Dr Jane Stanley’s Piano Sonata will be premiered in November at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music by Bernadette Harvey. The piece has been in development for a couple of years since the commission was received in 2014, and it is part of a major project led by Bernadette and supported by the Australia Council for… Continue reading
Dr Louise Harris is a Lecturer in Sonic and Audiovisual Practice. This blog post follows up on some of the works and ideas presented in a previous blog post. On the evening of May 4th, 2017, my solo exhibition, Auroculis, will launch at the new Alchemy hub in Hawick on the Scottish Borders. Alchemy… Continue reading
The University of Glasgow’s Music research area is one of the institutions organizing a pioneering live music census which will take place in seven British cities on Thursday 9 March. With live music facing significant pressures (up to 40% of venues in London have closed in the last eight years), the project intends to provide… Continue reading
Cerulean orbits, a new piece by lecturer Dr Jane Stanley, is currently being toured around Australia by violinist Benjamin Beilman and pianist Andrew Tyson under the sponsorship of Musica Viva. The arts organization approached Jane as part of the Hildegard Project, which aims at addressing the gender imbalance in music composition. Jane has stated that… Continue reading
Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland and Dr Elizabeth Ford obtained their PhDs from the Music subject area during 2016, focusing on 18th-century music. Thursday September 8 saw our workshop Women and Education in the Long Eighteenth Century (WELEC) at the Glasgow Women’s Library. Postgraduates, early career researchers, invited speakers, and the general public came together to explore… Continue reading
Dr Björn Heile is Reader in Music since 1900 at the Music subject area. He has research interests in new music, music and modernism, cosmopolitanism, experimental music and the performance of experimental music and of jazz. After more than five years of hard work by my co-editors Jenny Doctor, Peter Elsdon and myself, not to… Continue reading
Dr Eva Moreda Rodríguez is a Lecturer in Music in the Music subject area. She has recently published Music and exile in Francoist Spain with Ashgate. My first research trip to Madrid in the summer 2007 involved 11-hour days in the Press and Newspapers room of the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) and crashing… Continue reading
Dr Louise Harris is an electronic and audiovisual composer and Lecturer in Sonic and Audiovisual Practices. Hers is the first of two blog posts intending to provide a glimpse into research trips undertaken recently by members of staff in Music; a post by Dr Eva Moreda Rodríguez about her archival research in Madrid focusing on… Continue reading
‘No theory, no sex’: thus introduced Susan McClary her discussion of femmes fatales in Alessandro Stradella’s little-known oratorio San Giovanni Battista. Although she did manage to induce a few nervous laughs among the audience of the Cramb Lecture, her warning to withhold the sauciest aspects of the music before she explained what exactly makes them saucy brought… Continue reading
Led by Dr David McGuinness, a Senior Lecturer in the Music subject area, early music ensemble Concerto Caledonia delves into the roots of Scottish dance music in its recently released 13th album, Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band. The crack team of stars fiddlers – including PhD student Aaron McGregor – looked together at some of the… Continue reading
