15th March 2023 Matty A Listener's Guide to Robert Simpson, PhD Research Blog Robert Simpson: A Listener’s Guide. Pt. 7: Symphony No. 8 & Vortex Introduction So, this brings us to the final Symphony available to us online - the 8th. Before discussing that and the other work in post - Vortex, his final Brass… Read More
8th March 2023 Matty A Listener's Guide to Robert Simpson, PhD Research Blog Robert Simpson: A Listener’s Guide. Pt. 6: Brass – Nielsen and Reger Introduction A return this week to Simpson's brass music, leaving just one to talk about in a later post - Vortex. The main focus of today's post is on his… Read More
1st March 2023 Matty A Listener's Guide to Robert Simpson, PhD Research Blog Robert Simpson: A Listener’s Guide. Pt. 5: The Mid-Period Symphonies Introduction Originally I had planned to group the symphonies in pairs, as there are 8 available to stream. But since nos. 6 and 7 were written in the same year… Read More
22nd February 2023 Matty A Listener's Guide to Robert Simpson, PhD Research Blog Robert Simpson: A Listener’s Guide. Pt. 4: ‘Symphonic Studies’ for Brass Band Introduction After the Quartets and the Symphonies, Simpson's most significant musical contribution to the world came in his brass band writing, completing 5 substantial works for the ensemble. Having grown… Read More
15th February 2023 Matty A Listener's Guide to Robert Simpson, PhD Research Blog Robert Simpson: A Listener’s Guide. Pt. 3: The Transitionary Symphonies Symphony No. 3 (1962) https://open.spotify.com/album/2tlkLWDDbxaFNqVdkOTeum?si=Sj_tf95IQnefj7a3JLZ5lA A return to the symphonies then. The 3rd Symphony can perhaps be considered as a transitionary one, along with the other works completed in the… Read More
11th February 2023 Matty PhD Research Blog Examples of Culminative Setting in my Music Most of my work so far, other than writing my quartet, has been exploring various avenues of literature on musical borrowing, such as that of Burkholder on the music of… Read More
8th February 2023 Matty A Listener's Guide to Robert Simpson, PhD Research Blog Robert Simpson: A Listener’s Guide. Pt. 2: A Glimpse at the Quartets Introduction For the sake of variety, I am going to be alternating between the symphonies and other works in these posts, straying from the chronological order occasionally in order to… Read More
1st February 2023 Matty A Listener's Guide to Robert Simpson, PhD Research Blog Robert Simpson: A Listener’s Guide. Pt. 1: The Early Symphonies Introduction “What’s your PhD on?” “Who?” “What’s his music like?” These are questions I have been asked a lot recently, and while I can easily talk about the music of… Read More
15th December 2022 Matty PhD Research Blog 1 Dynamic Conundrums in my 4th Quartet I realise that I had set up this section of my website for updates on my PhD, but had not yet made use of it, yet alone introduced my project.… Read More
22nd May 2022 Matty News New Website! Having come to the realisation that the life of a private piano teacher involves a lot of free time during the school day, I've been finding various ways to keep… Read More