Musicology and Analysis
Historical musicology and analysis are integral to research and learning at York, supported by excellent research facilities, including the Raymond Burton Humanities Library and the Borthwick Institute for Archives. Staff publish work in many areas of music, including seventeenth-century English music, music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the history of recorded and broadcast sound. A significant recent development has been the creation of the University of York Sound Archives. Research students at MA and PhD levels have the opportunity to work alongside, and collaborate with, performers and composers. There is a weekly research seminar series, which brings a wide range of scholars to the university.
Staff projects
Prof William Brooks
William Brooks is a musicologist and composer, and he likes to think that in his work each domain informs the other. In any case, his compositional interests include music that makes reference to other music - which, he would argue, is always the case. A few of his pieces are available from the Frog Peak Collective.
Dr Jenny Doctor
Jenny Doctor is a historical musicologist, who researches topics involving 20th-century music and British social and cultural contexts for it, focusing especially on the BBC. She is currently co-editing, with Sophie Fuller, an edition of correspondence exchanged over 50 years by Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, and also a radio handbook, with Christina Baade and Louis Niebur. An article on British musical modernism is forthcoming in a themed issue, edited by Byron Adams, of Musical Quarterly.
Dr Tim Howell
Tim Howell provides research into Analysis; 19th and early 20th century; and contemporary Finnish music.
Dr Nicky Losseff
Nicky Losseff is a pianist and piano accompanist as well as a musicologist. She trained at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal Academy of Music. She is particularly interested in contemporary repertoire. She has performed at the Huddersfield and Cheltenham festivals and has recently issued a volume of contemporary piano music, Pianthology, with recordings.
Dr Daniel March
Daniel March is a composer and musicologist. He has written several pieces for the Javanese Gamelan at York, often incorporating other instruments; analytical interests include the music of György Ligeti and Louis Andriessen.
Dr John Potter
John Potter provides research into the Sociology of vocal music; Vocal repertory especially renaissance and contemporary music. He works in the field of vocal music as a singer and writer. His books are published by Cambridge University Press and Yale University Press, and he records for ECM.
John Potter's Dowland Project (John Surman sax/bass clarinet, Milos Valent volin/viola, Jacob Heringman (lute/guitar) performed at the Mito Festival in Milan.
Dr Jonathan Wainwright
Jonathan Wainwright provides research into 16th and 17th century Italian and English music, Choral music and Editing.