Are you a Postgraduate in Scotland? National Library of Scotland Events in Edinburgh and Glasgow *FOR YOU*

The National Library of Scotland is hosting two research fairs for PG students in Edinburgh on 28.02.17 and in Glasgow on 24.04.17.  It is hoped that a music specialist will be in attendance for one or both events.

Further information here:  http://www.nls.uk/using-the-library/academic-research/events

Find out! How do non-professional reviewers react to listening to music?

Here's an interesting research event being hosted by the Open University in Scotland at Glasgow's Mitchell Library on 29th March. 
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Listening Experience Database study day

29th March 2017 - 11am-3pm

Mitchell Library, Glasgow

The Listening Experience Database project has been running for almost 4 years and is collecting evidence through the writings of non-professional reviewers of reactions to listening to music. The project spans all historical periods and all musical styles. Our Glasgow study day will comprise short papers given by members of the project team and will include a demonstration of the database and its use as a research resource.

*  Tickets are free but registration is required. *   

Please visit https://hiddenlisteners.eventbrite.co.uk 

Why not pick up a flyer in the Whittaker Library here at RCS?

Registration closes 20 March 2017. 

 

Bicentenary of Edinburgh's First Musical Festival

Special bicentennial event 2.30pm, Friday 30th October, Edinburgh Central Library

Edinburgh’s First Musical Festival took place in 1815.  The Edinburgh Festival has certainly not run continuously since then! Indeed, there was a whole century in which there was no festival. 

Karen has been asked to give a talk at Edinburgh Central Library on Friday 30th October, to commemorate the bicentenary.  It’s a fascinating story, that she's looking forward to sharing.

• First Edinburgh Musical Festival, Contemporary report
• Advertised Talk

Music of War - A Conference

 The Music of War: 1914–1918 

Conference, 29-31 August 2014 

  British Library.

"A final reminder that *The Music of War: 1914–1918* conference takes place from 29-31 August 2014 at the British Library.

"Held as part of the British Library’s Centenary events programme, the conference includes a screening of the WWI silent film ‘Pax Aeterna’, the performance ‘War, Women and Song’, and a wine reception.

"To view the programme and register for the conference, please visit: http://www.themusicofwar.org

Keynote speakers:

Dr Kate McLoughlin (Birkbeck, London)

Professor Rachel Cowgill (Cardiff University)

Roundtable Session:

Professor Rachel Cowgill (Cardiff University) Lewis Foreman Professor Barbara Kelly (Keele University) Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Cambridge) Chaired by Dr Toby Thacker (Cardiff University)

For conference-related enquiries, please contact: themusicofwar@gmail.com

Generously supported by:

The British Library

Royal Musical Association

Music & Letters Trust

The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Royal Musical Association - Research Conferences

Researchers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland may find events to interest them amongst this events listing from the Royal Musical Association:-

• RMA Research Students' Conference, 8-10 January 2015, University of Bristol. Deadline for proposals of academic papers or compositions in several categories, 27 October 2014.
• DETAILS

• A) RMA Study Day, "Amateur music-making in the British provinces", 18 June 2014, University of Leeds.DETAILS
•  B) RMA-supported conference, "Music, emotions and well-being:
• historical and scientific perspectives", 20 June 2014, Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary, University of London. DETAILS
• C) RMA-supported conference, "Music and screen media", 25-6 June 2014, University of Liverpool.DETAILS
• D) RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group, 4th Annual Conference, 27-8 June 2014, King's College London.  DETAILS
• E) RMA-supported 42nd Medieval and Renaissance music conference, 3-6 July 2014, University of Birmingham. DETAILS
•  F) RMA-supported conference, "Continuities and ruptures: artistic responses to Jewish migration, internment and exile in the long twentieth century", 6-8 July 2014, University of Leeds.  DETAILS
• G) RMA-supported conference on Music literature, historiography and aesthetics, 17-18 July 2014, Institute of Musical Research, London. DETAILS
• H) RMA-supported conference, "Hollywood's musical contemporaries and competitors in the early sound-film era", 26-8 July 2014, University of Surrey. DETAILS
• I) RMA-supported conference, "The music of war: 1914-1918", 29-31 August 2014, British Library, London. DETAILS
• J) 50th RMA Annual Conference, 4-6 September 2014, University of Leeds. DETAILS
• K) RMA-supported conference, "Schoenberg at 140: legacy and reminiscence", 13-14 September 2014, Canterbury Christ Church University. DETAILS

Visit http://rma.ac.uk/conferences/ for information on more RMA events from November 2014 onwards.