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Plans for courses in music at the OU: We have made some changes to the music curriculum recently. Follow this link for a letter from the Dean of Arts which explains the reasons behind the decision and gives further information about our plans for courses in music.

Robert Philip's latest book, Performing Music in the Age of Recording, has just been reviewed by Charles Rosen in the New York Review of Books. Rosen writes:

Robert Philip's Performing Music in the Age of Recording is ... the best account I know of how musical life in general has changed since the introduction of vinyl and long-playing records in the 1950s ... Philip is large-minded, tolerant, and sympathetic to various positions, and consistently judicious ... [His] accuracy in writing about performance is unequaled ...

Performing Music in the Age of Recording is published by Yale University Press.

Dr Martin Clayton has been awarded a major grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to support the research project "Experience and meaning in music performance". To find out more, go to the project's website.

The Student Associates Scheme is a new three-year programme funded by the Teacher Training Agency (TTA) and operating in England in the shortage subjects of design and technology, geography, mathematics, modern foreign languages, music and science. Follow this link for more information.

Last updated July 2007