Colloquium series

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...

Errollyn Wallen in conversation with Professor Richard Causton Since we expect a larger than usual turnout for this event, kindly arrive 15 minutes early.

Emotion in Proportion

Spectral Effects on Consonance

Lines in the Sand: Music, Flow, and Boundary-Crossing in Jamaican Pentecostal Worship

Other Empires, Other Universalisms: Ahmed Midhat Efendi on Global Music History, 1889

Diachronic Ethnomusicology: Current Research on the Ngombi Harp of the Ntumu (Cameroon, Gabon) This talk presents research on an African harp and its status as carrier of cultural knowledge and history. Its variability is a testimony of social, cultural and religious changes. The research connects recent fieldwork in South...

Notating Sounds: Reflections on the Preconditions and Consequences of a Carolingian Invention

David Irving, ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals–CSIC Accidental Occident: The Construction of ‘Western Music’ in Global History To be held in The Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson College CB3 9BB. https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about-wolfson/find-us