Projects

Current, Planned, and Completed Research Projects

Current projects

• Music in the British Empire: a documentary history through the general press, 1763-1901 (supported by the British Academy) (Banfield, Concord, Nourse)
• The English-Texted Music of William Byrd (a joint project with LUCEM) (Irving)
• The Elgar Complete Edition (housed at the Centre) (Pickard, Dubois, Lancaster, Nolan)
• Music for the London Theatre, including opera (Martin, Banfield, O'Brien, Durk)
• Anglo-Soviet musical relations (Fairclough)
• Robert Pearsall and the madrigal revival (Hobson)
• The Ivor Gurney Edition (Lancaster)
• English composers and formalist aesthetics: Cliffe, Hurlstone, Bridge, and Berkeley (Fifield, Redwood, Huss, Gillies, Stevens)

Planned projects

• Outdoor Music: pleasure gardens and early military and brass bands (Banfield, Herbert, Nourse)
• Music in Bristol, Bath and the west country: its social history since the late 17th century (Banfield, Nourse, Clarke)
• The west country pleasure gardens: an interdisciplinary network (Banfield, Nourse, Clarke, Hindson, Pollard, Thomas, Pike, Horton)
• British film music resources (Heldt)
• Music and politics in the British world in the 19th century (Nourse, Bowan, Pickering)
• British and Commonwealth composition in the postwar era: oral histories and workshops (tbc)
• Gustav Holst (Heldt)
• Victorian Music and beyond (Banfield)
• Incidental music in London’s west end theatre: the Beerbohm Tree archive (Banfield, Hindson, Brockington, Prettejohn)
• Music from Bristol: a critical anthology of scores (Banfield)

Completed projects

• Empire and the travelling virtuoso (Banfield, Rocha)
• Writing the empire: scibblings from below (Reid)
• The Sounds of Stonehenge (Banfield, Heldt, Hutton)
• Anglophone music in 1830s Jamaica (Banfield)
• Vaughan Williams' writings and aesthetics (Manning)
• Music and the Wesleys (Banfield)
• American music in and around 19th-century Bristol (Banfield)