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Postgraduate Research

MRes and PhD students within the Music subject group.

Rudolf Balázs, “Move now with measured sound”: Measure and Intermediality in the Creative Practice of Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)

Ailsa Critten, From Collections to Classrooms: Object-Based Learning with Global Musical Instruments in UK Primary Schools

Elle Docx, To what extent can Enlightenment discourse inform improvements in audience development theory and practice for British Orchestras in the immediate years after the coronavirus outbreak? 

Benedict Heaney, Exploring the History of the Bowed Electric String in the Modern Development of the Violin: From Leo Fender’s Electric Violin to Digital Techniques of the 21st Century

Ben Hebbert, Musical Instruments as Materiality in the English Renaissance Court and noble culture 

Craig Johnson, Self Organisation: Ecologies and economies in the No-Audience Underground 

Sebastian Jorgensen, Repercussio: Mapping the Art of ‘Repeating’ in the Sixteenth Century  

Christopher Miller, Organology Is Object-Oriented: New Tools for Analysis and Expanded Lexicon for the Study of Musical Instruments

Paula Murphy, "Whatever Happened to Unity?": Black Protest and Resistance in Hip Hop's First Decade

Bori Papp, The Carl Rosa Opera Company (1873-1960): Provincial Experiences and Performance Practices of a British Touring Opera Troupe

Liza Prins, Re-perform work, song, refusal: A critical practice-based reading of the affective domains in re-performing pre-industrial work and song in leftist and artistic practices of the 20th and 21st century 

Michael Saunders, A Scottish Experiment: Music and its Institutions 1970s-1980s 

Harry Sullivan, The Post-Reformation English Organ: Practice-led Research on its Changing Repertoire and Use, 1525-1649

Owen Woods, Shifting patterns of tonal design in the organs of Harrison & Harrison 

 


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