AHRC Leadership Fellowship
Univ Fellow Daniel Grimley has been awarded an AHRC 鈥淟eadership Fellowship鈥�.
Professor Daniel Grimley, Senior Lecturer in Music at University College,聽has been awarded an聽AHRC 鈥淟eadership Fellowship鈥澛爐o support a聽project entitled 鈥淒elius, Modernism and the Sound of Place鈥�.
Frederick Delius聽(1862鈥�1934) is among the most compelling figures in early twentieth-century music, and was a catalysing influence for a generation of composers, writers, and musicians either side of the聽First World War.聽The project draws on recent writing in cultural geography and the philosophy of place, as well as more 鈥榗onventional鈥� musicological literature, to develop a critical reassessment of Delius鈥檚 music and its entwinement with place as an aspect of his broader relationship with early twentieth-century modernism.
The aims of the project are not only to engage at a more sophisticated analytical level than hitherto with Delius鈥檚 major works, but also to frame discussion within a broader investigation into the role and state of place in early twentieth-century music. The results of this research will include a monograph, a digital catalogue of Delius鈥檚 works prepared in conjunction with the聽British Library聽and the聽Danish Centre for Music Publication, and a series of events relating to Delius and his music.
Published: 12 February 2015
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