Music

Senior College Lecturer
Dr Daniel Grimley (Fellow of Merton College)

Student Profile:
Hannah Pollard (3rd year)

The music course is particularly wide-ranging, with core-curriculum papers in analysis, techniques and topics spanning the entire history of Western notated music (c. 800 to the present day). The numerous options available within the syllabus can accommodate individual interests of all descriptions, whether in performance, composition, editing and orchestration, ethnomusicology, musicology or analysis. Tutorials at Univ are designed to provide students with a solid foundation in the study of music and are intended to develop critical thinking through lively discussion.

Dr Daniel Grimley, the Senior College Lecturer in Music, holds an appointment shared with Merton College. He has research interests in Music and Landscape, with particular reference to Nordic and early twentieth-century British music. Dr Grimley is especially interested in the interdisciplinary connections between Music and Cultural Geography. He teaches undergraduate courses in theory and analysis, music history (especially post-1700), nineteenth-century symphony.

We normally admit two undergraduates each year and regularly achieve top results in Finals, with most of our candidates achieving a First Class or a high Upper Second degree. Our undergraduates are taught jointly with those of Merton, and receive the same level of pastoral care. Univ supplies clavinovas and pianos to its Music students. Univ also admits graduate students in Music. At any time, there are two Organ Scholars in residence and at least four Choral Scholars (though they do not necessarily study Music as a degree course). The College has an active and successful musical life, and provides a Univ-based personal tutor, Professor J S Wilson, to undergraduates reading Music. The College Director of Music, Miss Kathryn Burningham, assists the Chapel Choir and Organ Scholars in their activities.

For more information, please consult the website of the Faculty of Music.