School of Music

Research Areas

The School of Music has research strengths in three broad areas:

Composition

• Professor Judith Weir
• Dr Arlene Sierra
• Dr Robert Fokkens

Musicology and Performance Practice

• Professor David Wyn Jones
• Professor Robin Stowell
• Professor Stephen Walsh
• Dr David Beard
  Dr Keith Chapin
  Professor Rachel Cowgill
• Dr Kenneth Gloag
• Dr David Ponsford
• Dr Caroline Rae
• Dr Clair Rowden
• Dr Charles Wilson
  

Ethnomusicology and Popular Music

• Dr Sarah Hill
• Dr John Morgan O'Connell
  Dr Amanda Villepastour

 

 

These broad areas encompass a number of complementary interests and outlooks: biographical studies, British music, contemporary musical style, cultural history, Slavic and East European studies, music in France, opera studies, performance and theoretical perspectives. For full details of research outputs and interests, please see the individual staff pages by clicking on the name(s) above.