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53rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE LIVERPOOL 2017 The British Music Collection is a remarkable archive of 40,000 scores, recordings, letters, photographs, programme notes and much more.Dating from the early 1900s to the present day, CONFERENCE COMMITTEE it features some of the finest composers and sonic artists to come out of the UK. Kenneth Smith (University of Liverpool, chair) Warwick Edwards (University of Glasgow, RMA Conferences Co-ordinator) Katy Hamilton (representing the RMA) Freya Jarman (University of Liverpool) Holly Rogers (Goldsmiths) Marion Leonard (University of Liverpool) Guido Heldt (University of Bristol) Hae-kyung Um (University of Liverpool) Lauren Redhead (Canterbury Christ Church University) Sound and Music is developing the Collection into a living archive and world leading resource for the discovery of new music. If you are a composer, you can be part of it. If you love new music, you can help shape its future. WELCOME Dear Colleagues Welcome to the 53rd Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, taking place at the University of Liverpool. This year we have assembled the biggest programme yet in the Association’s history, with 220 speakers and musicians from eighteen different countries The conference highlights the Edward J. Dent medal presentation and Lecture by Mark Katz and the Peter Le Huray Lecture by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, along with panel discussions by internationally renowned scholars and practitioners, individual The Music of Simon Holt Brahms and his Poets papers on topics ranging from thirteenth-century song to the Eurovision Song Contest, a concert, lecture- Edited by DAVID CHARLTON A Handbook recitals and poster sessions. In addition there are the Annual General Meeting of the Association, receptions at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (sponsored by Routledge Publishing) and at Tate Liverpool, Bringing together well-known writers with NATASHA LOGES composers and performers, this volume gives and an exhibition of books and other materials. I hope you enjoy the conference, and if you’re not already a complete overview of Holt’s creative work Covering Brahms’s 32 song opuses published a member, feel inclined to join us. Membership is available online at www.rma.ac.uk. up to 2013. during four decades of song-writing, this book offers a way of understanding what £65, September 2017, 978 1 78327 223 5, HB Brahms believed to be the right poetic basis Mark Everist for his immortal music. President of the Royal Musical Association £50, November 2017, 978 1 78327 236 5, HB Beethoven’s Cello Five Revolutionary Sonatas This is a tremendous and Their World The Music and Music opportunity to welcome MARC D. MOSKOVITZ Theory of Paul Hindemith visitors from across & R. LARRY TODD SIMON DESBRUSLAIS the world to Liverpool, The ideal companion for cellists, pianists, A detailed study of the well-known, yet musicologists and chamber-music devotees poorly understood, music theory of composer a UNESCO City of desiring a comprehensive understanding of Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). Music, and to showcase this beloved repertoire. £60, February 2018, 978 1 78327 210 5, HB £29.95, October 2017, 978 1 78327 237 2, HB the very best of music scholarship. Professor Fiona Beveridge www.boydellandbrewer.com • [email protected] • 01243 843 291 University’s Pro Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE RMA UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL The Royal Musical Association was founded in 1874 ‘for the investigation and discussion of Kenneth Smith (Conference director) subjects connected with the art and science of James Millea (Conference administrator) music’, and its activities have evolved to embrace Filomena Saltao, Michael Longworth, Libby Farrar (University of Liverpool Events team) every conceivable aspect of music research, Jonny Davis Le Brun (Conference web manager) whether expressed in words, notation or sounds. The Association aims to sustain and enhance Helen Thomas (RLPO liaison) musical culture in the United Kingdom, while liaising with other subject organisations at home and abroad where appropriate and recognizing PROGRAMME COMMITTEE outstanding scholarly and creative achievement by individuals worldwide. It further aims to support the Warwick Edwards (RMA / University of Glasgow) education and training of emerging scholars and Katy Hamilton (RMA) practitioners. Guido Heldt (Director, RMA Annual Conference Bristol 2018) Freya Jarman (University of Liverpool) The Association’s chief activities in pursuit of Marion Leonard (University of Liverpool) these aims are the promotion of conferences, Lauren Redhead (Canterbury Christ Church University) symposia, study days, workshops and other public Holly Rogers (Goldsmiths, University of London) meetings; the publication and dissemination of Kenneth Smith (University of Liverpool), Chair books, journals, and other outlets for research of Catherine Tackley (University of Liverpool) international standing; the sponsorship of awards Hae-Kyung Um (University of Liverpool) and prizes; the advocacy of musical studies with public and private policy-making bodies, and with repositories of musical resources; and engagement Conference programme book edited by Kenneth Smith, abstracts edited by Marion Leonard and with the student body in the United Kingdom. Hae-Kyung Um www.rma.ac.uk Student Helpers: Emma-Jayne Reekie (PhD), Amanda Barnett (PhD), Jonas Roberts (MRes), Maria Moma- ni (PhD), Beth Hunt (MRes), Kate Mancey (MRes) RoyalMusicalAssociation @RoyalMusical ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION The RMA is a registered charity (no. 222410) and a UK limited The Royal Musical Association wishes to thank all the above, along with Routledge Taylor & Francis company (Company No. 00081327). Here are some pop tracks I recently became than 1000 pages long!). Through this book one acquainted with, and can recommend: gains an insight into the decadent character of the Austrian society immediately before the Habsburger Johnny Harris, “Stepping Stones” (1970) Empire fell apart. Lucho Bermudez Y Su Orquesta Sabanera, “Arroz Con Coco” (1972) What drew you to your chosen field of research? Baccara, “Yes Sir I Can Boogie” (1977) I am a very curious person (my familiy blames me Der Plan, “Gummitwist” (1984) for this, but I consider it an occupational hazard). When I started to study musicology, I was already Jogja Hip Hop Foundation, “Cintamu Sepahit Topi quite well-acquainted with the baroque and IN CONVERSATION WITH Miring” (2014) classical repertoire from my practical studies at Mac Quayle, “1.0_8-whatsyourask” (2015) the Mozarteum. This is why I was eager to explore Have you visited Liverpool before? “new” music in my research – either music of the I have never been to Liverpool, and I’m very excited 20th century or early music. Since it seemed to be to visit. I hope to have the opportunity to meet some more logical to procede chronologically from the The common element that originally drew me to Liverpudlians, and say “Liverpudlian.” Of course, I beginning of music history, I ended up focussing on violin playing and hip-hop DJs was virtuosity. I should do something Beatles-related. And as when the latter. Moreover, my other studies in mathematics loved the mind-boggling feats of manual dexterity I go to any new city I hope to take long morning provided me with a solid intellectual background that I saw from the likes of Jascha Heifetz on the walks, see street art, find good vegetarian food, and to study the theory and notation of early music, so I one hand, and DJ Qbert on the other. When I sample the local tea and/or liquor. really felt at home. started learning how to DJ I saw further similarities, How did your career develop before it reached its Mark Katz (University of North Carolina at Chapel especially between violin bow strokes (staccato, Liverpool is a notoriously musical city. Who do zenith? Hill) in conversation with Freya Jarman (University of legato, spiccato, etc.) and record scratches (the you prefer: Paul McCartney and Wings, or Frankie Liverpool) chirp, the transformer, the crab, etc.). Goes to Hollywood? Coming back to Salzburg, I was lucky to get a job at my university, finished my PhD, and started teaching. It’s a little known fact that the Dent Medal How did you persuade the US Department of Tough one. I like Paul, but as a pedant, I can’t For my habilitation I transferred my experience in is not named after Arthur Dent of the Hitchhiker’s State to give you $2.5million? [I refer, of course, forgive the redundancy of “this ever-changing world source studies to the musical world of Franz Schubert. Guide to the Galaxy, who was wearing his dressing to your Next Level project—could you tell us a bit in which we live in” from his Wings-era “Live and Let (My family is from Vienna and I have always felt an gown and pyjamas when the world ended and he about it? What does it do, how has it been going, Die.” And I’m not really one to relax, regardless of emotional connection to his music.) For this second was whisked to safety by an alien. What would be and how do you find the time?] what Frankie says. Can I go with The Wombats? book, which is on Schubert’s fragmentary works, your outfit of choice in such a situation? In 2013 the State Department put out a call for Can you sum up your Dent Medal address in a I was funded by a three-year fellowship through This is actually something I’ve given a lot of thought proposals to create an international exchange haiku? the Austrian Academy of Science. Both books were to. Alas, I’m still thinking and can’t decide between program that would promote artistic and cultural I will talk about honored with national prizes. An offer for the chair in a really smart, bespoke suit or something more collaboration through hip-hop. I had previously co- early music at Göttingen was withdrawn, but instead Hip-hop and diplomacy practical, with velcro and lots of pockets.