| 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. |
| 05Jul | University of Cambridge Open Days 2024 |
The Faculty of Music will be taking part in the University of Cambridge Open Days on 4 and 5 July 2024. Join us in person at the Faculty of Music on West Road between 9am-5pm for taster lectures, course presentations, Q&A sessions, tours, and a chance to meet current staff and students! |
| 04Jul | University of Cambridge Open Days 2024 |
The Faculty of Music will be taking part in the University of Cambridge Open Days on 4 and 5 July 2024. Join us in person at the Faculty of Music on West Road between 9am-5pm for taster lectures, course presentations, Q&A sessions, tours, and a chance to meet current staff and students! |
| 13Jun | An interactive production approach to emotion perception in music - Annaliese Micallef Grimaud (Durham University) |
Multiple approaches have been used to investigate how musical cues are used to shape different emotions in music. |
| 12Jun | “Existentialist Chopin” (Professor Mary Ann Smart, University of California, Berkeley) |
What was it about the music of Chopin that haunted French intellectuals so persistently in the wake of the Second World War? |
| 05Jun | “Audio-Visual Justice: Public Testimony & Vulnerable Witnesses in a Guinean Trial” (Professor Nomi Dave, University of Virginia) |
This paper explores the stakes of audibility and visibility for victim-witnesses of sexual assault in highly mediated trials. In the Republic of Guinea, a high-profile criminal trial is currently underway, in which survivors of sexual violence have testified against leaders of a previous regime. |
| 29May | “America, Genre, and Opera, c.1893” (Dr Charlotte Bentley, Newcastle University) |
Opera’s history is a history of mobility: this much has become increasingly clear from the transnational turn that opera studies has taken over the last decade. But that focus on mobility, circulation and transnationalism has revealed opera to be a surprisingly slippery subject for study. |
| 28May | Ensemble timing: a theoretical model and practical demo of a virtual ensemble training tool - Alan Wing and Min Li (University of Birmingham) |
Wing et al (2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.1125) proposed that phase correction underlies ensemble timing in classic quartet playing. |
| 14May | Musical groove: body-movement, pleasure and embodied cognition - Maria Witek (University of Birmingham) |
What is it about rhythm in music that makes people want to move? And why does moving to the beat feel so good? In this talk, I will review a selection of my research studies focusing on musical groove – defined in psychology as the pleasurable desire to move to a musical beat. |
| 08May | “Sound Fragments: Collaborative Curation with The Black Power Station” (Professor Noel Lobley, University of Virginia) |
What happens when colonial sound fragments are transformed through Afrofuturistic sampling, roaring praise poetry, and the visual arts? |
