Music

Visiting Students are offered selected core topics in music analysis, music history, theory and philosophy, performance and compositional techniques. Across all courses we encourage students to engage critically and creatively with a wide range of music(s) and critical issues. How, for example, might we interpret music in relation to broader aesthetic and cultural-historical trends? What does music tell us about the context in which it was conceived? And how might we engage with music as a lens through which to understand the human condition? In addressing these questions, our approach is guided by a desire to challenge received ideas about music history and to open up wider discussion about neglected figures, musical cultures, and repertoires. 

Further details of the vibrant musical scene at LMH, both academically and in terms of performance opportunities, can be found here. 

TUTORIALS IN MUSIC* 

*Tutorials can be offered in any of these topics, in any term and any year. 

Philosophy of Music 

Musical Thought and Scholarship 

Music Theory 

Musical Analysis and Criticism 

Composition 

Techniques of Composition 

Composition Portfolio 

Performance 

Performance Workshop (any instrument; any period from Baroque to contemporary classical music) 

Topics II 

Vernacular Song in the Long 13th Century  

Polyphony and Polemic in a Fractured Europe, c. 1500–1650  

18th-Century Opera 

Topics III 

The String Quartet Between Classicism & Modernism 

World Jazz 

Women in Popular Music  

Music, Technology, and Worldmaking in the Nineteenth Century 

List C (special offering for LMH Visiting Students only) 

Mediating Intimacy: Space and Intersubjectivity in Recorded Music and Sound 

Musical Instruments and Organology

The History and Practice of English Folk Music

Music in Eighteenth-Century Oxford

COURSES IN MUSIC** 

**The following courses are offered through lectures (not tutorials) in different terms every year; and some are offered in alternating years. Subject to availability.  

Examples of lecture courses running in 2024–25: 

Musical Thought and Scholarship 

Musical Analysis and Criticism 

Music in the Community 

Music and Philosophy: The Case of Wagner 

The String Quartet Between Classicism & Modernism 

Women in Popular Music  

Two pieces of written work should be submitted with your application.  Essay work should be presented to a high standard of literacy and of scholarly quality. Compositional work should be presented to professional standards of musical literacy and high level of technical competence.   

Prof Gascia Ouzounian (Fellow and Associate Professor of Music) - on research leave until the end of 2025

Dr Jacob Downs (Tutor and Departmental Lecturer in Music)

Dr Jonathan Packham (Stipendiary Lecturer in Music)

Dr Alice Little is a professional researcher in music, history, and the history of collecting, as well as an author of fiction