Past Research

Previous research topics

Musicology in the digital age

 

I gave a paper at the study day at the Institute of Musical Research on Monday, 26th April. You can download the flyer for this event here.

Boulez’s Répons and music as a model of the space between Two Cultures

Submitted by Vanessa on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 13:51

 
Dates: 
10/2002 - 09/2004
Output Description: 
MMus thesis

Abstract:
I present the historical narratives that lead up to the conception of Boulez’s Répons in 1981 from the perspectives of scientific development as well as the cultural and intellectual atmosphere in France.

I place these narratives in the context of the concept of the ‘two cultures’ as introduced by C. P. Snow in his lecture in 1959: the sciences and the arts.

Music's experiment with information theory

Submitted by Vanessa on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 13:45

 
Dates: 
10/2004 - 11/2008
Output Description: 
Doctoral thesis

Abstract:
The thesis explores the interaction between information theory and music historically in order to investigate whether information theory might be regarded as a useful tool for contemporary musicologists.

Bartók’s Third String Quartet

Submitted by Vanessa on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 11:30

 
Dates: 
02/2008 - 02/2009
Output Description: 
Public lecture, 22nd February 2009, Kings Place, London

This was an event sponsored by the London Chamber Music Society. The original flyer for the event can be found here.

Link: 
Bartók’s Third String Quartet
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