Cardiff University and University of Wales College of Medicine merged in 2004, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama joined the University of Glamorgan Group in 2007 and the University of Wales, Lampeter, and Trinity University College, Carmarthen, joined forces this year.
Dan Trueman, professor of music at Princeton University and a director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, isn't worried.
You see, in the study, which was conducted by a professor at the University of South Brittany in France and published in the journal "Psychology of Music, " a 20-year-old "good looking" man was challenged to ask 300 women for their phone number.
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He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Columbia and the Juilliard School of Music in New York where his mentors included the late Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, who is still composing and will celebrate his 100th birthday next month.
This year he named artist and community activist Theaster Gates known for installation art, pottery, music and other performance art as the university's director of the Arts and Public Life Initiative.
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Celtic Music Radio, based at the University of Strathclyde, will include news and features from Celtic Connections, but has secured a licence to continue indefinitely afterwards.
Grierson, a professor at Goldsmiths University in London did what any expert in the field of electronic music would do, and whisked it back to the motherland for restoration.
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Noteworthy highlights were a music and dance group from Ecuador's Cuenca University and presentations of shaman tribal rituals by several of more than 200 gathered for a rare conference of native spiritual leaders.
Moravec, currently head of the music department at Adelphi University, has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth and Hunter College.
According to his website, he studied composition with Vincent Persichetti at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
Hajdu, the music critic for The New Republic and a professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism, mainly focuses on the latter implications of his title: how a double-page photo in Time magazine sabotaged Eckstine's career.
One key difference between Handy's blues and earlier black-inflected popular music, says Chris Kjorness of Longwood University, was that it was no longer played for laughs.
Bowling Green State University, which says it has the only Department of Popular Culture in the nation and the largest popular music archives in an academic library in the U.S., appears poised to become a hub for metal research.
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Mr. Myers writes daily about music at JazzWax.com and is author of "Why Jazz Happened" (University of California Press).
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In another echo of MBAs, some schools are offering distinctly specialist business tuition: the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business offers a program for would-be music industry executives, while Lehigh University runs a popular course combining business and computer science.
The new partners cover a broad range of institutions, from Ivy League universities Columbia and Brown, which has lagged in offering free online courses, to Wesleyan, a small liberal arts college, to a top-ranked music school, Berklee College of Music, to state schools like University of Maryland at College Park, to foreign institutions like Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Melbourne.
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