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Research Students

These pages document research students and their projects and activities within the Faculty. Current students include:

 

Abigail Ballantyne, Exeter College

Writing Music Theory in Early Modern Italy: Adriano Banchieri and his Contemporaries

 

Gregory Camp, The Queen's College

Monteverdi's Operas in the Twentieth Century

 

Andrew Cichy, Merton College

English Catholic Liturgical Music after the Reformation: Behind locked doors or overseas

 

Mark Clayden, University College

Music, Timbre, Colour in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Zemlinsky, Schreker, Schoenberg

 

Terry Curran, Wadham College

The Significance and Influence of Recording in the 1950s

 

Nomi Dave, St John's College

Music and the Making of African Modernity in Sekou Toure's Guinea

 

Huw Davies, Worcester College

Innovation in Dynamic Music for Video-Games - Branching and Generative Musical Engine Prototypes

 

Simon Desbrusiais, Christ Church College

Paul Hindemith's Theory of Music: its sources and applications

 

Chris Ferebee, St Hilda's College

Composition, Experimentalism and Improvisation, Folk Music of the British Isles and Southeastern US, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Music

 

Samantha Fernando, Worcester College

Music Composition: Words and Music

 

Daniel Gallagher, St Catherine's College

Playing Schumann, Hearing Chopin: Musical Affinities in Nineteenth-Century Pianism

 

Chris Garrard, St. Hilda's College

Composition, Improvisation, Aesthetics of contemporary music/visual arts

 

Patrick Gilday, Jesus College

The Opus and Musica Poetica in Early Sixteenth-Century Germany: Foundations and Functions

 

Adam Harper, Wadham College

An analysis, psychology and aesthetics of home-recorded lo-fi music

 

Benjamin Hebbert, St Cross College

The London Music Trade 1500-1725

 

Thomas Hodgson, St John's College

Ethnomusicology, anthropology of music, cultural theory

 

Henry Hope, Merton College

Constructing the Minnesänger Musically

 

Maria Kallionpaa, Lincoln College

Extended Playing Techniques and notation in contemporary piano music

 

Stefan Knapik

Constructs of Self in the Discourses of Early Twentieth-Century String Players

 

Paul Kolb, The Queen's College

Intertextuality, exegis, and composition in polytextual motets around 1500

 

Christopher Ku, Worcester College

'The dittyinge of musicke': A study of setting words to music in sixteenth-century England

 

Marc Lewon, St Hugh's College

Medieval Music: Back to the Fundamentals

 

Ann Liebeck, Somerville College

Mozart's Concert Arias, Their Singers and Their Relationship with Opera

 

Pete McAllister, St Catherine's College

Hazards of Thirteenth Century Notational Chronology

 

Rory McCleery, The Queen's College

Early 16th century Musicology, Mouton, models and misattribution: a study of Selecti aliquot

 

James Munk, Wadham College

Agency, Physicality, Space: Analytical Approaches to Contemporary Nordic Concertos

 

Arne Muus, Christ Church

Motivic technique in the operas of Benjamin Britten

 

Des Oliver, Worcester College

The Music of Language: Pitch Intervals in Speech

 

Ceri Owen, Magdalen College

Vaughan Williams and Modernity: Nationalism, Voice, and English Musical Identity

 

Katherine Pardee, Wadham College

Perceptions of JS Bach and Performance of his Music in Nineteenth-Century England

 

Ioannis Polychronakis, St Hugh's College

Song Odyssey: Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Greek Popular Music

 

Marilou Polymeropoulou, St Peter's College

Electronic music-making with repurposed media

 

Nicholas Prozzillo, Brasenose College

Organ Reform in England and its Appeal to JS Bach's Music 1926-1969

 

Enrique Sacau-Ferreira, St Catherine's College

Performing a Political Shift: Avant-Garde Music in Cold War Spain

 

Burkhard Schwalbach, Magdalen College

J.S. Bach At The Coffee-House: Music as Edifying Practice

 

Benjamin Skipp, Christ Church College

Minimalism 1960-2001: Definitions, Developments, Reception

 

Christian Thomas Stier, Magdalen College

Siegfried and Gotterdammerung - Prospects for a new view of the Leitmotiv

 

David Stuart, New College

English Romantic Opera - Drury Lane and the Lyceum Theatre 1816 - 1866

 

Mark Sweeney, Hertford College

An evaluation of the hermeneutic implications of aleatoric avant-garde and non-linear video-game formal structure

 

Alessandro Timossi, Worcester College

Portfolio of Compositions and Critical Writing

 

Patrick Valiquet, St Catherine's College

Technological and aesthetic change in electroacoustic music

 

Carina Venter, Christ Church College

Sounding simultaneities: musical gestures and silent spaces in the twentieth century

 

Victor Vu, St John's College

ethnomusicology, anthropology of music and contemporary music

 

Simon Whalley, Keble College

Benjamin Britten, Henry Purcell and Early Music

 

Jonathan White, Lady Margaret Hall

The Symphonies of Charles Villiers Stanford: Constructing a National Identity?

 

Maria Witek, Wadham College

The Relationship between Embodiment, Pleasure and Groove-Based Music