School of Arts, Culture and Environment  
The University of EdinburghSchool of Arts, Culture and Environment
 

Music

Research

Music has seventeen members of academic staff and over ninety postgraduate students researching a diverse range of subjects from Roman sacred music in the 15th-17th centuries to the influence of politics on music in the former DDR, from the performance of English organ music in the 17th century to the sociology of British music since the 1950s, from the sound of early 'silent' cinema to the contemporary practices of algorithmic and electroacoustic composition.

Interdisciplinary Music Technology research involves collaborations with Physics and Informatics. The Institute for Music in Human and Social Development has strong links with Medicine, Psychology, Neurophysiology, and Sociology and has as one of its aims the strengthening of the theoretical and scientific basis of therapeutic, educational and social practice in music.


The School of Arts, Culture and Environment offers a rich and wide-ranging research environment with regular conferences, seminar series, and excellent research facilities including the Reid Music Library, Music Technology studios, and a world-class Collection of Historical Musical Instruments.

 

 

Recently Successful Research Grant Awards

Principal Investigator Project Title Funding Body
Dr Michael Edwards Electric Cowboy Cacophony: A performance and recording fusing musical elements from the classical, rock and free electronic traditions AHRC
Professor Simon Frith The Promotion of Live Music in the UK--a Historical, Cultural and Institutional Analysis AHRC
Dr Noel O'Regan The world of Reformation Britain: seen and heard in the Wode Psalter AHRC
Richard Witts Tovey and his Reid Orchestra Development and Alumni
Dr Katie Overy International Workshop College of Humanities and Social Science

 

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School of Arts, Culture & Environment
Alison House
12 Nicolson Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9DF

Tel: +44 131 650 2427
Fax: +44 131 650 2425
E-mail: Music@ed.ac.uk

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