Nearly 150 participants descended on an unexpectedly sun-drenched West Yorkshire for the 20th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music at the University of Huddersfield, from 2 to 4 July 2018. […]
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Conference Report: Music, Medievalism, and Modernism, 27-28 June 2018, Huddersfield
It is a sort of common wisdom for us to say that the past ought to inform the future. Lest, of course, we be—as the now somewhat cliché Santayana quote […]
Read moreConference report: Music and/as Process: Music and Language, 29 Jun-1 July 2018, Edinburgh
The 6th Annual Music and/as Process conference was held in the attractive and amiable city of Edinburgh in the Merchiston campus of Napier University from June 29th until and July […]
Read moreConference Report: A ‘Musical League of Nations’: Music Institutions and the Politics of Internationalism (London, 29–30 June 2018)
This two-day symposium was organised by Sarah Collins (University of Western Australia), Barbara Kelly (Royal Northern College of Music) and Laura Tunbridge (University of Oxford), and focused on internationalist musical […]
Read moreRMA to help the Royal Netherlands Musicological Society to celebrate its 150th birthday
At the age of 150, the Royal Netherlands Musicological Society (KVNM) is the oldest musical learned society in the world. As part of its anniversary celebrations it is hosting a […]
Read moreA musician’s transnational diasporas in a family archive
Eileen Karmy-Bolton is a third-year PhD student in Music at the University of Glasgow, researching the working lives of unionised musicians in early twentieth-century Valparaiso, Chile. In this month’s feature, she offers […]
Read moreConference Review: “Queerness, Voice, Embodiment”, 2nd Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group
The symposium “Queerness, Voice, Embodiment” took place from 20th to 21st April 2018 at Maynooth University. It was the second annual symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group, an organization […]
Read moreConference Review: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen (REMOSS)
On 15 and 16 June 2018, the Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen (REMOSS) study group held their fourth annual conference at the University of Edinburgh. As in […]
Read moreConference Review: Rethinking Musical Transcription and Arrangement
“Rethinking Musical Transcription and Arrangement” brought together approximately 40 scholars, researchers, and students from the U.K., Europe, and United States for a one-day conference at the University of Cambridge on […]
Read moreBlue Planet II, music, culture and nature: What is the sound of one cuttlefish hovering?
Will Finch explores music from the nature documentary series, Blue Planet II. He examines the role it plays in the on-screen mediation of human and non-human interaction. Will is currently […]
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