Colloquium series

Architectural Surfaces and the Politics of Colour at the Teatro all’italiana

Processional Chant in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberia: Space, Music, and History at the Cathedral of Saragossa Between 1592 and 1598, Diego de Espés (c1531-1602) finished the first draft of his History of the Metropolitan Church of Saragossa. Espés, apart from being an historian, was a portion beneficiary and...

Defending the Island: On North Korean Film Music This paper traces the evolution of film music composition in North Korea through three films dealing with the Korean War: “Young Partisans” (1951), “Wolmi Island” (1982), and “Meet in Pyongyang” (2012). The outer two films allow for framing of North Korena cinema and...

"Such Wine, such Women, such Musick”: Stuart Diplomats and the Siren Song of Italian Courtesans

‘The Music Lab’: Embedding youth voice within instrumental classical music education Despite decades of policy and practice interventions towards supporting young people’s voices in education more widely, instrumental classical music education has not tended to adopt a youth voice perspective. However, music education...

An embodied and cross-cultural perspective on aesthetic emotions in music Whether aesthetic emotions are distinctive from emotions experienced in everyday non-aesthetic contexts is argued for and disputed on various grounds. Indeed, both differences and similarities are relevant: whilst not categorically different...

Sounding Incarceration: The Colonial Hymn as Biopolitics This paper considers the colonial hymn as a means of negotiating biopolitical strategies of control in the concentration camps of the South African War (1899–1902). In these spaces of enforced ‘congregating’, communal hymn singing emerged as a form of theological and...

Using music to support maternal mental health in The Gambia Mental health problems in the perinatal period are a particular challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and can affect the mother and her developing child. It is thus of high priority to develop new low-cost, non-stigmatising and culturally...

The fantastic and the human: understanding the relationship between octatonicism and tonality in Messiaen’s Le Banquet Céleste and Back to the Future The connection between the octatonic scale and the idea of the ‘fantastic’ can be traced back at least as far as late nineteenth-century Russian music: Richard Taruskin (1996...

Creativity Curtailed, Ideology Imposed: Reconstructing a Hidden History of North Korean Music and Dance For half a century, a monolithic artistic policy has gone hand in hand with absolute political autocracy in North Korea. This, according to official statements, is because the state has developed a Korean style of human...