Royal Musical Association

With Prof. Fiona M. Palmer and Yajie Ye Fiona M. Palmer (Professor of Music, Maynooth University, Ireland) is a musicologist with a background as a professional orchestral double bassist. Her publications explore music and musicians in Britain (1780s–1930s) by engaging with issues surrounding professionalization, institutions, networking, performance practice, and reception. Her monographs include...

Jo Hicks (University of Aberdeen) speaks to Mollie Carlyle (Maritime Musicologist) about all things musical mapping. Jo is a Lecturer in Music at the University of Aberdeen, having previously held research fellowships at the Lincoln College (Oxford), Kings College London, and Newcastle University. His work is focused on music and theatre in 19th-century Britain. Jo co-edited The Melodramatic Momen...

Prof. Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol) talks to the RMA Podcast about her new book, an Oxford Keynote volume on Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’. The book is available to purchase here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/shostakovichs-lady-macbeth-of-the-mtsensk-district-9780197534939?cc=gb&lang=en& Pauline Fairclough in conversation with Dan Elphick (RMA...

Conservatoire training for singers and pianists tends to revolve around core skills and core repertoire. Changes in the music industry, however, demand a fresh look at what it means to be a singer and a pianist in the 21st century, together with a reappraisal of what their core skills might be. Responding to these challenges the Guildhall School has over the last 8 years developed a unique form of...

https://www.rma.ac.uk/rmawp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/RMA-Podcast-Schenker-Documents-Online-002.mp3 Schenker Documents Online has played a significant role in animating interest in many aspects of analyst Heinrich Schenker’s life. The project was founded in 2004 with the aim to stimulate biographical, historical and socio-cultural study of Schenker and his circle by publishing his correspondence...

https://www.rma.ac.uk/rmawp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RMA-Podcast-Jo-Cormac.mp3 How much does academic research come to influence the making of films about classical composers? Drawing on archival material from the USC Cinema and TV library, the Margaret Herrick Library in LA, and the BFI archives, Jo Cormac has studied a range of films about Chopin and Liszt, including Charles Vidor’s  A Song to...

https://www.rma.ac.uk/rmawp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RMA-Podcast-Laudan-Nooshin-003.mp3 ‘Standing on a flat rooftop in north Tehran on a summer’s evening I am immersed in sound: the strains of the call to prayer echoing from local mosques; a rock beat from a passing car; the call of birds circling the mountains; a distant ringtone; the low-level hum of the city below.’ (Field notes, 2015) Iran’s...