Previous colloquia:
Lent Term 2012
24 January
Robert Adlington (University of Nottingham)
‘Louis Andriessen, musical quotation and aesthetic autonomy, circa 1968′
31 January
Monique Ingalls (University of Cambridge)
‘Bringing Worship to
the Streets: Performing Nation, Religion, and Ethnicity through Music in Toronto’s Jesus in the City Parade’
7 February
Paul Higgins (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
‘Britten and Intertextuality: Text and Musical Unity in Art Song’
14 February
Colin Timms (Birmingham University)
‘How far can you go? Observations on Editing Handel and Arne’
21 February
Juniper Hill (University of Cambridge)
‘Ideology, pedagogy and community as inhibitors or enablers of creativity’
28 February
Felix Wörner (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
‘On the Significance of ‘Form’ and ‘Formung’ as Contrasting Principles in Early Twentieth Century German Music Theory’
6 March
Simon Goldhill (CRASSH)
‘The Chorus, Opera and German Philosophy’
13 March
Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University)
‘The Three Architectures of Film Music’
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Michaelmas Term 2011
Tuesday 11 October
Karl Kügle (Utrecht University)
The Dominican connection: New Light on Turin J.II.9 and some afterthoughts.
Tuesday 18 October
Susan Youens (University of Notre Dame)
The Beautiful and the Ugly: Racial Theory in a Schumann Song
Tuesday 25 October
Jennifer Sheppard
Sound of Body: music, sports and the revival of the modern Olympic Games
Tuesday 1 November
Art Groos (Cornell University)
Mimì’s Bonnet and Colline’s Coat; Bohemian Nostalgia and the Remembrance of Things Past
Tuesday 8 November
Nicholas Cook (University of Cambridge)
Scripting social interaction: Improvisation, performance, and Western ‘art’ music’
Tuesday 15 November
Katharine Ellis (Royal Holloway)
Staging Wagner’s Music Dramas in Regional France, 1855-1892
Tuesday 22 November
David Trippett (University of Cambridge)
Wagner’s Melodies, Bellini’s Sinnlichkeit
Tuesday 29 November
Drew Massey
Adès’s Glosses
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Easter 2011
4 May
Matthew Pritchard (University of Cambridge)
Bane or golden wand? Western influences in the performance of Rabindrasangit (Tagoresong)
11 May
Ruth Smith (University of Cambridge)
The Choices of Hercules and Handel
18 May
No colloquium
25 May
James Currie (University at Buffalo)
Remembering Music; Disciplines of Forgetting
1 June
Mark Katz (University of North Carolina)
title TBC
8 June
David Clarke (Newcastle University)
Sound and consciousness in Indian thought and Indian classical music
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Lent 2011
26 January
William Quillen (University of Cambridge)
Cage in the USSR
2 February
Roni Granot-Yeger (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
A Musical puzzle: From a single chord to the Sonata form
9 February
Stefan Gasch (Vienna University)
Ludwig Senfl’s Early Motets
16 February
John Rink (University of Cambridge – Inaugural Lecture)
The Practice of Performance Studies
23 February
Milla Tiainen (Anglia Ruskin University)
Toward an affective and aesthetic turn? Propositions for a cultural study of music beyond the paradigm of meaning
2 March
Eric Wen (Mannes College, The New School for Music, New York)
An Unprecedented Network of Disorientations, Dissonances, Rhythmic Obscurities, and Atmospheric Dislocations: the Introduction to Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet
Thursday 10 March
Roger Bowers (University of Cambridge)
Monteverdi’s Mass, Motets and Vespers of 1610: the secret life of a masterpiece
14 March (Wort Lecture Series)
Ingrid Monson (Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Harvard University)
On the Sensory Turn in Musical Inquiry
16 March (Wort Lecture Series)
Ingrid Monson (Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Harvard University)
Race and Music in the 21st Century
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Michaelmas 2010
13 October
Dorottya Fabian (University of New South Wales, Sydney/ University of Cambridge)
Sound Recordings as a Chronicle of Performance Style: Trends and Individual Artistic Signatures in Playing Solo Bach on the Violin
18 October (Wort Lecture Series)
Ingrid Monson (Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Harvard University)
Being Musical and Other Dilemmas
20 October (Wort Lecture Series)
Ingrid Monson (Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Harvard University)
Mali’s Neba Solo: Music from an African Village in the Digital Age
27 October
Alexander Goehr (University of Cambridge) and James Conway English Touring Opera
Promised End, English Touring Opera and Frank Kermode
3 November
Kate Kennedy (University of Cambridge)
Ambivalent Englishness: Ivor Gurney’s Song Cycle ‘Ludlow and Teme’
10 November
Naomi Waltham-Smith (City University London)
Haydn Prophet, or Beethoven Apostle? On Fidelity to Badiou’s Event
17 November
Carlos del Cueto (University of Cambridge)
Listening in 1860s Milan
24 November
John Deathridge (King’s College London)
Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ and the Trouble with Freedom
1 December
Dean Sutcliffe (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Haydn and the Shapes of Sociability
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Easter 2010
28 April
Clifford Bartlett
Monteverdi Vespers 1610: editing, performing, understanding
5 May
Tal-Chen Rabinowitch (University of Cambridge)
Music and Empathy – a Mutual Cognitive Pathway?
12 May
Goffredo Plastino (Newcastle University)
Folk Soundtracks. From Representation to Nostalgia
19 May
Catherine Bradley (University of Cambridge)
Musical Re-use: Borrowing and Sharing in the Earliest Motets
26 May
Inga Mai Groote (Luwig-Maximilians Universitaet, Munich)
Studying music and arithmetic with Glarean in Freiburg
2 June
Alex Rehding (Harvard University)
The Discovery of Slowness in Music
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Lent Term 2010
January 20
Ben Walton (University of Cambridge)
Singing to the New World: The Invention of Italian Opera in Argentina
January 27
Anne Hyland (University of Cambridge)
Spatial Development and Developmental Space in Schubert’s D.887/i
February 3
Tim Hopkins (University of Sussex)
‘Give me your blessing, for I go to a foreign land…’ A discussion of Stravinsky’s Les Noces
February 10
Joseph Landers (University of Montevallo)
Stravinsky’s orchestration of “Song of the Volga Boatmen”
February 17
Bryan Gilliam (Duke University)
Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion
February 24
Veit Erlmann (University of Texas at Austin)
Music as Law: “The Lion King,” Counterfeit and Intellectual Property Rights
March 3
Aidan Thomson (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘Arnold Bax and the “Celtic North”‘
March 10
Emma Hornby (Bristol University)
‘Analysing the untranscribable: Lenten chants in medieval Toledo and León’
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Michaelmas Term 2009
14th October
Tala Jarjour (University of Cambridge)
Syriac Chant: More Than a Question of Intervals
21st October
William Lovell
What kind of a symphony? Szymanowski’s ‘Song of the Night’, Op. 27
28th October
Ivano Di Lillo (University of Cambridge)
Verdi in Fascist Italy
4th November
Ian Cross (University of Cambridge)
Darwin, evolution and ‘some rude form of music’
11th November
Matthew Werley (University of Oxford)
Richard Strauss and the Politics of Mozart Reception
18th November
Robert Pascall (Bangor University)
25th November
Sarah Hibberd (Nottingham University)
Cherubini and the Revolutionary Sublime
2nd December
Nicholas Cook (University of Cambridge)
Beyond reproduction
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Easter Term 2009
29th April
John Sloboda (Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Keele
Honorary Professor of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Psychology of Tone Deafness
6th May
Vladimir Orlov (University of Cambridge)
Sovietised Saint. Religious symbolism in ‘Alexander Nevsky’ by Eisenstein and Prokofiev
13th May
Martin Stokes (University of Oxford)
Religious Revival and Music in the Contemporary Mediterranean: Some Comparative Notes
20th May
Ghofur Woodruff (University of Cambridge)
A consumer-based semantics of music
27th May
Bettina Varwig (King’s College London)
Histories of Heinrich Schütz
3rd June
Marcus Pearce (University College London)
From expectation to aesthetics in the perception of music
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Lent Term 2009
Wednesday January 21st
Jim Samson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Little Stories from the Balkans
Wednesday January 28th
Pierpaolo Polzonetti (University of Notre Dame)
Haydn and the American Revolution
Wednesday February 4th
Bennett Zon (University of Durham)
From Great Man to Fittest Survivor: Reputation, Recapitulation and Survival in Victorian concepts of Wagner’s Genius
Monday February 9th
Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania)
Donald Wort Lecture Series 1: Music 1,000,000 Years Out: What Stone Tools Tell Us
Wednesday February 11th
Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania)
Donald Wort Lecture Series 2: Music 500,000 Years Out: Discourse vs. Protolanguage
Wednesday February 18th
Nicole Panizza (Royal College of Music, London)
“Reading in the Dark”: Emily Dickinson and the art of musical interpretation
Wednesday February 25th
Valeria de Lucca (CRASSH)
Of Patrons and Venetian Theatres: The Colonnas’ Patronage of Singers and the Story of the Wandering Alcasta
Wednesday March 4th
Alan Davison (Otago University, New Zealand)
Portraits of Musicians in London in the 1790s: Iconography as Reception
Monday March 9th
Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania)
Donald Wort Lecture Series 3: Music 100,000 Years Out: Hierarchy and Combinatoriality
Wednesday March 11th
Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania)
Donald Wort Lecture Series 4: Music 40,000 Years Out: Thinking at a Distance and Modernity
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Michaelmas Term 2008
October 8
David Meredith
Music Processing Algorithms
October 15
Steven Zohn (Temple University, U.S.A.)
Naive Questions and Laughable Answers: An Eighteenth-Century Job Interview
October 22
Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘Like an axe-blow’: Silencing the Voice in Mahler
October 29
David Metzer (University of Columbia; Visiting Fellow, Peterhouse)
Sound and Expression in Helmut Lachenmann’s The Little Match Stick Girl
November 5
Patrick Carnegy
Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
November 12
Pieter Bergé (University of Leuven)
The Art of Not-Playing an Analytical Observation: Some Remarks on the Main Theme Structure of Beethoven’s Adagio Op.31/2, ii.
November 19
Elaine Kelly (University of Edinburgh)
A Winter’s Tale: Romanticism and Artistic Discontent in the Late GDR
November 26
Michael Wolpe (Jewish Music Institute, Israel)
The Beginning of the 21st Century – A Title or a Genre?
December 3
The Robin Orr Lecture, 2008
Peter Hill (University of Sheffield)
Messiaen and birdsong in the 1950s
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Easter Term, 2008
23/04/08
Rebecca Maloy (University of Colorado at Boulder)
“Compositional Planning” in the Old Hispanic Sacrificia
30/04/08
Martin Rohrmeier (University of Cambridge)
The role of implicit knowledge in music cognition
07/05/08
Tim Blanning (University of Cambridge)
The sacralisation of music 1750-1850
14/05/08
Suzannah Clark (University of Oxford)
On the Imagination of Tone in Two Songs by Schubert: A Riemannian and Schenkerian Perspective
21/05/08
Mary Ann Smart (University of California, Berkeley)
Partenope, Elizabeth, and the Limits of Allegory: Rossini in Naples, 1815-7
26/05/08
James Webster (Cornell University)
The Act IV Finale of Le nozze di Figaro: Dramatic and Musical Construction
04/06/08
Michael Klein (Temple University)
Tonal Music’s Ironic Narratives