Early bird registration will soon end for the Royal Musical Association Annual Conference 2015. We urge you to make the most of the discounted rates, and register before prices rise on Friday 31 July.
Larger discounts to the early bird rate are also available to members of the Royal Musical Association. If you are not a member and would like to join, please find further information here - www.rma.ac.uk/join/<http://www.rma.ac.uk/join/>
The Royal Musical Association will assemble for its 51st Annual Conference at the University of Birmingham between Wednesday 9 and Friday 11 September 2015.
The Annual Conference is the single event in the UK calendar that seeks to represent something of the entire range of current musical research in progress around the world in all its richness and diversity.
Highlights for the 2015 RMA Annual Conference include:
· More than 80 speakers from 12 different countries
· The Edward J. Dent Medal Presentation and Lecture: Alexander Rehding from the Harvard University speaks on ‘Three Music Theory Lessons’
· Ten panel discussions by internationally renowned academics on topics such as Continental music in early 18th-century London, Habsburg ‘silver age’ operetta and its travels, narratives of Russian music pre- and post-1917, Dukas at 150, Pärt at 80, music and race in 1920s Britain, post-war perspectives on British musical modernism, media archaeology and music, classical music and live digital signal processing, the music industry in the digital age.
· Individual papers on topics ranging from Anglo-Swedish chant to Prokofiev operas and Dolly Parton, from sex culture in Japan to Rameau in the hands of Jolivet, children’s Beethoven in interwar Britain and how to forge Haydn, from primitivism in Horner’s Avatar to Bruckner and Verdi in Visconti’s Senso.
· Lunchtime lecture-recitals along with an innovative series of ‘soundwalks’ promoted by Birmingham’s SOUNDkitchen
· A round-table discussion on the public face of musical research
· Exhibitions by leading academic publishers of books and other materials
· Drinks receptions sponsored by Routledge and by Ashgate Publishing
· Lots of opportunities for networking and evening socializing
The Royal Musical Association Annual Conference 2015 takes place at the prestigious new Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham.
To see the full programme, find out about registration, and to book a place at the conference please visit the conference website www.birmingham.ac.uk/rma2015<http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/rma2015>
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