Professor Jim Samson FBA

Music
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Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2000
Subjects
Music

Current post

Royal Holloway, University of London Emeritus Professor of Music

2011 -

Past appointments

Arts Faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Distinguished Visiting Professor

2019 - 2021

Royal Holloway University of London Professor of Music

2002 - 2011

University of Bristol Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music

1994 - 2002

University of Exeter Professor of Music

1992 - 1994

Publications

Music in Cyprus

Edited by Jim Samson and Nicoletta Demetriou - Published in 2015 by Routledge

Music in the Balkans

Jim Samson - Published in 2013 by Leiden and Boston

Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt

Jim Samson - Published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music

Jim Samson - Published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press

Chopin (Master Musicians Series)

Jim Samson - Published in 1996 by Music Sales Ltd

Chopin Studies 2

Edited by Jim Samson and John Rink - Published in 1994 by Cambridge University Press

Chopin: The Four Ballades

Jim Samson - Published in 1992 by Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin

Edited by Jim Samson - Published in 1992 by Cambridge University Press

Chopin Studies

Edited by Jim Samson - Published in 1988 by Cambridge University Press

The Music of Chopin

Jim Samson - Published in 1985 by Oxford University Press

The Music of Szymanowski

Jim Samson - Published in 1980 by Kahn & Averill UK

Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900-20

Jim Samson - Published in 1977 by Oxford University Press

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Medieval and social archaeology, particularly gender and religion; burial, magic and religious communities, including nunneries, monasteries, hospitals, Norwich Cathedral and Glastonbury Abbey

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Professor Gülru Necipoğlu FBA

Ottoman and Mediterranean architectural history; premodern Islamic art and architecture; artistic cosmopolitanism of early modern Islamicate empires; visual culture and history of science; aesthetics of abstraction and ornament; critical historiography

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Professor Lisa Tickner FBA

History of British art in the late 19th and 20th centuries, including the imagery of the suffrage campaign, early 20th-century British modernism, art education, and the London art world in the 1960s.

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