Event overview
In Concert: towards a collaborative digital archive of musical ephemera.
The 'In Concert' project aims to set new standards in the development, curation, and use of data in a rapidly growing area of contemporary musicological research: data is sourced from concert programmes, bills, and reviews and advertisements published in historical newspapers and periodicals, to produce a discrete, authoritative resource facilitating the pursuit of specific lines of enquiry.
Recent work on such ephemeral materials has demonstrated their potential, in critical mass, to illuminate significant aspects of performance practice and concert culture that have been passed over in more traditional modes of musicological research.
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Rachel Cowgill is Professor of Musicology at Huddersfield and works in the area of cultural musicology, exploring the place, practice and meaning of music in its cultural, historical and political contexts.
She has published widely on British music and musical life from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century; opera studies; music, conflict and memorialisation; Mozart reception and canon formation; and gender, sexuality and identity in music.
Currently she is principal investigator alongside Simon McVeigh for In Concert: Towards a Collaborative Digital Archive of Musical Ephemera, part of the AHRC’s Digital Transformations project, Transforming Musicology, led by Lancaster University.
Simon McVeigh is a musicologist specialising in British musical life 1700-1945, and in violin music and performance practices of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Books include Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn (Cambridge University Press) and The Italian Solo Concerto 1700-1760 (Boydell Press), while an edition of Arne’s oratorio Judith forms the 100th volume in the flagship series Musica Britannica. Currently, his research centres on London concert life 1880-1914: a substantial article on the LSO appeared in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association in 2013, and a book on London’s recital culture is in preparation.
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The Music Research Series is designed to help postgraduate students advance their research and careers. The events stimulate exchange, hones skills, facilitates the creation of professional networks and helps to consolidate the department’s postgraduate community, all over a glass of wine!
Attendance is strongly recommended for all postgraduate students (MA, MMus and PGR) in Music but of course undergraduates, music researchers, and visitors from across the college and the community are also most welcome to these public lectures.
Dates & times
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| 25 Oct 2016 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
Accessibility
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