Research AreasContemporary Arts and Performance Dr Edward VennSenior Lecturer
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Email: Email Hidden AffiliationsPhD Supervision InterestsI 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 TeachingPhD: 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
In PressThe 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/Proceedings › Chapter 2011Review of "Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus" by Jonathan CrossVenn, E. 2011 In: Music & Letters. 92, 2, p. 332-334. 3 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review Review of "Composing in Words: William Alwyn on his Art" ed. by Andrew PalmerVenn, E. 08/2011 In: Music & Letters. 92, 3, p. 506-508. 3 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review 2010Music 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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/Film/Article review '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).Venn, E. 05/2010 In: Music & Letters. 91, 2, p. 295-297. 3 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/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 journal › Book/Film/Article review Rethinking Russolo.Venn, E. 01/2010 In: Tempo. 64, 251, p. 8-16. 9 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal 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 journal › Journal 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/Proceedings › Chapter 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/Proceedings › Chapter 2009A Very British Modernism? A review of Hugh Wood, Staking out the Territory and Other Writings on MusicVenn, E. 09/2009 In: Twentieth-Century Music. 6, 2, p. 237-253. 17 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal 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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/Film/Article review '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)Venn, E. 10/2009 In: Tempo. 63, 250, p. 72-73. 2 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review 2008The music of Hugh WoodVenn, E. 2008 Aldershot: Ashgate. 294 p. Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book '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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/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/Proceedings › Chapter 2007Proliferations 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/Proceedings › Chapter 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/Proceedings › Chapter 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 journal › Journal 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 journal › Book/Film/Article review First Performance Review: Manchester, Bridgewater Hall: Casken premiere and CDsVenn, E. 01/2006 In: Tempo. 60, 235, p. 73-75. 3 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/Film/Article review '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).Venn, E. 04/2006 In: Tempo. 60, 236, p. 61-64. 4 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/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 journal › Journal article 2005Serenades 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 journal › Journal 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 journal › Journal article CD Review: George Benjamin on Nimbus.Venn, E. 07/2005 In: Tempo. 59, 233, p. 73-74. 2 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/Film/Article review 2004First 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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/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 journal › Book/Film/Article review 2002Ideology 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/Proceedings › Chapter |