Postgraduate Research in the Department

Current theses titles include the following:

Scoring the violin band music of Matthew Locke, 1660-1677

Understanding and interpreting the 6 suites for unaccompanied violoncello by J.S.Bach

Handel’s self-quotations and borrowings

Artistic intention and revision of Handel’s performing versions of his operas and oratorios: a study of four works from the ‘Second Academy’ period (1729-34) and their subsequent revivals under the composer’s direction

Handel’s singers of the 1730s and 1740s

Social networks and popular music-making in 19th century Bedfordshire

Popular piano music in the drawing room and parlour between 1860 and 1910

Preparation of a critical edition of W.V. Wallace’s Maritana

Regionalism in French Opera 1860-1900

The life and work of Alfred Bruneau

The development of formal structures in Mahler’s late works and their antecedents

The perception and reception of English opera from Ivanhoe to Peter Grimes

The problem of heterogeneity in musical modernism

The role and meaning of music in 20th century Latin American literature

Communicative behaviour in Indian performance: measuring musical meaning

It’s all in the Groove: the production, perception and meaning of time in jazz

Entrainment and meaning in rock music performance