YouTube Videos


Lost Affection: How Music Became Modern

Click the above to view a short film by Stephen Coyle, written and presented by Piers Hellawell, about shifting ownership in Western art-music. Film contains music clips.



Composition as Research

Click the above to view a short film by Stephen Coyle, written and presented by Piers Hellawell, about the relationship between composition and academic research.



Sound Judgement, Sound Systems

Click the above to view a short film by Stephen Coyle, written and presented by Piers Hellawell, about the modern role of techniques in composing



Seriously Popular Music

Click the above to view a short film by Stephen Coyle, written and presented by Piers Hellawell, about music and popularity in an age of Popular Music




Whose Past Is It Anyway?

Click the above to view a short film by Stephen Coyle, written and presented by Piers Hellawell, about how attitudes to the musical past have affected the composing culture at different times.




Victims of Style, and other stories

Click the above to view a short film by Stephen Coyle, written and presented by Piers Hellawell, about how an idea of 'style' in art helps us to find our way around what is unfamiliar.