Oxford Seminar in Music Theory & Analysis (OSiMTA)



We are delighted to announce the programme for OSiMTA Season 4 (2021-22), which takes as its central theme ‘Rhythm, metre and temporality’. Scholars from across three continents will be exploring this theme from analytical and theoretical perspectives in relation to a range of musical periods and practices.

Abstracts and speaker biographies will be posted in advance of each seminar at www.music.ox.ac.uk/osimta<http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/osimta>

All OSiMTA meetings this academic year will continue to be held online only via Zoom. Please return to the webpage nearer the time of the seminars for further information on how to register to attend.

Updates also on Twitter @OxfordAnalysis

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20 October 2021

Richard Cohn (Yale University)

‘Slow pulses: do they exist? Are they aesthetically relevant? Can we feel them in the gut?’



SPECIAL EVENT
27 October 2021

Analysing Haydn: Hans Keller’s Functional Analysis

Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 16.00 UK time, in person (not online)



Roundtable Discussion: ‘Analysing Haydn’, chaired by Laura Tunbridge. Centred on a performance by the Castalian String Quartet of Hans Keller's analysis of Joseph Haydn's String Quartet Op. 76/2. With contributions from Keller biographer Alison Garnham (Visiting Research Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London), John Bowcock (St Anne’s College, Oxford), Judith Valerie Engel (Christ Church College, Oxford) and Nicholas Swett (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge).

This event is supported by The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust.



18 November 2021

Peter Elsdon (University of Hull)

‘“Finding one”: conceptualising metre in contemporary jazz’



26 January 2022

Danuta Mirka (Northwestern University)

‘Harmonic schemata and hypermetre’



23 February 2022

Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University)

'A minor history of prolation'



27 April 2022

Isabel Mundry (Zurich University of the Arts)

Issues of temporality in current compositional practice (title tbc)



18 May 2022

Lindelwa Dalamba (University of the Witwatersrand)

South African jazz: groove and temporality (title tbc)


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The Oxford Seminar in Music Theory & Analysis meets two or three times a term. Its convenors are Professor Jonathan Cross and Dr Sebastian Wedler.

Our conception of theory and analysis is critical, plural and interdisciplinary. In shaping the seminars, we aim to reflect the broad range of activity taking place under the heading of theory and analysis today, as well as to challenge boundaries, embracing not only ‘conventional’ practices, histories of theory and repertoires, but also new interdisciplinary approaches that engage with cultural studies, ethnomusicology, aesthetics and philosophy, psychology, politics, performance studies, popular music studies, and so on. Speakers include distinguished local, national and international scholars.

Seminars are open to all, including the general public. Sessions will last 90 minutes and lively discussion is encouraged. They take place on Wednesday afternoons, beginning at 16.30 UK time (currently via Zoom).




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