Category: Feature
RMA Podcast: Iain Burnside, Claire Lees & Adam Sullivan: ‘Gary, can you bring in your wetsuit? Evolution of a New Context for Song’
Stopping by Woods: A Study on the Soundscape of the Cedar Forest in the Gilgamesh Epic
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 […]
Read moreRMA Podcast: Ian Bent, William Drabkin & Georg Burgstaller: Heinrich Schenker and Viennese Musical Culture
Matters 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 moreRMA Podcast: Jo Cormac, Composer biopics: interfaces between research and popular culture
https://www.rma.ac.uk/podcast/rma-podcast-jo-cormac-composer-biopics-interfaces-between-research-and-popular-culture/
Read moreStudent Blog: Modelling a change: Sex Workers’ Children and Dance Pedagogy
In this month’s blog article, Mohanish Jaju explores the pedagogical strategies of Kathak dance and how the organisation Sutradhar incorporate them as part of their education and social project ‘DEED’. Mohanish Jaju is a professional Indian […]
Read moreRMA Podcast: Laudan Nooshin, Sounding the city: Tehran’s contemporary soundscapes
RMA Podcast: Laudan Nooshin, Sounding the city: Tehran’s contemporary soundscapes
Read moreRoyal Musical Association 55th Annual Conference: Programme announcement and opening of Registration
University of Manchester and Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester 11–13 September 2019 We are proud to announce the Programme and the opening of Registration for the 55th Annual Conference […]
Read more‘You’re just a Remoaner’: Brexit, Discourse and Musicology
With just 18 days until ‘Brexit-day’ this month’s feature by James Taylor draws our collective attention to the important relationship between musical discourse and political upheaval. James completed a BA in […]
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