Author Archives: Helen Coffey

The conductor, harpsichordist and OU PhD student Bridget Cunningham brings Handel’s pasticcio opera, Caio Fabbricio HWV A9, back to life in a concert by London Early Opera on 24 May 2022 – the first modern-day concert performance of the work. … Continue reading →

David Hammond, a former OU music research student, has published a book based upon his PhD: British Army Music in the Interwar Years: Culture, Performance, and Influence. It tells the story of the 7,000 full-time bandsmen serving in the British … Continue reading →

Robert Johnson Complete Works, edited by Dr Elaine Moohan is now in press and will be available shortly from the Scottish Music Centre, Glasgow. This edition of Johnson’s (d. c. 1560) works is the result of a lengthy research project … Continue reading →

The next OU Music Research Day will take place on 30 April 2019 in the OU’s London Office. The provisional programme is as follows: 10:30  Coffee 11:00  Natalie Burton – Structural pluralism in Gerald Finzi’s Earth and Air and Rain 11:30  … Continue reading →

The Music Department invites applications for October 2019 entry to its PhD programme. Our research was rated 1st in the UK in the Guardian’s analysis of the last Research Excellence Framework, and 8th in the Times Higher Education table. We … Continue reading →

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 →

The Department of Music at the Open University invites applications for October 2018 entry to its PhD programme. Our research was rated 1st in the UK in the Guardian’s analysis of the REF 2014 results, and 8th in the Times … Continue reading →

As part of his Honorary Associate work, Malcolm Atkins has been researching the practice of writing music for dance. Malcolm has been asked to participate in a project that emanated from the research of the Aberdeen anthropology department in looking … Continue reading →

Associate Lecturer Malcolm Atkins has written an article for the Department of Classical Studies’ journal Practitioners’ Voices in Classical Reception Studies. This article is about Malcolm’s practice of writing music for danced narrative with the group Avid for Ovid and includes … Continue reading →

Elaine Moohan, currently working on The Complete Works of Robert Johnson (due for publication in April 2018), delivered a session in conversation with Rebecca Tavener at the annual convention of the Association of British Choral Directors, Saturday 26th August 2017. … Continue reading →