{"id":7193,"date":"2019-03-13T19:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/school.chethams.com\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2019-03-13T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:37:00","slug":"7193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/blog\/7193\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD research grant for Chetham’s Head of Sixth Form Academic Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Oliver, Head of Sixth Form Academic Music at Chetham’s, has received a prestigious\u00a0Musica Britannica Trust Research Award towards her work examining music and culture of the 13th<\/sup> century, when Henry III reigned.<\/p>\n

Sarah is studying for a PhD at the University of Huddersfield, where she will journey into England\u2019s distant musical past, from 1216 to 1272.\u00a0 The Musica Britannica Trust<\/a> Research Award \u2013 bestowed after she had submitted a detailed application to the judging panel \u2013 will enable her to acquire a costly facsimile edition of surviving repertoire from the Henry III period.\u00a0 This will be an important aid to her researches, which are supervised by the University of Huddersfield\u2019s Dr Lisa Colton<\/a>, Reader in Musicology and a leading authority on medieval music.<\/p>\n

Set up in 1951, the Trusts core aim is to publish an authoritative national collection of British music.<\/p>\n

The project marks the revival of a long-standing ambition to carry out doctoral research into music of the Middle Ages.\u00a0 Sarah studied music at Oxford in the 1990s and planned to move straight on to a PhD.\u00a0 But instead, her children came along and she embarked on a teaching career that led to her current post at Chetham\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow my daughter – former Chetham’s student Molly – is reading music at Cambridge and when she came back for her first vacation she brought a lot of medieval repertoire as holiday work and said \u2018I need your help\u2019.\u00a0 It reignited something that had always been on the back burner and made me think that this is the time,\u201d said Sarah.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedieval music was my first love and has always been my greatest interest academically,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause Henry III had such a long reign \u2013 politically turbulent at times \u2013 there must be more to know about his relationship with music.\u00a0 He had a lot of chapels and was responsible for the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey,\u201d said Sarah, adding that a considerable quantity of music from the period survives as fragments.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of it exists intriguingly and sometimes maddeningly as interpolations into miscellanies, so there will be a page of music written into a book that has nothing to do with music.\u00a0 So it is a question of wondering how it got there,\u201d said Sarah, whose doctoral project will blend cultural history with sound and performance of the 800-year-old repertoire she is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Oliver, Head of Sixth Form Academic Music at Chetham’s, has received a prestigious\u00a0Musica Britannica Trust Research Award towards her work examining music and culture of the 13th century, when Henry III reigned. Sarah is studying for a PhD at the University of Huddersfield, where she will journey into England\u2019s distant musical past, from 1216 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-7193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-academic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}