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We got off to a flying start last night! Thank you to Robert Laidlow @robertlaidlow.bsky.social for an excellent session and to all who joined in person and online. Next seminar: 21 November with Megan Lavengood on 'Teaching timbre'. Full details & abstract soon on our webpages Faculty of Music

A very Happy New Year to all OSiMTA followers! Our next seminar takes place on 23 Jan with Gurminder Kaur Bhogal speaking in person & on Zoom Faculty of Music on 'Sikh music theory: struck material sounds, unstruck corporeal timbres and resonating silence': music.web.ox.ac.uk/oxford-seminar…

'The sound-noise continuum in contemporary music: listening, mapping and interpretation' is the topic for Tuesday's Oxford Seminar in Music Theory & Analysis this week. Join us to hear Marina Sudo 須藤まりな (KU Leuven) speak on this topic music.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-oxfo…

Many congratulations to our colleague Olly Chandler on this award @SocMusAnalysis

Do join us next Tuesday 30 April at 17.15 BST, in person and online, for Prof Emma Dillon (KCL), 'Between silence and sound: finding voices for French songs, 1100-1300'. Abstract, Zoom link and further details at: music.ox.ac.uk/oxford-seminar…

Huge thanks to Robert Hasegawa for rounding off OSiMTA Season 6 with such a rich discussion of timbre in the music of Saunders. We now take a rest until October. The theme and speakers for Season 7 will be announced in early September. Watch this space!

Our first event of the year takes place next Weds 19 Nov at 17.00 in the Committee Room Faculty of Music : New Directions in Topic Theory. Please do join us! Abstracts in the link below RMA @SocMusAnalysis music.ox.ac.uk/oxford-seminar…

We really did explore the 'universe of topics' yesterday evening! A wonderful New Voices session. With thanks to James Donaldson, Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, Ben Major & Edward Spencer. Next seminar: 11 March 2025

Many congratulations to our colleague and loyal friend of OSiMTA Dr James Donaldson who has been appointed Assistant Professor in Music Theory Indiana University Bloomington, USA music.ox.ac.uk/article/dr-jam…

Join us on Tues 11 March at 17.00 Faculty of Music for the next OSiMTA 'New Voices' session on musico-poetics, curated by Chloe Green, with Michael Parsons, John Lam and Jane Alden. All welcome. Abstracts in link music.ox.ac.uk/oxford-seminar…

Thank you to DPhil candidate Chloe Green Faculty of Music for curating a fascinating session yesterday on musico-poetics, and to all our speakers. Up next, 'Theory, analysis, childhood & play' on Tue 3 June curated by Dr Giles Masters. More details soon

Join the Children of St Francis' Primary School for this performance; a new town will be imagined and built before your very eyes and ears! Read the article from the BBC: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Book tickets: musicatoxford.com/whats-on/lets-…

This term the OSiMTA Seminar has been curated by Giles Masters and explores 'Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play'. Mark your diaries to join us on Tuesday 3 June! music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-06-03…

Timothy Coombes, Marinu Leccia, Elizabeth MacGregor, and Javier Rivas will each give presentations at the OSiMTA Seminar on Tuesday. Please do join us from 5pm for this session on Music Theory, Analysis, Education and Play.

Final call: the last OSiMTA session of the year is today! Do join us at 5pm for discussion, drinks and dinner

Many thanks to Giles Masters for curating last week's excellent session on Music Theory, Analysis, Education and Play, and to Timothy Coombes, Marinu Leccia, Elizabeth MacGregor, Javier Rivas and esther cavett for their contributions. A great way to bring Season 7 to a close

This is the final season of OSiMTA. From Oct 2025, discussion of music theory & analysis will be absorbed into weekly seminars organised by Faculty of Music: each Thursday @ 15.00 in the Schwarzman Centre, the new home of the Music Faculty. Full details on Music Faculty website

Thank you to all our speakers over the past 8 years, and to all who attended. The OSiMTA pages remain live on Faculty of Music website as an archive of what has taken place since 2018: music.ox.ac.uk/oxford-seminar…