Projects

This study aims to redefine the music-historical positioning of the American composer Charles Ives

as a key figure in the fin de siècle. Ives has been regarded as an extension of the European

Romantic tradition, but has embodied a peculiar stance among contemporaries that seemed

difficult to declare. By exploring his aesthetics, I discovered that Ives took a distinct position in the

debate on ...

This project aims to create a multifaceted database for researching, studying, and performing medieval and Renaissance music (up to the year 1600) in the Low Countries. IDEM intends to create a unique instrument for the preservation, study, and valorisation of the Low Countries’ cultural heritage, including both sources presently kept in the Low Countries, and sources held abroad but directly related to the region. The database will integrate ...

This project is the first detailed investigation of the role of music and sound in Scotland’s ongoing energy transitions. Energy use and generation are not merely technological issues, but social and cultural ones which play out dramatically in places like Scotland, a country with enormous quantities of fossil fuels and renewable resources. While the emerging field of the energy humanities offers inroads to understanding the sociocultural ...

While the Great Highland bagpipe is normally associated with Scotland and its traditional music, the instrument has, from the nineteen-seventies onwards, enjoyed an increasing use in classical music. A varied repertoire comprising a range of musical styles and instrumental approaches has emerged, awaiting, however, an indepth analysis. The proposed research project will fill this gap, studying how musical and cultural ...

Timing is a crucial aspect of meaningful musical communication. In order to achieve the intended musical expression, musicians need to control their movements such that time-critical musical structures can be adequately performed. In the past, foundations of timing have been based on cognitive theory. However, we believe that an embodied approach may offer new insights that are of fundamental importance to music research. In particular, we ...

Although it is acknowledged that important performances of medieval and Renaissance music took place throughout Europe during the early twentieth century, these concerts have attracted relatively little attention from scholars. Existing historiographies have highlighted the knowledge transfer that took place through informal performances in academic seminars that enabled students and professors alike to acquaint themselves with unfamiliar ...