Peter Edwards

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Visiting address Department of Musicology ZEB Building 2nd floor Sem Sælands vei 2 0371 OSLO
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Academic interests: music aesthetics, music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, music analysis and critical theory.

Background

  • Head of Research autumn 2022-
  • Musicology Master’s programme leader 2021-2022.
  • HF studio project group member 2021-2022.
  • Head of Department, Department of Musicology, UiO (2017-2020)
  • Leader of the National Council of Music (Nasjonalt fagorgan for musikk) (2018-2020) and leader of the national publication committee for musicology (2018-)
  • Head of Studies, Department of Musicology (2017-2020)
  • Monograph on György Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre published by Routledge, 2017 (see below).
  • Elected representative for the fixed-term academic staff on the board of the Faculty of Humanities (2015-2016).
  • Member of the editorial board of Studia Musicologica Norvegica (Norwegian Journal of Musicology) (2012-16)
  • Previous projects include Style and Modernity, funded by the Research Council of Norway, studying modernist aesthetics and concepts of style across a range of musical genres and traditions (2013-2016) (NOK 2.8 mill.) 
  • PhD University of Oslo (2012)
  • Cand. Philol (MA) University of Oslo (2005)
  • Computer-based music production. Norwegian Academy of Music (2002-3)
  • Bmus London College of Music, London (1996-99)
  • Archival Research: die Academie der Künste, Germany (2011)
  • Archival Research: Paul Sacher Foundation, Switzerland (2004, 2010, 2011)
  • Visiting Scholar: Royal Holloway, University of London, England (2013)
  • Artistic work: Compositions performed by leading musicians in the UK, Norway, and the USA, including performances at festivals and on BBC Radio 3 and NRK. Member of the Norwegian Society of Composers. Professional background as guitarist.

Courses taught:

  • Music since 1945 (MUS 2500, 4500)
  • Analysis, arranging and composition for large ensembles  (MUS 2730)
  • Music History I & II  (MUS 1450, MUS 2445)
  • History, Analysis, Aesthetics (MUS 4216)
  • Listening to the Twentieth Century and Beyond (MUS 2501, 4501, autumn 2014)
  • Music History (MUS 1445 and 2445)
  • ‘Opera Through the Stage Door’, in Collaboration with the Norwegian Opera & Ballet (MUS 2525 and MUS 4525)
  • Honors program (Honorsprogrammet) HON 2120
  • ‘Ensemble 1’ (MUS1350), ‘Ensemble 2’ (MUS 1352), 
  • EXFAC (‘EXFAC03-MUS)
  • Thesis seminar (MUS 4226)
  • Disciplines in Musicological Research (MUS 4228)

Master dissertations supervised (since 2018):

Karl Peder Mork: Motstand, moglegheit og det utilgjengelege. Om korleis musikknotasjon kan fremja og utfordre musikalske konvensjonar, belyst gjennom gitarmusikk av Brian Ferneyhough og Helmut Lachenmann. (Resistance, Possibility and the Inaccessible. How Music Notation Can Promote and Challenge Musical Conventions, Illuminated Through Guitar Music by Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann.)
Torkjell Hovland: Wandelweisser: stillheit og musikk (Wandelweisser: Silence and Music). 
Sverre Stenløkk: Kulturskoleleder 3.0 - Tilbake til fremtiden
Håvard Andreas Hasselgård: Improvisasjon og kreative prosesser i norsk metall (Improvisation and Creative Processes in Norwegian Metal). 
Erlend Fagertun: Pårørendes valg av musikk i begravelser (Relatives’ Choice of Music at Funerals).
Zsolt Anderlik: The Impact of Competence in Tonal and Non-tonal Languages on Musical Experience.
Kristian Larsen: Å musisere gjennom gester - En nærstudie av Jacob Collier sin gestbruk for å kommunisere med publikum og oppfordre til deltakelse (Making Music Through Gestures - A Close Study of Jacob Collier's Use of Gestures to Communicate With the Audience and Encourage Participation)
Inger-Katrin Kolvik Larsen: Folk Voices, Timbre and Melancholy: A Study of Affect in Folk Music
Nora Kristine Tveten: A Critical Study of Punk Narratives and Politics Through the Music of Poly Styrene
Jakob Lerheim: En utdanning som kan gi variert arbeid i et bredt spekter av arbeidslivet? En undersøkelse om erfart læreplan med tanke på arbeidslivsrelevans blant masterkandidater i musikkvitenskap

Ongoing
Lasse Modin Kjellermo
Teresa Mantorski
Trond Hallvard Engeset Kverno

PhD supervision:

Kristina Socanski Celik (main supervisor) 
Daniel Fong (co- supervisor)


For more information, please visit my website at: www.peteredwards.no

Tags: Music Aesthetics, Music Analysis, Music of the Twentieth Century, Music Historiography, Musicology

Publications

 

  • Edwards, Peter (2024). Critical Composition, Creativity and Style in "Le Grand Macabre". In Hiekel, Jörn Peter & Eule, Johann Casimir (Ed.), Zwischen Apokalypse und Groteske György Ligeti: LE GRAND MACABRE. Edition text+kritik (et+k). ISSN 978-3-96707-846-6. p. 85–96. Full text in Research Archive
  • Edwards, Peter & Sailer, Uta (2023). Death in Music and Music in Death: Reflections on Mortality and Listening in the Performances of Marino Formenti. In Marx, Wolfgang (Eds.), Music and Death. Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life.. Boydell & Brewer. ISSN 9781837650644. p. 155–169.
  • Edwards, Peter (2022). Analysing the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: Apparitions of the Past and Future. In Marx, Wolfgang (Eds.), I Don’t Belong Anywhere: György Ligeti at 100. Brepols. ISSN 978-2-503-60240-0. p. 93–109.
  • Edwards, Peter (2021). Ideology, Performance, and Ironic Distance in Musical Slapstick. In Malakaj, Ervin & Lyons, Alena E. (Ed.), Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISSN 9783110570793. p. 37–52. doi: 10.1515/9783110571981-004. Full text in Research Archive
  • Edwards, Peter (2017). Bartók, Ligeti and the Innovative Middle Road. In Bauer, Amy & Kerékfy, Márton (Ed.), György Ligeti's Cultural Identities. Routledge. ISSN 978-1472473646. p. 149–162. doi: 10.4324/9781315592411-10. Full text in Research Archive
  • Edwards, Peter (2015). Remembrance and Prognosis in the Music of György Ligeti. In Guldbrandsen, Erling E. & Johnson, Julian (Ed.), Transformations of Musical Modernism. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781107127210. p. 190–200. doi: 10.1017/cbo9781316411766.011. Full text in Research Archive
  • Edwards, Peter (2015). Convergences and Discord in the Correspondence between Ligeti and Adorno. Music & Letters. ISSN 0027-4224. 96(2), p. 228–258. doi: 10.1093/ml/gcu132.
  • Edwards, Peter (2015). Resisting Closure: The Passacaglia Finale from György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. Music Analysis. ISSN 0262-5245. doi: 10.1111/musa.12056. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Edwards, Peter (2016). György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque. Routledge. ISBN 9781472456984. 166 p.

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  • Edwards, Peter & Nielsen, Nanette (2023). Kunstmusikken lever! Også på Universitetet i Oslo. Scenekunst.no.
  • Edwards, Peter (2023). Musikk og opphavsrett.
  • Edwards, Peter (2023). Talk and concert with asamisimasa.
  • Edwards, Peter (2023). Sakkyndig rapport og vitneforklaring. Borgarting Lagmannsrett (expert testimony and report: Court of Appeals).
  • Edwards, Peter (2022). Frode Olsen – om å synge Fin de partie. Scenekunst.no.
  • Edwards, Peter (2022). Frode Olsen – en karriere i sang. Scenekunst.no.
  • Edwards, Peter (2022). Pønkebadet.
  • Edwards, Peter (2022). Marino Formenti and the transformative concert recital .
  • Edwards, Peter (2022). György Ligeti’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: Conceiving Rhythm and Form by Association.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Danielsen, Anne & Edwards, Peter (2020). Vi trenger kort og godt mer automagi i Cristin. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995.
  • Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Danielsen, Anne & Edwards, Peter (2020). Vi trenger kort og godt mer automagi i Cristin. Uniforum. ISSN 1891-5825.
  • Edwards, Peter (2019). VOeX Festival 2019.
  • Edwards, Peter (2019). Udo Zimmermann's Weiße Rose.
  • Edwards, Peter (2019). Frahmtiden er ny-klassisk. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
  • Nielsen, Nanette; Aksnes, Hallgjerd; Edwards, Peter & Kvalbein, Astrid (2018). Launch for Nanette Nielsen’s book _Paul Bekker’s Musical Ethics_. Introduction and moderation by Hallgjerd Aksnes, panel discussion including: Peter Edwards (University of Oslo), Peter Franklin (University of Oxford), Sarah Hibberd (University of Bristol), Astrid Kvalbein (NMH) and Aksel Tollåli (Oslo).
  • Eriksen, Asbjørn Øfsthus & Edwards, Peter (2018). Musikk og humor.
  • Edwards, Peter (2017). Expressive States in Theory and Practice: Spatially-Conceived Forms from East to West. Toru Takemitsu's November Steps.
  • Edwards, Peter (2016). Dash against the quiet.
  • Edwards, Peter (2016). Musical Sketches in the late Twentieth Century: György Ligeti and the Creative Process.
  • Edwards, Peter (2016). The Performance of Orchestral Overload in the Music of Zimmermann and Nørgård.
  • Edwards, Peter (2016). ’Leit-Characteristics’ and Expressive States in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre.
  • Edwards, Peter (2016). The Impossibility of the Return in Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Musique pours les soupers du Roi Ubu.
  • Edwards, Peter (2016). Death and Process in Music of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries.
  • Edwards, Peter (2015). Musikkens historie og aktualitet: Et fag under fornyelse.
  • Edwards, Peter; Mattes, Arnulf Christian; Kvalbein, Astrid & Orning, Tanja (2015). Listening to the Twentieth Century.
  • Edwards, Peter (2014). By the sound of its voice (13.10.2014).
  • Edwards, Peter (2014). By the sound of its voice (10.10.2014).
  • Edwards, Peter (2014). Nye former for lytting, nye former for musikkforståelse.
  • Dirdal, Linn Carin; Orning, Tanja; Edwards, Peter & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2014). – Lytting er et arbeid. [Internet]. Ballade.
  • Edwards, Peter (2014). Boulez Springar (performance Ultima 13.09.14).
  • Edwards, Peter (2014). Ligeti and Adorno: The Letter Correspondence.
  • Kildahl, Mari; Orning, Tanja; Edwards, Peter & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2014). We no longer really listen to music. [Internet]. ScienceNordic.
  • Kildahl, Mari; Orning, Tanja; Edwards, Peter & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2014). Vi lytter ikke lenger som før. [Internet]. Forskning.no.
  • Edwards, Peter & Guldbrandsen, Erling E. (2013). Et dypdykk i det makabre. Om György Ligetis opera "Le grand macabre" i La Fura dels baus' produksjon. Ballade. ISSN 0332-5148.
  • Edwards, Peter & Guldbrandsen, Erling E. (2013). Highlighting Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre.
  • Edwards, Peter (2013). Gesture and the Poetics of Musical Modernism.
  • Edwards, Peter (2013). Apati og handling. Ballade. ISSN 0332-5148.
  • Edwards, Peter (2013). The Weight.
  • Edwards, Peter (2012). Tradition and the Endless Now: A Study of György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.
  • Edwards, Peter (2012). Eivind Grovens renstemte orgel. [TV]. Intervjuet av Stål Talsnes i LørdagsMagasinet på TV2.
  • Edwards, Peter (2012). Gesture and the Flip Side of Tradition.
  • Edwards, Peter (2012). György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. [Radio]. "Spillerom" på NRK P2.
  • Edwards, Peter (2012). Boulez Springar (performance Ultima 20.09.14).
  • Edwards, Peter (2012). Reunion: 2012.
  • Edwards, Peter (2012). Boulez Springar.
  • Mattes, Arnulf Christian & Edwards, Peter (2011). Fra romantikken til elektronika: nye perspektiver på klangflatens historie.
  • Edwards, Peter (2011). "Ligeti, Adorno and the Creative Process".
  • Edwards, Peter (2011). Ligeti, Adorno and the Difficulty of Form.
  • Edwards, Peter (2011). Dialectical Horizons in György Ligeti's 'Le Grand Macabre'.
  • Edwards, Peter (2011). Pseudomotivicism in Ligeti's Music.
  • Edwards, Peter (2010). Iterations II.
  • Edwards, Peter (2010). Iterations.
  • Edwards, Peter (2009). B-sides, Undercurrents and Overtones: Peripheries to Popular Music, 1960 to the Present By George Plasketes. Popular Musicology Online. ISSN 1357-0951.
  • Edwards, Peter (2009). Ligeti i vinden. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
  • Edwards, Peter (2009). Samstemmig lidenskap. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
  • Edwards, Peter (2009). Ligeti and Dialectical Progression.
  • Edwards, Peter (2009). Self-fashioning in Modernism.
  • Edwards, Peter (2009). Cognition, Meaning and Analysis in Music; A Study of György Ligeti and his Later Works.
  • Edwards, Peter (2009). Balkansemblet German tour.
  • Edwards, Peter (2009). Curved Grooves.
  • Edwards, Peter (2008). Chiaroscuro.
  • Edwards, Peter (2007). Music and Politics. [Radio]. 'Hear and Now', BBC Radio 3.
  • Edwards, Peter (2007). www.acousticpicnic.com.
  • Edwards, Peter (2007). 1976 Polyphony.
  • Edwards, Peter (2006). Late synthesis: György Ligeti's Violin Concerto. New Notes. ISSN 1350-8989.
  • Edwards, Peter (2006). The Ringing Grooves of Change.
  • Edwards, Peter (2006). Wayfaring Stranger.
  • Edwards, Peter (2005). Confessions.
  • Edwards, Peter (2004). Steep II.
  • Edwards, Peter (2003). Sentient II.
  • Edwards, Peter (2001). Temporalität des Seins.
  • Edwards, Peter (2001). Sentient I.
  • Edwards, Peter (1999). Absence.
  • Edwards, Peter (1999). Steep.
  • Edwards, Peter (1998). World/Astronomy.
  • Edwards, Peter (1998). Little Rooms.
  • Edwards, Peter (1997). Greenlandic Sketch.
  • Edwards, Peter (2023). Tilleggskommentarer og oppsummering av sakkyndig rapport for høyesterett. Høyesterett.
  • Edwards, Peter (2022). Musikkfaglig sakkyndig vitne rapport. Oslo tingrett og Borgarting lagmannsrett. https://lovdata.no/dokument/LBSIV/avgjorelse/lb-2022-26097?q=.
  • Edwards, Peter (2012). Tradition and the Endless Now. A Study of György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. Universitetet i Oslo.
  • Edwards, Peter (2005). The Music of György Ligeti and his Violin Concerto. A Study in Analysis, Reception and the Listening Experience. 7Letras.

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 9:45 AM - Last modified Feb. 13, 2024 1:59 PM