The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Research Seminar Series (archive), October - December 2007

Monday Research Seminars, 4.10-5.30 pm in the Lecture Room, Department of Music, 38 Taptonville Road, Sheffield S10 5BR.

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 2007

October Details
1st Ensemble 360, Exploring the Brahms Piano Quintet
8th Ian Biddle, (Newcastle University)
‘The nostalgia effect: musicologies of loss and decline in late imperial Europe’
15th Lewis Foreman, (Birmingham University). ‘Half a Century of World Premiere Recordings’
22nd Douglas Jarman, (Royal Northern College of Music)
'Editing the Berg Concertos: Problems and Revelations'
29th Nigel Simeone, (Sheffield University). ‘West Side Story – 50 years on’

November 2007

November Details
5th Patricia Schmidt, (Surrey University). ‘Representing Quilting and Singing in Gee’s Bend’
12th No meeting
19th Jane Manning, (Kingston University). 'Pierrot Lunaire - the vocalist's role’
26th David Patmore, (Sheffield University). 'Business and interpretation: the record industry of the inter-war period and its influence.’

December 2007

December Details
3 Robert Dow, (Edinburgh University). ‘Sound recording, sound reproduction and the absence of the original’
10 Mieko Kanno, (Durham University). 'John Cage: Freeman Etudes’
17 Leanne Langley, (London University) 'Music and Portraiture: Reflections on the Work of John Singer Sargent'