With usual apologies for cross-posting...
I am pleased to invite you to the autumn series of Public Research Seminars at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the first research events in our newly opened building (200 Jennens Road, Birmingham B4 7XR). Entry is free for Research Students from any institution - please email Christopher Dingle in advance to arrange a complimentary ticket ([log in to unmask]). The first seminar is next Tuesday, 10th October, and features Dr Adam Whittaker in a single person double-bill. His abstracts are below the list of seminars.
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Public Research Seminars
All seminars take place at 3.30pm-5pm in Workshop 1
Tickets: £5
Tuesday 10 October: Adam Whittaker double bill: Pedagogy and Music History - two perspectives through time
Tuesday 17 October: Hugh Macdonald: Urtexts and contexts: music editing in the real world
Tuesday 24 October: Aleksandar Dundjerovic: Brazilian Collaborative Theatre: Interviews with Directors, Performers and Choreographers
Tuesday 31 October: Rachel Moore: "Not to be opened during the War": The Mobilisation of French Music Publishing, 1914-1918
Tuesday 7 November: David Milsom (Lecture Recital with Jonathan Gooing): A Leipzig fin-de-siecle: Perspectives upon Joseph Joachim's Performing Practices in the 'Romances' of Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim (features a piano made by Wilhelm Wieck, Clara Schumann's cousin)
Tuesday 28 November: Hans Koller: Re/Sounding Dissonance in Thelonious Monk
Pedagogy and Music History - two perspectives through time
Dr Adam Whittaker (Birmingham City University)
Part 1 - Music in A-Levels: curriculum and hegemony
A-Level music has long stood as one of the qualifications many students who pursue music into higher education engage with. In response to policy statements marking a return to greater political control over canonic works in education, aspects of the current A-level music syllabi (bear similarities to qualifications offered from the 1950s-c.1980s. What are the implications of this? In this presentation I will outline the results of recent research into A-Level music provision and designated 'study pieces, considering the impact this might have upon musical understanding.
Part 2 - Musical Exemplarity in Fifteenth-Century Music Theory: towards an understanding of the musical examples of Johannes Tinctoris (c. 1435-1511)
The notational treatises of Johannes Tinctoris - a music teacher, translator, and diplomat - are among the most important texts on musical practice from the late fifteenth century. His texts give us a particularly interesting perspective on musical practice, and the use of examples. This presentation will set out the arguments for looking more closely at musical examples, and the role they have in theoretical discourse. By situating these treatises within a broader theoretical context, we can better understand the ways in which such texts might have been read.
Biography
Adam Whittaker is a post-doctoral researcher working on a variety of music and music education projects at Birmingham City University. His work on Johannes Tinctoris's examples has recently been published in Plainsong & Medieval Music. He is also currently engaged in research projects funded by the Department for Education and Trinity College London, working to address areas of musical need and understanding in a variety of musical contexts.
All best wishes,
Chris
Christopher Dingle
Professor of Music
Birmingham Conservatoire
200 Jennens Road
Birmingham B4 7XR
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0) 121 331 5901
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/research/research-staff/christopher-dingle
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