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As Musician in Residence for St Mary and St Nicholas Church Littlemore, OU Honorary Associate Malcolm Atkins has written a ‘Littlemore Mass’ for a concert on 25 June. The mass is based on melodies gathered from different communities in Oxford … Continue reading →

The Department of Music at the Open University invites applications for October 2017 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 →

Lecturer Naomi Barker has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant and a Music and Letters Research Grant for her project on music at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Rome in the early seventeenth century. The Ospedale di … Continue reading →

I am lucky enough to be spending most of my time on research this month, and am using my leave to work on a number of projects all centred around my interests in music’s place and role in nineteenth-century Britain. … Continue reading →

Tonight, a new two part OU/BBC series Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics starts on BBC4 at 9.00pm in which Dr Helen Czerski takes us on a spectacular journey into the world of sound. In episode one, Helen investigates the … Continue reading →

The hidden listeners: uncovering the historical evidence for the experience of music 29 March 2017, 11.00-15.00 Blythswood Room, Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow Booking: https://hiddenlisteners.eventbrite.co.uk How, where and why have people listened to music in the past? What did the … Continue reading →

The next Music Research Day will take place on Wednesday 26th April in the Music Studio on the OU’s campus in Milton Keynes.  If you would like to attend, please e-mail Jacquie Green on FASS-ACEM-Music@open.ac.uk by Tuesday 18th April, providing details … Continue reading →

OU Honorary Associate Andrew Gustar has written about his experiences of studying at the OU in a new blog post on the Royal Musical Association’s website.   In this, Andrew describes his trajectory from mathematics into music and how both these … Continue reading →

As part of the OU music department’s partnership with the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, Naomi Barker will be presenting a pre-concert study evening at King’s Place on Thursday 2nd February, 6.30-8.30pm. This event is part of the … Continue reading →

Byron Dueck (Senior Lecturer in Music) will give talks on his most recent research at the University of Oxford and the University of Chicago during the coming fortnight. He will present ‘The Social Life of Chords’ at the University of Oxford’s Seminar in Ethnomusicology … Continue reading →