Music

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 Opera Means. Claire is part of the discussion along with author Barbara Eichner (Oxford Brookes) and BBC presenter Tom Service. This book, the third in Plumbago/Boydell’s Defining Opera series, is designed for the well-informed opera-lover and explores, through varied ‘case studies’, different elements of opera. The book is divided into various ‘categories’: Sources, Genres, Style, Revisions, Beginning and End, Psychology, Performance. Claire edited the previous title in the series, Disordered Heroes in Opera: A Psychiatric Report, written by John Cordingly. The next title, also by Christopher Wintle and aimed at a more academic readership, will be How Opera Works. You can hear the discussion this Saturday, to be broadcast as part of BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters (12.15-1.00pm).

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 – Title TBC

12:30   Paul Britten – British Municipal Orchestras

13:00   Lunch

14:00   Chris Grey – Defining and interpreting music through the aesthetic texts of Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)

14:30   David Force – Extant seventeenth-century English consort manuscripts and their relationship to the consort organ

15:00   Daniel Gouly – The entanglement of locality, status and intimacy in file sharing and knowledge acquisition in Soundcloud’s Post-Hip Hop underground

15:30   Naomi Barker – Music at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, 1600-1630

16:00   Coffee

To register, please contact Jacquie Green on FASS-ACEM-Music@open.ac.uk by Tuesday 6^th March. Please advise Jacquie of any dietary requirements.