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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 5h

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RMA/CUP Edited Book Prize 2025 – Royal Musical Association

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 5h

Honourable mentions also go to two collections:

Robert Sholl ed., 'Messiaen in Context' (CUP, 2024)
and
Toby Young ed., 'The Cambridge Companion to Composition' (CUP, 2024)

Congratulations to all our winners!

Front cover of 'Messiaen in Context', ed. Robert Sholl.

Front cover of 'The Cambridge Companion to Composition', ed. Toby Young.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 5h

The Royal Musical Association and Cambridge University Press Edited Book Prize for 2025 goes to Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay for their edited collection 'Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century' (OUP, 2024).

Front cover of the prize-winning 'Acoustic of Empire', ed. Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 5h

RMA/CUP Edited Book Prize 2025

https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/08/rma-cup-edited-book-prize-2025/

RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 14h

Call for Papers: Chamber Music: Synergies through Time, Places and Spaces (Cardiff, 13 Mar 2026)

https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/08/call-for-papers-chamber-music-synergies-through-time-places-and-spaces-cardiff-13-mar-2026/

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 2d

Conference Report: 5th International Conference on Women’s Work in Music 2025

https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/06/conference-report-5th-international-conference-on-womens-work-in-music-2025/

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 8d

Sound and Screen conference, and 'Music, Sound, and the Moving Image' at 20 symposium

https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/09/30/sound-and-screen-conference-and-music-sound-and-the-moving-image-at-20-symposium/

RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 14d

Call for Papers: Music and Screen from Ethnic and Ethnographic Perspectives

https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/09/24/call-for-papers-music-and-screen-from-ethnic-and-ethnographic-perspectives/

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 16d

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Vacancy for Reviews Editor for both the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle (new deadline of Monday 6 October)
www.rma.ac.uk/2025/07/17/r...

Extended Deadline – Reviews Editor: JRMA and RMARC – Royal Musical Association

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 19d

RMA 2025 Practice Research Prize awarded to Sara Salloum

https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/09/19/rma-2025-practice-research-prize-awarded-to-sara-salloum/

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 19d

The research findings were original and engaging - of particular interest is the experiential work on how the clothes worn by female lute players shaped movement and influenced performance choices.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 19d

The panel commended this rich and insightful work which drew on detailed performance-based practice research and recognised its potential for wider impact through further dissemination in the future.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 19d

The RMA Practice Research Prize for 2025 is awarded to Sara Salloum (University of Newcastle) for her thesis 'Female lute accomplishment and performance practices in early seventeenth-century England' (University of Durham).

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Photo of Sara in suitable costume with lute in hand at a research event.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 20d

‼️ DEADLINE EXTENDED ‼️

Following a request from the Musici Trust, the deadline for proposals for the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference has been extended by one week to next Thursday, 25th September.

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Student Paper Prizes: RMA/Musici Trust Prize for a paper on music before 1600: Speakers will be invited to submit their papers to the RMA/Musici Trust prize for a student paper on music before 1600. The winner will receive a £300 prize, be offered mentorship, and also be invited to present their work at the RMA Annual Conference.

RMARC Student Paper Prize: Speakers will be invited to submit their papers to the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle student-paper prize. Participation will be open to all speakers. The winner will receive a £100 book token from Cambridge University Press, as well as mentorship from the editors of RMARC to develop and expand their submission for publication in RMARC.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 20d

Submissions are welcome involving the study of any type of music, but we draw particular attention to the Musici Trust’s new prize for the best paper on music written before 1600. There's also the RMARC Student Paper Prize!

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 20d

‼️ DEADLINE EXTENDED ‼️

Following a request from the Musici Trust, the deadline for proposals for the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference has been extended by one week to next Thursday, 25th September.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 22d

Full details: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/09/16/r...

Congratulations to our winners!

RMA/CUP Outstanding Monograph Book Prize 2025 – Royal Musical Association

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 22d

The RMA/CUP 2025 Outstanding Monograph Book Prize is awarded to Jessica Swanston Baker for 'Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis'. Honourable mention also to Matthew D. Morrison (Stanford University) for 'Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States'.

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The cover of Jessica Swanston Baker's 'Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis'

The cover of Matthew D. Morrison's 'Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States'.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 23d

Reminder: the deadline for submitting your proposal to the BFE and RMA 2026 Research Students' Conference (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) is this Thursday!

www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...

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Dr. Mollie Carlyle @molliecarlyle.bsky.social · 25d

Had a brilliant few days at the RMA Conference. I presented on London’s sailortown and shanty repertoire (no one criticised my map-drawing skills!), and had a great time reconnecting with colleagues. Can’t wait for Belfast 2026! @royalmusical.bsky.social

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Reflections on the RMA Annual Conference 2025

The Royal Musical Association’s Annual Conference has long been a fixture in my academic calendar, and this year’s gathering in Southampton confirmed once again why it remains one of my favourite scho...

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations to our Dent medallist Prof. Sarah Collins! Sarah gave a brilliant keynote lecture yesterday, titled 'Habits of Realism'.

Sarah was presented the Dent medal by the RMA President Simon Keefe.

Sarah Collins being presented the Dent medal by Simon Keefe.

A close-up of the impressive Dent medal itself.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 26d

It's the third and final day of our annual conference in Southampton! Let us know what you're looking forward to today, and what you've enjoyed over the conference.

Tag us in your posts and we'll share.

Graphic for day three of the RMA annual conference, University of Southampton.

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 26d

Presented my report today at the @royalmusical.bsky.social annual conference, which was fun. Was really great to go to some of the other presentations and chat with people about all the cool things they're researching! #IvorsAcademy #RMA

Photo of a conference lanyard which says 'Royal Musical Association's 61st Annual conference' over the top of an aerial shot of Southampton.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 27d

Well done to our conference runners! As advertised in our programme, we met for a friendly and chatty 5k run bright and early this morning. A lovely way to start day 2 of the conference!

Six happy RMA conference attendees, about to start their 5k run!

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 27d

It's day two of our annual conference at Southampton! Let us know what you're looking forward to today, tag us in your posts and we'll share them.

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