Department of Music

Publications

Researchers in the School of Media, Music and Film regularly publish national and international research monographs, contribute to top journals across a range of fields, edit research collections, produce published materials for teaching, and contribute to cutting-edge anthologies.

The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies

Nicholas Till 2012, The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 

Dysphoric States: Stravinsky's topics - huntsmen, soldiers and shepherdsmusic semiotics

 Nicholas Mckay 2012, in Music Semiotics: a network of significations in honour and memory of Raymond Monelle, Ashgate

original soundtracks to filmsThe Student Comedies

Ed Hughes 2012. Hughes, Ed. Original soundtracks to four silent films: ‘Days of Youth’ (1929), ‘I Flunked, But...’ (1930), ‘The Lady and the Beard’ (1931), ‘Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth’ (1932) in ‘The Student Comedies’ DVD. BFIVD927. (London: British Film Institute, 2012)

 

 

Original soundtrackThree Melodramas

Ed Hughes 2012. Hughes, Ed. Original soundtrack to silent film ‘Woman of Tokyo’ (Ozu, Japan, 1933) in ‘Three Melodramas’. DVD. BFIVD950. (London: British Film Institute, 2012)

 

Music CDDark Formations

Ed Hughes 2012.
Hughes, Ed. 'Quartet', 'Chamber Concerto', 'Dark Formations', 'Strike!', 'Light Cuts Through Dark Skies', 'Orchids', 'A Buried Flame' in  Dark Formations. CD. Metier MSV28530 2 CD set. Brandon, Vermont, USA: Divine Art Ltd, 2012.

Dark Formations

 

Orpheus Conquistadoropera indigene

Nicholas Till 2011 in: Opera Indigene: Re/Presenting First Nations and Indigenous Culture, Ashagate 

Hearing Voices - Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music Theatre for Performer and Audio-Visual Media

 

Hearing Voices - Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music Theatre for Performer and Audio-Visual Media

Nicholas Till 2011.
In: Matthias Rebstock, David Roesner ed. Composed Theatre: Aesthetics, Practices, Processes
Intellect Books, chapter 9

Composed Theatre

Registi all'opera

 

Registi All'Opera

Francesco Ceraolo, ‘Per un teatro post-operistico: Adorno, Badiou, Till’ and Nicholas Till e l'(anti)manifesto' 
In: Francesco Ceraolo Registi All’Opera: Note sull’etstetica della regia operistica (Bulzoni, Rome), 2011.  

Bulzoni  Editore

Auditorium: Sophy Rickett and Ed Hughes

 

Auditorium

Nicholas Till, "Auditorium"
In: "Auditorium: A film by Sophie Rickett with music by Ed Hughes", editors John Gill and David Chandler
Brighton: Photoworks

Auditorium

 

Oh, to make boardes to speak!theatre and performance

Nicholas Till 2010 in:  Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography , Routledge 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo

Idomeneo and the background of the Enlightenment

Nicholas Till 2010.
In: Gary Kahn ed. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo
Oneworld Classics

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo.

 

Fado and the Place of Longing: loss, memory and the cityfado

Richard Elliott 2010 Fado and the Place for Longing: loss, memory and the city, Ashgate

 

Ethnic Cleansing, anxious influence and secrete codes: a semiotician's guide to Stravinsky's musicological afterlife and its archeological contrafactumbefore and after music

Nicholas McKay 2010 in Before and After Music: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on Musical Signification, Umweb

 

Stefano Gervasoni - Pas Siscene actuelle

Nicholas Till 2009 in Pour une Scene Actuelle, L'Harmatton

The Opera Quarterly

Review: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte

Nicholas Till 2009
The Opera Quarterly 25(1-2)
Oxford Journals

The Opera Quarterly