The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Research Seminar Series, February - April 2011

 

Monday Research Seminars, 4.10-5.30pm in Ensemble Room 1 (G.03), Department of Music, Jessop Building, 34 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD.

The Research Seminar Series is a series of talks by leading researchers at this university and elsewhere. The series is aimed at postgraduate students and staff but undergraduates and external visitors are welcome at every talk.

Selected Research Seminars are now available to registered students as audio podcasts via the Music Department Wiki. Follow the links for Research Seminars.
Music Department Wiki

February 2011

February Details
7th Neal Farwell (University of Bristol)*
A Sound Junction Talk, in which the composer plays and discusses his music
14th Dan Leech-Wilkinson (King’s College, London)
‘Shape and Musical Performance’
21st Richard Jenkins (Sheffield University)
‘Another look at process, rather then product: making songs and tunes in Anglo-American vernacular musics’
28th Raymond McDonald (Glasgow Caledonian University)
‘Can music benefit health and well being? Evaluating the evidence.’

March 2011

March Details
7th Daniel Teruggi (Sorbonne University, Paris)*
A Sound Junction Talk, in which the composer plays and discusses his music
14th Ian Bamford-Milroy
‘Berg as influenced by swing: contextual and auditory grounds’
21st Simon Keegan-Phipps (Sheffield University)
‘Celebrating the F Word: the mixed economy of the contemporary English folk music industry’
28th George Kennaway (University of Leeds)
‘The CHASE project at the Universities of Leeds and Cardiff: resources for the study of 19th-century string performance practice’

April 2011

April Details
4th Simon Keefe (Sheffield University)
‘Mozart's Requiem in Nineteenth-Century Fiction’

* These two talks will take place in the Humanities Research Institute.