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A new Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) to support postgraduate studentships and training in the arts and humanities in Scotland has secured funding of £14.2 million.

A successful collaboration between the White Rose universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield has received a £19m Doctoral Training Partnership award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHR

11 Oct 2013 An album of revolutionary and political music produced by artists from across the globe, is to be digitally released as a free download via the website Bandcamp on Monday 14 October 2013.

Posted under: Engineering , Health and Medicine , News Releases , Research , Science , Technology For many, music is a universal language that unites people when words cannot. But for those who use cochlear implants - technology that allows deaf and hard of hearing people to comprehend speech - hearing music remains extremely challenging.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Research Unplugged launches its fall season and a celebration of its ten-year anniversary on Oct.

An investigation into how musicians find creative inspiration has identified four key ingredients needed for creative expression. It also shows that musicians may be at their most inspired when they step away from their instruments and think about music in different ways. Exploration and experimentation without the instrument itself may be an important part of how musicians learn and become creative John Rink Artists of any description are well-acquainted with the search for an elusive muse, but for musicians in particular, help may now be at hand.

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Songs and sounds that can help amputees walk better, safer, stronger? Frost School of Music researchers are blending music, engineering, and medical disciplines to make sure there's an app for that.

When Farah Griffin asked her mother what she remembered about World War II, her response was, "All the handsome soldiers who drove the buses in Philadelphia.

Musicians have spent almost a century misinterpreting the scores of the Classical and Romantic period in ways that would have astonished and probably horrified its most famous composers.

The ANU College of Arts and Social Science today announced that it will establish a new School through a merger of the School of Language Studies and the School of Cultural Inquiry, it will expand th

25 September 2013 French horn players are not heeding warnings to protect their ears during rehearsals and performances, according to a study released by a collaborative research team from the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney. The study, published online in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene , presents evidence that French horn players are one of the most at-risk orchestral groups for developing noise-induced hearing loss.

When Chris Chafe and Josef Parvizi began transforming recordings of brain activity into music, they did so with artistic aspirations.

Since its founding in 2011 , the Richard & Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry has provided a forum for fearless collaborative experiments that bring together artists and scholars at the University of Chicago.

September 19, 2013 — CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The glass exhibition case, at hip level as you enter the lobby of the Richter Library on the Coral Gables campus, beckons.

Academics at the University of Glasgow have received £2 million from the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Translating Cultures programme.

Dr Matt Jones (UCL History) is spending three weeks travelling the Scottish Highlands with a mobile cinema, to find out how film-goers remember and react to films from the 1960s.

Elegant and beautiful paintings by one of Britain's finest portraitists are at the heart of a new exhibition opening at the Hunterian Art Gallery today.

11 Sep 2013 A University of Manchester researcher has revealed harrowing details of how Pinochet's torturers used music to torment their victims, exactly 40 years today after the dictator came to power. Dr Katia Chornik is the first to investigate music in Pinochet's notorious torture houses, concentration camps and prisons.

The University of Melbourne has staged a coup, recruiting one of the world's most respected performance and music psychology academics, Professor Jane Davidson.

A new translation of Tintin will make the adventures of the plucky Belgian detective and faithful dog, Snowy, available in Scots for the very first time.

Indian cuisine Cornell Plantations offers an Indian cooking class in its Garden to Table Series, a gardening lecture and other events this week.

Following the massive success of last year's Festival of the Mind (set to return in September 2014) the University of Sheffield is once again bringing research to the public with 'The Mobile University'.

Exhibits and ephemera from 30 years of Sheffield sculptor Anthony Bennett are set to be displayed at the University of Sheffield's Western Bank Library from 12 September to 20 December 2013.

The role played by the composers Elgar and Bantock in establishing a Chair of Music at the University of Birmingham is explored in a BBC Radio 3 programme to be broadcast tonight.

People can reliably select the winners of classical music competitions based on silent video recordings of performances, according to new research from UCL. However, the study also finds that neither classical music novices nor professional musicians are able to identify the winners of competitions based on sound recordings alone.

Work to start on fitness rooms upgrade Work begins next week to install new equipment in the fitness rooms on campus.