9:00-9:30 9:30-9:45 9:45-11:15 FOYER REGISTRATION RH ER SR S2: Music in/and Practice S3: Phenomenology Ruta (University of Bern) 'Ontology of Music and Musical Practices' Kamp (University of Cambridge) 'Is background music music? A phenomenological approach' Herrmann-Sinai (Max Weber Centre Erfurt) 'Musical Sounds and Animate Matter' Fallon 'Untitled Paper' McCaleb (Birmingham Conservatoire) 'Intention and Action in Musical Performance' De Berrie (University of Oxford) 'Phenomenological Philosophy and the Aesthetics of French Spectral Music' S4: Popular Music and Improvisation Wong (University of Cambridge) 'Going Off the Record: The Cultural Contingency of Ontological Categories in Popular Music' Tromans (Middlesex University) 'Notated Parts and the Affective Dimension of Improvising Practice: Meta-ontological Music-making in the Research Context' Coggins (Independent Scholar) 'Enter the Mirror: The Ontological Noise of Les Rallizes Denudes' WELCOME ADDRESS KEYNOTE ONE 11:30-12:30 11:30-12:30 13:15-14:00 14:05-16:05 DRH Professor Michael Spitzer (University of Liverpool) 'Analysing Ontologies of Emotional Types' LUNCH CONCERT S5: Perspectives from Analytic Philosophy Yarmel (LSE) ‘Musical States of Affairs: A New Proposal For Realist Platonism’ Forsberg (Stockholm S6:Ontology in Early Music Whittaker (Birmingham Conservatoire) 'The Renaissance concept of 'the work': a possible view through the theory of Johannes Tinctoris' Ranninen (University of Bangor) S7: Ontology in Contemporary Music Caron (University of Paris VIII) ‘Rule-following and indeterminate music: ideas in the light of Wittgenstein’ Forkert (Royal University) ‘Rebutting Thomasson’s Argument from Reference’ Hinds (University of Surrey ) ‘Against an Ontology of Music: An argument for the primacy of experience’ Knol (Dublin City University ) ‘The ontological dialectics of musical Platonism and musical Spinozism’ 16:05-16:30 16:30-17:30 17:30-18:30 REFRESHMENTS Professor Aaron Ridley (University of Southampton) 'Essence and Preference: on Pieces of Music' KEYNOTE TWO ROUNDTABLE ‘Visual representations of a musical work in polyphonic manuscripts and prints of the early sixteenth century’ Giraud (University of Cambridge) ‘How different is still the same? A 13th-century Dominican perspective on musical ontology’ Holloway)‘Throwing modernism out with the atonality (and providing new bath water)’ Clements (University of Glasgow) ‘Musical Ontologies and the Selection and Use of Source Material for the Writing of Early Scottish Music History’ Brady (Royal Holloway) ‘Musical fragments in Berio and Berberian’s Recital I (for Cathy) – Questioning an ontology of the musical work in performance and re-creation’ Brooks (King's College London) ‘A Journey into Musical Hyperspace: Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 1’
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