Find an expert - Music
The Department of Music hosts a wide variety of specialist researchers. The list below shows the primary research interests of our academics.
- Music history and theory, 1600-1945
- Aesthetics and critical theory
- Historical music pedagogy
- Music in Italy
- Opera and performance
- Modernism and the avant-garde
- Benjamin Britten
- Film music
- Jazz
- Shakespeare and music
- 19th-century music and culture
- Liszt
- Music and literature (particularly biography)
- The symphony post-Beethoven
- Composition
- Music of the 20th and 21st centuries
- Interdisciplinary collaboration (music with works, film, dance and new technologies)
- Acoustic and electro-acoustic composition
- Art, folklore, anthropology and acoustic ecology
- Composition (acousmatic, electroacoustic, instrumental/vocal)
- Composition and sound design for creative industries
- Creative sound practices (sound art, sound design, sound installations, radio art)
- Music technology
- Social and participatory arts practice
- Sound studies
- Ethnomusicology (Southeast Asia)
- Folk music in Britain and Ireland
- Popular music studies
- Music before 1600
- Plainchant
- Church history and liturgy
- Manuscripts and source study
- Sound recording
- Music production
- Electronic and computer music
- Electronic Music
- Sound Art
- Interactive Technologies
- Creative Coding
- Improvisation
- Noise Music
- Hollywood and Broadway musicals
- Cultural theory
- Performance practice
- Performance studies
- Performativity
- Music and gesture
- Early modern Western music
- Contemporary & experimental music
- 20th-century British music
- Modernism
- Performance, agency and embodiment
- Computer music
- Music-AI
- Creative-AI
- Experimental music
- Digital musicianship
- Human-computer music performance