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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.

Research Spotlight

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Dr. Anabel Maler and Dr. Robert Komaniecki receive Emerging Scholar Article Award

 
Their research looks at the rhythmic techniques of 'dip hop'. A subgenre of hip hop that involves a Deaf or hard-of-hearing artists simultaneously performing vocalized and signed rapping over a looped background beat. ⁠

UBC Professor Alex Fisher awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

 
Dr. Fisher awarded grant for his research: Sounding Difference: The Acoustic Culture of Catholic Germany in an Age of Religious Conflict.

PhD Student, Sherryl Sewepagaham awarded 2024 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

 
Sherryl's research is focused on revitalizing the Cree language through Indigenous songs and examining gender within Cree traditions. Sherryl is studying with Associate Professor Dr. Dylan Robinson xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah).
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Rediscovering Couperin & Rameau

Artists: Lucas Wong piano Release Year: 2018 Recorded at Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Italy Engineer: Federico Furlanetto Description: A great…

Voice & Opera | Choirs

Where Waters Meet

Artists: UBC Music PhD student Sherryl Sewepagaham, composer; Canadian Chamber Choir Release date: September 2024 Description (from Canadian Chamber Choir…

Keyboard | Early Music

A Prayer for Peace

Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Alexander Weimann, organ Redshift Records Recorded at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver Producer: Denise Ball Recording/mix…

Fifteen Feet Closer to the Sky

Artist: Adam Zitanelli, trumpet Recording details: Leaf Music Featured works: Dorothy Chang All That Glitters Link  

Featured Publications & Productions

Musicology

Confraternities, Congregations and Aural Culture in Counter-Reformation Germany

Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: In Listening to Confraternities: Spaces for Performance, Patronage and Urban Musical Experience, edited by Tess Knighton, 272–304.…

Music Theory

Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music

Author: Anabel Maler  Publication details: Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Music Theory Weblink: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/seeing-voices-9780197601976?cc=ca&lang=en&   Abstract: First monograph-length analytical study…

Musicology

Edita Gruberová’s Wig: Belcanto Revival and Staging Practices at the Turn of the 21st Century

Arthor: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: Edita Gruberová’s Wig: Belcanto Revival and Staging Practices at the Turn of the 21st Century,…