This mini-conference features presentations from PhD students studying at the Birmingham Conservatoire. There is a wide range of topics, and it promises to be an interesting and stimulating day. Please do come and join us, all welcome! Schedule overview: Session One - 10.00-11.30 Corey Mwamba | ‘Strike? Thoughts on Vibraphone Technique in Jazz and Improvised […]
We are pleased to invite you to the autumn series of Public Research Seminars at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Pedagogy and Music History – two perspectives through time Part 1 – Music in A-Levels: curriculum and hegemony A-Level music has long stood as one of the qualifications many students who pursue music into higher education engage […]
All printed or published music requires editing, at some level, and computer music-setting forces all of us to be editors. Decisions about how to notate and design the printed page often intertwine with decisions about the music itself, and thus with the “composer’s intentions”. Performers cannot escape the obligation to familiarise themselves with issues of […]
In Process: Perspectives on collaborative theatre in Brazil Aleksandar Dundjerovic, Professor of Performing Arts I will present material from my second book, coming out in mid-2018, on collaborative theatre in Brazil. The material presented offers different perspectives on collaborative, visual and physical performing arts practices in Brazilian theatre. The book is focused on creative methodologies […]
“Not to be opened during the War”: The Mobilisation of French Music Publishing, 1914–1918 | Dr Rachel Moore (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) This research seminar focuses on the activities of French music publishers during the First World War. With the outbreak of war in 1914, the dominance of Austro-German firms on the market for musical editions in France […]
A Leipzig fin-de-siècle: Perspectives upon Joseph Joachim’s Performing Practices in the ‘Romances’ of Clara Schumann, and Joseph Joachim with Jonathan Gooing (piano by Wilhelm Wieck) It is tempting, as many have done, to see the cultural, compositional and performance outputs of the so-called ‘Leipzig School’ – those adherents and pupils of Felix Mendelssohn – as embodying […]
This Research Seminar investigates both the musical and the cultural clashes (and their interaction with possible re-solutions) at the heart of Thelonious Monk’s music. In Monk’s centennial year, the jazz world still disagrees about his musical legacy and meaning. Gabriel Solis has written eloquently about how Monk has been appropriated and championed by the opposing […]
This mini-conference features presentations from PhD students studying at the Birmingham Conservatoire. There is a wide range of topics, and it promises to be an interesting and stimulating day. Please do come and join us, all welcome! Schedule overview Morning Session: Richard Stenton and Niccolò Granieri | Fostering Microgestures in Piano Playing though the […]
Call for Papers EDITING, PERFORMING AND RE-COMPOSING THE MUSICAL PAST – THE EMERGENCE OF FRENCH NEOCLASSICISM (1870–) ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE 5–7 SEPTEMBER 2018 The French Music Research Hub at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, is very pleased to announce this international conference, to take place in the Recital Hall of the new Conservatoire […]
A lively afternoon of events exploring the diverse musicological research at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire — suitable for all students from A-level to post-doctoral researchers. The event will be live-streamed. Email: musicology@bcu.ac.uk to register interest in the live stream. Tuesday 9 October 2018 from 1.30 - 5.30pm 1.30 Welcome — Professor Julian Lloyd-Webber (Principal) 1.35 Musicology […]