University of Glasgow

The Art of Musical Conversation: Behavioural Attitudes in the Performance Practice of Italian Music from c.1580-1640

Academic History:

2014 - PhD in Musicology, University of Glasgow

2011- 2013 MMus in Performance & Research at the Royal Academy of Music

2007 - 2011 BMus (Hons) in Performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

Supervisors:

Professor John Butt

Dr David McGuinness

Research Interests:

• Performance practice of late sixteenth to early eighteenth-century music
• Early modern ethics, aesthetics & sociomusicology
• Listening cultures
• Music & embodiment
• Current aesthetical tendencies in classical music performance practice

Previous Research Projects:

The Revival of Conversatio: The ideal courtier in today’s performance of classical music (MMus dissertation, Royal Academy of Music, 2013)

A Game of Time: Freedom as the fundament of structure (Public research event, Royal Academy of Music, 2013)

Death & Resurrection: A comparative analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas BWV 106 & BWV 161 (BMus dissertation, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, 2011)

Scholarships/Awards:

2015-2018 AHRC DTP Scotland Studentship Award

2012-2013 AHRC Postgraduate Award

2008-2009 BWG Leistungsstipendium (Scholarship of the Institute of Science & Health)

Conference Papers:

A Game of Time: Rhythmic freedom & musical structures in the performance practice of late seventeenth & early eighteenth-century music (‘Performance practice, history & theory of the eighteenth century’: Conference of the Hungarian Musicological Society, Budapest, 2015)

Contact Details:

Address: Music, School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, 14 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Email: l.rozsa.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Website: www.laszlorozsa.com

First published: 25 September 2015