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PhD Studentships in Music and Sonic Arts
The School of Music and Sonic Arts and the Sonic Arts Research Centre
(SARC) at Queen's University Belfast are pleased to announce 10 three-
year (36 months) PhD studentships in the areas of sonic arts,
composition and musicology. The funding is available to Home, EU and
International applicants and will commence in October 2008.
Applicants should have or expect to obtain, a relevant Masters
qualification and a 2:1 honours degree (or equivalent) in a related
area. In exceptional circumstances applicants without a Masters can
be considered. Applications should be made through the online portal
at http://pg.apply.qub.ac.uk/ by the 14th March 2008.
We particularly welcome applications in the following areas:
Sonic Arts
- composition and sound art
- mobile handheld applications using gesture and haptics
- network performance
- real-time score environments (developing current work with real-
time notation)
- embodiment, emotion, and entrainment in musical performance
- computer assisted composition
- new performance technologies
- critical studies in sound art and contemporary practice
To find out more, contact:
Dr Pedro Rebelo
Director of Research
Sonic Arts Research Centre
Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 5406
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Musicology and Composition
- any aspects of Bach and Handel studies including reception history
- analysis of dance music
- Mozart's operas, sources, keyboard arrangements, reception history
- any aspect of Czech music
- the music of Richard Strauss
- music in nineteenth-century Ireland
- 20th-century music esp. Elgar, Bax, Sibelius and the
Internationale Musikgesellschaft
- the history and practice of traditional music in Ireland, especially
those who wish to employ social science methodologies in their
research
- composition
To find out more, contact:
Professor Ian Woodfield
Director of Research
Tel: +44 (0)28 90975205
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The School of Music & Sonic Arts at Queen's provides one of the most
diverse and active research environments for music and music-related
study in the UK or Ireland. Seventeen high-profile academics and a
community of forty research students are engaged in projects ranging
from Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth-century music topics,
through a wide range of compositional and creative practice-based
work, to ground-breaking projects exploring technical research
applications at SARC. The School has been highly rated in the last
two Research Assessment Exercises in the UK and has been at the
forefront of a number of key musicological and creative research
activities in the last twenty years.
The School has a lively community of PhD researchers working in areas
of musicology, music and social history, dance, composition and music
technology; a number of research projects have a strongly
interdisciplinary nature and interaction between students is
encouraged and valued.
School website: www.music.qub.ac.uk
SARC website: www.sarc.qub.ac.uk
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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Lecturer in Music
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, Great Britain
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/jpeh-s.html
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