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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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Credit Transfer and the BA (Hons) in Music

Do you already have a completed or partially-completed degree from another institution? Do you want to study our Music BA (Hons)? Did you know you may be able to use existing university credits–including music performance diplomas–to transfer on to our … Continue reading

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The Music of Time series continues

The BBC World Service series The Music of Time continues with its exploration of the interactions between music, identity and social change at key points in history. In this episode, Wyre Davies explores the collision between Chile’s Nueva Canción music … Continue reading

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PhD Studentships in Music at the Open University

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

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Researching Music for Dance

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

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Music for Dance

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

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Certificate: The Practice of Music Making – LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER

There is still just time to register for our collaborative module presented by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the Certificate The Practice of Music Making. The Certificate counts as a 60-point Level 3 module as part of your Open … Continue reading

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Elaine Moohan speaks at Association of British Choral Directors Convention

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

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OU Music Associate Lecturer to be published in landmark Mahler study

Mark Summerfield, who completed his PhD with the OU Music Department in 2008 and was an Associate Lecturer and Summer School Tutor on module A214: Understanding Music, is the author of Chapter 3 of the forthcoming study Rethinking Mahler edited by Jeremy … Continue reading

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MA in Music

Did you know the Open University offers a 2-year part-time MA degree in Music? The new degree, which has been running since 2014, provides students with a thorough grounding in contemporary digital approaches to music research, and culminates in a … Continue reading

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