Workshop Programme
The programme for the M&SR International Workshop is subject to change.
Monday 19 June
7-7.45pm: Welcome Event for M&SR Delegates in the Laidlaw Music Centre
Prof. George Corbett and Dr Sarah Moerman (M&SR Co-Organisers)
Opening Remarks & Welcome
Dr Michael Downes (Director of Music, University of St Andrews)
Welcome and Introduction to the Laidlaw Music Centre
Byre Opera (conducted by Dr Michael Downes)
A Preview of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park
8pm: M&SR Dinner for Speakers
Tuesday 20 June
All sessions are in the Psychology Old Library, in St Mary’s College Quad.
9-10am: Session 1
Chair: George Corbett
John Sloboda (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
‘“Music and Worship: A Psychologist’s Perspective (1998)”: Reflections 25 Years on’
Jeremy Begbie (Duke University)
‘Encountering the Uncontrollable: The Resistance of Music to Reductionism and Its Theological Implications’
10.15-11.15am: Session 2
Chair: Sarah Moerman
Melanie Wald-Furhmann (Max Plank Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)
‘Music in Christian Services as a Means to Induce Religious Feelings: An Empirical Research Programme’
Jonathan Arnold (University of Kent)
‘Spiritual Cultures: Innovations in Choral and Classical Music and Spiritual Realities’
12.00-1pm: Session 3
Chairs: George Corbett, Ines Jentzsch, Michael Ferguson
Sarah Moerman (University of St Andrews)
‘The Covid-19 Effect: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Covid 19 on Worshipers’ Experience of Music and Spiritual Realities’
Elspeth Manders (University of St Andrews)
‘Listening to the Lived Experiences of Worshippers: Planning and Implementing a Mixed Ecology Worship Following the Covid-19 Pandemic’
2.30-3.30pm: Session 4
Chair: Ines Jentzsch
Martin V. Clarke (Open University)*
‘Music and Spirituality in Communal Song’
Tihomir Lazic (Newbold College)
‘Triangulating Digital Worship: A Netnographic Study of Music, Spirituality, and Technology’
3.45-4.45pm: Ecumenical Religious Service, St Salvator’s Church (73 North St).
An ecumenical service with prayer and Scripture readings, as well as a sermon of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), with fifteenth-century sacred music provided by the choir of St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, Edinburgh, directed by Dr Michael Ferguson.
5-6pm: Session 5
Chair: Michael Ferguson
Sir James MacMillan (University of St Andrews)*
‘Music and Spiritual Realities: A Composer’s Perspective’
Richard E. McGregor (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
‘The Impetus to Compose: Where is Fantasy Bred?: A Search for Personal Spiritual Understandings Mediated by the Work of Several Key 20th/21st Century Composers’
Wednesday 21 June
All sessions are in the Psychology Old Library, in St Mary’s College Quad.
9-10am: Session 1
Chair: Sarah Moerman
Maeve Heaney (Australian Catholic University)
‘Spiritual Subjects: Musicking, Biography, and the Connections We Make’
Férdia Stone Davis (University of Music and the Performing Arts Graz / University of Cambridge)
‘“Faith Seeking Understanding”: Hearing In and Through the Material’
10.15-11.15: Session 2
Chair: Ines Jentzsch
David M. Greenberg (Bar-Ilan University / University of Cambridge)*
‘Music Expresses and Increases Spirituality: Basic and Applied Research Across 5 studies, 80,000 People and 52 Countries’
Peter Bouteneff (St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary)
‘Cross and Consolation: The Quiet Power of Pärt’
12-1pm: Session 3
Chair: Ines Jentzsch
Dilara Turan (Istanbul Technical University)*
‘Sonic Signification in Altered States of Consciousness: An Inquiry into Musical Trance’
Bennett Zon (Durham University)
‘No God, No Science, No Music’?
2.30-3.30: Session 4
Chair: Michael Ferguson
Bernard Sawicki, OSB (Pontifical Athenaeum Saint Anselm)
‘The Concept of Atmosphere as a Bridge Between Music and Spirituality’
Michael O’Connor (University of Toronto)
‘Music and Spiritual Realities: A Roman Catholic Approach’
3.45-4.45: Session 5
Chair: Sarah Moerman
Jeffers Engelhardt (Amherst College)*
‘An Ethnomusicology of Spiritual Realities?’
Charles Howell (University of St Andrews)
‘Music as Meaning: The Hermeneutical Role and Spiritual Dimension of Music’
5-6pm: Closing Session – Roundtable
Chairs: George Corbett and Sarah Moerman
A Response to the Contributions: John Sloboda
Discussion.
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