The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Research Seminar Series, October - December 2009

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 vod-casts. To view seminars, and participate in online discussion, go to the "Research Seminar Vod-casts" course in MOLE.

October 2009

October Details
5th John Irving (Institute of Musical Research, London University)
‘“Tool, not Rule”: understanding and playing Mozart's piano sonatas’
12th David Baker
‘“Tell me the story of your life”: life history research’
19th Ensemble 360
Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet
21st
(Wednesday at 2pm)
Makiko Sadakata (Radboud University Nijmegen)
‘Language and music: influence of daily experience on sound information processing’
26th Victoria Williamson (Goldsmiths College, London University)
‘Insights from Congenital Amusia: what does it mean to be truly “tone deaf”?’

November 2009

November Details
2nd Giles Hooper (University of Liverpool)
'Sounding the last post: what is/was postmodern music?'
16th Jonathan Stock (Sheffield University)
‘Pig-killing, beer-drinking, collective prayerand communal musical performance: sharing values and valuing shared experience in a Taiwanese aboriginal village’
23rd Helena Gaunt (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
‘Exploring improvisation across disciplines: what can we learn about the artistry of instrumentalists and its potential?’
30th David Patmore (Sheffield University)
‘The Columbia Graphophone Company, 1923-1931: commercial competition, cultural plurality and beyond.’

December 2009

December Details
7th John Young (De Montfort University)
‘Noises and Notes’
14th Tom Perchard (Goldsmiths College, London University)
‘Hugues Panassié and readings of primitivism in early French jazz criticism’