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Contemporary Arts and Performance

Dr Edward Venn

Senior Lecturer

The LICA Building
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YW


Tel: +44 1524 593105

Affiliations

Music

PhD Supervision Interests

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.

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 group 'Opera since 1848'; MUSC 322 Performance

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

Year 2: MUSC 200 Orchestration

Year 1: MUSC 122 Performance;

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)

In Press

The reception of Maxwell Davies’s Naxos Quartets.

Venn, E. expected in 2015 In: Proceedings of the 2006 IMS conference. Walton, C. & Muller, S. (eds.). Pretoria: UNISA Press

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/ProceedingsChapter

2011

Review of "Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus" by Jonathan Cross

Venn, E. 2011 In: Music & Letters. 92, 2, p. 332-334. 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

Review of "Composing in Words: William Alwyn on his Art" ed. by Andrew Palmer

Venn, E. 08/2011 In: Music & Letters. 92, 3, p. 506-508. 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

2010

Music performance tuition in higher education: student expectations.

Venn, E. 06/2010 Lancaster: PALATINE

Research output: Other contribution

CD Review: Nicolas Bacri concertos.

Venn, E. 10/2010 In: Tempo. 64, 254, p. 92-93. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

CD Review: Hugh Wood's chamber music.

Venn, E. 10/2010 In: Tempo. 64, 254, p. 87-88. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

Dane Rudhyar: his music, thought, and art by Deniz Ertan (University of Rochester Press).

Venn, E. 10/2010 In: Tempo. 64, 254, p. 70-72. 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

Rethinking Russolo.

Venn, E. 01/2010 In: Tempo. 64, 251, p. 8-16. 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

Narrativity in Thomas Adès’s Asyla.

Venn, E. 2010 In: Res Facta Nova. 11, 20, p. 61-70. 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

Evoking the marvellous: Michael Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage.

Venn, E. 12/2010 In: Body, Performance, Agency, and Experience. Michaels, A. (ed.). 2 ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, p. 183-193. 11 p. (Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual).

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/ProceedingsChapter

Thomas Adès.

Venn, E. 12/2010 In: Nowa Muzyka Brytyjska [New British Music]. Krakow: Ha!Art, p. 182-201. 20 p.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/ProceedingsChapter

2009

A Very British Modernism? A review of Hugh Wood, Staking out the Territory and Other Writings on Music

Venn, E. 09/2009 In: Twentieth-Century Music. 6, 2, p. 237-253. 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

CD Review: Gubaidulina and Cercós: music for piano.

Venn, E. 10/2009 In: Tempo. 63, 250, p. 85-86. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

CD Review: Simon Mawhinney: Music for violin and piano.

Venn, E. 10/2009 In: Tempo. 63, 250, p. 84-84. 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

First Performance Review: Milton Keynes, Hugh Wood’s 'Violin Concerto No. 2'.

Venn, E. 04/2009 In: Tempo. 63, 249, p. 54-55. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

'Nicholas Maw: Odyssey', by Kenneth Gloag (Ashgate)

Venn, E. 2009 In: Music & Letters. 90, 3, p. 519-521. 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

2008

The music of Hugh Wood

Venn, E. 2008 Aldershot: Ashgate. 294 p.

Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

'Benjamin Britten: The Spiritual Dimension', by Graham Elliott (Oxford University Press).

Venn, E. 02/2008 In: Music & Letters. 89, 1, p. 143-148. 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

'All the Gods: Benjamin Britten’s "Night Piece" in Context', by Christopher Wintle (Plumbago).

Venn, E. 11/2008 In: Music & Letters. 89, 4, p. 684-685. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

Finding Pathways from Onions: Large-scale Gestures in Berio's Reworking of his 'Sequenza VI for viola'.

Venn, E. 2008 In: Music, Senses, Body: Proceedings from the Ninth International Congress of Musical Signification. Martinelli, D. (ed.). Helsinki/Rome: ISI/TorVergata/Umweb, p. 273-278. 6 p.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/ProceedingsChapter

2007

Proliferations and limitations: Re-working the sequenzas.

Venn, E. 2007 In: Berio’s Sequenzas. Halfyard, J. (ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate, p. 171-190. 20 p.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/ProceedingsChapter

Finzi's Serenade.

Venn, E. 2007 In: The Clock of the Years: A Gerald and Joy Finzi Anthology. Jordan, R. (ed.). Lichfield: Chosen Press, p. 149-152. 4 p.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/ProceedingsChapter

2006

'Asylum gained'?: madness and sanctuary in Thomas Adès's "Asyla".

Venn, E. 03/2006 In: Music Analysis. 25, 1-2, p. 89-120. 32 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

CD Review: Maxwell Davies compilation CDs and Naxos Quartets.

Venn, E. 07/2006 In: Tempo. 60, 237, p. 70-71. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

First Performance Review: Manchester, Bridgewater Hall: Casken premiere and CDs

Venn, E. 01/2006 In: Tempo. 60, 235, p. 73-75. 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

First Performance Review: Shrewsbury, Maidment Hall: Wood’s 'Overture'

Venn, E. 01/2006 In: Tempo. 60, 235, p. 77-78. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

First Performance Review: London, Royal College of Music, Ades, 'Court Studies'

Venn, E. 01/2006 In: Tempo. 60, 235, p. 80-81. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

Cornelius Cardew's 'Autumn '60 for orchestra'.

Venn, E. 10/2006 In: Tempo. 60, 238, p. 2-7. 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

2005

Serenades and elegies: the recent music of Hugh Wood - part I.

Venn, E. 01/2005 In: Tempo. 59, 231, p. 2-13. 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

Serenades and elegies: the later music of Hugh Wood part II.

Venn, E. 07/2005 In: Tempo. 59, 233, p. 26-37. 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

CD Review: George Benjamin on Nimbus.

Venn, E. 07/2005 In: Tempo. 59, 233, p. 73-74. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

CD Review: Maxwell Davies' Naxos Quartets 3 and 4.

Venn, E. 10/2005 In: Tempo. 59, 234, p. 58-59. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

CD Review: Peter Maxwell Davies' new and classic.

Venn, E. 07/2005 In: Tempo. 59, 233, p. 79-80. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

CD Review: Harrison Birtwistle's Complete Piano Works.

Venn, E. 10/2005 In: Tempo. 59, 234, p. 64-65. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

CD Review: Thomas Adès’s Piano Quintet.

Venn, E. 10/2005 In: Tempo. 59, 234, p. 73-74. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

First Performance Review: London, Temple Church and Cheltenham, Pittville Pump Room: Wood’s 'Cantilena and Fugue' and 'Tribute to Michael Berkeley'

Venn, E. 01/2005 In: Tempo. 59, 231, p. 52-53. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

2004

First Performance Review: Manchester, RNCM: Robin Holloway’s String Quartet, op. 97.

Venn, E. 04/2004 In: Tempo. 58, 228, p. 64-66. 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

First Performance Review: London, Royal Opera House: Ades's 'The Tempest'.

Venn, E. 07/2004 In: Tempo. 58, 229, p. 72-73. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

'Sing Ariel: Essays and Thoughts for Alexander Goehr’s Seventieth Birthday', ed. Alison Latham (Ashgate)

Venn, E. 04/2004 In: Tempo. 58, 228, p. 42-44. 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article review

2002

Ideology and idealism in Tippett’s writings.

Venn, E. 2002 In: Michael Tippett: music and literature. Robinson, S. (ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate, p. 35-59. 25 p.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/ProceedingsChapter