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Dr David Beard
BA (Hons) Dunelm, MMus (theory and analysis) KCL, DPhil Oxon
Timau a rolau for David Beard
Darllenydd mewn Cerddoleg a Chyfarwyddwr Dysgu ac Addysgu
Trosolwyg
Rwy'n arbenigo mewn cerddoriaeth gyfoes yn enwedig ar gyfansoddwyr ôl-1945 Prydeinig gan gynnwys Judith Weir, Harrison Birtwistle, Michael Finnissy, Peter Maxwell Davies a Simon Holt. Yn fwy cyffredinol, mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn creadigrwydd cerddorol, cerddoriaeth avant-garde, theatr gerdd arbrofol ac opera, Steve Reich, a cherddoriaeth boblogaidd.
Mae fy llyfr Musicology: The Key Concepts (Routledge, 2005; diwygiwyd ac ehangwyd 2016), a gyd-ysgrifennwyd gennyf gyda Kenneth Gloag, yn adlewyrchu'r amgylchedd dysgu yng Nghaerdydd, yn enwedig y cwrs MA cyfredol mewn Astudiaethau Cerddoriaeth a'i ragflaenwyr mewn Cerddoleg, ac mewn Cerddoriaeth, Diwylliant a Gwleidyddiaeth.
Rwyf wedi bod yn siaradwr gwadd mewn digwyddiadau cyhoeddus ledled Ewrop, y DU ac UDA, ac wedi cyfrannu nodiadau rhaglen, traethodau, erthyglau a sgyrsiau cyn cyngherddau ar gyfer Sinfonietta Llundain, Proms y BBC, Music Theatre Wales, y Tŷ Opera Brenhinol Covent Garden, Grand Théâtre Genève, London Southbank, Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru a nifer o wyliau cerddorol rhyngwladol, Yn cynnwys Aldeburgh, Bregenz, Cheltenham, Salzburg, ac Opera Wexford.
Rwy'n Gyd-olygydd y gyfres monograff 'Music Since 1900' (Gwasg Prifysgol Caergrawnt), yn Ymddiriedolwr ac yn Aelod o'r Bwrdd Golygyddol Cerdd a Llythyrau (Gwasg Prifysgol Rhydychen), yn aelod o'r Bwrdd Golygyddol ar gyfer 'Elfennau mewn Cerddoriaeth ers 1945' (Gwasg Prifysgol Caergrawnt), ac yn aelod o'r Bwrdd Cynghori ar gyfer y gyfres lyfrau 'Theori a Dadansoddi Cerddoriaeth Ers 1900' (Routledge).
Cyhoeddiad
2024
- Beard, D. 2024. BBC Singers and Castalian String Quartet - Programme Essay. In: Programme Book for the 75th Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, 2024. UK: Britten Pears Arts, pp. 147-150.
- Beard, D. 2024. Blond Eckbert - Programme Essay. In: Programme Book for the 75th Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, 2024. UK: Britten Pears Arts, pp. 42-46.
- Beard, D. 2024. '"Elective Affinities": Found objects, musical repurposing and concealed meanings in music by Judith Weir'. Presented at: John Bird Music Research Seminar, School of Music, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 11 October 2023.
2023
- Beard, D. 2023. Sleevenotes from Prima Facie PFCD224 Scenes from Childhood: Piano works by Pedro Faria Gomes. [Online]. RECITATIVE – the Prima Facie Blog: Prima Facie. Available at: https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/blog/2023/11/23/from-the-sleevenotes-scenes-from-childhood/
2021
- Beard, D. 2021. Musicology's crises of identity. In: Radovanovic, B. et al. eds. Shaping the Present through the Future: Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Contemporaneity. Institute of Musicology SASA, pp. 13-36.
2019
- Beard, D. 2019. 'Out of the air': Judith Weir's emergence in 1970s Britain, or interpreting creative self-censorship. Music and Letters 100(3), pp. 481-528. (10.1093/ml/gcz002)
- Beard, D. 2019. Reconceptualising the performer in new music theatre: collaborations with actors, mimes and musicians. In: Adlington, R. ed. New Music Theatre in Europe: Transformations Between 1955–1975. Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 227-254., (10.4324/9780429451669-11)
2017
- Beard, D. 2017. Listening to the river's roar: stance, texture and space in the concertos. In: Charlton, D. ed. The Music of Simon Holt. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 194-231., (10.1017/9781787440692.012)
- Beard, D. J. and Birtwistle, H. 2017. Deep Time [Composer note]. Boosey & Hawkes.
2016
- Beard, D. J. and Gloag, K. 2016. Musicology: the key concepts. 2nd edition. Routledge.
2015
- Beard, D. 2015. 'The life of my music': What the sketches tell us. In: Beard, D., Gloag, K. and Jones, N. eds. Harrison Birtwistle Studies. Cambridge Composer Studies Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120-174., (10.1017/CBO9781316145326.007)
- Beard, D. J., Gloag, K. and Jones, N. eds. 2015. Harrison Birtwistle studies. Cambridge Composer Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Beard, D. J. 2015. A selected inventory of Birtwistle manuscripts acquired by the British Library in 2013. In: Harrison Birtwistle Studies. Cambridge Composer Series Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 304-309.
2013
- Beard, D. J. 2013. The silk house tattoo [Programme Note for London Sinfonietta]. In: Arconis International Brass Event: Brass Without Boundaries. Cardiff: St. David's Hall, pp. n/a.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. Rites of passage: Harrison Birtwistle, 'Tombeau in memoriam Igor Stravinsky' (1971); 'Nine Settings of Celan' (1989-96); 'Cortege' (2007); 'Secret Theatre' (1984). [Programme essay for Klangforum Wien concert at the Kollegienkirche, Salzburg Festival, 31/7/13]. Salzburg Festival.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. Contrapuntal sublimations: Alberto Ginastera, 'String Quartet No. 1 op. 20' (1948); Johann Sebastian Bach, 'Three Fugues from Die kunst der Fuge BWV 1080' (arranged by Harrison Birtwistle, 2008); Dimitri Shostakovich, 'String Quartet No. 8, in C minor, op. 110' (1960); Maurice Ravel, 'String Quartet in F major' (1902-3; rev. 1910).[Programme essay for the Simon Bolivar String Quartet concert in the Mozarteum Grosser Saal, Salzburg Festival, 5/8/13]. Salzburg, Austria: Salzburg Festival.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. An introduction to Harrison Birtwistle's music. [Online]. London: Boosey and Hawkes. Available at: http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?site-lang=en&composerid=2729&langid=1&ttype=INTRODUCTION&ttitle=Portr%C3%A4t [accessed 25 June 2013
- Beard, D. J. 2013. New light on musical masters: Johannes Ockeghem, 'Ut heremita solus' (arranged by Harrison Birtwistle, 1969); Guillaume de Machaut, 'Hoquetus David' (arranged by Harrison Birtwistle,1969); George Benjamin, 'At First Light' (1982); Harrison Birtwistle, 'Bach Measures' (1996), 'Verses for Ensembles' (1968-9). [Programme essay for oenm in the Kollegienkirche, Salzburg Festival, 30/7/13]. Salzburg Festival.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. Inner spirit: Harrison Birtwistle, 'Trio for violin, cello and piano' (2010); Gabriel Fauré, 'Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor op. 45'; Birtwistle, 'Bourdon for violin and viola' (2009); Johannes Brahms, 'Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor op. 25' {Programme essay for Capuçons and Friends in the Mozarteum Grosser Saal, Salzburg Festival, 22/8/13]. Salzburg, Austria: Salzburg Festival.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. 'The Minotaur' in context [Programme Essay]. In: The Minotaur. London: Royal Opera House, pp. 32-38.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. Zurück in Die Zukunft: Gawain. Salzburg: Salzburg Festival.
2012
- Beard, D. J. 2012. Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre. Music Since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2011
- Beard, D. J. 2011. La communication des emotions et des affects vocaux et instrumentaux: L'exemple de Punch and Judy. Le point de vue du musicologue. Acto: Le journal du cercle du Grand Théâtre et du Grand Théâtre de Genève 7, pp. 12-14.
2010
- Beard, D. J. 2010. "Batter the doom drum": The music for Peter Hall's 'Oresteia' and other productions of Greek tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir. In: Brown, P. and Ograjensek, S. eds. Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 369-397.
- Beard, D. J. 2010. The shadow of opera: dramatic narrative and musical discourse in Gawain. In: Notley, M. ed. Opera After 1900., Vol. 6. The Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 319-355.
2009
- Beard, D. J. 2009. Taverner: An interpretation. In: Gloag, K. and Jones, N. eds. Peter Maxwell Davies Studies. Cambridge Composer Studies Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 79-105.
- Beard, D. J. 2009. Birtwistle at 75: a continuing radical. In: BBC Proms Festival: Prom 27. London: BBC, pp. 3-5.
- Beard, D. J. 2009. Blurring the boundaries. Geschlechterbeziehungen und Körperbilder in Harrison Birtwistle's The Corridor und Semper Dowland, semper dolens. In: Berman, L. ed. Klang zu Gang Gedanken zur Musik in heutigen Theaterformen, Recherchen 73. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, pp. 37-48.
- Beard, D. J. 2009. From "Heroische Bogenstriche" to "Waldeinsamkeit": Gender and genre in Judith Weir's 'Heroic Strokes of the Bow'. In: Dichotonies. Gender and Music.. American Studies - A Monograph Series Heidelberg: Univesitatsverlag, Winter, pp. 77-96.
- Beard, D. J. 2009. Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, Silbury Air and Verses for Ensembles (Prom 27). In: BBC Proms. London: BBC, pp. 6-11.
2008
- Beard, D. J. 2008. A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches, eds Patricia Hall and Friedemann Sallis [Book Review]. twentieth-century music 5(2), pp. 243-251. (10.1017/S1478572209990077)
- Beard, D. J. 2008. Birtwistle's 'Labyrinth' [a preview of the Minotaur]?. Opera 59(4), pp. 372-381.
- Beard, D. J. 2008. Opera by number [Programme Essay]. In: Punch & Judy. London: Royal Opera House, pp. 3-6.
- Beard, D. J. 2008. An opera of sinister charms and lyrical conceits: Richard Rodney Bennett's "The Mines of Sulphhur" [Programme Essay]. In: Wexford Opera Festival. Wexdord Opera, pp. 50-54.
- Beard, D. J. 2008. Beauty and the beast: a conversation with Sir Harrison Birtwistle. The Musical Times 149(1902), pp. 9-25.
- Beard, D. J. and Spiric Beard, D. 2008. The liminality of song: illusion and reality in the films of Emir Kusturica. Texte und Töne: Zeitschrift zum Kopfschütteln 1(1), pp. 50-57.
2006
- Beard, D. J. 2006. "A face like music": Shaping images into sound in the second Mrs Kong. Cambridge Opera Journal 18(3), pp. 273-300. (10.1017/S0954586706002205)
- Beard, D. J. 2006. Alison Latham, ed., Sing, Ariel: Essays and Thoughts for Alexander Goehr’s Seventieth Birthday (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), ISBN 0 7546 3497 3 (hb) [Book Review]. Twentieth-Century Music 3(1), pp. 150-154. (10.1017/S1478572207000370)
- Beard, D. J. 2006. Aspects of British Music in the 1990s. Ed. by Peter O’Hagan. pp. xviii + 164. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, £45. ISBN 0-7546-3041-2.) [Book Review]. Music & Letters 87(1), pp. 163-166. (10.1093/ml/gci161)
- Beard, D. J. 2006. Brimful of Asia: Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene [Book Review]. Music & Letters 87(3), pp. 482-485. (10.1093/ml/gci223)
2005
- Beard, D. J. 2005. The shadow of opera: Dramatic narrative and musical discourse in Gawain. twentieth-century music 2(2), pp. 159-195. (10.1017/S1478572206000259)
- Beard, D. J. and Gloag, K. 2005. Musicology: the key concepts. Routledge Key Guides. London: Routledge.
- Beard, D. J. 2005. Review: Analyzing Popular Music [Book Review]. Music & Letters 86(2), pp. 325-328. (10.1093/ml/gci057)
- Beard, D. J. 2005. Meta-narratives and multidimensional opera: Harrison Birtwistle's 'The Mask of Orpheus'. In: Markovic, T. and Mikic, V. eds. Music and Networking: The seventh international conference, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade.. Beograd: Fakultet Muzicke Umetnosti, pp. 143-153.
2004
- Beard, D. J. 2004. Britten's ambiguities; Tippett's times; Metzer's borrowings. Journal of the Royal Musical Association 129(2), pp. 305-323. (10.1093/jrma/129.2.305)
- Beard, D. J. 2004. The endless parade: competing narratives in recent Birtwistle studies. Music Analysis 23(1), pp. 89-127. (10.1111/j.0262-5245.2004.00196.x)
- Beard, D. J. 2004. Refrains and choruses [works by Davies and Birtwistle]. In: Bellingham, J. ed. Aldeburgh Music Festival 2004. Aldeburgh: Aldeburgh Productions, pp. 48-50.
2003
- Beard, D. J. 2003. Monuments and Miniatures [works by Kurtág, Birtwistle, and Beethoven]. In: Bellingham, J. ed. Aldeburgh Music Festival 2003. Aldeburgh: Aldeburgh Productions, pp. 39-41.
- Beard, D. J. 2003. The shadow of night: UK premiere [Programme Note]. In: BBC Proms Festival: Prom 72. London: BBC, pp. 5-7.
2001
- Beard, D. J. 2001. 'From the mechanical to the magical': A pre-compositional plan for Birtwistle's 'Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum'. Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung 14, pp. 29-33.
- Beard, D. J. 2001. Sonance 2000 [Programme Note]. In: BBC Proms Festival: Prom 64. London: BBC, pp. 17-17.
- Beard, D. J. 2001. Tenebrae David: UK premiere [Programme Note]. In: BBC Proms Festival: Prom 64. London: BBC, pp. 5-6.
- Beard, D. J. 2001. Reading pop: approaches to textual analysis in popular music Edited by Richard Middleton Oxford UP (Oxford, 2000); xi, 388pp; L40 / 14.99 pbk. ISBN 0 19 816612 5 / 0 19 816611 7. [Book Review]. The Musical Times 142(1876), pp. 70-71.
1993
- Beard, D. J. 1993. A 'seven year index' of The Musical Times, 1984-91. The Musical Times 134(1804)
Articles
- Beard, D. 2019. 'Out of the air': Judith Weir's emergence in 1970s Britain, or interpreting creative self-censorship. Music and Letters 100(3), pp. 481-528. (10.1093/ml/gcz002)
- Beard, D. J. 2011. La communication des emotions et des affects vocaux et instrumentaux: L'exemple de Punch and Judy. Le point de vue du musicologue. Acto: Le journal du cercle du Grand Théâtre et du Grand Théâtre de Genève 7, pp. 12-14.
- Beard, D. J. 2008. A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches, eds Patricia Hall and Friedemann Sallis [Book Review]. twentieth-century music 5(2), pp. 243-251. (10.1017/S1478572209990077)
- Beard, D. J. 2008. Birtwistle's 'Labyrinth' [a preview of the Minotaur]?. Opera 59(4), pp. 372-381.
- Beard, D. J. 2008. Beauty and the beast: a conversation with Sir Harrison Birtwistle. The Musical Times 149(1902), pp. 9-25.
- Beard, D. J. and Spiric Beard, D. 2008. The liminality of song: illusion and reality in the films of Emir Kusturica. Texte und Töne: Zeitschrift zum Kopfschütteln 1(1), pp. 50-57.
- Beard, D. J. 2006. "A face like music": Shaping images into sound in the second Mrs Kong. Cambridge Opera Journal 18(3), pp. 273-300. (10.1017/S0954586706002205)
- Beard, D. J. 2006. Alison Latham, ed., Sing, Ariel: Essays and Thoughts for Alexander Goehr’s Seventieth Birthday (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), ISBN 0 7546 3497 3 (hb) [Book Review]. Twentieth-Century Music 3(1), pp. 150-154. (10.1017/S1478572207000370)
- Beard, D. J. 2006. Aspects of British Music in the 1990s. Ed. by Peter O’Hagan. pp. xviii + 164. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, £45. ISBN 0-7546-3041-2.) [Book Review]. Music & Letters 87(1), pp. 163-166. (10.1093/ml/gci161)
- Beard, D. J. 2006. Brimful of Asia: Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene [Book Review]. Music & Letters 87(3), pp. 482-485. (10.1093/ml/gci223)
- Beard, D. J. 2005. The shadow of opera: Dramatic narrative and musical discourse in Gawain. twentieth-century music 2(2), pp. 159-195. (10.1017/S1478572206000259)
- Beard, D. J. 2005. Review: Analyzing Popular Music [Book Review]. Music & Letters 86(2), pp. 325-328. (10.1093/ml/gci057)
- Beard, D. J. 2004. Britten's ambiguities; Tippett's times; Metzer's borrowings. Journal of the Royal Musical Association 129(2), pp. 305-323. (10.1093/jrma/129.2.305)
- Beard, D. J. 2004. The endless parade: competing narratives in recent Birtwistle studies. Music Analysis 23(1), pp. 89-127. (10.1111/j.0262-5245.2004.00196.x)
- Beard, D. J. 2001. 'From the mechanical to the magical': A pre-compositional plan for Birtwistle's 'Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum'. Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung 14, pp. 29-33.
- Beard, D. J. 2001. Reading pop: approaches to textual analysis in popular music Edited by Richard Middleton Oxford UP (Oxford, 2000); xi, 388pp; L40 / 14.99 pbk. ISBN 0 19 816612 5 / 0 19 816611 7. [Book Review]. The Musical Times 142(1876), pp. 70-71.
- Beard, D. J. 1993. A 'seven year index' of The Musical Times, 1984-91. The Musical Times 134(1804)
Book sections
- Beard, D. 2024. BBC Singers and Castalian String Quartet - Programme Essay. In: Programme Book for the 75th Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, 2024. UK: Britten Pears Arts, pp. 147-150.
- Beard, D. 2024. Blond Eckbert - Programme Essay. In: Programme Book for the 75th Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, 2024. UK: Britten Pears Arts, pp. 42-46.
- Beard, D. 2021. Musicology's crises of identity. In: Radovanovic, B. et al. eds. Shaping the Present through the Future: Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Contemporaneity. Institute of Musicology SASA, pp. 13-36.
- Beard, D. 2019. Reconceptualising the performer in new music theatre: collaborations with actors, mimes and musicians. In: Adlington, R. ed. New Music Theatre in Europe: Transformations Between 1955–1975. Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 227-254., (10.4324/9780429451669-11)
- Beard, D. 2017. Listening to the river's roar: stance, texture and space in the concertos. In: Charlton, D. ed. The Music of Simon Holt. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 194-231., (10.1017/9781787440692.012)
- Beard, D. 2015. 'The life of my music': What the sketches tell us. In: Beard, D., Gloag, K. and Jones, N. eds. Harrison Birtwistle Studies. Cambridge Composer Studies Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120-174., (10.1017/CBO9781316145326.007)
- Beard, D. J. 2015. A selected inventory of Birtwistle manuscripts acquired by the British Library in 2013. In: Harrison Birtwistle Studies. Cambridge Composer Series Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 304-309.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. The silk house tattoo [Programme Note for London Sinfonietta]. In: Arconis International Brass Event: Brass Without Boundaries. Cardiff: St. David's Hall, pp. n/a.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. 'The Minotaur' in context [Programme Essay]. In: The Minotaur. London: Royal Opera House, pp. 32-38.
- Beard, D. J. 2010. "Batter the doom drum": The music for Peter Hall's 'Oresteia' and other productions of Greek tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir. In: Brown, P. and Ograjensek, S. eds. Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 369-397.
- Beard, D. J. 2010. The shadow of opera: dramatic narrative and musical discourse in Gawain. In: Notley, M. ed. Opera After 1900., Vol. 6. The Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 319-355.
- Beard, D. J. 2009. Taverner: An interpretation. In: Gloag, K. and Jones, N. eds. Peter Maxwell Davies Studies. Cambridge Composer Studies Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 79-105.
- Beard, D. J. 2009. Birtwistle at 75: a continuing radical. In: BBC Proms Festival: Prom 27. London: BBC, pp. 3-5.
- Beard, D. J. 2009. Blurring the boundaries. Geschlechterbeziehungen und Körperbilder in Harrison Birtwistle's The Corridor und Semper Dowland, semper dolens. In: Berman, L. ed. Klang zu Gang Gedanken zur Musik in heutigen Theaterformen, Recherchen 73. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, pp. 37-48.
- Beard, D. J. 2009. From "Heroische Bogenstriche" to "Waldeinsamkeit": Gender and genre in Judith Weir's 'Heroic Strokes of the Bow'. In: Dichotonies. Gender and Music.. American Studies - A Monograph Series Heidelberg: Univesitatsverlag, Winter, pp. 77-96.
- Beard, D. J. 2009. Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, Silbury Air and Verses for Ensembles (Prom 27). In: BBC Proms. London: BBC, pp. 6-11.
- Beard, D. J. 2008. Opera by number [Programme Essay]. In: Punch & Judy. London: Royal Opera House, pp. 3-6.
- Beard, D. J. 2008. An opera of sinister charms and lyrical conceits: Richard Rodney Bennett's "The Mines of Sulphhur" [Programme Essay]. In: Wexford Opera Festival. Wexdord Opera, pp. 50-54.
- Beard, D. J. 2005. Meta-narratives and multidimensional opera: Harrison Birtwistle's 'The Mask of Orpheus'. In: Markovic, T. and Mikic, V. eds. Music and Networking: The seventh international conference, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade.. Beograd: Fakultet Muzicke Umetnosti, pp. 143-153.
- Beard, D. J. 2004. Refrains and choruses [works by Davies and Birtwistle]. In: Bellingham, J. ed. Aldeburgh Music Festival 2004. Aldeburgh: Aldeburgh Productions, pp. 48-50.
- Beard, D. J. 2003. Monuments and Miniatures [works by Kurtág, Birtwistle, and Beethoven]. In: Bellingham, J. ed. Aldeburgh Music Festival 2003. Aldeburgh: Aldeburgh Productions, pp. 39-41.
- Beard, D. J. 2003. The shadow of night: UK premiere [Programme Note]. In: BBC Proms Festival: Prom 72. London: BBC, pp. 5-7.
- Beard, D. J. 2001. Sonance 2000 [Programme Note]. In: BBC Proms Festival: Prom 64. London: BBC, pp. 17-17.
- Beard, D. J. 2001. Tenebrae David: UK premiere [Programme Note]. In: BBC Proms Festival: Prom 64. London: BBC, pp. 5-6.
Books
- Beard, D. J. and Gloag, K. 2016. Musicology: the key concepts. 2nd edition. Routledge.
- Beard, D. J., Gloag, K. and Jones, N. eds. 2015. Harrison Birtwistle studies. Cambridge Composer Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Beard, D. J. 2012. Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre. Music Since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Beard, D. J. and Gloag, K. 2005. Musicology: the key concepts. Routledge Key Guides. London: Routledge.
Conferences
- Beard, D. 2024. '"Elective Affinities": Found objects, musical repurposing and concealed meanings in music by Judith Weir'. Presented at: John Bird Music Research Seminar, School of Music, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 11 October 2023.
Other
- Beard, D. J. and Birtwistle, H. 2017. Deep Time [Composer note]. Boosey & Hawkes.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. Rites of passage: Harrison Birtwistle, 'Tombeau in memoriam Igor Stravinsky' (1971); 'Nine Settings of Celan' (1989-96); 'Cortege' (2007); 'Secret Theatre' (1984). [Programme essay for Klangforum Wien concert at the Kollegienkirche, Salzburg Festival, 31/7/13]. Salzburg Festival.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. Contrapuntal sublimations: Alberto Ginastera, 'String Quartet No. 1 op. 20' (1948); Johann Sebastian Bach, 'Three Fugues from Die kunst der Fuge BWV 1080' (arranged by Harrison Birtwistle, 2008); Dimitri Shostakovich, 'String Quartet No. 8, in C minor, op. 110' (1960); Maurice Ravel, 'String Quartet in F major' (1902-3; rev. 1910).[Programme essay for the Simon Bolivar String Quartet concert in the Mozarteum Grosser Saal, Salzburg Festival, 5/8/13]. Salzburg, Austria: Salzburg Festival.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. New light on musical masters: Johannes Ockeghem, 'Ut heremita solus' (arranged by Harrison Birtwistle, 1969); Guillaume de Machaut, 'Hoquetus David' (arranged by Harrison Birtwistle,1969); George Benjamin, 'At First Light' (1982); Harrison Birtwistle, 'Bach Measures' (1996), 'Verses for Ensembles' (1968-9). [Programme essay for oenm in the Kollegienkirche, Salzburg Festival, 30/7/13]. Salzburg Festival.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. Inner spirit: Harrison Birtwistle, 'Trio for violin, cello and piano' (2010); Gabriel Fauré, 'Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor op. 45'; Birtwistle, 'Bourdon for violin and viola' (2009); Johannes Brahms, 'Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor op. 25' {Programme essay for Capuçons and Friends in the Mozarteum Grosser Saal, Salzburg Festival, 22/8/13]. Salzburg, Austria: Salzburg Festival.
- Beard, D. J. 2013. Zurück in Die Zukunft: Gawain. Salzburg: Salzburg Festival.
Websites
- Beard, D. 2023. Sleevenotes from Prima Facie PFCD224 Scenes from Childhood: Piano works by Pedro Faria Gomes. [Online]. RECITATIVE – the Prima Facie Blog: Prima Facie. Available at: https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/blog/2023/11/23/from-the-sleevenotes-scenes-from-childhood/
- Beard, D. J. 2013. An introduction to Harrison Birtwistle's music. [Online]. London: Boosey and Hawkes. Available at: http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?site-lang=en&composerid=2729&langid=1&ttype=INTRODUCTION&ttitle=Portr%C3%A4t [accessed 25 June 2013
Ymchwil
Mae fy ymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar groestoriadau rhwng safbwyntiau archifol, dadansoddol, creadigol a beirniadol-ddamcaniaethol ar gerddoriaeth gyngerdd ôl-1945, theatr gerddoriaeth arbrofol ac opera. Rwyf wedi cyhoeddi'n helaeth ar gerddoriaeth gyngerdd ac opera gyfoes Prydain, ac ar hyn o bryd rwy'n ysgrifennu'r llyfr cyntaf ar gerddoriaeth y Fonesig Judith Weir, cyn Feistr Cerddoriaeth y Brenin / y Frenhines, ar gyfer Gwasg Prifysgol Caergrawnt.
O 2021-23 roeddwn i'n dal Cymrodoriaeth Ymchwil Leverhulme, cyn hynny roeddwn yn Gyfarwyddwr Ymchwil yn goruchwylio cyflwyniad REF2021 yr Ysgol (2017-2021).
Addysgu
Mae fy addysgu Israddedig yn canolbwyntio ar gerddoriaeth ers c. 1890 hyd heddiw ac mae'n cofleidio amrywiaeth o safbwyntiau hanesyddol, diwylliannol, gwleidyddol a cherddorol-ddadansoddol ar ganolfannau diwylliannol Ewropeaidd (The Birth of Modernism), a thopograffeg amrywiol cerddoriaeth Brydeinig ers 1900 (Topics in Musicology 2B). Dyfeisiais fodiwl ar gerddoriaeth amgylchynol (Sounded Out) ac yn goruchwylio traethodau hir ar ystod o bynciau, gan gynnwys cerddoriaeth boblogaidd, rhaglenni cyngherddau, a cherddoriaeth celf gyfoes arbrofol.
Mae fy addysgu Meistr wedi cynnwys seminarau ar gerddoriaeth a hil, ethnigrwydd a hunaniaeth, darllen ac ysgrifennu academaidd, astudiaethau braslunio a moderniaeth gynnar, ac ecogerddoleg.
Ymhlith y pynciau PhD rydw i wedi'u goruchwylio mae ymddangosiad yr avant-garde yng Ngorllewin yr Almaen yn y 1940au, bandiau rhithwir a vocaloids, a cherddoriaeth Pavel Haas.
Rwyf wedi bod yn Arholwr Allanol ar gyfer graddau BA (Anrh) mewn Cerddoriaeth ym Mhrifysgolion Bryste (2017-21), Caergrawnt (2020-3; 2024-5), Keele (2020-3), a Rhydychen (2017-20).
Bywgraffiad
I studied music at Durham University (1990-93) before completing an MMus in music theory and analysis at King's College London (1993-4), and a DPhil at the University of Oxford on the early instrumental music of Harrison Birtwistle (2000).
Halcyon summer breaks during my first degree were spent working in London at the National Sound Archive, and for The Musical Times. I was later employed by Macmillan Publishers as an assistant editor on the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1994-5). I held a scholarship at the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel, in 1999, and was appointed Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University in 2000.
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
2021 Cymrodoriaeth Ymchwil Ymddiriedolaeth Leverhulme (18 mis)
2020 Gwobr Ruth Solie am 'yr erthygl fwyaf rhagorol ar bwnc mewn cerddoriaeth Prydain' a gyhoeddwyd yn 2018 a 2019, a ddyfarnwyd gan Gymdeithas Astudiaethau Cerddoriaeth Prydain Gogledd America (NABMSA)
2016 Cymrodoriaeth Absenoldeb Ymchwil (blwyddyn academaidd lawn), Prifysgol Caerdydd
Gwobr y Gronfa Datblygu Dadansoddi Cerddoriaeth 2014 , Cymdeithas Dadansoddi Cerddoriaeth
2013 Cymrodoriaeth Absenoldeb Ymchwil (semester yr Hydref), Prifysgol Caerdydd
Gwobr Diana McVeagh 2013 am y Llyfr Gorau ar Gerddoriaeth Prydain, NABMSA
Gwobr Cydweithio Rhyngwladol 2010 , Prifysgol Caerdydd
Gwobr Gwyliau Ymchwil AHRC 2008
Gwobr Cerddoriaeth a Llythyrau 2006 , i gyflwyno papur mewn cynhadledd yn UDA
2005 Grant Ymchwil Bach yr Academi Brydeinig
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
Cymdeithas Astudiaethau Cerddoriaeth Prydain Gogledd America
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
Tiwtor ar gyfer Eglwys Crist, Coleg yr Iesu, Neuadd Sant Edmund a Sant Pedr, Prifysgol Rhydychen.
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
'"Dear Judith": Myfyrdodau Cynnar ar Archif Gohebiaeth Breifat Weir', Ysgol Cerddoriaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd, Diwrnod Ymchwil, 21 Mai 2025
'"Affinities Dewisol": Gwrthrychau a Ddarganfuwyd, Ailbwrpasu Cerddorol ac Ystyron Cuddiedig mewn Cerddoriaeth gan Judith Weir', Seminar John Bird, Ysgol Cerddoriaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 11 Hydref 2023
Bwrdd Crwn ar The Black Spider gyda'r gyfansoddwraig Judith Weir a'r Cyfarwyddwr Rhian Hutchings, Opera Ieuenctid WNO, Canolfan Celfyddydau'r Mileniwm, Caerdydd, 28 Mai 2022.
'"An Absolute and Infectious Integrity": Parallels Between Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Weir', Diwrnod Astudio 'Revealing Max', Ysgol Cerddoriaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 7 Mai 2022.
'Musicology's Crises of Identity', gwahoddwyd yn 'Shaping the Present by the Future: Ethno/musicology and Contemporaneity', Sefydliad Cerddoriaeth Academi Gwyddorau a Chelfyddydau Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia, 24–6 Medi 2020.
'Music, Untangled: Judith Weir's Endless Melodies', Wythfed Cynhadledd Dwyflynyddol Cymdeithas Astudiaethau Cerddoriaeth Prydain Gogledd America, Prifysgol Talaith Utah, Logan, Utah, UDA, 1 Awst 2018; fersiwn hirach a gyflwynwyd fel seminar gwahoddedig ym Mhrifysgol Surrey, Adran Cerddoriaeth a'r Cyfryngau, 9 Mai 2018.
'Rhyngddynt ein hunain: Deialogau Judith Weir â Moderniaeth', Symposiwm Diwrnod Cofio Kenneth Gloag, 2 Rhagfyr 2017, Ysgol Gerdd, Prifysgol Caerdydd.
'Out of the Air: Judith Weir's Emergence in 1970s Britain', papur ar gyfer panel thema mewn digwyddiad i goffáu pen-blwydd Michael Finnissy yn 70oed , Gŵyl Gerddoriaeth Gyfoes Huddersfield, Tachwedd 2016.
Cyfweliad cyhoeddus gyda Harrison Birtwistle yng ngŵyl gerddoriaeth gyfoes 'Open Circuit', Prifysgol Lerpwl, 5 Mawrth 2016.
Cadeirydd gwahoddedig y panel thema 'Gwleidyddiaeth Wladwriaeth Sosialaidd – Polisïau Perfformio Cerddoriaeth' yng nghynhadledd 'Etifeddiaeth Gerddorol Sosialaeth y Wladwriaeth: Ailymweld â Naratif am Ewrop ar ôl yr Ail Ryfel Byd' yn Academi Gwyddorau a Chelfyddydau Serbia, Belgrade, 24–26 Medi 2015.
'"Out of the Air": Judith Weir's Emergence in 1970s Britain', rhan o'r sesiwn thema: 'When Was British Musical Modernism? Safbwyntiau ar ôl y rhyfel, 1945-1980', 51ain cynhadledd RMA flynyddol , Adran Cerddoriaeth Prifysgol Birmingham, 9 Medi 2015. Cyflwynwyd hefyd fel seminar awr yn Academi Gwyddorau a Chelfyddydau Serbia, Belgrade, 28 Medi 2015.
Cadeirydd gwahoddedig y panel thema 'Clocks and Complexity' yng nghynhadledd 'The State We're In: Directions in Researching Post-1900 British Music', Prifysgol Surrey, 17 Ebrill 2015.
David Beard yn sgwrsio â Judith Weir (Meistr Cerddoriaeth y Frenhines), Cyfres Colloquium Adran Cerddoriaeth Prifysgol Nottingham, 24 Mawrth 2015.
'"The Mystery of the Kiosk Composer": Harrison Birtwistle's Creative Processes Explained', sgwrs wahoddedig ar gyfer 'Birtwistle at 80', Diwrnod Astudio a gynhelir ar y cyd gan y Sefydliad Ymchwil Gerddorol a'r BBC, Canolfan Barbican, Llundain, 25 Mai 2014.
'"Stand Back and Light the Fuse": Harrison Birtwistle and the Redistribution of Authorial Subjectivity', sgwrs wahoddedig ym Mhrifysgol Lerpwl, Adran Cerddoriaeth, 18 Chwefror 2014.
'Instinctive Interventions: Birtwistle at the National Theatre and Beyond', sgwrs wahoddedig yn 'Poetry, Music, Drama: The Creation of Contemporary Opera', cynhadledd undydd ar opera gyfoes, a drefnwyd gan y Sefydliad Ymchwil Gerddorol a'r Sefydliad Astudiaethau Saesneg yn Ysgol Astudiaethau Uwch Prifysgol Llundain, Tŷ'r Senedd, 16 Ionawr 2013.
'Wagnerian Opera Transformed: Birtwistle's Io Passion', papur a gyflwynwyd yng nghynhadledd opera 'Love to Death', Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru, 31 Mai 2012, a chadeirydd 'Beyond Opera', 1 Mehefin 2012.
Cyfweliad cyn y cyngerdd gyda Judith Weir, Ysgol Cerddoriaeth, cyntedd neuadd gyngerdd, 14 Rhagfyr 2011.
Sgwrs wahoddedig i goffáu 30 mlynedd ers cynhyrchiad Peter Hall o'r Oresteia ym 1981, a drefnwyd gan yr Archif ar gyfer Perfformio Drama Roegaidd a Rhufeinig, Cyfadran y Clasuron, Prifysgol Rhydychen, a gynhaliwyd yn Amgueddfa Ashmolean (roedd siaradwyr eraill yn cynnwys Tony Harrison ac Oliver Taplin), 19 Tachwedd 2011.
Sgyrsiau academaidd a chyhoeddus gwahoddedig a chymryd rhan mewn gweithdai ar gyfathrebu emosiynau mewn cerddoriaeth, gyda phwyslais ar y swyddogaethau lleisiol sy'n sail i gynhyrchu ffrwydradau effeithiol a phrosodi lleferydd, ar y cyd â chantorion ac offerynwyr yn perfformio cynhyrchiad arobryn Daniel Kramer o Punch and Judy gan Birtwistle. Canolfan Gwyddorau Affeithiol y Swistir, Prifysgol Genefa, a'r Grand Théâtre de Genève, 4–5 Ebrill 2011.
'When Actors Meet Musicians: The Music for Peter Hall's Oresteia and "the Agamemnon Experiments"', darlith a seminar gwahoddedig, Prifysgol Aberdeen, 19 Mawrth 2010.
Cadeirydd sesiwn 'Cyfansoddwyr Prydeinig yr Ugeinfed Ganrif' yng Nghynhadledd Dadansoddi Cerddoriaeth Caerdydd (CarMAC), 5 Medi 2008.
'Cerddoriaeth "Incidental"? Settings of Greek Tragedy gan Judith Weir a Harrison Birtwistle', darlith wahodd, The Faculty of Classics and The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Canolfan Ioannou ar gyfer Astudiaethau Clasurol a Bysantaidd, Prifysgol Rhydychen, 27 Hydref 2008.
'From Heroische Bogenstriche to Waldeinsamkeit: Gender and Genre in Music by Judith Weir', papur gwahodd, 'Dichotonies: a Workshop on Gender and Music', Prifysgol Cologne (rhan o Ŵyl Klang.Körper ar gyfer Cerddoriaeth Gyfoes a Rhyw), 15 Mehefin 2008.
'Escaping the Labyrinth: Deciphering the "scene-agent ratio"' yn Harrison Birtwistle a Tony Harrison's Yan Tan Tethera', Ail gynhadledd bob dwy flynedd o Gymdeithas Astudiaethau Cerddoriaeth Prydain Gogledd America, Coleg Sant Mihangel, Colchester VT, 4 Awst 2006; a roddwyd hefyd fel darlith wahoddedig ym Mhrifysgol Bryste, 2 Mai 2006 a Phrifysgol Caergrawnt, 29 Mawrth 2006.
'A Theatre of Sculptural Sound: Birtwistle's Concept of a Secret Drama in Gawain', darlith wahodd, Canolfan Ymchwil mewn Opera a Theatr Gerdd, Prifysgol Sussex, 24 Tachwedd 2004.
'The Music of The Second Mrs Kong', gwahoddwyd sgwrs a thrafodaeth bord gron gyda'r cyfansoddwr a'r libretydd, BBC SO, Royal Festival Hall, Llundain, 6 Tachwedd 2004.
'Meta-Narratives and Multidimensional Opera: Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus', papur gwahoddedig, Cynhadledd Cerddoriaeth a Rhwydweithio, Prifysgol Belgrade, 14-17 Ebrill 2004.
'Subject Position, Style and Genre in Contemporary Electronica and Dance Music', darlith wahodd, Prifysgol Surrey, Tachwedd 2003; cyflwynwyd hefyd fel darlith wahoddedig ym Mhrifysgol Durham, Hydref 2003, ac yn y Drydedd Gynhadledd Bob Dwy Flynedd, Prifysgol Nottingham, Mehefin 2003.
'Gesture and Genre in British Music Theatre Works from the 1970s', papur gwahoddedig a chyfrannwr i drafodaeth bord grwn, 'Beyond Opera', Cynhadledd Ryngwladol ar 'Music and Gesture', Prifysgol East Anglia, Norwich, Awst 2003.
'Rock Bottom: British Pop in the mid-1970s and the Voice of Robert Wyatt', seminar gwahoddedig yng Ngholoquiwm y Gyfadran Cerddoriaeth, Prifysgol Rhydychen, Mai 2002.
Cadeirydd y sesiwn yn 'Dadansoddi Cerddoriaeth a Cherddoriaeth Boblogaidd' yn niwrnod astudio a noddir gan y Gymdeithas Dadansoddi Cerddoriaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 17 Tachwedd 2001.
'Landscape and Identity in Recent British Chamber Music', sgwrs wahoddedig yng nghyfarfod Cymdeithas Gerdd Cheltenham, Francis Bacon Hall, Dean Close School, Mehefin 2001.
'Re-inscribing Opera: Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus', cynhadledd 'Opera at the Millennium', Prifysgol Hofstra, Efrog Newydd, UDA, Tachwedd 2000; cyflwynwyd fersiwn estynedig wedyn ar gyfer seminar John Bird gwahoddedig, yr Ysgol Cerddoriaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd, Rhagfyr 2000.
'"From the Mechanical to the Magical": A Pre-Compositional Plan for Birtwistle's C.A.M.P.', sgwrs wahoddedig ar gyfer y Seminar Ymchwil yn Sefydliad Paul Sacher, Basel, y Swistir, Rhagfyr 1999.
'Sounded Schemes: Compositional Processes and the Listener in Birtwistle's Music', papur yn y3ydd Cynhadledd Triennial British Musicological Societies, Prifysgol Surrey, Gorffennaf 1999.
'Birtwistle and Serialism: Three Sonatas for Nine Instruments', papur cynhadledd yn y Theory and Analysis Graduate Study Day, Prifysgol Rhydychen, Mai 1998.
'Birtwistle's Verses for Ensembles ', sgwrs wahoddedig ar gyfer y Faculty of Music Colloquium, Prifysgol Rhydychen, Mehefin 1997.
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