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Music research at the OU is developed through high-profile individual and collaborative projects focussing on a wide range of approaches to music (including historical, social, empirical and technological) with a distinctive emphasis on innovation and interdisciplinary research.

Our current strengths can be grouped roughly as follows:

  • Historical study, including
    Editions of performance texts; Performance practice; Instruments and their use; and Documentary and archival research of the social, cultural and biographical contexts of music-making
  • Social and cultural theory and analysis, including
    Ethnomusicology; Sociology; Social psychology; Anthropology; Human geography; and Social history of music
  • Interdisciplinary research in the humanities, including
    Music in literature, and Music in religion
  • Empirical investigation of performance, including
    Analysis of recorded music; Video analysis of performance, and Acoustic analysis of instrumental performance and soundscapes
  • Computing applications in music, including
    Human-computer interfaces, Object-oriented programming and Pervasive interaction
  • Music education and pedagogy

Acoustics Research Group
The Entrainment Network
Gender in the Humanities research group
Literature and Music Research Group
Music computing

Cultures of Performance research project
Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (EMMP) project
“G. F. Handel: The Collected Documents” project
Migrating Music project

Music Department

Follow the people link to read more about who does research on music at the OU.

Research events

 

Events

15 October 2008 – Music Postgraduate Research Day
16 October 2008 – Ferguson Centre Workshop I: Heritage, Identity, Nation
12 November 2008 – Seminar
"All kinds of merry-making and dancing everywhere": Dances and Dance Music in the Imperial Cities of Maximilian I (1486-1519)
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OU Music Research featured on iTunes U
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