Tutor information
Eric Clarke
Eric Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, and is a member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published on various topics in the psychology of music, musical meaning, music and consciousness, and musical creativity. His books include Ways of Listening (Oxford University Press, 2005), Music and Mind in Everyday Life (OUP, 2010), Music and Consciousness 1 & 2 (OUP, 2011, 2019), and Remixing Music Studies (Routledge, 2021).
Courses
How does music communicate and arouse emotion? Does it have meaning and, if so, what does it mean? This hybrid day school will explore some of the recent research that is starting to suggest answers to these, often hotly debated, questions.