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Dr Edward Venn

Senior Lecturer: Music

Department: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Degree: Ph.D. in Music (University of Birmingham) LRSM (Conducting)

Associated research centres and groups: Music

Current Teaching

PhD: Currently supervising or co-supervising projects on twentieth-century and contemporary music and analysis

Master's level [MA]: Course Convenor, MA in Contemporary Arts Research

Year 3: MUSC341 Dissertation research groups; recent topics: Music & Meaning; I; Course Convenor MUSC 322 Performance

Year 3/2: MUSC 316 Interpreting Musical Styles and Influences

Year 2: Course Convenor MUSC 221 Performance

Year 1: Course Convenor MUSC 122 Performance; Course Convenor and Tutor, MUSC 125 Case Studies

Research Interests

Analytical/critical approaches to twentieth-century and contemporary British music, especially Hugh Wood, Michael Tippett and Thomas Adès.
Musical meaning, particularly arising from the interaction between semiotics/hermeneutics and traditional analytical methods
Gesture and its relationship to music theory/analysis (including performance studies)

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I would be delighted to hear from potential doctoral students with interests in one or more of the following areas: twentieth-century and/or contemporary music, analysis, and musical meaning.

Additional Information

For eight years (2003-11) I was on the Executive Committee for the Society for Music Analysis (www.sma.ac.uk); between 2008 and 2011 I also served on the Executive Committee for the National Association for Music in Higher Education (NAMHE; www.namhe.ac.uk).

I am currently on the Editorial Board, and from 2012 the Critical Forum Editor for, the journal Music Analysis (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0262-5245), and am on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Music and Meaning (http://jmm.musicandmeaning.net).

I sat on the Programme Committees for the Seventh European Music Analysis Conference (Rome 2011, http://www.gatm.it/Euromac/en/index.htm) and the NinthConfernece for Researching and Applying Metaphor (Lancaster 2012, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/RAAM/). I organised a study day at Lancaster for the Society for Music Analysis ('Music Analysis and Teaching', March 2006 http://www.sma.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/ssd2006programme.pdf), and also directed the joint Lancaster Music Analysis Conference and Seventh International Conference on Music Since 1900 in July 2011 (http://www.sma.ac.uk/event/7th-msn-lancmac/).

In 2008 I won a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching at Lancaster University.

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Edward Venn has 66 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Venn, Edward (2010) Narrativity in Thomas Adès’s Asyla. Res Facta Nova, 11 (20). pp. 61-70.

Venn, Edward (2010) Rethinking Russolo. Tempo, 64 (251). pp. 8-16. ISSN 0040-2982

Venn, Edward (2006) 'Asylum gained'? : madness and sanctuary in Thomas Adès's "Asyla". Music Analysis, 25 (1-2). pp. 89-120. ISSN 0262-5245

Venn, Edward (2006) Cornelius Cardew's 'Autumn '60 for orchestra'. Tempo, 60 (238). pp. 2-7. ISSN 0040-2982

Venn, Edward (2010) Evoking the marvellous:Michael Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage. In: Body, Performance, Agency, and Experience. Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual (2). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, pp. 183-193. ISBN 978-3447062022

Venn, Edward (2010) Thomas Adès. In: Nowa Muzyka Brytyjska [New British Music]. Ha!Art, Krakow, pp. 182-201. ISBN 978-83-61816-05-8

Venn, Edward (2008) Finding Pathways from Onions:Large-scale Gestures in Berio's Reworking of his 'Sequenza VI for viola'. In: Music, Senses, Body. ISI/TorVergata/Umweb, Helsinki/Rome, pp. 273-278.

Venn, Edward (2007) Proliferations and limitations:Re-working the sequenzas. In: Berio’s Sequenzas. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 171-190. ISBN 9780754654452

Venn, Edward (2010) Music performance tuition in higher education : student expectations. PALATINE, Lancaster.

Associated Keywords: Hermeneutics, Literary and cultural theory, Music, Performance, Ritual studies, Semiotics

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