Scholarship Opp: MMus Scholarship in Composition or Musicology (Liverpool)

MMUS SCHOLARSHIP IN COMPOSITION OR MUSICOLOGY
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
DEADLINE: 4 MAY 2010

The School of Music, University of Liverpool, welcomes applicants for a funded MMus in the fields of Composition or Musicology. The award will total £8000. Fees will be taken from this and the rest may be used as maintenance (as a guide, fees for the MMus 09-10 were £3,390).

The MMus aims to provide advanced academic and/or professional training in Music and Musicology. It exists in three distinct tracks, identified as Musicology, Composition and Performance. Our intention is that the student should reach a professional level of expertise in one of these tracks, as the main area of study, by the end of the course.

Musicology modules are research-led and benefit from the expertise of our newly-appointed Professor Michael Spitzer as well as Professor Anahid Kassabian, Dr. Holly Rogers, Dr. Giles Hooper and Dr. Freya Jarman. Composition modules are led by Mr. James Wishart and Mr. Matthew Fairclough.

APPLICATION:
You should apply to the School of Music for admission onto your chosen MMus pathway using the online application form. Your transcripts and references will be included in this. In addition, you must indicate your interest in the scholarship and attach a Case for Support (1000 words).

The deadline for applications is 4 May.

Interviews will be held during the week beginning 24 May.

Please note, you are advised to submit your admission application by mid-April to ensure that your application is received by the school office well in advance of the deadline.

Application forms are available by e-mailing the School’s Postgraduate Studies
Administrator at Filomena.Saltao [at] liverpool.ac.uk
Or online
http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught_courses/music_mmus.htm

For further information or informal enquiries about the scholarship, please
contact the Director of the MMus, Dr. Holly Rogers: holly.rogers [at]liverpool.ac.uk

Fully Funded PhD Studentships: 'Music Collections, Music Rooms and Musical Practice in British Country Houses, 1780-1860' (Southampton)

FULLY FUNDED PHD STUDENTSTHIPS:
MUSIC COLLECTIONS, MUSIC ROOMS AND MUSICAL PRACTICE IN BRITISH COUNTRY HOUSES, 1780-1860
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NATIONAL TRUST

The Department of Music at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with The National Trust, has been given two new fully-funded PhD studentships by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. The studentships are for the project 'Music Collections, Music Rooms and Musical Practice in British Country Houses, 1780-1860'. The project aims to expand understanding of domestic musical practice in British country houses of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, investigating the intersections of space, material musical culture, musical repertory and performance practice characteristic of this milieu. In addition to conducting their research, the students will create historically sensitive musical events and materials for dissemination through heritage bodies so that country house spaces 'sound' for contemporary visitors in informative and stimulating ways. The practical context for both studentships will be provided by the National Trust, principally through two major music collections still held in the houses in which they were first used, Tatton Park (Cheshire) and Killerton House (Devon). In addition to research in the collections, the students will have training in National Trust regional and national offices and a co-supervisor from the Trust in addition to academic supervision.

One studentship is for a dissertation on an aspect of domestic music-making in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British country houses. The precise topic will emerge from negotiation with the student, but will be practically based in one or more music collections held by the National Trust. The holder of the second studentship will prepare a shorter thesis and a portfolio of recitals and other musical events for a performance-led research degree on musical repertory performed in country houses. The musical events will not only demonstrate aspects of historical performance practice but will be suitable for touring to historic properties as appropriate, and for filming and/or recording (including for example as podcasts or material for audio headsets) for use by the National Trust. Student 2 will probably be a first-study keyboard player, although appropriately-qualified singers will be considered for the studentship. The students will be required to act as a team, with the predominantly historical work of student 1 supporting the more practice-led research of student 2, and vice versa.

The studentships are available to UK residents and EU nationals. For more information and instructions on how to apply, see
http://www.soton.ac.uk/music/postgrad/postgraduatestudentships.html

The application deadline is 10 June 2009. Queries can be directed to JeaniceBrooks: ljb1 at soton.ac.uk.

Fully Funded PhD Studentship - Historical Sound Recordings of Public Performances (York)

PHD STUDENTSHIP - HISTORICAL SOUND RECORDINGS OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
DEADLINE: 19 MAY 2009

The Department of Music at The University of York (UK), together with Music Preserved, is offering a fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship, commencing 1 October 2009.

The project aims to encourage and generate research into historical sound recordings of public performances in parallel with the study of music performance.

We seek a student researcher who is interested in exploring a specific aspect of the collections, allowing the archives to be interrogated from musicological vantage points that will produce research outputs that are of service both to the research community and to the general public.

Applicants must be UK residents (full studentship) or EU nationals (fees only). They should have research interests in musicology and/or 20th-century performance studies and some training in digitizing and/or cataloguing music sound recordings. They should normally have, or shortly expect to gain, a Masters degree in a relevant discipline, for example musicology, ethnomusicology, librarianship, etc. or the equivalent. In the 2009-10 academic year, full-time awards will provide a maintenance grant payment of £13,290, plus payment of standard tuition fees. The studentship is available to support three years' full-time work, subject to satisfactory progress, and can be taken on either a full-time or a part-time basis.

This project will be supervised by Dr Jenny Doctor, Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of York. Please direct enquiries to her (jd535 at york.ac.uk ) or to Mrs Gilly Howe, Postgraduate Secretary (gfh2 at york.ac.uk ).

Further details and particulars are available about the PhD Studentship, description and particulars:
http://music.york.ac.uk/atyork/resources/archives-ahrccda/furtherdetails2009.pdf

Interdisciplinary PhD Studentships in Music (Open University)

INTERDISCIPLINARY PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN MUSIC
OPEN UNIVERSITY, MILTON KEYNES

The Open University offers up to four full-time, 3 year PhD studentships (to start 1 October 2009)

Music-related research at the OU encompasses a wide range of approaches (including historical, social, empirical and technological methods) with a distinctive emphasis on innovation and interdisciplinary research. We welcome applications for PhD studentships in any of our areas of
strength, which include
* Social and cultural theory and analysis (including ethnomusicology, sociology, social psychology, human geography)
* Historical study (including documentary and archival research)
* Empirical investigation of performance
* Music computing (including Music Computing and Pervasive Interaction; the design and evaluation of new tools for performance, composition, analysis and education)
* Musical acoustics
* Music education and pedagogy

Projects which will benefit from supervision across traditional disciplinary boundaries (e.g. ethnomusicology and psychology, acoustics and historical musicology, or music computing or sociology) are particularly encouraged. Also encouraged are proposals with links to one of our existing research groups or collaborative projects (for details of these, and of our research facilities, go to the web address below).

Potential candidates are urged to make contact as soon as possible, in order to discuss and develop a project with support from potential supervisors prior to submission. Informal enquiries are encouraged to
Prof. Martin Clayton, Director of Music Research
(m.r.l.clayton@open.ac.uk)

For detailed information and to apply email s.a.parsons@open.ac.uk or telephone 01908 653280.
Further details of music-related research at the OU can be found at
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/music/research/

Closing date: 3 April 2009

Equal Opportunity is University Policy

Postgraduate Studentships (Cardiff School of Music)

2009-2010 POSTGRADUATE STUDENTSHIPS
CARDIFF SCHOOL OF MUSIC

The Cardiff School of Music is delighted to announce that it will fund up to 10 full and fees-only postgraduate studentships to be taken up in 2009-10. This is the largest single investment the School has made in its provision for postgraduate study and it benefits all of its research (PhD) and taught (MA/MMus) programmes.

Please visit the Cardiff School of Music’s website for further details:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/music/degreeprogrammes/postgraduate/funding/index.html

The closing date for all application is 1 June 2009.

The wide range of experience and expertise amongst the staff ensures that the School offers leading-edge teaching and research in numerous areas of the discipline.

PhD Research Programmes

• Composition
• Performance
• Thesis

Taught MA and MMus Programmes

• MA in Ethnomusicology
• MA in Music, Culture and Politics
• MA in Musicology
• MA in Performance Studies
• MMus in Composition

The places are competitive, so if you are interested please contact the Postgraduate Secretary:
Ms Elizabeth Pengilly

Email: pengillySE1@cardiff.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 29 2087 4816
Postgraduate Secretary
School of Music
33 Corbett Road
Cardiff
CF10 3EB

Scholarship: American Brahms Society Twentieth Annual Geiringer Scholarship

AMERICAN BRAHMS SOCIETY
TWENTIETH ANNUAL GEIRINGER SCHOLARSHIP
DEADLINE: 1 MAY 2009

The American Brahms Society is seeking applicants for its Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies, which is awarded annually from the Society’s Karl Geiringer Fund in Brahms Studies, as meritorious candidates present themselves. The competition is open to students in the final stages of preparing a doctoral dissertation at a university in North America. Work relating to Brahms should form a significant thread within the dissertation, but it need not be the only one. The Selection Committee welcomes applications from students whose research might be concentrated instead on music by members of Brahms’s circle, on musical life in later nineteenth-century Vienna, and so forth. Only projects that demonstrate significant original thought and research will be deemed competitive. The decision to award the scholarship, which carries a stipend of $2,000, rests with the Board of Directors; the winner will be announced in November 2009, following the regular annual meeting of the Board.

Completed applications will consist of 1) a cover letter, including the applicant’s address, phone number, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation; 2) a concise description of the project (no more than 500 words), in which the applicant’s methods and conclusions are stated clearly; and 3) a brief account (no more than 250 words) detailing the aspect of the project to be completed with assistance from the Karl Geiringer Scholarship, including travel plans, if appropriate. These materials should be submitted, in triplicate, to:

Prof. David Brodbeck
Chair, Geiringer Scholarship Committee
Department of Music, Claire Trevor School of Arts
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697

and must be postmarked no later than 1 May 2009.

The application must be supported by two confidential letters of recommendation, including one from the dissertation advisor; these should be sent directly to the Chair of the Geiringer Scholarship Committee and must also be postmarked by 1 May. Finalists in the competition will be notified by 15 May and will be asked to submit a sample chapter from their dissertation.

A listing of all previous Geiringer Scholars is available online at
http://brahms.unh.edu/recipients.html#recipients

Sempre (Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research) Fellowships/Awards

SEMPRE (SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION, MUSIC AND PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH) SCHOLARSHIPS AND FUNDS
DEADLINE: MOST 1 MAY 2009 BUT VARIES VIA AWARD

GERRY FARRELL TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (Sempre), UK The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research invites applications for its Gerry Farrell travelling scholarships.
See
http://www.sempre.org.uk/awards_farrell.html

ARNOLD BENTLEY NEW INITIATIVES FUND
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (Sempre), UK The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research invites applications for the Arnold Bentley new initiatives fund.
See http://www.sempre.org.uk/awards.html

SEMPRE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (Sempre), UK The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research invites nominations for its lifetime achievement award.
See http://www.sempre.org.uk/awards_hickman.html