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Senior Lecturer: Music
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PhD: Currently supervising or co-supervising projects on twentieth-century and contemporary music and analysis
Master's level [MA]: Course Convenor, MA by Research
Current and Recent Undergraduate Teaching: 3rd year: Dissertation supervision; Analysing Popular Music; Interpreting Musical Styles and Influence. 2nd year: Critical Reflections; Analysing Musical Meaning;Orchestration. 1st year: Music Theory and Practice; Music Case Studies.
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.
Venn, Edward (2010) CD Review: Hugh Wood's chamber music. Tempo, 64 (254). pp. 87-88. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2010) CD Review: Nicolas Bacri concertos. Tempo, 64 (254). pp. 92-93. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2010) Dane Rudhyar:his music, thought, and art by Deniz Ertan (University of Rochester Press). Tempo, 64 (254). pp. 70-72. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2010) 'Landscapes of the mind ::the music of John McCabe’, compiled and edited by George Odam (Ashgate) and 'The innumerable dance : the life and work of William Alwyn', by Adrian Wright (Boydell). Music & Letters, 91 (2). pp. 295-297. ISSN 0027-4224
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 (2009) CD Review: Gubaidulina and Cercós: music for piano. Tempo, 63 (250). pp. 85-86. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2009) CD Review: Simon Mawhinney: Music for violin and piano. Tempo, 63 (250). p. 84. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2009) First Performance Review: Milton Keynes, Hugh Wood’s 'Violin Concerto No. 2'. Tempo, 63 (249). pp. 54-55. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2009) 'Nicholas Maw: Odyssey', by Kenneth Gloag (Ashgate). Music & Letters, 90 (3). pp. 519-521. ISSN 0027-4224
Venn, Edward (2009) 'The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich' ed. Pauline Fairclough and David Fanning (Cambridge University Press); 'Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich' by Sarah Reichardt (Ashgate). Tempo, 63 (250). pp. 72-73. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2008) 'All the Gods: Benjamin Britten’s "Night Piece" in Context', by Christopher Wintle (Plumbago). Music & Letters, 89 (4). pp. 684-685. ISSN 0027-4224
Venn, Edward (2008) 'Benjamin Britten: The Spiritual Dimension', by Graham Elliott (Oxford University Press). Music & Letters, 89 (1). pp. 143-148. ISSN 0027-4224
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) CD Review: Maxwell Davies compilation CDs and Naxos Quartets. Tempo, 60 (237). pp. 70-71. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2006) Cornelius Cardew's 'Autumn '60 for orchestra'. Tempo, 60 (238). pp. 2-7. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2006) First Performance Review: London, Royal College of Music, Ades, 'Court Studies'. Tempo, 60 (235). pp. 80-81. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2006) First Performance Review: Manchester, Bridgewater Hall: Casken premiere and CDs. Tempo, 60 (235). pp. 73-75. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2006) First Performance Review: Shrewsbury, Maidment Hall: Wood’s 'Overture'. Tempo, 60 (235). pp. 77-78. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2006) 'Letters From a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume Three 1946–51', eds. Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke (Faber and Faber); 'Selected Letters of Michael Tippett', ed. and trans. Thomas Schuttenhelm (Faber and Faber). Tempo, 60 (236). pp. 61-64. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2005) CD Review: George Benjamin on Nimbus. Tempo, 59 (233). pp. 73-74. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2005) CD Review: Harrison Birtwistle's Complete Piano Works. Tempo, 59 (234). pp. 64-65. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2005) CD Review: Maxwell Davies' Naxos Quartets 3 and 4. Tempo, 59 (234). pp. 58-59. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2005) CD Review: Peter Maxwell Davies' new and classic. Tempo, 59 (233). pp. 79-80. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2005) CD Review: Thomas Adès’s Piano Quintet. Tempo, 59 (234). pp. 73-74. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2005) First Performance Review: London, Temple Church and Cheltenham, Pittville Pump Room: Wood’s 'Cantilena and Fugue' and 'Tribute to Michael Berkeley'. Tempo, 59 (231). pp. 52-53. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2005) Serenades and elegies : the later music of Hugh Wood part II. Tempo, 59 (233). pp. 26-37. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2005) Serenades and elegies : the recent music of Hugh Wood - part I. Tempo, 59 (231). pp. 2-13. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2004) First Performance Review:London, Royal Opera House : Ades's 'The Tempest'. Tempo, 58 (229). pp. 72-73. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2004) First Performance Review: Manchester, RNCM: Robin Holloway’s String Quartet, op. 97. Tempo, 58 (228). pp. 64-66. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2004) 'Sing Ariel: Essays and Thoughts for Alexander Goehr’s Seventieth Birthday', ed. Alison Latham (Ashgate). Tempo, 58 (228). pp. 42-44. ISSN 0040-2982
Venn, Edward (2010) Culture and Pop Culture in the Music of Thomas Adès. In: 11th International Conference on Musical Signification, 2010-09-272010-10-02, Academy of Music, Krakow, Poland. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2010) Rhetoric and Gesture in Britten's 'Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge'. In: Britten in Context, 2010-06-102010-06-12, Liverpool Hope University. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2010) Theorizing Musical Ritual. In: 13th International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar on Musical Semiotics, 2010-03-072010-03-11, Department of Musicology, University of Helsinki, Finland. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2009) Music, Ritual and Musical Ritual in Michael Tippett's first two operas. In: Research Seminar, 2009-03-26, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2009) Musical Ritual in Michael Tippett's first two operas. In: Research Seminar, 2009-10-02, Royal Northern College of Music. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2008) Smoke and Mirrors: Thomas Adès’s "Brahms". In: Cardiff University Music Analysis Conference, 2008-09-042008-09-07, School of Music, Cardiff University. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2008) The Semiotics of Musical Ritual. In: International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics, 2008-11-152008-11-17, Nanjing Normal University, China. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2008) Thomas Adès’s "Brahms". In: Research Seminar, 2008-12-16, Birmingham Conservatoire. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2008) Thomas Adès’s "Ecstasio". In: Music Colloquia, 2008-02-20, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2007) The Blues in Michael Tippett’s "The Knot Garden". In: Research Seminar, 2007-02-06, Department of Music, University of Bristol. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2007) Thomas Adés and Rave: the case of "Ecstasio". In: Research Forum, 2007-12-18, School of Music, University of Huddersfield. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2007) Thomas Adés’s ‘Freaky, Funky Rave’. In: 6th European Music Analysis Conference, 2007-10-102007-10-14, Hochschule für Musik and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2006) Negotiating the Labyrinth: Act II of Sir Michael Tippett’s "The Knot Garden". In: Second International Conference on Music and Gesture, 2006-07-202006-07-23, Royal Northern College of Music. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2006) The reception of Maxwell Davies’s "Naxos" Quartets. In: Conference of the International Musicological Society, 2006-06-172006-06-23, University of Göteborg, Sweden. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2005) 'I think I know of thee’: Comparing sources of The Beatles’ ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’. In: RMA Study Day, 'Exploring Music Sources', 2005-02-12, Lancaster University. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2005) Reflections on "The Rose Lake". In: Tippett Study Day, 2005-02-27, LSO St Luke's. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2005) 'Singing the Blues for Mr. Charlie’: The Blues as Archetype and Metaphor in Michael Tippett’s "The Knot Garden". In: Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, 2005-08-252005-08-28, University of Sussex. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2005) ‘A Discharge of Emotion’: The Blues as Metaphor in "The Knot Garden". In: Tippett Symposium, 2005-01-20, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2004) Codes, Invention and a ‘Freaky, Funky Rave’. In: SMA/RMA Study Day, 'Analysis and Compositional Process', 2004-03-29, University of Surrey. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2004) Proliferations and Limitations: Berio’s Re-working of his Sequenzas. In: 40th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, 2004-11-122004-11-14, University of Birmingham. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2004) Signifying the Rave: Thomas Adès’s "Ecstasio". In: Eighth International Congress on Musical Signification, 2004-10-022004-10-08, Sorbonne, Paris, France. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2003) 'Asylum gained’?: Madness and sanctuary in Thomas Adès’s "Asyla". In: Hull University Music Analysis Conference (HUMAC), 2003-07-102003-07-13, Hull University. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2003) Towards a semiotics of conducting. In: First International Conference 'Music and Gesture', 2003-08-282003-08-31, University of East Anglia (Norwich). (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2002) On-line discussion forums as a tool for critical reflection. In: CiLTHE conference, 2002-07-04, Lancaster University. (Unpublished)
Venn, Edward (2015) The reception of Maxwell Davies’s Naxos Quartets. In: Proceedings of the 2006 IMS conference. UNISA Press, Pretoria. (In Press)
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) Finzi's Serenade. In: The Clock of the Years. Chosen Press, Lichfield, pp. 149-152. ISBN 978 0 9556373 0 8
Venn, Edward (2007) Proliferations and limitations:Re-working the sequenzas. In: Berio’s Sequenzas. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 171-190. ISBN 9780754654452
Venn, Edward (2002) Ideology and idealism in Tippett’s writings. In: Michael Tippett. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 35-59. ISBN 0754601323
Venn, Edward (2010) Music performance tuition in higher education : student expectations. PALATINE, Lancaster.
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 am currently on the Programme Committee for the Eighth International Confernece on Music Since 1900 (Liverpool Hope, 2013). 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 Ninth Confernece 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.