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The Music Department at The Open University offers distance-learning qualifications in Music, including BA, MA and PhD degrees. https://fass.open.ac.uk/music

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The Symphony as a Novel - LIM Mahler’s Tenth Preface by Robert Samuels In lingua Inglese

Congratulations to PhD graduate Angelo Pinto on the publication of his book The Symphony as a Novel: Mahler's Tenth. www.lim.it/en/essay/693... @ougradsch.bsky.social #PhD

10.10.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Introducing Music Research (Free course trailer)
YouTube video by OpenLearn from The Open University Introducing Music Research (Free course trailer)

Our MA in Music is open for registration! This part-time, distance-learning course can be studied worldwide, and is designed to be completed over 2 years. Sign up at www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate.... The video introduces our free sample course, available @ouopenlearn.bsky.social youtu.be/YmpddzhAFiE

23.04.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exciting to receive my author copies of my Cambridge #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool' co-written with Michael Brocken! Mary Hamer was a dance band leader, pianist, and exhibition dancer (but not a relative) 🎢

10.04.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dr Ben Winters' new book Korngold in America: Music, Myth, and Hollywood is now available as an ebook from Oxford University Press; the print edition will be available from June. global.oup.com/academic/pro... #AcademicSky #Research #FilmMusic

28.03.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music Title: East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music Subject Classification:Β  Arts, Race and Racism, Equality Diversity Inclusion Β  BIC Classification: AB, JFSL, JH BISAC Classification: SOC...

Dr Mai Kawabata's book, East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music, co-edited with Ken Ueno of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social was recently published by Ethics Press. ethicspress.com/products/eas... #AcademicSky #Research #Musicology

26.03.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises | Journal of the Royal Musical Association | Cambridge Core Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises

Dr @rosemarygolding.bsky.social's new article 'Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises' in the Journal of the @royalmusical.bsky.social is open access at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #Research

24.03.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Congratulations to OU Music's @drlaurahamer.bsky.social and Michael Brocken on the publication of Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys! *Free* to download until 31 March. #AcademicSky #Research #WomenInMusic

17.03.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr Lilian Simones recently had a chapter titled 'Advancing Excellence in Teaching: Professionalizing Vocal and Instrumental Music Education' published in The Applied Studio Model in Higher Music Education: Critical Perspectives and Opportunities, ed. Kelly A. Parkes and Ryan Daniel. #AcademicSky

12.03.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core Nineteenth-Century Music Review - Dr Martin Clarke, Dr Rosemary Golding

OU Music's @mvclarke.bsky.social and @rosemarygolding.bsky.social recently became co-editors of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social.
You can find out more about the journal and read open-access articles at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #research

11.03.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Clarke, who completed a PhD in Music with us in 2021, on the publication of The Periodicals of Ferdinand Pelzer (1833-1857): A German Musician in London. It draws on material Sarah used during her PhD on the guitar in C19th Britain.
boydellandbrewer.com/978090095209...

10.03.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Concerts and Cures at the Crichton Royal Institution, 1840–1860 ABSTRACT. The Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries, founded in 1839, was renowned for its programme of educational and recreative activities, firmly part

Dr @rosemarygolding.bsky.social's article 'Concerts and Cures at the Crichton Royal Institution, 1840–1860' has recently been published open-access in the journal Music & Letters. You can read the full article free of charge at academic.oup.com/ml/article/1.... #research #AcademicSky #Musicology

07.03.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover: The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV

Book cover: The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV

Dr Alex Kolassa recently had a chapter entitled 'Beyond Nostalgia: Hearing Anachronism in Westworld and Television’s New Golden Age' published in The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV, edited by Janet K. Halfyard and Nicholas Reyland. #AcademicSky #Musicology #Research

06.03.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover: The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Edited by Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors.

Book cover: The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Edited by Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors.

Congratulations to @drlaurahamer.bsky.social, whose co-edited book The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond was published recently. #AcademicSky #OUFamily #Research #Music #WomenInMusic

05.03.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Album cover for The Polyphonic Cornett. Text reads The Polyphonic Cornett. Jamie Savan: Cornett. James Dooley: Electronics. Music by Martyn Harry, Timothy Roberts, Benjamin Tassie, Johann Walter.

Album cover for The Polyphonic Cornett. Text reads The Polyphonic Cornett. Jamie Savan: Cornett. James Dooley: Electronics. Music by Martyn Harry, Timothy Roberts, Benjamin Tassie, Johann Walter.

Congratulations to Lecturer Dr James Dooley, whose album in collaboration with Jamie Savan, The Polyphonic Cornett, was released by Birmingham Record Company in November.

The album explores the intersection of β€˜old’ musical instruments, such as the cornett, with β€˜new’ music technology. #AcademicSky

04.03.2025 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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