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ConductIT is launched
This week saw the launch of ConductIT – an EU funded project to build an open access MOOC on conducting. As an ERASMUS+ strategic partnership, ConductIT will develop an innovative online and distance-learning approach to teaching a subject that is fundamentally … Continue reading
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The OU music department is delighted to be part of an ERASMUS+ strategic partnership that has been successful in bidding for funding in order to create an online conducting course and associated new technologies. Led by University of Stavanger along … Continue reading
July 9, 2018
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What is it like studying ‘The Practice of Music Making’?
Andrea Lea, one of this year’s students on The Practice of Music Making, the Certificate written in collaboration with Trinity Laban Conservatoire, has written about her experience studying with us in a ‘guest blog’ for Making Music, the organisation that supports … Continue reading
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New Monograph on Female Musicians of Interwar France
Dr Laura Hamer’s new monograph, Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–1939, has just been published by Routledge. The book considers a wide range of female composers working in interwar France, including the early Prix de Rome winners, Marguerite … Continue reading
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New book of essays on The Music Profession in Britain, 1780-1920
March saw the publication of a volume of essays edited by Music Department Senior Lecturer Rosemary Golding, focused on the history of the music profession in nineteenth-century Britain. The essays are drawn from a wide range of scholars including the … Continue reading
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Study Afternoon with the OAE, London, 12 May
The Department will be presenting a Study Afternoon with its curriculum partner, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE), at Kings Place (near King’s Cross and St Pancras stations), on Saturday 12 May, at 3-5 pm. The afternoon will … Continue reading
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What Opera Means
Well-known opera critic Claire Seymour, one of the department’s Associate Lecturers, has been taking part in a BBC Radio 3 discussion. The subject is one very relevant to the department’s Level 3 module, A342, in that it considers Christopher Wintle’s new book, What … Continue reading
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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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