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In 2008 the Faculty of Music was successful in its bid for seed-corn funding to explore the establishment of a research partnership in music theory and analysis with our colleagues in the Music Department at Princeton University.
The two departments are now pleased to announce the next stage in the development of this partnership. Two three-day symposia are to take place, one in Oxford in Spring 2010, one in Princeton in Spring 2011, with the title of ‘Analytical Encounters’. While members of both departments are interested in the history of theory and its institutions, (i.e., in meta-theoretical issues), we are also very much concerned to explore analysis as a practical discipline by actually doing analysis. It is the latter that we shall be exploring in our initial symposium, in order to stimulate further discussion about similarities and differences of approaches, and about disciplinary trends and perspectives. Further details will be announced in due course.
The Oxford–Princeton Partnership aims to encourage closer research collaborations on projects of mutual concern between colleagues in the two institutions; to rethink definitions and boundaries of musical analysis in the context of the historical, critical and interdisciplinary work of both departments; to produce joint publications emerging from our annual symposia; and to consolidate Oxford as a leading UK centre for music theory and analysis with a strong community of funded graduate students.
Oxford-Princeton Partnership
In 2008 the Faculty of Music was successful in its bid for seed-corn funding to explore the establishment of a research partnership in music theory and analysis with our colleagues in the Music Department at Princeton University.The two departments are now pleased to announce the next stage in the development of this partnership. Two three-day symposia are to take place, one in Oxford in Spring 2010, one in Princeton in Spring 2011, with the title of ‘Analytical Encounters’. While members of both departments are interested in the history of theory and its institutions, (i.e., in meta-theoretical issues), we are also very much concerned to explore analysis as a practical discipline by actually doing analysis. It is the latter that we shall be exploring in our initial symposium, in order to stimulate further discussion about similarities and differences of approaches, and about disciplinary trends and perspectives. Further details will be announced in due course.
The Oxford–Princeton Partnership aims to encourage closer research collaborations on projects of mutual concern between colleagues in the two institutions; to rethink definitions and boundaries of musical analysis in the context of the historical, critical and interdisciplinary work of both departments; to produce joint publications emerging from our annual symposia; and to consolidate Oxford as a leading UK centre for music theory and analysis with a strong community of funded graduate students.