News

Music academics create interactive “show” supporting OU/BBC series “Mozart: Rise of a Genius”
24th September 2024
OU Music academics Naomi Barker and Helen Coffey create interactive ‘show’ supporting OU/BBC co-production “Mozart: Rise of a Genius”
OU Music launches scholarships for teachers of underrepresented groups
12th June 2023
Open University Music department offers scholarships to teachers who work with traditionally underrepresented groups, to study either of the modules Music, Sound and Technology, or Understanding Music.
Arts project to explore surprising Victorian asylum treatments
25th January 2023
A new OU research network has been awarded £25,000 in Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding to explore the use of arts in Victorian asylums, as well as its relevance today. The Psychiatry and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Britain Network (PAN) will be led by Staff Tutor and Senior Lecturer in Music Dr Rosemary Golding.
Emeritus Professor of Music honoured
23rd November 2022
Emeritus Professor of Music Donald Burrows has been honoured by the publication of a festschrift by those he has inspired throughout his career which celebrates his work.
BBC Philharmonic concert to feature Music academic’s research
4th November 2022
Research carried out by an OU Music academic will be featured in the upcoming BBC Philharmonic: Rediscovered Composers concert.
Brand new short courses launching
5th September 2022
Next month, the Faculty is launching brand new short courses, with no less than three coming from our Music discipline.
Double Award win for OU Music academics
5th May 2022
OU Music academics celebrate a double win for their published work with the announcement of the CB Oldman Awards by the International Association of Music Libraries (UK & Ireland branch).
Giving audiences and performers a window into the past
13th April 2022
OU Music academics’ extensive research into George Frideric Handel's life, career and music is helping musicians perform and record the celebrated Baroque composer's works with a greater understanding of his intentions.
St David's Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity
26th February 2021
Dr Martin V Clarke of OU Music talks about the sporting crowd and the supporting role it plays in positioning Wales as the ‘land of song’.
‘A roaring-meg against melancholy’: Musical responses to pandemic
15th June 2020
Dr Naomi Barker, Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University, highlights the extraordinary parallels between how music is being used during the current pandemic and how it was used during the Italian plagues of the 14th and 16th centuries