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Read more at: New Blog Post: Edward Gillin on John Herschel, musical pitch, and the limits of scientific authority in Victorian Britain

New Blog Post: Edward Gillin on John Herschel, musical pitch, and the limits of scientific authority in Victorian Britain

In our latest music@Cambridge Research Blog post, Edward Gillin , postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project, ‘Sound and Materialism in the Nineteenth Century’ , tells the tale of John Herschel, musical pitch, and the limits of scientific authority in Victorian Britain .

Read more at: Sam Barrett launches new website: 'Restoring Lost songs'

Sam Barrett launches new website: 'Restoring Lost songs'

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new website centred on Sam Barrett’s fascinating work in collaboration with the ensemble Sequentia to recover a lost repertory of early medieval song: ‘ Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius’ Consolations of Philosophy ’. As Dr Barrett explains: ‘The prospect of recovering the music of...

Read more at: New Blog Post: Rebecca Whiteman reports on 'Musics, Selves and Societies' Workshop

New Blog Post: Rebecca Whiteman reports on 'Musics, Selves and Societies' Workshop

On 25 and 26 June 2018, music researchers and practitioners from around the world attended 'Musics, Selves and Societies' , a two-day workshop at the Faculty of Music, centred on music's roles in effecting change. In the latest Music@Cambridge Research Blog post , PhD student and co-organiser of the workshop, Rebecca...

Read more at: New Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

New Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

The Faculty of Music are delighted to announce that Dr Raquel Rojo Carrillo will join the Faculty as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow from September 2018. Dr Rojo Carrillo, an expert on early medieval chant, joins Cambridge from the University of Bristol, where she has recently worked as a Research Fellow on...

Read more at: 'Music, Selves and Societies': International Workshop at the Faculty of Music, 25-26 June

'Music, Selves and Societies': International Workshop at the Faculty of Music, 25-26 June

'Musics, selves and societies: the roles of music in effecting change' 25 and 26 June, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge Music has powers over us that we usually don't realise: as background, shaping how we feel when we watch films, play computer games, or even shop; as foreground, when we are moved by listening to...

Read more at: New Research Blog Post: Sam Barrett on 'Old Songs for a New Europe'

New Research Blog Post: Sam Barrett on 'Old Songs for a New Europe'

This week sees the launch of Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music's latest CD, ' Boethius: Songs of Consolation '. This extraordinary disc, produced in collaboration with our Reader in Early Medieval Music, Dr Sam Barrett , brings back to life a repertory that had been lost for over a 1,000 years. In the latest Music@...

Read more at: Robert Pascall (1944 - 2018)

Robert Pascall (1944 - 2018)

It is with great sadness that the Faculty has learned of the death of Honorary Professor Robert Pascall. Robert studied music with John Caldwell, Egon Wellesz and Sir Jack Westrup at Oxford, where he was organ scholar of Keble College (1962-5). He took his DPhil with the thesis Formal Principles in the Music of Brahms (...

Read more at: New CD: Dr Sam Barrett and Sequentia release 'Boethius: Songs of Consolation'

New CD: Dr Sam Barrett and Sequentia release 'Boethius: Songs of Consolation'

We are delighted to announce the release of ‘ Boethius: Songs of Consolation’ , on the Glossa Label. This new disc is the extraordinary result of a long-term collaboration between the Faculty of Music's Reader in Early Medieval Music, Dr Sam Barrett , and internationally-renowned ensemble Sequentia , under the direction of...

Read more at: Sean Curran awarded the RMA Jerome Roche Prize for 2018

Sean Curran awarded the RMA Jerome Roche Prize for 2018

Many congratulations to Sean Curran , who has been awarded the Royal Musical Association Jerome Roche Prize for 2018 , for his article ‘Hockets Broken and Integrated in Early Mensural Theory and an Early Motet’, Early Music History , 36 (2017), 31-104. Dr Curran is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College...

Read more at: New Research Blog Post: 'Alone in Berlin?' Martin Ennis reflects on his recent sabbatical

New Research Blog Post: 'Alone in Berlin?' Martin Ennis reflects on his recent sabbatical

In the latest Music@Cambridge research blog post , Dr Martin Ennis reflects on his recent sabbatical in Berlin, and his discovery of archival materials which will shed new light on Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem .

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