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Details for Dr Guido Heldt
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| Name | Dr Guido Heldt | ||
| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Music |
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| Department | Department of Music University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | D.Phil. | ||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Gesellschaft fuer Musikforschung Gesellschaft fuer Medienwissenschaft International Musicological Society Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung |
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| Keywords | Film music analysis Film music history (esp. film music and musical film in Nazi Germany) Representation of music in film (esp. composer biopics) British art-music (esp. 20th century) |
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| Areas of expertise | I got my PhD in 1997 (at the University of Muenster in Germany) with a dissertation on English early-20th-century tone poems (by Granville Bantock, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi and Gustav Holst) and ideas of a national music in England. In recent years I have been increasingly involved in film music studies; current projects are: film music analysis and narrative theory; the representation of music in film (esp. musician biopics); musical film in Nazi cinema. |
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| Media experience | - Work as a music critic for a daily newspaper in Dortmund/Germany 1992-1997 - Occasional work for a local radio station in Dortmund 1991/92 |
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