Musicology

Listening and making

Music evokes emotions and surrounds us: in concert halls, at home or on the streets. Musicology explores composed music and the processes of creating and listening to it. This includes past and present music, music from our own society and other cultures A broad range of methods and techniques make it possible to research a large variety of musical phenomena.

Unable to recognise rhythm or pitch: this is amusia

Not being able to recognise a well-known melody without the lyrics, not hearing whether someone is singing out of tune and not being able to produce a rhythm; for some people musicality is not their strongest point. ...
Staging Gender: Sexuality and Embodiment On Stage across Geopolitical Borders

ASCA Workshop 2022 | Organizers: Shekoufeh Behbehani, Martina Flores Mendeville, and Alvaro Lopez | June 1-3, 2022 | Deadline for proposals: 10 March 2022
Henkjan Honing and Sanneke Stigter receive PDI-SSH funding

The Platform Digital Infrastructure SSH has granted funding to Humanities researchers Henkjan Honing (Professor of Music Cognition) and Sanneke Stigter (Assistant Professor in Conservation and Restoration). They ...
Call for Papers: Oceans as Archives Conference

4-6 July, 2022 | University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Organizers: Mikki Stelder (University of Amsterdam), Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia), Kristie Flannery (Australian Catholic University) | ...
Jazz Then & Now

Call for Papers | The seventh Rhythm Changes Conference will take place at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 25 to 28 August 2022. This conference marks the twelfth anniversary of the Rhythm ...
Success of megamusicals makes space for innovation

Megamusicals have often been criticised in the academic world and in the media for their homogenizing tendencies, but increasing academic attention on them is providing us with new insights. In her inaugural lecture ...
How good is your Eurovision knowledge?

From 18 - 22 May, the Netherlands will play host to the Eurovision Song Contest. You may still remember some of the songs that have triumphed in the competition over the years, but would you recognise other, less ...
Amsterdance – The Amsterdam Electronic Dance Music Research Group

New ASCA Research Groups coordinated by Oliver Seibt and Ian Pocervina. | The “Amsterdam Electronic Dance Music Research Group” is interested in a variety of topics that fall under the umbrella term of electronic ...

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Music Studies (Arts and Culture)
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Muziekwetenschap

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