The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Research Seminar Series, February - May 2009

Monday Research Seminars, 4.10-5.30pm in Ensemble Room 1 (G.03), Department of Music, Jessop Building, 34 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD.

The Research Seminar Series is a series of talks by leading researchers at this university and elsewhere. The series is aimed at postgraduate students and staff but undergraduates and external visitors are welcome at every talk.

Selected Research Seminars are now available to registered students as vod-casts. To view seminars, and participate in online discussion, go to the "Research Seminar Vod-casts" course in MOLE.

February 2009

February Details
9th Ensemble 360
‘The quintets for piano and wind by Mozart and Beethoven’
16th Lee Tsang (Hull University)
'Practice and Outreach in Music Research: the Lear Settings Animation Project'
23rd Ruth Dockwray (Surrey University)
'The Meanings of Spatialisation in Popular Music Recordings'

March 2009

March Details
2nd
 John Finney (Cambridge University)
‘A whole symphony in their heads: Sybil Marshall and her schoolroom’
9th John Croft (Brunel University)
‘On the ethics of composition’
16th John Potter (York University)
‘Historically informed hyper-reality’
23rd Stephanie Jordan (Roehampton University)
‘Moving Stravinsky’
30th Simon Keefe (Sheffield University)
'"We hardly knew what we should pay attention to first": Mozart the Performer-Composer at Work on the Viennese Piano Concertos'

April 2009

April Details
27th Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music)
‘Enhancing musicians' health, wellbeing and performance: evidence and implications’

May 2009

May Details
11th Jane Ginsborg (Royal Northern College of Music)
‘Gestures and Glances: singers and pianists rehearsing together’
12th Professor Tim Smith (University of Arizona)
'Recently discovered canons by JS Bach based on the theme of the Goldberg Variations'
18th Helena Gaunt (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
‘Exploring improvisation across disciplines: what can we learn about the artistry of instrumentalists and its potential?’