David Rowland is Professor of Music and Director of Taught Postgraduate Studies at the Open University. He was Dean and Director of Studies for the Faculty of Arts from 2007-14. Before joining the Open University in 1989 he lectured at Glasgow University in 1981-2 and he has been Director of Music at Christ’s College, Cambridge since 1984.
Role | Start date | End date | Funding source |
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Lead | 01 Mar 2016 | 28 Feb 2019 | AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council |
The study of music has typically focused on the work, the composer and the performer. More recently, interest has focused on the listener, but generally from the perspective of psychology or reception studies, which draw their evidence from experimentation, interview or musically informed critical opinion. The approach of this project is different: it places the listener at the heart of musical experience in Britain in the period c.1700-2018, emphasising the written testimony of the impact of music on 'ordinary' people. Typically the material is drawn from diaries, letters and memoirs. The evidence is all the more potent for being personal and often musically 'uninformed' or naïve. The team believes that such evidence facilitates a new way of studying how and what music communicates, and that it can, when gathered as a mass, inform novel approaches to musicology. The project will address three research questions: 1. What can personal accounts of listening to music in Britain tell us about how listeners recognise and identify with a common culture through music? 2. What can these accounts add to our understanding of the place of music in broader aspects of personal, community and national life in Britain? 3. What more can listeners' accounts tell us about the place in British musical life of particular repertoires and their associated performing and listening practices? The project aims to combine empirical research methods effectively with digital research methods. It does not aim merely at gathering 'big data', but sets out to use that data to support a traditional strength of humanities research - close reading of texts to underpin the writing of historical narratives. It builds on the AHRC-funded Listening Experience Database (LED) project (2013-15, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/LED), which established a methodology for collecting accounts of listening experiences in any period or culture, and a tool, in the form of a Linked Open Data database, for its storage and analysis. The objectives are: 1. To capture a mass of primary source evidence, and to make it available for analysis through an open-access database. 2. To use this data to inform new understandings of the place of music in British cultural life. 3. To develop a clear methodological framework for using digital content in humanities research, and an effective methodology for the mining and analysis of social media as primary source material for responses to music. 4. To develop the ways in which the database supports entry and analysis of data, and to use the database as a case study for research into the application of Linked Open Data. 5. To disseminate the findings to academic and non-academic audiences through a range of means including publications, social media, knowledge exchange events, seminars and a conference. New insights into the experience of listeners have the potential to inform not only historical musicology but also other research within and beyond the academic community - for example, in performance practice, social and cultural history, religious studies, Celtic studies, area studies, psychology and health studies, sociology and media studies. The project will benefit museums, libraries and archives - in particular, specific institutions with which the team will be working – by informing understanding of and increasing exposure to their collections. It will develop and document a clear methodology for using digital content in humanities research, including large-scale data sets such as social media archives that are currently difficult to use. It will establish data modelling practices transferable to other projects and create data assets of value to both academics and other users such as the media (for example, rich data about a wide range of music). |
British Listeners c1780-1830 (2020-12)
Rowland, David
Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 17(3) (pp. 359-379)
Roger Long’s gut-strung keyboard instruments and Thomas Barton’s harpsichord stringing (2016-08)
Rowland, David
Early Music, 44(3) (pp. 461-471)
Nineteenth-century pianists and Baroque music (2014-10)
Rowland, David
Musurgia. Analyse et pratique musicales, 21(1-2) (pp. 79-90)
Further Light on Clementi's 1807 Contract with Beethoven (2022)
Rowland, David
In: Miller, Malcolm and Kinderman, William eds. Beethoven the European: Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception. Speculum Musicae (48) (pp. 203-216)
ISBN : 978-2-503-60290-5 | Publisher : Brepols | Published : Turnhout
Composers, publishers and the market in late Georgian Britain (2020-06-03)
Rowland, David
In: Sala, Massimiliano ed. Music publishing and composers (1750-1850). Speculum Musicae (37) (pp. 85-112)
ISBN : 978-2-503-58815-5 | Publisher : Brepols | Published : Turnhout
Music Publishing in Britain ca. 1840-1900 (2019-10-15)
Rowland, David
In: Sala, Massimiliano ed. Music and the Second Industrial Revolution. Music, Science & Technology (2)
ISBN : 978-2-503-58571-0 | Publisher : Brepols | Published : Turnhout
The listening experiences of John Yeoman (1748 – 1824) (2019)
Rowland, David
In: Barlow, Helen and Rowland, David eds. The experience of listening to music: methodologies, identities, histories
Publisher : The Open University | Published : Milton Keynes
Clementi's Introduction in European musical life, 1801-1830 (2018-06-14)
Rowland, David
In: Sala, Luca Lévi and Stewart-MacDonald, Rohan H. eds. Muzio Clementi and British Musical Culture: Sources, Performance Practice and Style (pp. 69-83)
ISBN : 9781315206936 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon
Composers and publishers in Clementi's London (2018-03-28)
Rowland, David
In: Golding, Rosemary ed. The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920: New Perspectives on Status and Identity. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (pp. 32-52)
ISBN : 9781138291867 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London and New York
London's Art Music and provincial listeners in England c.1700-1850 (2017-07-25)
Rowland, David
In: Barlow, Helen and Rowland, David eds. Listening to Music: People, Practices and Experiences
ISBN : 9781473023208 | Publisher : The Open University | Published : Milton Keynes
Introduction (2017-07-25)
Rowland, David
In: Barlow, Helen and Rowland, David eds. Listening to Music: People, Practices and Experiences
ISBN : 9781473023208 | Publisher : The Open University | Published : Milton Keynes
European music publishing during the Napoleonic wars (2016-11-09)
Rowland, David
In: Jardin, Étienne ed. Music and War in Europe from the French Revolution to WWI. Music, criticism and politics (2) (pp. 223-232)
ISBN : 978-2-503-57032-7 | Publisher : Brepols | Published : Turnhaut
Pianists and the European music trade c. 1790-1820 (2015)
Rowland, David
In: Sala, Massimiliano ed. Piano culture in 19th-century Paris (pp. 17-26)
ISBN : 978-2-503-55326-9 | Publisher : Brepols | Published : Turnhout
Haydn's music and Clementi's publishing circle (2013-10-17)
Rowland, David
In: Chesser, Richard and Wyn Jones, David eds. The Land of Opportunity: Joseph Haydn and Britain (pp. 92-111)
ISBN : 9780712358484 | Publisher : British Library Publishing | Published : London
Dussek in London's commercial world (2012-10)
Rowland, David
In: Stewart-MacDonald, Rohan and Illiano, Roberto eds. Jan Ladislav Dussek: A Bohemian Composer «en voyage» through Europe. Quaderni Clementiani (4) (pp. 87-111)
ISBN : 978-88-8109-478-3 | Publisher : Ut Orpheus Edizioni | Published : Bologna
Clementi as publisher (2011-08)
Rowland, David
In: Kassler, Michael ed. The Music Trade in Georgian England (pp. 159-191)
ISBN : 978-0-7546-6065-1 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT
Clementi's music business (2011)
Rowland, David
In: Kassler, Michael ed. The Music Trade in Georgian England (pp. 125-157)
ISBN : 9780754660651 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT
Clementi & Co. in international markets (2010)
Rowland, David
In: Illiano, Roberto and Sala, Luca eds. Instrumental Music and the Industrial Revolution. Ad Parnassum Studies (5) (pp. 525-542)
ISBN : 978-88-8109-468-4 | Publisher : Ut Orpheus Edizioni | Published : Bologna
Chopin and early nineteenth century piano schools (2010)
Rowland, David
In: Szklener, Artur ed. The Sources Of Chopin’s Creative Style: Inspirations And Contexts (pp. 83-96)
ISBN : 978-83-917410-7-8 | Publisher : Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina | Published : Warsaw
Piano businesses in England and France (2009-11-26)
Rowland, David
In: Getreau, Florence ed. Le pianoforte en France 1780-1820. Musique Images Instruments (11) (pp. 127-135)
ISBN : 978-2-271-06896-5 | Publisher : CNRS Editions | Published : Paris
Viotti and Clementi: Friendship, publishing, the Philharmonic Society and the Royal Academy of Music (2006)
Rowland, David
In: Sala, Massimiliano ed. Giovanni Battista Viotti: A composer between the two revolutions (pp. 377-394)
ISBN : 88-8109-457-6 | Publisher : Ut Orpheus Edizioni | Published : Bologna, Italy
Performance practices in the nineteenth-century concerto (2005-10-27)
Rowland, David
In: Keefe, Simon ed. The Cambridge companion to the concerto. Cambridge Companions Series (pp. 227-246)
ISBN : 052183483X | Publisher : Cambridge University Press | Published : Cambridge, UK
The Performance of Chopin's works for piano and orchestra (2005)
Rowland, David
In: Szklener, Artur ed. Chopin in performance: History, theory, practice (pp. 169-183)
ISBN : 8391741060 | Publisher : Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina | Published : Warsaw, Poland
Clementi's early business career: new documents (2004)
Rowland, David
In: Bösel, Richard and Sala, Massimiliano eds. Muzio Clementi. Cosmopolita della Musica. Atti del convegno internazionale in occasione del 250° anniversario della nascita (1752-2002). Roma, 4-6 dicembre 2002 (pp. 49-59)
ISBN : 8881094509 | Publisher : Ut Orpheus Edizioni | Published : Bologna, Italy
Clementi and the British concerto tradition (2002)
Rowland, David
In: Illiano, Roberto; Sala, Luca and Sala, Massimiliano eds. Muzio Clementi: studies and prospects. Muzio Clementi Omnia Opera (61) (pp. 179-190)
ISBN : 8881094487 | Publisher : Ut Orpheus Edizioni | Published : Bologna, Italy
Listening to music: people, practices and experiences (2017-07-31)
Barlow, Helen and Rowland, David eds.
ISBN : 9781473023208 | Publisher : The Open University
The Correspondence of Muzio Clementi (2010)
Rowland, David ed.
Muzio Clementi Opera Omnia. Critical Edition
ISBN : 978-88-8109-469-1 | Publisher : Ut Orpheus Edizioni | Published : Bologna
The development of piano technique in England c. 1790-1810 (2017-11)
Rowland, David
In : XL. Wissenschaftliche Arbeitstagung (8-10 Nov 2013, Kloster Michaelstein) (pp. 237-249)
Piano sonority and melody c.1800-1835 (2017)
Rowland, David
In : International Musicological Conference 2016 (16-18 Sep 2016, Radziejowice, Poland) (pp. 39-61)
Chopin Rondos (2013)
Chopin, Frederic
Edition Peters, London.