Recital Room, Faculty of Music


2014-10-15 17:00: The head v. the hands: the teaching of counterpoint and of thorough bass in early 18th-century Naples (Prof Michael F Robinson (Emeritus Professor, Cardiff)	)

2014-10-22 17:00: Sounding marginality and social disorder: the battle for Madrid’s soundscape, 1850-1930 (Dr Samuel Llano (University of Durham))

2014-10-29 17:00: Intermediality and “synmediality” in video art: Robert Cahen and Pierre Boulez (Prof Raffaele Pozzi (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)	)

2014-11-12 17:00: Beyond socialist realism: political aesthetics in the German Democratic Republic (Dr Golan Gur (Newton International Fellow of the British Academy; University of Cambridge))

2014-11-19 17:00: Navigating the music industry: explorations in creativity, technology and law (Dr Ananay Aguilar (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-26 17:00: "The demoniac tune of the zarabanda”: erotic dance-songs in Early Modern Spain (Prof Álvaro Torrente (Universidad Complutense de Madrid))

2015-01-21 17:00: To the Ear a Great Compassion: Listening, Counting and Number (Steven Connor, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-26 17:00: The Anatomy and Physiognomy of Early Modern Vocal Identity (Richard Wistreich)

2015-02-11 17:00: From the “Jet Set” to intrigue: bossa nova and the 1960s international spy thriller (Dr Kariann Goldschmitt (University Cambridge))

2015-02-18 17:00: ‘Un pezzo … di una grandissima serietà e con una grandissima emozione … e con elementi totalmente bruti’: aesthetic and socio-political considerations and the failure of their integration in Mauricio Kagel’s work post-1968 (Dr Björn Heile (University of Glasgow) )

2015-03-06 17:00: The Politics and Aesthetics of Choral Singing in Alentejo, Portugal (Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco - Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal )

2015-03-11 17:00: ‘“It goes like this”: agency and the rhetoric of classical music performance’ (Prof Mary Hunter (Bowdoin College))

2015-04-29 17:00: 'Capturing sounds, designing notation, writing music' (Prof. Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge)

2015-05-20 17:00: Le roi caché : incognito and false identity in Baroque opera (Professor Reinhard Strohm, University of Oxford)

2017-01-18 17:00: Colloquium: Lydia Goehr (Lydia Goehr, Columbia University)