Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology
School of Psychology
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Email: cjd<at>sussex<dot>ac<dot>uk
I am Chairman and Concert Secretary for the Nicholas Yonge Society in Lewes, which puts on 5 chamber music concerts a year with internationally renowned groups.
Strings
Attached provide useful information about chamber music concerts and
amateur players in Brighton and the surrounding area. I maintain its
calendar
of events and directory
of local players.
Programme
Notes
Since retiring I have written chamber music programme notes for The Dome /
Strings Attached Coffee
Concert
Chamber Music Series, the Nicholas
Yonge
Society, St.
John's
Smith Square, the Eaton
Square
Concerts, the Royal
College
of Music and Budleigh
Music Festival.
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The pdfs for all my programme notes are indexed here.
Feel
free to use them non-commercially.
Playing
I will usually drop everything (including hints) to play chamber
music. I have given local concerts with the Palmeira Quartet, Sussex
Camerata, Petchov piano quartet and Sussex string quartet.
I played violin in the Palmeira
Quartet
along with Anna Ruijterman, Paul Manderson and Howard Gough.
Here are a couple of items from a concert for Music on Sundays in
Chichester (18 Nov 2012). Beethoven Op 18
no 4 second movement. Puccini
Crisantemi. We played the Mendelssohn Octet with the
Chilingirian Quartet at the Bishopsgate Institute in April 2013 in a
memorial concert for Michael
Hall, the founder of the Northern Symphonia. We gave a concert at
the Bognor
Regis Music Club on 1 Feb 2014. Following Paul Manderson's
death in December 2015, the quartet disbanded
Sonata for Violin & Piano by Christopher Longuet-Higgins This sonata was initially written by Christopher Longuet-Higgins while he was a young man at Oxford, but was revised and converted to computer readable format (Encore 3) after he retired. I corrected some errors in the Encore score and added some phrase marks, metronome marks and dynamics with the composer's assistance. After his death I converted the score to MuseScore format and produced pdfs from this version.
Please download pdfs of the piano and violin parts and play it. It is also available at imslp.org
Dvorak Cello Conversion kit addendum Op 23 Bärenreiter
edition
Dvorak uses the false treble clef for high cello notes. Cellists
prefer the Tenor clef. A conversion kit by Don Cohen is available
for the International editions of Dvorak chamber music from ACMP.
I have prepared a kit of overlays for the Bärenreiter edition of the Piano Quartet Op 23 which can be downloaded as a single pdf file. Also available as separate pdf files or MuseScore files for each extract with the movement and bar numbers given in the file title.
Family Composer My great-uncle Walter G Hick (1872-1901) wrote a "Morceau" for piano entitled "Cherry Blossoms" which was published by Banks & Son of York: a modest piece of victorian parlour music. I have transcribed it with MuseScore and here it is as a pdf.
The
Accidental
Vegan by Kate Darwin: Vegan recipes from my wife; the
result of discovering that we had a Vegan lodger. Download booklet (pdf).
Bread Recipes: Danish Rye
Bread, and Sourdough Mixed
grain bread
Marmalade: Katie Stewart's Coarse Cut Marmalade recipe from
her The Times Cookery Book of 1972 is the best. Here
it is (edited). I have made an Excel spreadsheet
to help you calculate quantities.
I have now retired. My active research interests were in auditory
perception and in speech perception - more specifically in auditory
grouping and the "cocktail-party" effect.
Some demonstration sentences for Sine-Wave Speech are here.
Pub
Med direct access to my publications
Selected Publications (including difficult to
obtain material as pdfs).
Speech / Hearing Research Tools:
Praat
Paul
Boersma's excellent, free, multi-platform, user-friendly, stable,
well-maintained, scriptable program for doing a multitude of tasks in
speech and hearing research is here.
Tell your friends about it. Some Praat scripts that I have written for
doing changes to speech vocal tract size, Fo and duration and for
producing sine-wave speech and Shannon AM-noise speech are here.
They
were written for an older version of Praat and so may need minor
modifications to run under the current version.
Last update 4 Jan 2024