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Film Music: Hitchcock's Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece is inextricably tied up with its...

Music in Context: In Advertising - Ravel and Saint-Saëns

A consideration of classical music that has been created with...

Medieval Music: The Stations of the Breath

At the heart of virtually all the medieval music that...

Playing with the language of music

The pre-concert talk provides an overview to the series and...

Irony in music from the Soviet Union

This lecture concert explored how irony was used in music...

Adventures of Portuguese 'Ancient Music' in Eighteenth-Century London

'Ancient music' enjoyed a vogue in eighteenth-century London, with professional...

Music and the media

Elgar and Musical Modernism: Elgar, Proust and Modernity at the fin de siecle

The Institute of Musical Research, University of London and Gresham...

What is Noise? Beauty and Taste in 20th Century Music

This lecture will explore our changing understandings of noise and taste in relation to the shifting socio-political landscape of the 20th century.

Music of Today: Looking Under The Bonnet

This illustrated lecture extends a theme of last year's series...