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      Dr Chris Dromey

      BMus MMus PhD GCAP SFHEA
      ROLE: Associate Professor in Music & Arts Management
      DEPARTMENT: Performing Arts
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 6528
      EMAIL: C.Dromey@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Chris is Associate Professor in Music at Middlesex, which he joined in 2005 having previously taught at the Open University, King's College London, and Birkbeck College, University of London. He had led BA Music Business and Arts Management since 2006.


        He co-edited The Classical Music Industry (Routledge, 2018), wrote The Pierrot Ensembles: Chronicle and Catalogue, 1912–2012 (Plumbago, 2013), and has contributed chapters and essays to Stravinsky in Context (CUP, expected 2020), Mining the Gap: Musics with and after Tonality (Routledge, expected 2020), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (SAGE, 2014), British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960 (Ashgate, 2010), New Makers of Modern Culture (Routledge, 2007), and Zemlinsky Studies (Middlesex UP, 2007). His research has also appeared in Tempo (on Grupo Novo Horizonte de São Paulo, 1988–99) and the International Journal for Contemporary Composition (on neo-modernism in music). Chris is currently writing and editing The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (Routledge, expected 2021).


        For several years Chris worked with PRS for Music. An active organist and pianist, he also regularly writes for the London Chamber Music Society and is a Trustee of the Society for Music Analysis. Besides email, you can find Chris on Twitter or Facebook, where he oversees a forum for students of the programme he leads, BA Music Business and Arts Management. Chris also organises Music's Concerts and Colloquia, a Tuesday afternoon series open to the public featuring musicologists, figures from the music industry, performers, and composers.

        Qualifications

        BMus in Music at Goldsmith's College, London

        MMus in Music Theory and Analysis at King's College, London 

        PhD on The Pierrot Ensembles at King's College, London 

        GCAP (Academic Practice) at King's College, London

        SFHEA (Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy) at Middlesex University


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Programme Leadership

        Module Leadership

        • MUS1058 Musicianship & Theory
        • MUS1061 Critical Thinking about Music
        • MUS2063 Analysing Music and Media
        • MUS3055 Independent Project
        • MUS3076 Contemporary Music Studies
        • MUS4054 Classical Music Business in Practice

        PhD Supervision

        • Currently supervising PhD theses on the social history and stylistic analysis of the rebetiko genre and on early Irish harp performance practice

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Publication Feed

        Stravinsky’s ear for instruments

        Dromey, Christopher (2019) Stravinsky’s ear for instruments. In: Stravinsky in Context. Griffiths, Graham , ed. Cambridge University Press. (Accepted/In press)

        Talking about classical music: radio as public musicology

        Dromey, Christopher (2018) Talking about classical music: radio as public musicology. In: The Classical Music Industry. Dromey, Christopher and Haferkorn, Julia , eds. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 183-261. ISBN 9781138203693

        On classical music competitions

        Kwok, Glen and Dromey, Christopher (2018) On classical music competitions. In: The Classical Music Industry. Dromey, Christopher and Haferkorn, Julia , eds. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 67-76. ISBN 9781138203693

        Dancing to another tune: classical music in nightclubs and other non-traditional settings

        Haferkorn, Julia (2018) Dancing to another tune: classical music in nightclubs and other non-traditional settings. In: The Classical Music Industry. Dromey, Christopher and Haferkorn, Julia , eds. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 148-171. ISBN 9781138203693

        Classical music, copyright and collecting societies

        Inglis, Brian (2018) Classical music, copyright and collecting societies. In: The Classical Music Industry. Dromey, Christopher and Haferkorn, Julia , eds. Routledge Research in Creative and Cultural Industries Management . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 7-31. ISBN 9781138203693

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        • Co-founder (with Julia Haferkorn) of the Classical Music Industry Conference, 2019–present
        • HEA/Middlesex University 2007 Learning and Teaching Project Scheme Award
        • KCL 2005 Small Grants Award for travel to Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel
        • Musica Britannica 2005 Louise Dyer Award for Doctoral Study
        • Musica Britannica 2004 Louise Dyer Award for Doctoral Study
        • Society for Music Analysis (SMA) 2001/02 Award for Postgraduate Study

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Trustee of the Society for Music Analysis, 2014–present

        Link Tutor for SAE Institute, BA/BSc Music Business programme, 2015–present

        External Examiner for Royal Holloway, University of London, International Foundation Year (Music), 2014–18

        Link Tutor for Open University Hong Kong, BMus Popular Music programme, 2010–15

        External Assessor for the validation of BA Popular Music at the Royal Northern College of Music, 2013

        Professional Membership

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