| 13Nov | ‘Don’t gawp up at it!’ Listening to the organ in early Lutheranism (Dr Anna Steppler, Peterhouse) |
In the first century after Luther’s Reformation, debates flared up time and again over perceived remnants of papist superstition. The organ frequently came under fire in Protestant spaces, representative of musical excess and overt splendour, its continued presence far from assured. |
| 12Nov | Composers' Workshop: Riot Ensemble |
This Workshop kickstarts the Faculty's new year-long partnership with the renowned Riot Ensemble. |
| 06Nov | Songs in the Key of Life: Stylistic Adaptation and the 1970s Music Industry (Professor Justin Williams, University of Bristol) |
The 1970s have been described as a ‘fragile decade’ in US history: Nixon’s resignation, the decreasing popularity of the Vietnam War, waning public faith in national government, economic recession, the OPEC oil crisis, mass unemployment, economic deregulation, and the lack of fulfilment of many of the promises of the Civil Rights movement. |
| 05Nov | Composers' Workshop: Annette Vande Gorne |
Annette Vande Gorne studied at the Royal Conservatories of Mons and of Brussels, and at ULB. She has taught the history of music, harmony, piano and choral singing. |
| 05Nov | Acquiring music information: An incidental learning approach (Dr Claudio Iorio, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon) |
This presentation discusses the potential use of an incidental learning procedure for acquiring music information. |
| 04Nov | Postgraduate Open Day |
The University of Cambridge Virtual Postgraduate Open Days will be taking place from 4-15 November. As part of these Open Days, the Music Faculty will be running a session introducing the postgraduate courses offered by the Faculty of Music, followed by a Q&A. |
| 30Oct | Arts of Extraction: Oil, Digital Audio and Geo-Histories of Sound (Dr Gavin Williams, King's College London) |
Ethnomusicologists have long called attention to extractive dynamics in musical cultures. But what of sound as a technology of extraction in the oil industry? |
| 29Oct | Composers' Workshop: Martin Suckling |
Martin Suckling is a composer and violinist; he is also Deputy Head of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, Professor of Composition and Head of Music at the University of York. |
| 23Oct | On Organology, Tikkun and Baraka: The Venerated Lives of North African Torah Scrolls (Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen, SOAS) |
For Jews all over the world, the Torah scroll is the height of holiness, framed as the carefully designed and produced word of God. Jews give great attention to the care of Torah scrolls, ensuring they are maintained and protected so that they can be used for ritually chanting the Torah portion at regular intervals. |
| 22Oct | Composers' Workshop: STUDENTS' FORUM |
