Research
Musicology
The term ‘Musicology’ is understood in the Oxford Faculty (as in the UK system in general) in a very inclusive fashion, embracing historical musicology, music theory and analysis, opera studies, critical musicology, performance studies, the musicology of popular music and film music, the history and analysis of recorded music, music and gender, empirical musicology, and music and dance. There are strong links between research in all these areas, and a particular feature of the Oxford Faculty is the breadth and multiplicity of interests of its academic staff.
Musicology is strongly represented in the Faculty across a wide variety of sub-areas: Theory and Analysis (Margaret Bent, Bonnie Blackburn, Bojan Bujic, Eric Clarke, Jonathan Cross, Laurence Dreyfus, Elizabeth Leach, David Maw, Bettina Varwig); Early Music (Margaret Bent, Bonnie Blackburn, Bojan Bujic, John Caldwell, Laurence Dreyfus, Michael Burden, Elizabeth Leach, David Maw, Owen Rees, Reinhard Strohm); 18th-Century Studies and Opera (Suzanne Aspden, Michael Burden, Laurence Dreyfus, Berta Joncus, Reinhard Strohm, Susan Wollenberg); 19th-Century Studies and Opera (Roger Allen, Nicholas Attfield, Michael Burden, Laurence Dreyfus, Peter Franklin, Susan Wollenberg); 20th/21st-Century Music, including film, dance, the history and analysis of recording, and popular music (Roger Allen, Bojan Bujic, Eric Clarke, Jonathan Cross, Peter Franklin, Elizabeth Leach, David Maw, Robert Saxton, Martin Stokes).