| 20Jan | Music Subject Masterclass |
Subject Masterclasses are subject-specific events that offer students in Year 12 (S5 for Scotland, Year 13 for NI, or equivalent) the chance to experience typical undergraduate teaching at the University of Cambridge, and to learn more about a topic of interest. |
| 29Nov | Arthur Honegger’s ‘Modernized Eroica’: Dissolving Liberal Selfhood in Berlin 1933 - Dr Emily MacGregor (King’s College London) |
Arthur Honegger’s Mouvement Symphonique nr. 3, the third in a trio of symphonic movements that began with Pacific 231 and Rugby—and the only one without a juicy programmatic title—was a commission for the Berlin Philharmonic’s 50th anniversary celebrations. |
| 28Nov | Composer's Workshop: Peter McMurray |
Peter McMurray Title: The Detuning of the World: Ethnographic Audio and "Soundscape" Composition |
| 22Nov | The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal - Dr Richard David Williams (SOAS, University of London) |
How did Hindustani art music respond to the political transition from the Mughal empire to British colonialism? In this lecture, I will introduce my recent book which examines musical society and culture in nineteenth-century India. |
| 21Nov | Composer's Workshop: STUDENTS FORUM |
Lily Casey, Oscar Colliar, Jack Robinson, Jingyu Chen
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| 15Nov | “Enhanced by Conscious Selection”: Eugenics, Scientific Management, and the Quest to Make a Better Musician - Alexander Cowan (Jesus College, Cambridge) |
Analysis of writing by eugenicists in Britain and the USA from 1869 to 1945 reveals an unlikely preoccupation with musical ability. |
| 14Nov | Composer's Workshop: Stephen Upshaw |
Stephen Upshaw Title: Contemporary Repertoire for Viola |
| 08Nov | Social and Emotional Wellbeing in an Australian Choir of People with Disabilities - Professor Fiona Magowan (Queen’s University Belfast) |
This paper analyses some of the social and emotional impacts of community singing and active participation in a choir of people with disabilities in Brisbane, Australia. The article begins by outlining the approach to the history of the group before moving on to consider the effects of singing together. |
| 07Nov | Composer's Workshop: Annie Mahtani |
Title: Stepping Into The Sound: approaches to multichannel composition |
| 01Nov | Conception and Perception, Structure and Form: Thoughts on the Representation of Animal Song - Professor Holly Watkins (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester) |
Over the past few decades, spectrograms have become a powerful tool for representing and analyzing animal vocalizations. In the case of birdsong, spectrograms have joined a number of techniques historically used to represent the sounds of birds, including translation into linguistic syllables and musical nota |
