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The School of Music is a leader in music scholarship, from music theory to ethnomusicology. Faculty contribute actively to all aspects of music research, and support students develop their research interests.
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Featured Recordings
Composition
Sustenance
Featured UBC Alumni: Iman Habibi (BMus '08, MMus '10) Featured Track: Offering of Water (2023) for violin and piano 1. of life…
Woodwind, Brass & Percussion
French Reflections, vol. VII: Renascence (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 4-11- Quatuor pour la fin du temps by Olivier Messaien…
Woodwind, Brass & Percussion
French Reflections, vol. VI: Vocal Exchange (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 2,3,4,5- Selected Preludes for Clarinet and Piano by Aleksandr Scriabin;…
Woodwind, Brass & Percussion
French Reflections, vol. IV: Trios and Trumpets (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 1,2,3- Trio in E-flat major for Piano, Clarinet, and Viola,…
Featured Publications & Productions
Musicology
Entangled Histories: Opera and Cultural Exchange Between Vienna and the Italian States After Napoleon
Author: Claudio Vellutini Publication details: Oxford University Press Weblink: doi.org/10.1093/9780197656594.001.0001 Abstract: Entangled Histories discusses the role of opera in the…
Musicology
Mourning for the Death of a Political System: Cantonese Opera and Cantopop in 香 • 夭 Requiem HK (2017)
Author: Hedy Law Publication details: In East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music, edited by Maiko Kawabata and Ken Ueno, 138–149.…
Music Theory
The Influence of Dissonance on Listeners’ Perceived Emotions in Rhythmically Complex Musical Excerpts Copy
Author: Poudrier, Ève & Daniel Shanahan Publication details: Journal of New Music Research, Volume 52, Issue 5 Weblink: doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2025.2453697 Abstract:…
