Open University Music Department
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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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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
Introducing Music Research (Free course trailer)
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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) 🎶
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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
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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
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Really pleased that my CUP #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool', co-written with Michael Brocken, has just been published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Open Access until 31 March!
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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
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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.
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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
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
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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
Book cover: The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV
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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
Book cover: The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Edited by Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors.
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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 ‘old’ musical instruments, such as the cornett, with ‘new’ music technology. #AcademicSky
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.