Ever wondered what the gods of Mesopotamian mythology listened to? In this month’s student blog Tzu-Jang Wang explores some of the sounds of a recently discovered section from the Epic of […]
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Call for Papers: Imperfection as an Aesthetic Idea in Music: Perspectives from Musicology and Artistic Research (6-7 May 2020, Graz, Austria)
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Read moreCollated Data from Secondary School Music Questionnaire
Analysis of the results of a questionnaire to RMA members on Secondary School Music, summer 2019, seeking views on areas of greatest educational need and informing future priorities.
Read moreCall for Papers: Iconography as a Source for Music History, 8-9 November 2019 in London
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Read moreRMA Podcast: Ian Bent, William Drabkin & Georg Burgstaller: Heinrich Schenker and Viennese Musical Culture
Conference Review: Again & Again: Musical Repetition in Aesthetics, Analysis, and Experience, 25-26 April 2019, London
On 25 and 26 April 2019, the City, University of London Music Department hosted ‘Again & Again: Musical Repetition in Aesthetics, Analysis, and Experience’: a two-day international conference investigating the […]
Read moreMatters Psychological and Theoretical in the Second Piano Sonata, opus 40 (1975) by Hubert du Plessis
In this month’s blog post, Dominic Daula explores Hubert du Plessis’ Second Piano Sonata. Dominic completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in music at the University of Cape Town under the tutelage […]
Read moreConference review: The Art Song Platform: Traditions and Current Practices, 10 May 2019, Goldsmiths, University of London
This study day gathered together academics, performers and composers engaged in art song, with presentations covering topics from history of art song and analysis to issues of programming of art […]
Read moreConference report: The Classical Musician in the 21st Century, 23 May 2019 in Cambridge
This stimulating study day—kindly supported by the RMA and hosted at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge—revolved around the notion of the ‘portfolio musician’, an issue relevant to almost […]
Read moreDent Medal for 2019 awarded to Gundula Kreuzer
The Dent Medal, struck in memory of the distinguished scholar and musician Edward J. Dent (1876-1957), has been awarded by the Royal Musical Association annually since 1961 to recipients selected […]
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