Monthly Archives: February 2018

OU Music Research Day – 14 March 2018

The next OU Music Research Day will take place on 14 March 2018 in the OU Library’s Research Meeting Room. Here is the provisional programme: 10:30   Coffee and Welcome 11:00   Workshop – Preparing a Conference Paper 12:00   David Rowland – … Continue reading

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Naomi Barker Gives Invited Lecture on Distance Education in Music at Conference in Milan

Last week Naomi Barker was invited to Milan to give a paper on at a conference on distance learning in music education. She presented a paper on learning music theory at a distance, using A224 and the OU music MOOC as … Continue reading

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Reviewing Armando Iannucci’s ‘Hear Me Out’

I’ve just finished reading Hear Me Out, a collection of Armando Iannucci’s writings about classical music—a subject about which Iannucci is unashamedly passionate and knowledgeable. From my perspective as an Open University music lecturer, I was delighted to discover just … Continue reading

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Jamaica – programme 5 in The Music of Time series

The latest episode in the six-part Open University/BBC World Service radio series The Music of Time will be broadcast on Saturday 3 February at 19.06. This latest programme is from Jamaica. Dr Carolyn Cooper from the University of West Indies … Continue reading

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