Musical Consonance and Dissonance: The Good, Bad and Beautifully Ugly What makes a piece of music challenging, bland, intriguing, beautiful...
Twentieth-Century Divas: Shirley Bassey The Black Welsh singer started out recording cover versions of...
Artificial Selection: How Humans Have Shaped Evolution We often think of evolution as ‘something that happened’ in...
The Colour Spectrum of Scales and Modes A musical scale – a hierarchical collection of pitches spread...
A 300,000-Year History of Human Evolution The species we recognise as our own - anatomically modern...
How Cancer Genomics is Transforming Cancer Care Using lung cancer as a case study, this lecture will...
The Art and Science of Tuning This lecture presents the rich history of musicians’ engagement with...
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Anatomy of a Christmas Classic This lecture investigates how and why the song ‘Have Yourself...
The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm and Groove Music is a temporal art, unfolding like a ribbon and...