We are a mutually supportive community of scholars and practitioners united in a spirit of enquiry and engaged in an open and democratic exchange of ideas across both theory and practice and teaching and research.
PG Research
Glasgow offers a wide range of postgraduate research opportunities in Music through our MMus and PhD programmes and the School is home to a vibrant PG student community. Please click for further details.
Glasgow has been recognised as the leading centre of musical research in Scotland in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. 65% of the Research Output from Glasgow was classified as world-leading or Internationally Excellent.
See the Research Assessment Exercise results for Music.
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Our musicology research engages with a number of historical and cultural themes, particularly modernity in musical culture.
| Musicological method, historiography and criticism, systematic musicology | John Butt, Bill Sweeney, David Code, Martin Dixon, David McGuinness, Eva Moreda-Rodriguez |
| Philosophy and Aesthetics of music | Martin Dixon, John Butt, Bill Sweeney, David Code, Björn Heile |
| Performance practice and cultures of performance | John Butt, Bill Sweeney, David McGuinness |
| Explorations of modernity and modernism, twentieth-century music | Martin Dixon, David Code, Bill Sweeney, John Butt, Björn Heile, Eva Moreda-Rodriguez |
| Seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth- century studies | John Butt, Bill Sweeney, David Code, David McGuinness |
| Scottish music | David McGuinness, Bill Sweeney |
| Spanish music & culture | Eva Moreda-Rodriguez |
| Music in popular culture | Bill Sweeney, Martin Dixon, Martin Cloonan, David McGuinness |
| Music and politics | Martin Cloonan, Eva Moreda-Rodriguez, John Williamson |
| Music and violence | Martin Cloonan |
| Music industries | Martin Cloonan, John Williamson |
Our creative work can be divided into three broad areas of practice and within these a number of research themes emerge.
| COMPOSITION | |
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| Modernism in composition | Nick Fells, Martin Dixon, Bill Sweeney, Jane Stanley |
| Experimental Music | Martin Dixon, Nick Fells |
| Electroacoustic and intermedia composition | Nick Fells, Bill Sweeney |
| Jazz and Gaelic influences | Bill Sweeney |
| Intercultural aspects of composition | Nick Fells, Bill Sweeney |
| Improvisation | Nick Fells, Martin Dixon, Bill Sweeney, David McGuinness |
| Music and Moving Image | Bill Sweeney, Nick Fells, David McGuinness |
New for 2012 - composer workshops with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The RSNO will be offering a series of workshops with a sinfonietta sized ensemble starting in November 2012, specifically for postgraduate composition students, leading to possible performance opportunities. This will provide a supportive professional context in which our postgraduate composers can develop their work, and will complement existing ensemble workshop opportunities with groups such as the Viridian Quartet and the student-led contemporary music ensemble.
| PERFORMANCE | |
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| Historically informed performance | John Butt, Bill Sweeney, David McGuinness |
| Contemporary music practices | Nick Fells, Bill Sweeney, David McGuinness |
| SONIC ARTS & MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | |
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| Sound manipulation and spatialisation in performance | Nick Fells |
| Tools for composition and performance | Nick Fells, Nick Bailey |
| Music, technology and disability | Nick Fells |
| Computationally supported performance studies | Nick Bailey |
| Music information representation, storage and retrieval | Nick Bailey |
| Broadcasting & the recording industry | David McGuinness |
A number of projects and networks are run within the School. Many of these are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
- A Social History of the Musicians' Union (AHRC funded)
- Bass Culture in Scottish Musical Traditions (AHRC funded)
- Music of Scotland
- Political Song Archive
- Researching Live Music in the UK (and the follow up project Live Music Exchange)
- Scottish Music Review
- Scottish Pop Academic Network (SPAN)
- The Use of Audiovisual Resources in Jazz Historiography and Scholarship: Performance, Embodiment and Mediatised Representations
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Music hosts a series of colloquia on behalf of the Royal Musical Association featuring national and international guest speakers, along with staff and postgraduate students. All sessions are open to the public, a warm welcome is extended to all.
All talks take place at 5:15 pm in Room 2 (first floor), 14 University Gardens.
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| Wed Oct 3 | Paul Newland (Oxford Brookes University; Guildhall School; Trinity Laban Conservatoire) | ‘Chance and Formality—Imperfection and Incompleteness’ |
| Wed Oct 24 | Professor Bill Sweeney (University of Glasgow) | ‘The Gentle Art of Self-Quotation’: A Seminar, inviting response to materials provided in advance. |
| Sat Nov 10 | Special event, hosted by David J. Code (University of Glasgow) ‘Envoicing the Other’, a Symposium (10am-5pm) and Concert (6pm), to Honour the 150th anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and the 75th anniversary of the death of Maurice Ravel (1874-1937) | |
| Wed Nov 14 | Allan Moore (University of Surrey) | CANCELLED - Replacement tbc |
| Wed Nov 28 | Sarah Hibberd (University of Nottingham) | ‘Painting as Opera: Bringing Art to Life in 1830s Paris’ |
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| Wed Jan 16 | Tony Myatt (University of Surrey) | 'Colonising Audio Space' |
| Wed Jan 30 | Bettina Varwig (King’s College, London) | ‘Beware the Lamb: Staging Bach's Passions’ |
| Wed Feb 13 | Holly Rogers (University of Liverpool) | ‘Poetic Realism: Documentary Film Soundtracks and the Search for an Objective Voice’ |
| Wed Feb 27 | Martin Cloonan and John Williamson (University of Glasgow) | ‘Researching the History of the Musicians Union: Some initial findings’ |
| Wed Mar 13 - Fri Mar 15 |
Cramb Residency: Professors Katherine Bergeron and Joseph Butch Rovan (Brown University). | |