Dr Christopher Dromey

Senior Lecturer in Music

Department: School of Arts and Education

Christopher Dromey

Welcome! I lecture on our BA Music, BA Music and Arts Management, BMus Popular Music and MMus Popular Music programmes. I also research across these areas. Besides email (c.dromey@mdx.ac.uk), you can find me on Twitter or Facebook, where I oversee a dedicated forum for students of the programme I lead, BA Music and Arts Management.

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Qualifications

  • BMus MMus PhD GCAP

Research Interests

  • tonal and post-tonal analysis
  • popular music and culture
  • contemporary music
  • concerts history
  • arts management
  • intellectual property rights

Current and Past Research Projects

  • The Pierrot Ensembles: Chronicle and Catalogue, 1912-2012 (London: Plumbago, 2012 - forthcoming).
  • The Pierrot Ensembles (Ph.D. diss., King's College, University of London, 2010).
  • 'Benjamin Britten's "Pierrot" Ensembles', in British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960, ed. Matthew Riley (Ashgate: 2009), 219-47.
  • 'Zemlinsky's Surface Structures: Maiblumen blühten überall and the String Sextet Genre', in Zemlinsky Studies, ed. Michael Frith (London: Middlesex University Press, 2007), 77-89.
  • 'Peter Maxwell Davies', in New Makers of Modern Culture, Vol. 1, ed. Justin Wintle (New York: Routledge, 2007), 357-59.
  • 'The 'Pierrot' Ensemble before the Pierrot Players', paper for conference organised by Jane Manning and Dr Caroline Potter on "Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Its Legacy", Kingston University, 2 March 2006.

Teaching Interests

  • SUM0043 Music Access
  • SUM0046 Music Industry Management
  • SUM0071 Popular Music
  • MUS1071 Introduction to Arts Administration and Management
  • MUS1091 Genres in Popular Music
  • MUS1235 Across the Culture Industry
  • MUS3055 Independent Project
  • MUS3071 Music Contracts and Copyrights
  • MUS4010 Musicology

Biography

Current work

  • Programme Leader, BA Music and Arts Management
  • Admissions Tutor for Music
  • Module Leader in various areas (see above), includingthree Summer School courses in Music (SUM0043 Music Access, SUM0046 Music Industry Management and SUM0071 Popular Music : see www.mdx.ac.uk/summer for more details), each designed as pathways to undergraduate study for successful students.

Professional membership

  • Society for Music Analysis: 2001 - present
  • Society for the Promotion of New Music: 2004 - present
  • Royal Musicological Association: 2006 - present
  • Royal School for Church Music: 2008 - present
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