Overview
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.
Range of courses
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 I
Vernacular Song in the Long 13th Century
World Jazz
Programme Music in the Nineteenth Century
Topics II
Women in Popular Music
History and Philosophy of Music Education
Eighteenth-Century Opera
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.
Courses available in 2020-21:
The Social and Cultural Theory of Music
Music in the Community
Migrating Music
Music for the Dead
Music and Communism
Stravinsky
The Trouvères
Beethoven: Between History and Myth
Brazilian Music
Art House: Rock Music of the 1970s
Advice on written work to be submitted
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.
Tutor
Prof Gascia Ozounian (Fellow and Associate Professor of Music)
Dr Joe Davies (College Lecturer in Music)
Dr Thomas Hodgson (Departmental Lecturer in Music)