The Study Group grew out of a Royal Musical Association Study Day (in association with the British Society of Aesthetics) on the topic of Music and Philosophy, held at King’s College London on 20 February 2010. In addition to official MPSG events, the Study Group also collaborates with other societies, to increase the number of opportunities for scholars to engage with one another in our inherently interdisciplinary field of inquiry.
Keeping Our Place: On Performing Lengthy Musical Works
King’s College London, Strand Campus, St David’s Room
Co-organised with the London Aesthetics Forum
The Musical Humanism of the Renaissance and Its Legacy
International Conference, 2016
2-4 June 2016, Warwick’s Palazzo Papafava, Venice
This event was organized in collaboration with the University of Warwick.
This conference investigated Renaissance conceptions of the connection between music and mind, their origins, and how they were ultimately developed into our modern notion of music as an expressive art.
SOUND AND AFFECT: VOICE, MUSIC, WORLD
International Conference, 2014
18-19 April 2014, Stony Brook University
Organized in collaboration with the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the American Musicological Society, as well as both the Music and Philosophy departments of Stony Brook University.
2nd WORKSHOP ON
The PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN+COMPUTER MUSIC
Workshop, 2015
This workshop continued the discussion of philosophical questions raised by human+computer music.
1ST WORKSHOP ON
The PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN+COMPUTER MUSIC
Workshop, 2014
This workshop provided a forum for free discussion of philosophical questions raised by human+computer music.
University of Sheffield organisers
Dr. Adam Stansbie and Mark Summers, Department of Music
Dr. Tom Cochrane, Frank Arthurs and Alex Keliris, Department of Philosophy
Challenging Musical Ontologies
Study Day, 2012
23 November 2012, University of Nottingham
This RMA Study Day, with support of the Study Group, looked to engage with conflicting yet complimentary dialogues regarding the possibility (or even non-possibility) of an ontology of music.
The Ethics of Musical Labor
Session, 2011
Evening panel session, 10 November 2011 as part of the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, 10-13 November 2011, San Francisco.
Marking Time. On contemporary music and historical analysis
Session, 2011
Presentations organized by the Study Group, 28 July 2011 as part of The Seventh Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, in tandem with the The International Conference of the Society for Music Analysis, 28-31 July 2011, Lancaster.
“What can science tell us about musical meaning?”
Symposium, 2010
10 November 2010, King’s College London