| 22Oct | Exploring overlapping cognition in music making (Dr Neta Spiro, Royal College of Music) |
To what extent and in what ways do participants who just made music together understand what they were doing in the same way? In this talk, I’ll explore this question drawing on case studies in a range of music making contexts: improvisation on a jazz standard, free improvisation, and a classical duo. |
| 18Oct | Wort Residency Lecture 4: “William Calls It a Fiddle”: The More-than-Colonial Lives of Peter Johnson and His Violin (with reception following) |
The story I tell in this lecture begins with a teenaged merchant’s apprentice in colonial Philadelphia, Peter Warren Johnson (Canajoharie Mohawk/Irish), and the London-made violin he bought because it reminded him of home. |
| 17Oct | Wort Residency Lecture 3: Entangled Histories of Fur Trade Instruments in the Pittsburgh Waste Book (1759-60) |
This lecture works with British colonial trade records as sources for understanding the Indigenous-driven consumption and resocialization of imported European sound instruments at Fort Pitt during the Seven Years’ War. |
| 16Oct | Chanter la guerre during the Seven Years War (Dr Olivia Bloechl, University of Pittsburgh) |
In this lecture, I focus more closely on singing and dancing embodiment as a site for the world-making I introduced in the first lecture. As a case study, I discuss the practice of performing Haudenosaunee-style personal war songs in negotiations to form multi-Indigenous/European military coalitions during the Seven Years’ War. |
| 16Oct | Wort Residency Lecture 2: Chanter la guerre during the Seven Years War |
In this lecture, I focus more closely on singing and dancing embodiment as a site for the world-making I introduced in the first lecture. As a case study, I discuss the practice of performing Haudenosaunee-style personal war songs in negotiations to form multi-Indigenous/European military coalitions during the Seven Years’ War. |
| 15Oct | Wort Residency Lecture 1: Song as Contested Worlding in Bougainville’s Journal de l’expédition d’Amérique (1756-58) |
What historical struggles come into view when we approach song and its discursive interpretation as acts of contested world-making? In this first lecture, I explore this question through reading a French officer’s account of Anishinaabe recitational song as a site for colonial contestation during the Seven Years’ War in North America. |
| 15Oct | Faculty of Music's Wort Lectures |
“Music and Sound in the Colonial Struggle for Northeastern America, 1754-1783”
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| 15Oct | Composers' Workshop: Ed Dimsdale (CSVPA) |
Prof. Ed Dimsdale will present the collaborative project between CSVPA (Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts) and the Faculty of Music. Visual art and composition students will work together on a sound-visual installation titled Common Ground | Entangling, which will premiere in March 2025. |
| 05Aug | Sutton Trust Summer School |
The Sutton Trust Music Summer School offers the opportunity for you to broaden your musical horizons. The course aims to introduce you to key areas covered in most higher education music courses. This includes areas that may well be new to you, for example, Ethnomusicology and Music and Science, as well as Analysis and Music History. |
| 13Jul | Taster Day for Year 11 and Year 12 students (maintained sector schools) |
This free event is aimed at students in Year 11 and Year 12 from non-fee-paying schools and colleges who want to find out more about studying music at University. |
