Speakers/Description

Bach and Handel: Learning from Machines (Chair: Robert Rawson)

Christopher Holman, 'Bach Performance Practice in the Late French Romantic Organ School: A Study of Two Organ Roll Recordings' 

Emily Baines, 'The Ghost in the Machine: How the performance style found in mechanical musical instruments challenges modern historical performance (and listening) norms'

Nineteenth-Century Foundations, I (Chair: Ian Biddle)

Leanne Langley, 'Ideas of Music Research in Britain, 1813-74: Roots of the (Royal) Musical Association'

Jonathan Hicks, 'The Royal Musical Complex'

James Barker, 'Life in "Picket Fences": Queering 1990s Country'

Oren Vinogradov, 'The Way You Look Tonight: Fred Astaire Misremembered and the Crisis of Masculinity'

Lauren Redhead, 'Music in the Discworld'

Peter Falconer' The Use of Parafiction as a Framing Device in the Presentation and Experience of Musical Compositions'

Themed Session: Music and the Creative Economy (Chair: Matthew Ord)

Adam Behr, 'National Anthems – Protecting and Challenging the Musical Economy in National Policy'

Simon McKerrell, 'Music and the Creative Economy in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland'

Jane Nolan, 'Meaningful Participation and Engagement with the Creative Economy through Pedagogy and Practice'

Matthew Ord, 'Selling the Experience of Music in Glasgow, "Music City"'

Themed Session: Shakespeare and Music  (Chair: David Fanning)

William Lyons, 'Strike Up, Pipers! Instruments and Hierarchies in Early Modern Theatre'

William Germano, 'Cassio's lips, or the mechanics of nightmare in Othello and Otello'  

Helen Wilcox, '"Take, O Take …": Madeleine Dring’s Settings of Shakespeare’

Michelle Assay, '"I am Hamlet": Hamlet as the Artist's Alter-ego in late-Soviet songs'

Samantha Ege, 'Listening for Bea: (Re)Sounding Florence B. Price’s Complete Fantasie Nègre Compositions for Solo Piano'

Kate Ledger, 'Do I Need a Piano to be a Pianist? How Collaboration has located Pianistic Material'

Daniel Marx, '“Something you do over there”: Jewish Musicians and the Mediation of Identity in Contemporary British Jazz'

Ron Levi and Ofer Gazit, 'Sexual Hearing: African Jazz and Black Masculinity in the Civil Rights Era'

Rev. Dr June Boyce-Tillman, '"Heart’s Ease" - Music as Wellbeing through the Lens of John Tavener'

Brian Inglis, '"Dumped modernism"? The Interplay of Musical Construction and Spiritual Affect in John Tavener and his To a Child Dancing in the Wind'

Stephen Roberts, 'John Tavener’s Musical Theology of Religions'

Online meeting, all welcome: contact Rachel Cowgill with items of discussion. Zoom link for attendees (passcode 805025): https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96662062185?pwd=ek5PLzJ1STRvWmN0clFtaVhxK2pqdz09

Antonella D'Ovidio, 'Music, Space and Visual Culture in the Patrician Palaces of Seventeenth-Century Florence'

Dawn Grapes, 'John Dowland’s Paris: A Contextualized Reconstruction'

Robert Rawson, '"Where Musick and More powerful Beauties Reign": the Finger-Draghi Concerts at York Buildings (c. 1689–97) and Their Impact on Theatre Music'

Alex de Lacey, 'Level Up! A framework for Multidirectional Improvisation in UK Grime Music'

Andrew Green, 'Acoustemology In Practice: Hip-Hop, Environmental Advocacy and Auditory Knowledge in Batalla Por Tu Bosque, Mexico City'

Jane Forner, 'Mapping Multilingualism in Contemporary Opera'

L. C. Acevedo, 'A Textural Framework for Choreomusical Analysis'

Rachel Cowgill, 'Ariadne en Travesti: Gender, Liminality, and Sensibility in Pacchierotti’s London Performances of Haydn’s Arianna a Nasso for Mezzo Soprano and Fortepiano Hob.XXVIb:2'

Robert Crowe, 'About that castrato in Parsifal: Leo d’Ageni, a "male contralto" in the time of Wagner and Liszt'

William Southerland, 'Orange Juice, Milk, and the History of the LGBTQ Choral Movement in the United States'

Nick Bonadies and Imogen Flower, 'Sex Worker’s Opera, Don Jo!, and Queering Opera-making' 

Núria Bonet, 'Pub Jukeboxes: Music, Democracy and the Hyperlocal'

Reception (sponsored by Boydell & Brewer), including the RMA Sundowner Quiz, 1800-1900, hosted by Nuria Bonet, Daniel Elphick and Genevieve Arkle

Speakers/Description

Twentieth-Century Britain at War (Chair: Jonathan Hicks)

Matthew McCullough, 'Requiem for a Dream: Universality, Sonic Death Ritual, and Associative Symbolism in Sir Arthur Bliss’s Morning Heroes'

Jon Churchill, '“The Symphony of the Front”: Structural Rupture in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony'

Alexander Wilfing, 'Contextualizing Musicology: The Eclectic Origins of Guido Adler’s Concept of Musical Research'

Jane Hines, 'Phantasy Pathologized: Musical Imagination and the Beginnings of Musicology'

Damiín Martín-Gil, 'Giacomo or Giuseppe Bernardo: Which Brother should Be Acknowledged as the Famous Guitarist "Merchi" in the Entry of Grove Music Online?

Eric Boaro, 'Vocal Improvisation in Eighteenth-Century Naples: Evidence of Solfeggio Patterns in Thoroughly Composed Cadenzas in Sacred Pieces by Gennaro Manna'

Martina Kalser-Gruber, 'Crisis Communication in the Field of Classical Music Festivals in the Age of COVID-19: The Role of Artistic Directors'

Steve Gisby, 'Music and/as Process Study Group: Networked Collaborative Processes in Experimental Composition and Performance'

Phillip Cartwright, 'Investigating Traditional Punjabi Wedding Songs: Suhag in the Urban Context'

WITHDRAWN [Tal Soker, 'The Citizen-Pianist: Igor Levit and the Quest for Participatory Democracy'}

Themed Session: Musical Universalism and Locality in the Age of Empire (Chair: Yvonne Liao)

Richard Williams, 'Querying “Global” Music History: Goswami Pannalal, Rajasthan, and Queen Victoria'

Jacob Olley, 'An Ottoman Response to Orientalism: Pan-Islam and the Science of Music'

Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang, 'A Modern Paradox: Inventing Korean Protestant Hymns, 1892–1923'      

Kristin Hoefener, 'How to imagine the sonic performance of Hildegard of Bingen’s audiovisions: liturgical or not?'

Nicholas W. Bleisch & Henry Drummond, ' Practices of Devotion at Tongerlo Abbey: Offices in the Antifonarium Tsgrooten'

Stefan Gasch, 'Rulers and Saints, Reformers and Humanists: Aspects of Chronology in Motets by Ludwig Senfl'

Mollie Carlyle, '"Spinning Yarns": Examining Problems of Sea Shanty Authenticity in the Present Day'

Daniel Jordan, 'Sorority and Hispanidad Across the Atlantic: Women as Musical Diplomats in the Batista, Trujillo, and Franco regimes (1952-59)'

Nassos Polyzoidis, 'Reharmonising Rebetiko Modes in a Contemporary Context'

Joshua Ballance, 'The Viennese Trichord in the Music of Anton Webern: A Computational Study'

Gabriel Jones, '"Irrational Nuances": Interpreting Stockhausen’s Klavierstück I'

Thomas Heywood, 'Philosophies of Form-Functionality: Organicism and Mechanism'

Robert Laidlow, 'Artificial Intelligence as a Creative Agent in the Compositional Process'

Alastair White, 'Contingency Dialectics in Fashion-Opera'

Angela Slater, Spinning Colours: Faded Time for Piano Quartet

Alistair Zaldua, String Trio Fragments

Dominic Wills, Indris

posters

Leipzig and London; Bach, Shield, Beethoven (Chair: David Smith)                                                        

Mark Seow, 'Liquid Listening in Early Eighteenth-Century Leipzig'

Amélie Addison, 'Reading Between the Staves: Identity and Representation in the Works of William Shield'

Christopher Parton, 'Beethoven’s "Englished" Lieder and the Borders of Song'

Alexis Bennett, 'Role-play and Signalling: Naming Conventions in Historical Performance Ensembles Since 1950'

James Félix, 'Transferrable Authenticity: New Perspectives on the "inauthentic" in Folk Music'

Ingrid Bols, 'Screen Music in British and French Concert Halls: High Culture, Mass Entertainment and Orchestral Canons'

Pianos, repertories and contexts (Chair: Lauren Redhead)

Bozhidar Chapkanov, 'The Double Harmonic Syntax in Liszt’s Late Piano Music: A Bilateral Analytical Inquiry'

Joyce Tang, 'Pianos (1870-1910) in the National Trust'

Esther Cavett, '"The mind is not limited by the skin": The Piano Technician’s Experience of Working on Pianos of  Great Performers'

Russian Music in the Twentieth Century (Chair: Pauline Fairclough)

Adam Behan, ‘Integrating Life and Work: Contemporary Music in Maria Yudina’s Imagination and Artistic Practice’

Ivan Hewett, 'The 1920 All-Stravinsky Concert at the Wigmore Hall: the Critical Response'

Daniel Elphick, 'Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Mikhalkov’s Ilya Golovin'

Ellie Armon Azoulay (Newcastle University), Lawrence Davies (Leverhulme ECR Fellow, Newcastle University), Kira Dralle (University of California Santa Cruz), Steven Lewis (National Museum of African American Music), Maria Ryan (Florida State University) 

Edwin Hillier, Hyphae, with Andrew Forbes (organ)

Annual General Meeting followed by Edward Dent Keynote Lecture (Chair: Barbara Kelly, President, RMA)

Prof. Eric Drott

A full performance of compositions heard in today's workshops

Speakers/Description

Magdelena Ho-yan Tang, 'Sung into Being: An Ethnography of the Anthem Law Controversy in Hong Kong'

Andrew Yu, 'Colonial legacy and inheritance: Can Scottish bagpipes culture in survive in post-colonial Hong Kong?'

Jonathan Packham, 'Scoring the Journey: Listening to Space in Claudia Molitor’s Sonorama'

Oli Jan, 'Pastiche, But of Animals: Exploring Effects of Acoustically Reproduced Animal Sounds in EMT'

Tim Coombes, 'The Children’s Chorus in Late Nineteenth-Century French Opera'

Hélène Crowley, 'Nothing to Lose: Modernism in Hanns Eisler's Mass Choruses'

Annika Forkert, 'Rebecca Clarke’s Bricolage'

Themed Session: Music and Wellbeing in Institutional Contexts (Chair: Kirsten Gibson)

Michael Gale, 'Musical Provision at the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, during the Sixteenth Century'

Naomi J. Barker, '"To lighten the cares resulting from the misery of human misfortune": Music, Medicine and Religion at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia'

Rosemary Golding, 'Music for the Urban, Middle-Class Insane: Bethlem Hospital in the Nineteenth Century'

Helen Barlow, 'Music Therapy and the Military, c. 1850-c. 1918'

Monika Hennemann, 'Sarastro in Shanghai and Papageno in Phnom Penh: Die Zauberflöte and the Concept of Adaptive Intercultural Theatre'

David Irving, 'Global Soundscapes from the First Voyage of Circumnavigation, 1519-1522'

Ekaterina Pavlova, '"Adults and Children had Tears in their Eyes...": the Reception and Political Significance of the Pyatnitsky Russian Folk Choir's Tours of the GDR'

Kate Guthrie, 'The Child and the Musical Masterpiece'

Tom Metcalf, 'Aesthetic Synthesis in "Transmedial" Music: Approaches, Limitations, Frameworks'

Michael Boyle, '"Integrated Tool Competency" in the Compositional Process: a 4E perspective on the cognitive role of absent compositional tools'

Hannah Millington, 'Dame Ethel Smyth: Networking, Notoriety and the English Music Machine'

Leah Broad, 'Navigating Gendered Spaces and Places: Rebecca Clarke as Performer and Composer'

Orla Shannon, 'Ina Boyle: Rejection and Resilience'

Laura Watson, 'Gender Politics, the Piano, and Radio in Twentieth-Century Ireland'

Lisa Colton (Huddersfield University), James Cook (University of Edinburgh) Andrew Kirkman (University of Birmingham)  

Alessandra Palidda, 'Teatro musicale giocoso: Edoardo Sonzogno and comic opera in late nineteenth-century Italy'

Elena Oliva, 'A Matter of Realism and Politics: French Operetta in Milan in the 1870s'

Laura Moeckli, 'The Reception of Golden Age Viennese Operetta in Post-Unification Italy'

Guillaume Castella, '"Non voglio musica dell’avvenir!": Il Duca di Tapigliano and the anti-Germanic reforms of opera buffa'

Posters, meetings etc.

David Smith (Northumbria University), Rebecca Herissone (University of Manchester), Frauke Jürgensen (Aberdeen University), Nicholas Williams (Stainer & Bell) 

Roe-Min Kok, 'The Model Minority Music Student: Interrogating a Neocolonial Stereotype'

Yvonne Liao, '"Limits of Encounter": Narrating Diversity and Musical Life in Treaty Port History'

Maria Ryan, 'Discipline and Dignity: Considering Race and Military Music in the British Colonial Caribbean' 

Adriana Festeu, 'Idiosyncrasies of Voice Classification - the Mezzo-Soprano as "soprano in waiting"'

Katalin Koltai, ’"Ligeti Guitar": An Unexplored World of the Guitar Idiom'

Churen Li, 'Locating the Southeast Asian Performer’s Voice in WAM Performance'

Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis, 'Epic Singing in the context of Contemporary Music from an Academic and Artistic Perspective'

Yanini Pongpakatien and Chamamas Keawbuadee, 'Writing our Future in the Changing Musical Landscapes of Southeast Asia'

Junyan Chow, 'Maintaining Momentum in Malaysia - A Reflection and Study of the Contemporary Music Scene'

Poumpak Charuprakorn, 'Performer-composer collaboration: Sustainable Development of the Contemporary Music Scene of Thailand?' 

Scott McLaughlin (Leeds University),  Mira Benjamin (Goldsmiths, University of London), Ingrid Pearson (Royal College of Music), Tenley Martin (Leeds Beckett University), Leah Kardos (Kingston University)