I have spent today playing around with some ideas for a new book I am in the early stages of working on. There are a lot of sweeping statements in t...

In Alan Moore’s excellent paper with Ruth Dockwary, he discusses the demise of what he calls the ‘Triangular’ mix – which has been replaced by the ‘di...

In preparation for a musicology lecture this week, I began to think about the importance of students having an awareness of the general conventions in...

This weeks  podcast concerns how we can begin to use the elements of music as a starting point of music analysis. It starts with three main questions ...

Here is a podcast of an introductory lecture on ways we can think about popular music analysis, and the differences between Song, Arrangement and Trac...

This podcast is on the relationship on the elements of music and form. It considers the ways in which elements such as musical texture, time signature...

This post concerns the elements of music, and the ways in which they are prioritised to indoctrinate interest in a piece of music. How can we use the ...

Here is another very brief snippet asking students to consider the difference between WHAT music means and HOW it means. As Alan Moore points out in h...

Another very very short segment – this time concerning the ways in which we can think about popular music analysis – more detail late!

Here are a few thoughts about why popular music was so slow to emerge as an academic discipline. It is a two minute lecture – see if you agree