In Oxford: Seminar Series: Instruments of the 18th Century

Instruments of the Eighteenth Century
Seminars run 1-2pm at the Bate Collection of
Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music, St Aldates

Should you find yourself in or near Oxford on a Wednesday lunchtime, these might be very interesting indeed! See the events programme here.

Oxford Bodleian Library Makes Music Card Catalogue available Online

News from Music@The Bodleian blog - the music card catalogue is now available online.

Read the blogpost here.

Graduating Students Stride into Employment in Glasgow

In today's Evening Times (Saturday 6 July 2013), City Unis among UKs Best for Graduates Finding Jobs

Glasgow and Strathclyde, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Glasgow School of Art all have enviably high employment statistics.  Glasgow Caledonian (GCU) tops them all - and they all give Oxford and Cambridge a run for their money!

Great news!

Integrated Broadside Ballads Archive

News from JISC - an award to the University of Oxford for integrating ballad materials:-

Integrated Broadside Ballads Archive, Alexandra Franklin, University of Oxford, £145,244
•The University of Oxford will integrate existing resources for the study of the English folk song and printed ballad tradition. Resources to be clustered are: a corpus of nearly 30,000 ballads, many of them unique survivals, printed between the 16th and 20th centuries, in Bodleian Library collections; nearly 5,000 largely pre-1700 ballads from the University of California’s online resource; and the Roud Broadside and Folk Tune Indexes, comprehensive indexes of the song tradition and references to songs, based at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

Call for conference papers

Call for papers: Hearing Landscape Critically: Sense, Text, Ideology

Music Faculty, University of Oxford, 18-19 May 2012.

Papers related to this agenda – including but not limited to the topics listed below – are welcome in the formats stipulated at the bottom of this CFP.

• SITES OF POWER - occupation, reservation, institution, restitution, academy, capital, knowledge, ideology;
• QUESTIONS OF STRUCTURE - smooth, striated, complex, chaotic, fixed, dense, in flux;
• PERFORMING LANDSCAPE - theatre, narration, embodiment, language, song, immersion, everyday;
• MOBILITIES - tourism, commuting, returning, tracing, dwelling and/as wandering, stasis and acceleration;
• POLITICAL CONCERNS - subordination, exploitation, destruction, survival;
• PHILOSOPHICAL CONCERNS - human, non-human, transcendental, nature, culture, ontology, epistemology, phenomenology.

All proposals should be emailed to criticallandscapes@gmail.com (size limit = 5MB) by 31 December 2011. Please include name, affiliation (if applicable), postal address, email address and AV requirements on a separate cover sheet.

• Individual papers (20 minutes) - abstract of no more than 300 words.
• Panel sessions - describe individual papers and overarching theme in no more than 500 words.
• Alternative formats – describe your proposal (i.e. performance, round table, film discussion, or whatever it may be) in no more than 500 words.