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Seminars

 

Seminars in Analysis

  • "'Whether to be Safe or Mad': Analysing Thomas Ades's Asyla", Dr. Edward Venn (University of Lancaster), 13th April 2012
  • "Opera in Ireland: The Invisible Artform?", Professor Eve O' Kelly (University College Dublin), 30th March 2012
  • "Symposium: Music Analysis across Disciplines", Professor Julian Horton & Dr. Jaime Jones (University College Dublin), 23rd March 2012
  • "Towards a History of Musical Emotion", Professor Michael Spitzer (University of Liverpool), 2nd March 2012
  • "'Hin ist alle meine Kraft': Completing Haydn's Unfinished String Quartet, Op. 103", Professor William Drabkin (University of Southampton), 7th April 2011
  • "Bartok, Beethoven and the Waldstein Sonata", Professor Michael Russ (University of Huddersfield), 31st March 2011
  • "Innovation and Allusion in Chopin's Concerto First-movement Forms", Professor Julian Horton (University College Dublin), 3rd March 2011
  • "Tautology or Teleology? A Doublt Take on Development in the First Movement of Schubert's String Quartet in G major, D. 877", Ms. Anne Hyland (King's College, Cambridge), 24th February 2011
  • "'...In whose secret depths the mining lamp goes out..': Conceptions of the Symphonic Piano Concerto from Mendelssohn to Brahms", Professor Julian Horton & Dr. Nicole Grimes (University College Dublin), 15th April 2010
  • "A rebirth of symphonic commitment? Sonata strategies in Shostakovich's Tenth and Prokofiev's Seventh", Una-Frances Clarke (University College Dublin), 25th March 2010
  • "The Schoenberg/Brahms Analytical Tradition", Dr. Nicole Grimes (University College Dublin), 18th February 2010
  • "Towards a Theory of Form for the Post-classical Piano Concerto", Professor Julian Horton (University College Dublin), 28th January 2010
  • "Interactions and Tensions between Expression and Structure in the First Movement of Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonata, HOb. XVI/44", Dr. Lauri Suurpaa (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki), 10th April 2008
  • "Strauss's Aus Italien: A Farewell to Formenlehre?", Dr. David Larkin (University College Dublin), 3rd April 2008
  • Workshop: Sonata Form in the Early Nineteenth Century, Dr. Paul Wingfield & Dr. Benedict Taylor (University of Cambridge), Dr. Julian Horton (University College Dublin), 27th March 2008
  • "'Taken into the Mountains': Grieg, Grainger and the Idea of Landscape", Dr. Daniel Grimley (University of Nottingham), 6th March 2008
  • "Improvisation, Intention and Inevitability: The Courante of Bach's French Suite in C minor", Professor Steve Larson (University of Oregon), 28th February 2008

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    Seminars in Ethnomusicology

  • "'Where is my Home?' Issues of Belonging and Identity in Irish Traditional Song Performance", Dr. Susan Motherway (Tralee Institute of Technology), 14th November 2011

  • "Kodaly-inspired Early Childhood Music Education", Edel McDonnell (Cork School of Music), 24th October 2011
  • "Muffled Instruments, Singing Interviews: The Dissonant Voices of Athenian Instrumentalists", Dr. Ioannis Tsioulakis (Queen's University Belfast), 10th October 2011
  • "Singing the Self: Time, Sociability, Language and Song", Professor Therese Smith (University College Dublin), 26th September 2011
  • "Orthodox Christian Musical Practice and the Making of Religion", Dr. Jeffers Engelhardt (Amherst College, MA, USA), 15th April 2011
  • "The Sacred Everyday: Performing Religion in South Asia", Dr. Jaime Jones (University College Dublin), 1st April 2011
  • "Enchantment: Music and Religiosity in Brazil", Dr. Suzel Reily (Queen's University Belfast), 25th February 2011
  • "Shun Evil Companions: Music and Religiosity amoung African American Fundamentalist Christians", Professor Therese Smith (University College Dublin), 4th February 2011
  • "Fieldwork in Central Africa", Simha Arom (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris), 9th April 2010
  • "Performance styles and the Irish harp: A Century of Change and Development", Helen Lyons (Dundalk Institute of Technology), 26th February 2010
  • "Kodaly-inspired Music Education in the Early Years", Edel McDonnell (Cork Institute of Technology), 19th February 2010
  • "Recent Developments in Online Distribution of Concerts", Professor Fabian Holt (University of Roskilde, Denmark), 12th February 2010
  • "Optimal experience during performance: How musicians set up the conditions for peak performance experiences", Dr. Sarah Sinnamon (Griffith College Dublin), 5th February 2010
  • "Local Music in the World Music Boutique: An Examination of Zulu Maskanda", Dr. Angela Impey (SOAS, University of London) & Ben Mandelson (World Music Producer, leader of the world music ensemble "3 Mustafas 3"), 6th November 2007
  • "'Fixing his Channel': Composing and Performing Accompanied Song in Uganda", Dr. Peter Cooke (University of Birmingham, University of London), 23rd October 2007
  • "Studying Tourism and Cultural Festivals in Island Southeast Asia: The Advantages and Challenges of Collaborative and Multi-sited Fieldwork", Professor Mercedes Dujunco (Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), 9th October 2007

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    Seminars in Musicology

  • "Pushing the Boundaries: the Multi-Dimensional Aspects of Contemporary Music", Professor Richard Steinitz (University of Huddersfield), 5th November 2012
  • "More Art, Less Matter: a Rough Guide to Artistic Intervention", Mr Seán Clancy (Birmingham Conservatoire), 22nd October 2012
  • "Exploring Notions of Theatricality in Music", Dr Evangelia Rigaki (Trinity College Dublin), 15th October 2012
  • "Carrying On", Dr Kevin O'Connell (Royal Irish Academy of Music), 8th October 2012
  • "Constructing a biography of Tomas Luis de Victoria's years in Rome (c. 1565 - c. 1585)", Dr. Noel O' Regan (University of Edinburgh), 29th November 2011

  • "In the Shadow of Hildegard: The Tradition of the German Cantrix in the Middle Ages", Professor Lori Kruckenberg (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA), 27th October 2011
  • "The first movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959 and the preformance of analysis", Professor Julian Horton (University College Dublin) & Mr. Tim Horton (Sheffield), 19th October 2011
  • "Paradigms of Secular Monophony from the Middle Ages: Workers' Songs", Dr. Jeremy Llewellyn (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel, Switzerland), 11th October 2011
  • "Mourning for the Whole of Humanity? THe Musical Requiem in the Twentieth Century", Dr. Wolfgang Marx (University College Dublin), 9th November 2010
  • "Death in Five Voices: Herzog, Gesualdo and the Visual", Dr. Holly Rogers (University of Liverpool), 26th October 2010
  • "What's in a Name? Opera Beyond Boundaries", Dr. Aine Sheil (University of York), 5th October 2010
  • "'Sounding the War in Iraq': The Politics of Television News Music", Professor James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa), 28th September 2010
  • "Digital Diva: Opera on Video", Dr. Christopher Morris (University College Cork), 15th October 2009
  • "Adaptation, borrowings and retrenchment: an exmination of the interaction of cathedral musicians in Dublin with changing political scenes in Ireland and abroad", Dr. Kerry Houston (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama), 8th October 2009
  • "Reading from Manuscripts: Some Observations on Performance Issues in J.S. Bach's Habits of Writing his Music", Profesoor Yo Tomita (Queen's University Belfast), 1st October 2009
  • "The Musical Discourse of Servitude. Fux, Bach and the European Musical Imagination" , Professor Harry White (University College Dublin), 24th September 2009
  • "Brahms, Bruckner and the Age of Innocence", Ms. Maria Patricia O' Connor (University College Dublin), 15th November 2007
  • "Music and Print in Renaissance Spain", Professor Iain Fenlon (King's College, Cambridge), 8th November 2007
  • "Late Style and the Paradoxical Poetics of the Schubert-Berio Renderings", Dr. Lorraine Byrne Bodley (NUI Maynooth), 1st November 2007
  • "The literary and visual politics of Irish music in the nineteenth century", Dr. Barra Boydell (NUI Maynooth), 4th October 2007
  • "Cultural Theory, Nostalgia and the Historical Record: Opera in Ireland and the Irishness of Opera during the Nineteenth Century", Professor Harry White (University College Dublin), 20th September 2007

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    Seminars on Music in Ireland

  • "The Tarnished Grace of Celtitude", Professor Harry White (University College Dublin), 17th October 2012
  • "Irish (Traditional) Music: Nostalgia and Cultural Intimacy", Dr Aileen Dillane (University of Limerick), 10th October 2012
  • "Questions of Identity: Music Societies and the Printed Press in Early-Victorian Dublin", Dr Catherine Ferris (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama), 3rd October 2012
  • "Musical Representations of Traditional Ireland: A.J. Potter's Television Opera, Patrick", Dr. Patrick Zuk (Durham University), 26th September 2012
  • "Dialogue and Interaction in Irish Traditional Music Groups", Dr. Adrian Scahill (NUI Maynooth), 29th March 2012

  • "The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland: an Introduction", Professor Harry White (University College Dublin), 23rd February 2012
  • "Frederick May: the Construction of a Musical Icon", Dr. Mark Fitzgerald (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama), 16th February 2012
  • "The hero and his enemies: creating the self and the other on the musical stage in 19th century Zagreb", Professor Vjera Katalinic (Institute for the History of Croatian Music, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb), 9th February 2012
  • "The Challenge of Writing a History of Music in Ireland", Professor Harry White (University College Dublin), 11th November 2010
  • "Electroacoustic Music in Ireland: Multiplicities and Eclecticisms in Roger Doyle's Babel", Dr. Barbara Dignam (NUI Maynooth), 28th October 2010
  • "The Harpers' Legacy: National Airs and Pianoforte Composers", Dr. Una Hunt (University College Dublin), 21st October 2010
  • "Music in Ireland: A Canadian Perspective", Professor Robin Elliott (University of Toronto), 14th October 2010

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