OSiMTA

Oxford Seminar in Music Theory & Analysis

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Thank you to all our speakers over the past 8 years, and to all who attended. The OSiMTA pages remain live on @OxMusicFaculty website as an archive of what has taken place since 2018: https://t.co/Q7KK2gvQ8S

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

This is the final season of OSiMTA. From Oct 2025, discussion of music theory & analysis will be absorbed into weekly seminars organised by @OxMusicFaculty: each Thursday @ 15.00 in the Schwarzman Centre, the new home of the Music Faculty. Full details on Music Faculty website

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Many thanks to @giles_masters for curating last week's excellent session on Music Theory, Analysis, Education and Play, and to Timothy Coombes, @LecciaMarinu, @EHMacGregor, @rivasrjavier and @esthercavett for their contributions. A great way to bring Season 7 to a close

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Final call: the last OSiMTA session of the year is today! Do join us at 5pm for discussion, drinks and dinner

[Faculty of Music @OxMusicFaculty]

This term the @OxfordAnalysis Seminar has been curated by @giles_masters and explores 'Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play'. Mark your diaries to join us on Tuesday 3 June!
https://t.co/1QNna6Gm36

[Faculty of Music @OxMusicFaculty]

Timothy Coombes, @LecciaMarinu, @EHMacGregor, and @rivasrjavier will each give presentations at the @OxfordAnalysis Seminar on Tuesday. Please do join us from 5pm for this session on Music Theory, Analysis, Education and Play.

[Faculty of Music @OxMusicFaculty]

This term the @OxfordAnalysis Seminar has been curated by @giles_masters and explores 'Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play'. Mark your diaries to join us on Tuesday 3 June!
https://t.co/1QNna6Gm36

[Magdalen College @magdalenoxford]

Join the Children of St Francis' Primary School for this performance; a new town will be imagined and built before your very eyes and ears!

Read the article from the BBC:
https://t.co/VuD89BnOhH

Book tickets: https://t.co/MRRt8jVKWt

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Thank you to DPhil candidate Chloe Green @OxMusicFaculty for curating a fascinating session yesterday on musico-poetics, and to all our speakers. Up next, 'Theory, analysis, childhood & play' on Tue 3 June curated by Dr Giles Masters. More details soon

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Join us on Tues 11 March at 17.00 @OxMusicFaculty for the next OSiMTA 'New Voices' session on musico-poetics, curated by Chloe Green, with Michael Parsons, John Lam and Jane Alden. All welcome. Abstracts in link https://t.co/5gSjsdjE5X

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Many congratulations to our colleague and loyal friend of OSiMTA Dr James Donaldson who has been appointed Assistant Professor in Music Theory @IndianaUniv Bloomington, USA
https://t.co/Y9LI3qA4yn

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

We really did explore the 'universe of topics' yesterday evening! A wonderful New Voices session. With thanks to James Donaldson, Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, Ben Major & Edward Spencer. Next seminar: 11 March 2025

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Our first event of the year takes place next Weds 19 Nov at 17.00 in the Committee Room @OxMusicFaculty : New Directions in Topic Theory. Please do join us! Abstracts in the link below @royalmusical @SocMusAnalysis
https://t.co/5gSjsdjE5X

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

@SocMusAnalysis @SMA_FTSG @royalmusical @OxMusicFaculty @IMSmusicology

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

We are delighted to announce Season 7 (24/25) of OSiMTA. Different format this year: New Voices in Music Analysis, curated by young scholars. First up: New Directions in Topic Theory, Weds 19 Nov. All welcome. Further details at:
https://t.co/5gSjsdjE5X

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Huge thanks to Robert Hasegawa for rounding off OSiMTA Season 6 with such a rich discussion of timbre in the music of Saunders. We now take a rest until October. The theme and speakers for Season 7 will be announced in early September. Watch this space!

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Do join us next Tuesday 30 April at 17.15 BST, in person and online, for Prof Emma Dillon (KCL), 'Between silence and sound: finding voices for French songs, 1100-1300'. Abstract, Zoom link and further details at: https://t.co/5gSjsdkbVv

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

Many congratulations to our colleague Olly Chandler on this award @SocMusAnalysis

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

As Awards Officer of @SocMusAnalysis I am very pleased to announce that, following nominations and adjudication, the first winner of the Adele Katz Early Career Researcher Award is Dr Oliver Chandler. Congratulations to Oliver.

[Faculty of Music @OxMusicFaculty]

'The sound-noise continuum in contemporary music: listening, mapping and interpretation' is the topic for Tuesday's Oxford Seminar in Music Theory & Analysis this week. Join us to hear @MarinaSudo (@KU_Leuven) speak on this topic
https://t.co/WFHtHGYaZ3

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

A very Happy New Year to all OSiMTA followers! Our next seminar takes place on 23 Jan with Gurminder Kaur Bhogal speaking in person & on Zoom @OxMusicFaculty on 'Sikh music theory: struck material sounds, unstruck corporeal timbres and resonating silence': https://t.co/uEb4LdPuQ5

[OSiMTA @OxfordAnalysis]

We got off to a flying start last night! Thank you to @Robert_Laidlow for an excellent session and to all who joined in person and online. Next seminar: 21 November with @meganlavengood on 'Teaching timbre'. Full details & abstract soon on our webpages @OxMusicFaculty