FACULTY OF MUSIC LECTURE LIST Michaelmas Term 2018 NOTICE: Non-members of the University may not attend university lectures (unless they are announced as open to the general public) without payment of a fee, otherwise than by personal invitation of the lecturer concerned. Persons who are neither reading for a qualification of this University nor otherwise exempt, and who wish to attend lectures in any term, should apply to the Buildings and Events Manager, Examination Schools, for details of fees. At least three working days notice is required before a lecture permit can be issued, to allow liaison with the department or faculty concerned. Senior visiting scholars from other universities who wish to attend lectures, seminars, or classes should normally apply to the lecturer concerned directly. Most undergraduate lectures are 1 hour long, and graduate seminars last for 90 minutes, unless otherwise stated. Do check starting times not all sessions start on the hour. Any changes from previous versions of the Lecture list are highlighted thus. PRELIMS 2019 Core Subjects Techniques of Composition Professor Quinney F 10-11 (wks 1-6, 8) Keyboard Skills Professor Grahl Th 12-1 (wks 1 & 2) Analysis Professor Cross W 10-11 (wks 1-6) Critical Listening Lectures Professor Clarke, Mr Hulme & Professor Ouzounian W 11.15-12.15 (wks 1-5) Critical Listening Seminar 1 Critical Listening Seminar 2 Special Topics Richard Strauss & Representations of Women Mr Spencer/ Mr Packham/ Ms Thomas Mr Spencer/ Mr Packham/ Ms Thomas Professor Tunbridge Groups 1/2/3: W 12-1 (wk 6) Groups 4/5/6: F 11-12 (wk 6) Groups 7/8/9: F 12-1 (wk 6) Groups 1/2/3: M 12-1 (wk 8) Groups 4/5/6: F 11-12 (wk 8) Groups 7/8/9: F 12-1 (wk 8) Th 10-11 (wks 1-3, 5-7) Seminar Room/ LRB/ Committee Room Seminar Room/ LRB/ Committee Room Mozart s Concertos Professor Leitmeir M 11.45-12.45 (wks 2-7) Global Hip Hop Professor Stanyek Tu 10.15-11.45 (wks 1-4) Optional Subjects Extended Essay Professor Clarke Th 10-11 (wks 4 & 8) Solo Performance Tu 9-10 (wk 7) Composition Portfolio Composition Intro to Contemp. Music Composition Sound Design & Studio Techniques I Professor Harry Daniel Hulme Tu 12-1 (wks 2-8) M 9.30-11.30 (wks 1 & 2) Th 11-12, 12-1, 1-2 (optional times) (wks 3-8) Mac Lab (Library)
FHS 2019 List A Topics in Music History after 1700 18 th Century Opera Lectures Professor Aspden W 9.30-10.30 (wks 1-6) Exam Schools (East School) List B Solo Performance M 12-1 (wks 3, 4, 5, 6) List C Music and Capitalism Revision Session Dr Butterworth W 11-1 (wk 3) Sounding North Igor Stravinsky Professor Grimley Professor Cross Tu 12-1.30 (wk 2) M 10-11.30 (wks 3-4, 6-8) Th 11-12 (wks 1-8) Music in the Community Professor Dieckmann Tu 12-1 (wks 3 & 4) Tu 10.30-12.30 (wks 5-8) Chamber Music: Workshop Schedule M 2.20-16.20 (wk 6) Tu 11-1 (wk 6) M 2.20-4.20 (wk 7) Tu 11-1 (wk 7) M 2.20-4.20 (wk 8) Tu 9.30-1 (wk 8) FHS 2020 List A Compulsory Topics I Sacred Polyphony on the Continent Professor Rees F 11.15-12.15 (wks 2-7) Compulsory Topics II 18 th Century Opera Lectures 18 th Century Opera Afternoons Professor Aspden Professor Aspden W 9.30-10.30 (wks 1-6) Th 1.30-4 (wks 1-8) Exam Schools (East School) Musical Thought and Scholarship Professor Clarke Tu 9-10 (wks 1-6) List B Orchestration Composition Dr Traill F 9.30-10.30 (wks 2-8) W 11-12 (wks 3-8) List C Opera and Music Theatre Workshop Sounding North Professor Harry and Joel Baldwin Professor Grimley F 1.30-3.30 (wk 1) Tu 12-1.30 (wk 1 & 2) M 10-11.30 (wks 3-4, 6-8) Igor Stravinsky Professor Cross Th 11-12 (wks 1-8) Music in the Community List D Choral Performance Professor Dieckmann Professor Rees Tu 12-1 (wks 3 & 4) Tu 10.30-12.30 (wks 5-8) F 12.30-1.30 (wks 2-7) Introduction to Chamber Music M 12.30-1 (wk 1)
GRADUATE STUDY Historical Musicology Professor Leitmeir M 2.30-4 (wks 1, 3, 5, 7) Analysis Dr Wedler W 10-11.30 (wks 2, 5, 6, 7) Composition W 12-1.30 (wks 2, 4, 6, 8) Social Study of Music Dr Doffman Th 11-12.30 (wks 1, 3, 5, 7) Aesthetics Professor Tunbridge/ Prof Clarke Th 2-4 (wks 2, 4, 6, 8) MSt Performance Seminar T 11.30-1 (wk 1) M 4.30-6 (wks 3, 5, 7) GRADUATE RESEARCH COLLOQUIA All Colloquia begin at 5.15pm in the Denis Arnold Hall at the Faculty of Music on Tuesdays. The Colloquia feature leading figures as well as younger scholars presenting their research in papers on all kinds of musicrelated topics. The speakers come from Oxford and many different universities around the world. This series is organised by graduate students, Jason Weir and Rosie McMahon. Presentations are followed by discussion and a drinks reception. Free admission and open to all. 9 October: Elizabeth Eva Leach (University of Oxford) A Little Knight Music: Medieval Songs, tournaments, and other forms of violence 16 October: Moushumi Bhowmik Migration, Memory and Music: Field recordings from Bengal and the diaspora 23 October: Charlotte Bentley (University of Cambridge) New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859 30 October: Philip Bullock (University of Oxford). I almost always know how much money I have : Tchaikovsky and the Market for Classical Music in Nineteenth Century Russia 6 November: Michael Spitzer (University of Liverpool) The Pathos of lo-fi in Neutral Milk Hotel s Aeroplane Over the Sea 13 November: Yvonne Liao (University of Oxford) After Europe : Musical Institutions and Post/Colonial Hong Kong 20 November: Tina Ramnarine (Royal Holloway) Music, Indentureship and the Cultures of Decolonisation 27 November: Oskar Cox-Jensen (Queen Mary, University of London) Joseph Johnson s Hat, or, The Storm on Tower Hill
SEMINARS IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND SOUND STUDIES Convener: Professor Jason Stanyek. All seminars will take place at 5pm in the St John s College Barn (near where St Giles meets Banbury Road). There will be a wine reception after each talk. 10 October (Wed): Barbara London (Yale University) Sound Art: Beyond the Comfort Zone 25 October (Thurs): J. Griffith Rollefson (University College Cork, National University of Ireland) Watch the Throne: Critical Excess and the New Gilded Age SEMINARS IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC Convenor: Margaret Bent. Seminars begin at 5pm in the Wharton Room at All Souls College. Free admission and open to all. The speaker s presentation is followed by a full hour of discussion during which wine is served. 18 October (Thurs): Antonio Chemotti (HERA Project SoundMe, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) Musical past and regionalism in early modern Silesia: the hymnbook of Valentin Triller 1 November (Thurs): Elizabeth Eva Leach (University of Oxford) The motets of Douce 308: evidence for a more extensive monophonic tradition? 15 November (Thurs): Margaret Bent (All Souls College) The contents and provenance of the fragmentary royal choirbook of the 1420s: an update 27 November (Tues) Hovenden Room: Elena Abramov van Rijk (Jerusalem) The non-italian Ars nova, or how to read the madrigal Povero Zappator by Lorenzo da Firenze SEMINARS IN MUSIC THEORY & ANALYSIS Convenors: Jonathan Cross and Sebastian Wedler. Seminars begin at 4.30pm on Wednesdays in the. The speaker s presentation of 45' is followed by 45' of discussion. Free admission and open to all, refreshment is served. 17 October: Peter H. Smith (University of Notre Dame), 'The "type-2" sonata form in the nineteenth century: a case study in Mendelssohn's Octet' 7 November: Leah Broad (Oxford), on analysing theatre music 21 November: Richard Widdess (SOAS, London), on the analysis of the music of South Asia
NEW MUSIC WORKSHOPS AND COMPOSER SPEAKS SERIES Professors Martyn Harry and Robert Saxton convene the New Music series with musical director Dr John Traill - for advanced booking, email new.music@music.ox.ac.uk. The Composer Speaks series, convened by Robert Saxton, takes places every Monday in 4 th week. All events are open to the public and free to attend. 26 October (Fri), 10am-12.30pm: Lieder Composition Workshop with Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano) and Libby Burgess (piano), Shulman Auditorium, Queen s College 29 October (Mon), 4-5.30pm: Composer Speaks Series: Piers Hellawell Mad Machines, Slow-Motion Collisions, Matryoshka Dolls a Bric-à-brac of form, Lecture Room A, Faculty of Music 2 November (Fri), 7:30pm: Ensemble ISIS concert with Music Director John Traill, Holywell Music Room 7 November (Wed), 2-5pm: String Quartet Composition Workshop with the Villiers Quartet,, Faculty of Music 12 November (Mon), 4-5.30pm: Composer Speaks Series: Spencer Topel, 'Finding the Sound in Art: Immersive Installation as an Instrument for Musical Experience', Lecture Room A, Faculty of Music 26 November (Mon), 1.30-4.30pm, Solo Piano Composition Workshop with Richard Casey, Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music 28 November (Wed), 1.30-4.30pm, Solo Instrument and Piano Workshop with members of Ensemble ISIS,, Faculty of Music LIZ KENNY PERFORMANCE CLINICS (Details tbc) 16 November (Fri) 2-5pm: Performance Clinic with Daniel Pailthorpe - Daniel Pailthorpe works with student flautists and talks about his career in music. From reading Music at Cambridge to becoming Principal Flute in the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music