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. 

 

Money for Music Research

AHRC Doctoral Studentship (PhD)

The Open University in Collaboration with the National Library of Scotland

Do you fancy doing doctoral research in Edinburgh?  As part of 'The Arts and their Audences', the Open University is able to offer this fully-funded studentship.

• Details of Arts and Humanities Studentships at the Open University
• Music Research at the Open University
• NLS Music Collections

Musica Scotica Conference - Edinburgh Sat 27 April 2013

We've got a great line-up of speakers for the Musica Scotica Conference in Edinburgh (at the Open University in Scotland), on Saturday 27th April 2013. 

All we need now is hordes of eager delegates!  Registration is now open - you can download the form from the website, and there is a discount for students.  Click here ... 

It's not an expensive day out, and it's a great chance to network with likeminded researchers. 

A new buzzword - MOOCs

A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course.  Such courses are free, and not credit-bearing, but they're the latest thing in outreach - a number of universities are beginning to offer them.   You can typically sign up for a short online course, chosen from a course catalogue. 

There's been quite a bit about them in THE (Times Higher Education) in recent weeks - they started in the United States, but some English universities are offering them too.  Lori Watson found the music ones offered through Coursera, so we thought we'd share the olink with you. 

Coursera isn't the only provider - there are others, too.  (Obviously it's easier for universities if they can have an agent handling access to a whole catalogue of courses, and easier for you if you access courses by various universities all at once.)  Thus, the Open University has recently launched Futurelearn.  (Read the THE article here.)

Coursera MOOCs about Music - click here.
Futurelearn - courses still pending.  Click here.

 

Musica Scotica conference 27th April, Edinburgh

Musica Scotica - Eighth Annual Conference

Saturday 27th April 2013

The Open University in Scotland

10 Drumsheugh Gardens Edinburgh EH3 7QJ

Call for Papers

Papers, 20 minutes in length, are invited on any aspect of Scottish music.

Topics presented in previous years have included chant, Gaelic song, fiddle and bagpipe music, manuscript sources, music publishing, the Scottish diaspora, opera performance, cultural organisations, music education, sectarianism, George Thomson and Haydn, Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Learmont Drysdale, Hamish MacCunn, James MacMillan and Sally Beamish.

Please submit an abstract (250 words) as a Word document or rtf file by February 18^th, 2013, to Dr Karen McAulay conference2013@musicascotica.org.uk

You will be notified in the first half of March if your abstract has been accepted.

A poster session may be included; delegates are invited to indicate whether they would be interested in availing themselves of this opportunity.

Proposed conference fees 

• Full day to include lunch, morning and afternoon tea/coffee: £40 (£30 for students)
• Morning and/or afternoon session to include tea/coffee, but not lunch: £15

The registration form will be available in due course on the Musica Scotica website.
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Publication of proceedings

Musica Scotica will publish papers from this conference along with a selection of papers from previous conferences.

New repository search engine

THE (Times Higher Education) magazine has reported a new search engine, just developed by the Open University.  CORE has been developed to allow researchers "to search all of the papers held in the UK's 142 open-access repositories".

Try it out here:- http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search


Reviewed by JURN (a Wordpress blog about such things), it didn't get spectacular results.  They suggest comparing CORE with OpenDoar, a search engine developed by Nottingham University.  (Whittaker tried searching for Scottish Song Collectors.  OpenDoar was very successful.  CORE? No score at all!)

But don't take someone else's word for it - have a go yourself!