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Dr John Cunningham

Reader in Musicology

j.cunningham@bangor.ac.uk

+44 1248 388278

0000-0001-5351-3094

View Dr John Cunningham’s profile on the Bangor Research Portal

Overview

I joined the then School of Music at Bangor in September 2011. My degrees are from University College Dublin (BMus, 2000; MA, 2001) and the University of Leeds (PhD, 2007). I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the editorial committees of the Purcell Society and of Musica Britannica. 

My research covers a broad spectrum of topics and periods, though with a main interlinking theme of music as cultural history. I have published on a range of topics looking at secular music in Britain and Ireland, c.1600–1900. My monograph on William Lawes was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2010. I am especially interested in understanding the creative process as well as the interrelationship of music and literature. I have been the contributing music editor for the works of Ben Jonson (CUP, 2014), Shakespeare (OUP, 2017, 2018) and Katherine Philips (OUP, forthcoming). I am also interested in modern popular music, especially its interconnections with visual culture through the music video and other media. Among my current projects, I am working on responses to and the performance of Shakespearean music in Britain in the long nineteenth century, and an exploration of musical censorship in modern popular culture.

I was Director of Teaching and Learning in the former School of Music (2012-18), Director of Research and Director of Undergraduate Studies (Music) in the School of Music and Media (2018-20). I was Director of Research, Impact and Engagement, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Digital Ambassador at the School of Music, Drama and Performance (2020-21). 

I am the Assessment Officer for the School of Arts, Culture and Language. At departmental level, I am also the undergraduate Music lead, research/impact lead, and subject lead in Musicology. I am currently the Head of Dept: Music, Drama and Performance.  

Follow John’s work on academia, where you will also find further information on research papers and publications.

Additional Contact Information

 

Email: else17@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1248 388278

Location: Dept. of Music, Drama and Performance, First Floor 

Qualifications

  • Professional: Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
    Higher Education Academy, 2019
  • Professional: Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
    Higher Education Academy, 2015
  • Professional: PGCertTHE
    2015
  • PhD: ‘Music for the Privy Chamber: Studies in the Consort Music of William Lawes (1602−45)’
    University of Leeds, 2003–2007
  • MA
    University College Dublin, 2000–2001
  • Other: BMus
    University College Dublin, 1996–2000

Teaching and Supervision

I teach a wide range of topics across a range of historical periods, with an emphasis on music before 1900. I also teach on modern popular music. In 2021/22 he coordinates and teaches the following modules:

  • WXM 1004 Harmony and Counterpoint
  • WXM 1301 Music 1550–1850
  • WXM 2025 / 3025 Music Video & Popular Culture
  • WXM 2205 / 3205 Notation and Editing
  • WXM 2207 / 3207 The Craft of Tonal Composition
  • WXM 3283 Edition project
  • WMP 4108 Investigating Music
  • WMP 4113 Performance Studies Education

 He also teaches on the following modules:

  • WXM 1300 Music since 1850 
  • WXM 2211 Musicology Year 2
  • WXM 3277 Dissertation project
  • WMP 4106 Independent Research Project

Previous modules

  • WXM 1001 / 1002 The Study of Music
  • WXM 1004 Introduction Harmony and Counterpoint
  • WXM 2001 / 3001 Telemann
  • WXM 2002 / 3002 Classical Symphony
  • WXM 2007 / 3007 Music and Politics in 17th-Century England
  • WXM 2014 / 3014 The Trio Sonata in England
  • WXM 2019 / 3019 Opera: Monteverdi to Mozart
  • WXM 2022 / 3022 Analysing Popular Music
  • WXM 2127 / 3127 Music on the English Stage, c.1600–95
  • WXM 2160 / 3160 The Beatles
  • WXM 2198 / 3198 Handel
  • WXM 2207 Advanced Harmony and Counterpoint
  • WXM 2303 / 3305 Genres and Composers A/C (Mozart)
  • WXM 2304 / 3306 Genres and Composers B/D (The Concerto: Baroque to Contemporary)
  • WXM 3205 Notation and Editing
  • WXM 3302 Fugue
  • WXP 2247 / 3247 Historical Performance
  • WMP 4101 Music in Historical Context 
  • WMP 4041 Early Music
  • WMP 4043 Music in Society
  • KAH 4401 Understanding the Middle Ages
  • QXE 4025 Manuscripts and Printed Books

 

Current PhD students

  • Rong Rui
  • Anna Huang
  • Min Zhu
  • Luxi Tian 
  • Hanniel Wei Cheung

Sucessfully completed PhD students

  • Fueanglada (Organ) Prawang: The influence of Western music on the development of Thai opera (2021)
  • Stephen Bullamore, ‘The Anthems of John Weldon’ (2014)

 

Research Interests

John's research focusses on music as cultural history. His main interests are:

  • Secular music in the British Isles, c.1600–1900
  • Compositional process
  • Music and drama in early modern England
  • Modern popular music (contexts and analysis)
  • Music videos and popular culture
  • Shakespeare and music
  • Music pedagogy
  • Music and controversy
  • Source studies and Editing

Postgraduate Project Opportunities

I would be interested in supervising postgraduates in any of the areas in which I teach and research. Secular vocal and instrumental music in the British Isles, c.1600-1870; seventeenth-century English consort music (and sources); compositional process; music and cultural history; music and drama in early modern England; source studies; editing; popular music; Shakespeare and music; opera; opera in non-Western contexts; music education; popular music and visual culture; popular music analysis

Publications

2023

  • E-pub ahead of printAnalysing Law in Opera
    Machura, S., Litvinova, O. & Cunningham, J., 10 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Law and Humanities. 22 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

  • E-pub ahead of printRecordings for all seasons
    Cunningham, J., 6 Dec 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Early Music.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • PublishedSongs lost and found: Katherine Philips's Pompey's Ghost
    Cunningham, J., 7 Nov 2022, In: Music and Letters. 103, 4, p. 591-629 gcac015.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published‘What’s in a name?’: Authorship and Shakespeare Songs in the Eighteenth Century
    Cunningham, J., Feb 2022, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music. Wilson, C. R. & Cooke, M. (eds.). London: Oxford: OUP
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published‘Where should this music be?’: Cataloguing Shakespeare Music’
    Cunningham, J., May 2022, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music. Wilson, C. R. & Cooke, M. (eds.). Oxford : Oxford: OUP, p. 33–74 41 p.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2021

  • PublishedAuthorship, Anonymity and (Mis)Attribution: Katherine Philips’s ‘Pompey’s Ghost’
    Cunningham, J., 22 Oct 2021.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
  • PublishedCharles Dibdin: The Wags
    Cunningham, J., 10 Sep 2021, 137 p. Retrospect Opera.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
  • PublishedCharles Dibdin: The Wags (liner notes)
    Cunningham, J., 10 Sep 2021, Retrospect Opera.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
  • PublishedKitty Clive, or The Fair Songster
    Cunningham, J., 5 May 2021, In: Eighteenth Century Studies. 54, 3, p. 734-736 3 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • PublishedReview of Andrew Ashbee, The Harmonious Music of John Jenkins, vol. 2 (2019)
    Cunningham, J., 11 Jan 2021, In: The Viola da Gamba Society Journal. 14, p. 99-103 4 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • PublishedReview of Carina Drury, Irlandiani
    Cunningham, J., 1 Aug 2021, In: Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. 16, p. 43-47 4 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

2020

  • PublishedJohn Jenkins: Fantasia-Suites: Review of: John Jenkins: Fantasia-Suites III, ed. Andrew Ashbee, MB CIV (London: Stainer and Bell, 2019)
    Cunningham, J., 2020, In: The Viola da Gamba Society Journal. 13, p. 86-89
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • PublishedMusical Exchange between Britain and Europe, 1500-1800: Essays in honour of Peter Holman
    Cunningham, J. (ed.) & White, B. (ed.), 19 Jun 2020, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
  • PublishedNew Light on William Corbett's Gresham College Bequest
    Cunningham, J., Jun 2020, Musical Exchange between Britain and Europe, 1500-1800: Essays in Honour of Peter Holman. Cunningham, J. & White, B. (eds.). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, (Music in Britain, 1600-2000).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • PublishedReview of The Sonatas of Henry Purcell: Rhetoric and Reversal. By Alon Schab
    Cunningham, J., Dec 2020, In: Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music. 26, 1
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › peer-review
  • PublishedReview of: Music for St Cecilia’s Day: From Purcell to Handel. By Bryan White. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. 2019
    Cunningham, J., Sep 2020, In: Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies. 43, 3, p. 407-408 2 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

2019

  • PublishedCharles Dibdin: the melodist
    Cunningham, J., 2019, Retrospect Opera.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
  • PublishedReview of OSKAR COX JENSEN, DAVID KENNERLEY, AND IAN NEWMANN (eds). Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture. Pp. xxvi + 249. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cloth, £55.
    Cunningham, J., Apr 2019, In: Review of English Studies. 70, 294, p. 371-373 3 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • Published‘Corbett’s last catalogue’
    Cunningham, J., 25 Aug 2019.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
  • Published‘Pompey’s Ghost’ from play-house to pulpit?
    Cunningham, J., 8 Jun 2019.
    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

2018

  • PublishedRestoration Music for Three Violins, Bass Viol and Continuo
    Cunningham, J. & Holman, P., 2018, Musica Britannica ed. London : Stainer & Bell. 184 p. (Musica Britannica; vol. 103)
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
  • Published‘“Faint copies” and “excellent Originalls”: Composition and Consumption of Trio Sonatas in England, c.1695–1714’
    Cunningham, J., 26 Mar 2018, Eine Geographie der Triosonate: Beitraege zur Gattungsgeschichte im Europaeischen Raum. Groote, I. M. & Giuggioli, M. (eds.). Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft, p. 113-140 27 p.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • Published“An Irishman in an opera!”: Music and nationalism on the London stage in the mid-1770s
    Cunningham, J., 2018, Music Preferred. Essays in Musicology, Cultural History and analysis in honour of Harry White. Elliott, R. & Byrne Bodley, L. (eds.). Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2017

  • PublishedMusic Introduction
    Cunningham, J., 30 May 2017, New Oxford Shakespeare: Critical Reference Edition. Taylor, G., Jowett, J., Bourus, T. & Egan, G. (eds.). Oxford: OUP
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • PublishedReview: Musica Britannica 100
    Cunningham, J., 31 Oct 2017, In: Early Music. 45, 2, p. 320-321
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • PublishedThe New Oxford Shakespeare: Music
    Cunningham, J., 2017
    Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
  • PublishedThe reception and re-use of Thomas Arne’s Shakespeare songs of 1740/1
    Cunningham, J., 2017, Shakespeare, Music and Performance . Barclay, B. & Lindley, D. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2016

  • PublishedColeman, Charles
    Spink, I. & Cunningham, J., 25 May 2016, Oxford: OUP.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
  • PublishedColeman, Edward
    Spink, I. & Cunningham, J., 25 May 2016, Oxford: OUP.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
  • PublishedJonson, Ben
    Sabol, A. & Cunningham, J., 25 May 2016, Oxford: OUP.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
  • PublishedShakespeare and Music
    Cunningham, J., 27 Oct 2016, New Oxford Shakespeare : The Complete Works. Taylor, G., Jowett, J., Bourus, T. & Egan, G. (eds.). Modern Critical Edition ed. Oxford: Oxford: OUP
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2015

  • PublishedBen Jonson and Music
    Cunningham, J., Bevington, D. (ed.), Butler, M. (ed.) & Donaldson, I. (ed.), 1 Mar 2015, Cambridge Edition of the works of Ben Jonson [Online]. Cambridge University Press
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • PublishedNetworks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips's 450th Anniversary.
    Cunningham, J., 1 Aug 2015, In: Music and Letters. 96, 3, p. 460-462
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published“Solemn and appropriate Shakespearean music”: The Stratford Tercentenary of 1864
    Cunningham, J., Jansohn, C. (ed.) & Mehl, D. (ed.), 1 Oct 2015, Shakespeare Jubilees: 1864-2014, Studien Zur Englischen Literatur, Band 27. Lit Verlag
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2014

  • PublishedReview of: "The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne" By Todd Gilman
    Cunningham, J., 21 Jan 2014, In: Music and Letters. 94, 4, p. 680–682 3 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

2013

  • PublishedA meeting of Amateur and Professional: Playford's 'Compendious Collection' of Two-Part Airs, Court-Ayres (1655)
    Cunningham, J., Herissone, R. (ed.) & Howard, A. (ed.), 21 Nov 2013, Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England. 2013 ed. Boydell Press
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • PublishedEntries on: John Abell; Brass and Reed Bands; William Byrd; Denis Collins; Dalway Harp; Kieran Daly; Terry de Valera; John Dowland; Masque; Military Bands post 1840; Orchestras; Burk Thumoth; Thomas Tollett and family; Werburgh Street Theatre.
    Cunningham, J., 15 Sep 2013, Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. White, H. & Boydell, B. (eds.). Dublin: Four Courts Press
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution › peer-review
  • PublishedWelsh Rabbit, Anyone?
    Cunningham, J., 2013
    Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

2012

  • PublishedHenry Lawes’s music for the songs in A Mask: Volume III: The shorter poems
    Cunningham, J., 25 Oct 2012, The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume III: The shorter poems. Lewalski, B. & Haan, E. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford: OUP, Vol. 3. p. 587-598 11 p.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • PublishedRestoration Trio Sonatas
    Holman, P. (ed.) & Cunningham, J. (ed.), 1 Sep 2012, 2012 ed. Stainer & Bell.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

2011

  • PublishedFlights of Fancy: liner notes
    Cunningham, J., 2011, Avie.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

2010

  • PublishedEdition of: Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Laudate Dominum, for Soloists, Double Choir and Orchestra, with introduction by P. Holman, THM003
    Cunningham, J. & Holman, P., 2010, 34 p. Edinburgh : Thesaurus Musicus.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
  • PublishedMaurice Webster: Complete Consort Music
    Holman, P. (ed.) & Cunningham, J. (ed.), 2010, Launton: Edition HH. 60 p.
    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
  • PublishedReview of Charles Dibdin: The Sadler’s Wells Dialogues, ed. Peter Holman
    Cunningham, J., Mar 2010, In: Eighteenth-Century Music. 7, 1, p. 133-135 3 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • PublishedReview of: "John Jenkins, Fantasia-Suites, ed. Andrew Ashbee"
    Cunningham, J., 2010, In: The Viola da Gamba Society Journal. 4, p. 154-159 5 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • PublishedThe Afterlife of a Maverick
    Cunningham, J., 17 Aug 2010
    Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
  • PublishedThe Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645
    Cunningham, J., 1 Jan 2010, Boydell Press.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
  • Published‘A little-known source of Restoration lyra-viol and keyboard music: Surrey History Centre, Woking, LM/1083/91/35’
    Cunningham, J. & Woolley, A., Jan 2010, In: Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle. 43, p. 1-22 22 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2009

  • Published'Irish harpers are excellent, and their solemn music is much liked of strangers': The Irish Harp in Non-Irish Contexts in the Seventeenth Century
    Cunningham, J., Barra Boydell, B. (ed.) & Houston, K. (ed.), 1 Jan 2009, Music: Ireland and the Seventeenth Century. 2009 ed. Four Courts Pr Ltd, p. 62-80
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  • PublishedLyra-viol Ecclesiastica: A neglected manuscript source in Archbishop Marsh’s Library, Dublin
    Cunningham, J., 2009, In: The Viola da Gamba Society Journal. 3, p. 1-54 54 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2008

  • PublishedReview of William Lawes: The Harp Consorts, ed. Jane Achtman, et al.
    Cunningham, J., 2008, In: The Viola da Gamba Society Journal. 2, p. 84-98 14 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
  • PublishedSimon Ives, The Four-Part Dances
    Cunningham, J. (ed.) & Holman, P. (ed.), 2008, 60 p. Launton : Edition HH.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
  • Published‘“Some consorts of instruments are sweeter than others”: Further light on the harp of William Lawes’s Harp Consorts
    Cunningham, J., Apr 2008, In: Galpin Society Journal . 61, p. 147–176 29 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2007

  • PublishedA tale of two harps: Issues arising from recordings of William Lawes’s Harp Consorts
    Cunningham, J., 2007, In: Early Music Performer: Journal of the National Early Music Association. 21, p. 13-24 11 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedLiner notes for: William Lawes: The Passion of Musicke. Ricercar Consort, dir. Philippe Pierlot. Flora 1206 (2007)
    Cunningham, J., 2007, Flora.
    Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

2006

  • Published‘Dibdin Here, Dibdin There, Dibdin Everywhere: Report on the LUCEM “Charles Dibdin Autographs Project”’
    Cunningham, J., 2006, In: Early Music Performer: Journal of the National Early Music Association. 18, p. 36−43 7 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published‘“Let them be lusty, smart-speaking viols”: William Lawes and the lyra-viol trio
    Cunningham, J., 2006, In: Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. 43, p. 32-68 36 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2005

  • Published‘A New Bach Aria’; ‘Hyperion vs Sawkins’
    Cunningham, J., Nov 2005, In: Early Music Performer: Journal of the National Early Music Association. 16, p. 22-24 3 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Activities

2022

  • Katherine Philips’s Pompey songs on the Restoration stage and page

    First performed in Dublin (1663) one of the most significant aspects of Philips’s Pompey was her addition of a song after each act, something unique in the period. Although, according to the playbook, the songs ‘were added only to lengthen the Play’ they have proved fertile ground for interpretation (e.g. Russell, 2010). However, little has been written about the songs as performed, and experienced, musical events. Lack of documentary evidence is problematic. Only one of the song settings heard on the Dublin stage appears to have survived. When the play was revived in London (early 1670s?) new settings were composed: several of these survive and can be used to shed light on the now lost music heard in Dublin. Drawing upon newly prepared performances of the Pompey songs, this paper will argue that the music in the play was carefully designed to help audiences navigate its central themes.

    2 Apr 2022

    Links:

    • https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/13001
    Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)
  • External examiner

    Jenifer Wagnhorn, Composers for the King's Men: Robert Johnson, John Wilson and Institutional Developments in the Company's use of Original Theatre Music, 1610 to 1625

    23 Mar 2022

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)
  • External Examiner

    Undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Music

    1 Mar 2022 – 1 Jul 2026

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)

2021

  • The Third International Conference on Women’s Work in Music

    From conference website:

    Following on from our first two Conferences (2017, 2019), we are pleased to announce that the Third International Conference on Women’s Work in Music will take place on 1-3 September 2021. The conference will be held online this year, and will provide virtual spaces for discussion, music and networking.

    The Conference will celebrate the achievements of women musicians, and aims to critically explore and discuss the changing contexts of women’s work in music on the international stage. The conference aims to bring together academics, composers, performers and music professionals from around the world to share their research and experience of all aspects of women working in music, past, present and future.

    1 Sep 2021 – 3 Sep 2021

    Activity: Participation in conference (Member of programme committee)
  • THE TRIPLE HARPS OF BASSETT JONES (1809 –1869): CONTEXT AND ORGANOLOGY

    MRes

    2021 →

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)

2020

  • ‘Songs lost and found: Katherine Philips’ “Pompey’s Ghost”, Restoration to (American) Revolution’

    2 Dec 2020

    Links:

    • http://colclough.bangor.ac.uk/events/-songs-lost-and-found-katherine-philips-s-pompey-s-ghost-restoration-to-american-revolution-44411
    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
  • MMus by research: examination chair

    Examination committee chair for Thomas Hughes's MMus by research

    13 Jan 2020

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)

2019

  • External Examiner

    Undergraduate programmes in music

    1 Sep 2019 – 30 Aug 2023

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)
  • Internal examiner

    Internal examiner for Matthias Wurz, 'Shades of Pierrot: Exploration of analytical concepts for performing Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire' PhD submission

    2019 →

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)

2012

  • Celtic Studies Conference

    2012

    Activity: Participation in conference (Member of programme committee)

2010

  • The Viola da Gamba Society Journal (Journal)

    Editor: The Viola da Gamba Society Journal, volume 4

    2010 – 2011

    Links:

    • http://vdgs.org.uk/journal/
    Activity: Editorial activity (Guest editor)

2008

  • Suffolk Villages Festival

    I prepared performing editions of the following music for this public concert:

    William Boyce, David’s Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan (Dublin version, 1744), short oratorio; William Boyce, O be joyful in God, anthem (St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh, Suffolk; 26 May 2008, Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra, dir. P. Holman)

    26 May 2008

    Links:

    • http://www.suffolkvillagesfestival.com/
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)

Other Information

Conference papers and research seminars 

  • ‘The Fantasias from William Lawes’s Royall Consort’, RMA Research Students’ Conference, Durham and Newcastle Universities (30 March−1 April 2005)
  • ‘The Lyra-Viol Trio in Early Stuart England’, RMA Research Students’ Conference, University of Leeds (4−7 January 2006)
  • ‘William Lawes and the “Irish” Harp Consort?’, Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick (5−7 May 2006)
  • ‘Revisions in the Lyra-Viol Trios of William Lawes’, Twelfth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, University of Warsaw (26−30 July 2006)
  • ‘William Lawes and the Harp Consort’, Research Students’ Study-Day, School of Music, University of Leeds (13 December 2006)
  • ‘The Division of Originality: Lawes, Jenkins and the “Division-Fantasia”’, RMA Research Students’ Conference, University of Bristol (3−6 January 2007)
  • ‘Anglo-Irish Musical Relations in the Seventeenth Century’, Musical Journeys with the Flight of the Earls: Interdisciplinary Symposium, Dublin Institute of Technology, Conservatory of Music and Drama (3 February 2007)
  • ‘The Development of the Two-Part Aire in Early Seventeenth Century England’, Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Dublin Institute of Technology, Conservatory of Music and Drama (11−13 May 2007)
  • ‘“Composed in the way of a Fancy’: William Lawes and the Fantasia-Suite’, Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Waterford Institute of Technology (9−11 May 2008)
  • ‘A Musical Miscellany: Marsh’s Library, Dublin, MS Z3.4.13’, Thirteenth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, University of Leeds (2−6 July 2008)
  • ‘A Meeting of Amateur and Professional: Playford’s “Compendious Collection” of Two-Part Airs, Court-Ayres (1655)’, Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England: Two-day International Interdisciplinary Symposium, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester (6−7 September 2008)
  • ‘A Neglected Source of Lyra-Viol Music in Marsh’s Library, Dublin’, Seminars in Musicology, University College Dublin, School of Music (30 Oct. 2008): invited 
  • ‘Appropriation and Approbation: Music and Cultural Assimilation in Ben Jonson’s Irish Masque at Court (1613)’, Music, Plantation and Migration: Interdisciplinary Symposium, Dublin Institute of Technology, Conservatory of Music and Drama (25 April 2009)
  • ‘Ben Jonson’s Use of Music in the Early Plays’, Joint Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and the Royal Musical Association, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin (9−12 July 2009)
  • ‘Composition and Arrangement in the Lyra-Viol Repertoire’, Fourteenth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Queen’s University Belfast (30 June−4 July 2010)
  • ‘“I fear the little gentleman is in a galloping consumption”: The death and resurrection of Arne’s The Fairy Prince (1771)’, Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin (24–26 June 2011)
  • ‘“Irregular and not always correct in harmony”: Revisions and re-creations in the consort music of William Lawes (1602–45)’, Seminars in Musicology, Bangor University (5 October 2011) 
  • ‘“I have brought you a variety of noise”: Ben Jonson and Music, the late seventeenth century and beyond’, Seminars in Musicology, Edinburgh University (1 March 2012): invited
  • ‘Mason’s Caractacus (1759) on the British stage’, Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Dundalk Institute of Technology (15–17 June 2012)
  • ‘Music and identity in Ben Jonson’s Irish Masque at Court’: The Inaugural Bangor Conference of Celtic Studies, Bangor University (20–23 July 2012)
  • ‘Music and Ben Jonson’s dramatic works’, Fifteenth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, University of Southampton (11−15 July 2012)
  • ‘Performance, expectation and tradition in Shakespearean songs, c.1740–1760’: Shakespeare, Music and Performance Conference, The Shakespeare Globe, London (3–5 May 2013): invited
  • ‘Transgressive soundscapes: “art” vs “popular” song in the early modern theatre’, Early Modern Soundscapes, Bangor University (24−25 April 2014) 
  • ‘A New Messiah: Shakespeare, music, and the 1864 Tercentenary celebration’, Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, University College Dublin (6–8 June 2014)
  • ‘Revision and revival: William Boyce’s David’s Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan (1736−1744)’, Sixteenth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum, Salzburg (9–13 July 2014)
  • ‘The roots of English Restoration opera in masque’ (panel on English opera), Eighth European Music Analysis Conference, University of Leuven (17−21 September 2014)
  • ‘Words, music, and the cult of Shakespearean veneration: the 1864 Tercentenary Celebration’, Words and Music Study Day, Bangor University (2 May 2015) 
  • ‘“Faint copies” and “excellent Originalls”: Composition and consumption of trio sonatas in England, c.1690–1710’, The geography of the trio sonata: new perspectives, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (21–22 May 2015): invited
  • ‘Dowland’s Ayres in Transmission: Texts and Contexts’: John Dowland (?1563–1626)Study Day, Magdalene College, Oxford (4 May 2016): invited
  • ‘New Light on Thomas Arne’s Setting of The Fairy Prince’, panel and roundtable on Thomas Arne Revisited, RMA Annual Conference, Guildhall, London (3–5 September, 2016)
  • ‘Jonson’s songbook?’: Ben Jonson’s Workes and their contexts: 400 years on, Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, Sheffield (12 Nov. 2016)
  • ‘Arne, Shakespeare and the development of a canon’: Seminars in Musicology, Liverpool Hope University (15 March 2017)
  • ‘Arne, nationalism and the English stage’: Seminars in Musicology, University College Dublin (5 April 2017)
  • ‘Reimagining the “English” Trio Sonata’, Faculty of Music Research Colloquia, Oxford University (6 June 2017)
  • ‘The Charles Dibdin Autograph Manuscripts in the Freemantle Collection’, Nineteenth-Century Music Conference, Birmingham University (28–30 June 2017)
  • ‘Charles Dibdin at Leeds: the Freemantle Collection’, Music Research Colloquia, University of Leeds (15 February 2018)
  • ‘Pompey’s Ghost’ from play-house to pulpit?, Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs Conference, University of Sheffield (8 June 2019)
  • ‘Corbett’s last catalogue’, Musical Instrument Collectors and Collections, University of Oxford (23–5 August 2019)

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