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“The experience of listening to music: methodologies, identities, histories” 6-7 March 2018, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Following on from our inaugural conference in 2015, the Listening Experience Database project team is pleased to announce the second project conference. … Continue reading →

How does a melody, a certain arrangement or song seem to enforce or even create a sense of identity for people at a certain time and in a certain place? I’ve recently been involved with a fascinating new six-part BBC … Continue reading →

Three years after completing his PhD on the use of statistics in the study of music history (some of which is covered in our MA module A873), Honorary Associate Andrew Gustar has launched a new website www.musichistorystats.com as a resource … Continue reading →

Students completing a multi-disciplinary level 1 module often comment on how they have studied topics and subject areas that they would never normally have encountered and want to learn more about them. Music is one subject area that can inform … Continue reading →

On 22 July I will be taking part in an interdisciplinary one-day symposium on the topic of Medicine, music, madness and melancholy: from cause to cure at Goldsmiths, University of London. This event will bring together historians of medicine, musicologists … Continue reading →

Rosemary Golding will be giving her talk on music in nineteenth-century asylums at Bethlem Museum of the Mind this coming Saturday, 1 July. The talk, which was postponed from March, considers the ways in which music was used in asylums … Continue reading →

As Musician in Residence at St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Associate Lecturer Malcolm Atkins has been trying to engage the local community in the creation of and contemplation of sound and song and continued his own research into the nature … Continue reading →

The Department of Music at the Open University invites applications for February 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 →

Rosemary Golding has been invited to speak at an event to be held later this month at Glasgow University, looking at the impact of Victorian Universities as well as the potential impact of Victorian Studies on the modern world. Rosemary’s … Continue reading →