Open University Music Department
@oumusic.bsky.social
The Music Department at The Open University offers distance-learning qualifications in Music, including BA, MA and PhD degrees. https://fass.open.ac.uk/music
We're offering a PhD fees-only studentship for someone to begin studying with us in October 2026. Mode of study can be full-time or part-time, including distance learning. Open to any area of musicology that aligns with our expertise in the department. See fass.open.ac.uk/music/resear... #PhD
The Open University
Applicants to the Music PhD programme will have the opportunity to apply for an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC studentship. Awards for UK residents cover all tuition fees and provide a maintenance grant a...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
We're offering a PhD fees-only studentship for someone to begin studying with us in October 2026. Mode of study can be full-time or part-time, including distance learning. Open to any area of musicology that aligns with our expertise in the department. See fass.open.ac.uk/music/resear... #PhD
Congratulations to PhD graduate Angelo Pinto on the publication of his book The Symphony as a Novel: Mahler's Tenth. www.lim.it/en/essay/693... @ougradsch.bsky.social #PhD
The Symphony as a Novel - LIM
Mahler’s Tenth
Preface by Robert Samuels
In lingua Inglese
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October 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Congratulations to PhD graduate Angelo Pinto on the publication of his book The Symphony as a Novel: Mahler's Tenth. www.lim.it/en/essay/693... @ougradsch.bsky.social #PhD
Our MA in Music is open for registration! This part-time, distance-learning course can be studied worldwide, and is designed to be completed over 2 years. Sign up at www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate.... The video introduces our free sample course, available @ouopenlearn.bsky.social youtu.be/YmpddzhAFiE
Introducing Music Research (Free course trailer)
YouTube video by OpenLearn from The Open University
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April 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Our MA in Music is open for registration! This part-time, distance-learning course can be studied worldwide, and is designed to be completed over 2 years. Sign up at www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate.... The video introduces our free sample course, available @ouopenlearn.bsky.social youtu.be/YmpddzhAFiE
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Exciting to receive my author copies of my Cambridge #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool' co-written with Michael Brocken! Mary Hamer was a dance band leader, pianist, and exhibition dancer (but not a relative) 🎶
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Exciting to receive my author copies of my Cambridge #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool' co-written with Michael Brocken! Mary Hamer was a dance band leader, pianist, and exhibition dancer (but not a relative) 🎶
Dr Ben Winters' new book Korngold in America: Music, Myth, and Hollywood is now available as an ebook from Oxford University Press; the print edition will be available from June. global.oup.com/academic/pro... #AcademicSky #Research #FilmMusic
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March 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Dr Ben Winters' new book Korngold in America: Music, Myth, and Hollywood is now available as an ebook from Oxford University Press; the print edition will be available from June. global.oup.com/academic/pro... #AcademicSky #Research #FilmMusic
Dr Mai Kawabata's book, East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music, co-edited with Ken Ueno of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social was recently published by Ethics Press. ethicspress.com/products/eas... #AcademicSky #Research #Musicology
East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music
Title: East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music Subject Classification: Arts, Race and Racism, Equality Diversity Inclusion BIC Classification: AB, JFSL, JH BISAC Classification: SOC...
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March 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Dr Mai Kawabata's book, East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music, co-edited with Ken Ueno of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social was recently published by Ethics Press. ethicspress.com/products/eas... #AcademicSky #Research #Musicology
Dr @rosemarygolding.bsky.social's new article 'Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises' in the Journal of the @royalmusical.bsky.social is open access at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #Research
Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises | Journal of the Royal Musical Association | Cambridge Core
Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises
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March 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Dr @rosemarygolding.bsky.social's new article 'Musical Samplers in the Museum of Musical Works: The Nature, Status, and Value of Nineteenth-Century Oxford Degree Exercises' in the Journal of the @royalmusical.bsky.social is open access at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #Research
Congratulations to OU Music's @drlaurahamer.bsky.social and Michael Brocken on the publication of Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys! *Free* to download until 31 March. #AcademicSky #Research #WomenInMusic
Really pleased that my CUP #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool', co-written with Michael Brocken, has just been published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Open Access until 31 March!
March 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Congratulations to OU Music's @drlaurahamer.bsky.social and Michael Brocken on the publication of Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys! *Free* to download until 31 March. #AcademicSky #Research #WomenInMusic
Dr Lilian Simones recently had a chapter titled 'Advancing Excellence in Teaching: Professionalizing Vocal and Instrumental Music Education' published in The Applied Studio Model in Higher Music Education: Critical Perspectives and Opportunities, ed. Kelly A. Parkes and Ryan Daniel. #AcademicSky
March 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Dr Lilian Simones recently had a chapter titled 'Advancing Excellence in Teaching: Professionalizing Vocal and Instrumental Music Education' published in The Applied Studio Model in Higher Music Education: Critical Perspectives and Opportunities, ed. Kelly A. Parkes and Ryan Daniel. #AcademicSky
OU Music's @mvclarke.bsky.social and @rosemarygolding.bsky.social recently became co-editors of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social.
You can find out more about the journal and read open-access articles at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #research
You can find out more about the journal and read open-access articles at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #research
Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core
Nineteenth-Century Music Review - Dr Martin Clarke, Dr Rosemary Golding
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March 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
OU Music's @mvclarke.bsky.social and @rosemarygolding.bsky.social recently became co-editors of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social.
You can find out more about the journal and read open-access articles at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #research
You can find out more about the journal and read open-access articles at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #research
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Clarke, who completed a PhD in Music with us in 2021, on the publication of The Periodicals of Ferdinand Pelzer (1833-1857): A German Musician in London. It draws on material Sarah used during her PhD on the guitar in C19th Britain.
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March 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Clarke, who completed a PhD in Music with us in 2021, on the publication of The Periodicals of Ferdinand Pelzer (1833-1857): A German Musician in London. It draws on material Sarah used during her PhD on the guitar in C19th Britain.
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Dr @rosemarygolding.bsky.social's article 'Concerts and Cures at the Crichton Royal Institution, 1840–1860' has recently been published open-access in the journal Music & Letters. You can read the full article free of charge at academic.oup.com/ml/article/1.... #research #AcademicSky #Musicology
Concerts and Cures at the Crichton Royal Institution, 1840–1860
ABSTRACT. The Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries, founded in 1839, was renowned for its programme of educational and recreative activities, firmly part
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March 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Dr @rosemarygolding.bsky.social's article 'Concerts and Cures at the Crichton Royal Institution, 1840–1860' has recently been published open-access in the journal Music & Letters. You can read the full article free of charge at academic.oup.com/ml/article/1.... #research #AcademicSky #Musicology
Dr Alex Kolassa recently had a chapter entitled 'Beyond Nostalgia: Hearing Anachronism in Westworld and Television’s New Golden Age' published in The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV, edited by Janet K. Halfyard and Nicholas Reyland. #AcademicSky #Musicology #Research
March 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Dr Alex Kolassa recently had a chapter entitled 'Beyond Nostalgia: Hearing Anachronism in Westworld and Television’s New Golden Age' published in The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV, edited by Janet K. Halfyard and Nicholas Reyland. #AcademicSky #Musicology #Research
Congratulations to @drlaurahamer.bsky.social, whose co-edited book The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond was published recently. #AcademicSky #OUFamily #Research #Music #WomenInMusic
March 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Congratulations to @drlaurahamer.bsky.social, whose co-edited book The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond was published recently. #AcademicSky #OUFamily #Research #Music #WomenInMusic
Congratulations to Lecturer Dr James Dooley, whose album in collaboration with Jamie Savan, The Polyphonic Cornett, was released by Birmingham Record Company in November.
The album explores the intersection of ‘old’ musical instruments, such as the cornett, with ‘new’ music technology. #AcademicSky
The album explores the intersection of ‘old’ musical instruments, such as the cornett, with ‘new’ music technology. #AcademicSky
March 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Congratulations to Lecturer Dr James Dooley, whose album in collaboration with Jamie Savan, The Polyphonic Cornett, was released by Birmingham Record Company in November.
The album explores the intersection of ‘old’ musical instruments, such as the cornett, with ‘new’ music technology. #AcademicSky
The album explores the intersection of ‘old’ musical instruments, such as the cornett, with ‘new’ music technology. #AcademicSky