 18th- and 19th-century Chester

Supervisor:

Dr Rachel Cowgill

Email:

suem@charangadelnorte.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

The creative process of improvisation in Cuban Charanga performance, with a specific focus on the work of Richard Egües and Orquesta Aragón

Supervisors:

Dr Kevin Dawe and Dr Luke Windsor

Email:

musrdp@leeds.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

Studies in the film soundtracks of Derek Jarman

Supervisor:

Dr Rachel Cowgill

Email:

lpipa@iec.uminho.pt

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

The Piano Music of Vianna da Motta and Related Repertoire

Supervisor:

Prof. Graham Barber

Email:

mnrbp@clara.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

The consort suite in the German speaking lands, 1660-1710

Supervisor:

Dr Peter Holman

Email:

musslt@leeds.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

Spiritual Conflict in Mahler's First and Second Symphonies

Supervisor:

Prof. Julian Rushton

Email:

vicky@vward.plus.com

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

The Performance Teacher as Music Analyst; Ways of bridging the gap between performance and analysis

Supervisor:

Dr Luke Windsor

Email:

mus0alw@leeds.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Leeds

Subject:

Harpsichord Music and Music Teaching in England c.1660-c.1730

Supervisor:

Dr Peter Holman

Email:

M.O.Lundberg@liverpool.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, University of Liverpool

Subject:

The Tonus Peregrinus in the Polyphony of the Western Church

Supervisor:

Prof. Michael Talbot

Email:

jebarret@glam.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University

Subject:

Music technology in school education

Supervisor:

Mr Lewis Jones

Email:

ccaunter@hotmail.com

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University

Subject:

The Yidaki (Didjeridu)

Supervisor:

Lewis Jones

Email:

mathdart@aol.com

Mode:

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

Email:

amargerum@hotmail.co.uk

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

Email:

hazelbuckley@lineone.net

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Manchester

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

Email:

ralphy@tinyworld.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Manchester

Subject:

The manuscript Bologna University 2216

Supervisor:

Prof. David Fallows

Email:

sinead.dempsey@stud.man.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Manchester

Subject:

Aesthetic and Ideological trends in the reception of Mendelssohn's orchestral music in mid-nineteenth-century Germany

Supervisors:

James Garratt and Crawford Howie

Email:

maxon@globalnet.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Manchester

Subject:

Acceptance and Approval: George Gershwin and early 20th-century American culture

Supervisors:

Dr Kevin Malone and Prof. David Fanning

Email:

tompankhurst@schenkerguide.com

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Manchester

Subject:

A Schenkerian/Semiotic Approach to Tonality in the Music of Cark Nielsen

Supervisor:

Dr David Fanning

Website:

http://www.schenkerguide.com

Email:

Frederick.Stocken@btinternet.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Manchester

Subject:

The Context and Significance of Simon Sechter's Fundamental Bass Theory

Supervisor:

Dr Crawford Howie

Email:

kris.worsley@ukonline.co.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Manchester

Subject:

The influence of Christian Gottlob Neefe on Ludwig van Beethoven

Supervisor:

Dr Barry Cooper

Email:

j.f.w.hasler@ncl.ac.uk

Mode:

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

Email:

Poppy.Holden@newcastle.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

International Centre for Music Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Subject:

Border Ballads

Supervisors:

Vic Gammon and Sandra Kerr

Email:

amxdmk@nottingham.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Nottingham

Subject:

Dreamscapes and the nocturnal in the music of Benjamin Britten

Supervisor:

Prof. Mervyn Cooke

Email:

amxmp1@nottingham.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Nottingham

Subject:

Joseph Haydn's German Lieder: Context - Criticism - Reception

Supervisor:

Philip Weller

Email:

hs794@student.open.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD

Institution:

Music Department, Open University

Subject:

Handel's Singers of the 1730s and 1740s

Supervisor:

Prof. Donald Burrows

Email:

susan.york@btopenworld.com

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Music Department, Open University

Subject:

Social networks and popular music-making in 19th-century Bedfordshire

Supervisor:

Prof. Trevor Herbert

Email:

alexandra.buckle@magd.ox.ac.uk

Mode:

DPhil Full-time

Institution:

Faculty of Music, University of Oxford

Subject:

Music in late medieval Warwick

Supervisor:

David Skinner

Email:

benjamin.hebbert@stx.ox.ac.uk

Mode:

DPhil Full-time

Institution:

Faculty of Music, University of Oxford

Subject:

The English Music Trade c.1647-1720

Supervisor:

Dr Hélène La Rue

Email:

mail@alanbartley.u-net.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University

Subject:

The repertoire, performance and reception of chamber music in the suburbs of Edwardian London, 1895-1915

Supervisor:

Dr Christina Bashford

Email:

jdibley@brookes.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University

Subject:

Music as an academic discipline in British universities c.1890-1935

Supervisor:

Dr Christina Bashford

Email:

vadillo@vnet.es

Mode:

MMus Full-time

Institution:

Royal College of Music

Subject:

Feria and Cantigas: rotated cycle of thematic-identities and textural transformation in Magnus Lindberg's late orchestral music

Supervisor:

Julian Anderson

Email:

johnwas@hotmail.com

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

An Evaluative Theory of Music: Investigating the forces that drive us to achieve music in composition, performance and listening

Supervisor:

Prof. Nicholas Cook

Email:

lorna10015@hotmail.com

Mode:

PhD

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

Beyond Jerusalem; Music in the Women's Institute 1919 -1969

Supervisor:

Dr Katharine Ellis

Email:

C.J.Gould@rhul.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

Aspiring to Manliness: Issues of Masculinity and Imperialism in the Life and Works of Edward Elgar

Supervisor:

Prof. Nicholas Cook

Email:

C.L.Launchbury@rhul.ac.uk

Mode:

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

British Promotion of French Music during World War Two: The Case of the BBC

Supervisor:

Prof. Katharine Ellis

Email:

R.A.Moore@rhul.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

Nadia Boulanger and the International Dissemination of Neoclassicism

Supervisor:

Dr Katharine Ellis

Email:

f.scheding@rhul.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

Mátyás Seiber: life, work, exile

Supervisors:

Dr Erik Levi and Dr Rachel Beckles-Willson

Email:

J.R.Tyack@rhul.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

Rehabilitating the Canon: A History of Handel's Messiah in Performance

Supervisor:

Prof. Nicholas Cook

Email:

p.victoros@rhul.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

The promotion, popularisation and consumption of classical music since the 1990s

Supervisor:

Prof. Nicholas Cook

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

Rewriting Composers' Lives: critical historiography and musical biography, 1850-1950

Supervisor:

Prof. Katharine Ellis

Website:

http://www2.rhul.ac.uk/~pkwm049/

Email:

Celina.Wood@rhul.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject:

ierre Boulez: Compositions and Discourse at the Turn of the Century

Supervisor:

Prof. Jonathan Dunsby

Email:

N.J.Smith@pgr.salford.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Music, Media and Performance, University of Salford

Subject:

Northern Soul: Identity, Subjectivity and Music Cultures

Supervisor:

Prof. Derek Scott

Email:

iainforeman@soas.ac.uk

Mode:

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

Email:

rpb103@soton.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Humanities, University of Southampton

Subject:

Perspectives on Rock Music (Notions of Value and Meaning in Modern Popular Music)

Supervisor:

Dr Sarah Hill

Email:

ac6@soton.ac.uk

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Humanities, University of Southampton

Subject:

Schenker's Chopin: the analyses from the Ernst Oster Collection at the New York Public Library

Supervisor:

Dr William Drabkin

Email:

LarsFranke@fsmail.net

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Humanities, University of Southampton

Subject:

Music as daemonic voice in late 18th- and early 19th-century German culture

Supervisor:

Dr Matthew Head

Email:

ml.marshall@ucc.ie

Mode:

PhD Full-time

Institution:

School of Humanities, University of Southampton

Subject:

Cultural codes and hierarchies in the mid-cinquecento villotta

Supervisor:

Dr Laurie Stras

Website:

http://www.music.ucc.ie/mlm/

Email:

N.A.Ioannidis@sussex.ac.uk

Mode:

DPhil

Institution:

Music Department, University of Sussex

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

Website:

http://homoecumenicus.com/ioannidis.htm

Email:

ceciliawee@hotmail.com

Mode:

DPhil Part-time

Institution:

Music Department, University of Sussex

Subject:

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

Email:

pdh@funkybus.co.uk

Mode:

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

Email:

Bate1e@aol.com

Mode:

PhD Part-time

Institution:

Community and Performing Arts, University of Winchester

Subject:

The life of and enculturation in the music of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins

Supervisor:

Dr Malcolm Floyd