The latest issue (104.3) of Music & Letters is now available! (https://academic.oup.com/ml/issue)

Articles:

Ellie Chan, ‘The Etymology of the “English” Cadence’

Cheryll Duncan, ‘The law and the profits: Lewis Granom and the royal licence as a form of music copyright protection’

Sadie Menicanin, ‘The Garden as Interior: Reading…[Read more]

CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 September 2023

Call for Papers:

As part of the Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne’s new research programme, this symposium explores the theme of music history, composition, and performance in the context of innovation, exploration and engagement with of new media and new technologies. It takes a broad d…[Read more]

The schedule of papers for Semester 2, 2023 is as follows (all on zoom):

23 August – Neal Peres da Costa

6 September – Alan Maddox
“Performing emotion in Antonio Caldara’s (1670-1736) opera recitatives”

20 September – Liz Kertesz & Michael Christoferidis
“‘Revolutionary’ Adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen Between the Two World Wars”

4 October –…[Read more]

Calling for expressions of interest in a special issue of Humanities on Music and the Written Word

Words and song have long been thought to spring from the same expressive impulse. In Disgrace, JM Coetzee writes that “the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty…[Read more]

Louise Hanson Dyer Colloquium:  JOAQUÍN RODRIGO AND THE GUITAR

Speakers: Javier Suárez-Pajares and Walter Aaron Clark

Friday, 28 July 2023 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM AEST

This colloquium is presented as part of the 2023 Guitar Festival at the Conservatorium and the Louise Hanson Dyer Colloquia Series.

To mark the launch of their ground-breaking ne…[Read more]

New Media and Old Archives – Exploring Twentieth-Century Music, Media and Technology – 2023 Grainger Symposium

As part of the Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne’s new research programme, this symposium explores the theme of music history, composition, and performance in the context of innovation, exploration and engagement with of new…[Read more]

Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 44/2, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmus20/current

Musicology Australia is the scholarly journal of the Musicological Society of Australia. Since its inception in 1963, the journal has published articles on all aspects of music research, including historical…[Read more]

Musical Topics and Performance Practice: A Symposium

June 1-2

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music – Ian Potter Southbank Centre

Faculty of Fine Arts and Music  – The University of Melbourne

This Symposium explores the interactions between musical topics and performance practice and the implications of topical awareness in an eloquent…[Read more]

Dear colleagues

Please see this link for details about the newly gifted Elizabeth Wood Research Fellowship in Musicology tenable at The University of Adelaide:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/340011/the-elizabeth-wood-research-fellowship-in-musicology/

Kind regards

Paul

Dear colleagues

Attached is the program for our Roundtable on 12 May, to be held at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (in conjunction with The Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide).

If you would like to attend via zoom you can register here: https://forms.gle/3s93dFk1vpFRkC2j8

If you want to attend in person, please RSVP to John…[Read more]

The Musicological Society of Australia is committed to advancing academic and public understanding and appreciation of music, an activity and resource that is fundamental to the wellbeing of individuals and communities and reaches into all areas of life. Accordingly, for the 2023 National Conference musicians of all kinds are invited to reflect on…[Read more]

The Musicology and Ethnomusicology Hub at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, The University of Adelaide, and the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Area of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne, invite you to a Research Round Table on the theme of Musical Exchanges, Networks and Migrations to and from…[Read more]

The latest issue (104.1) of Music & Letters is now available!

(https://academic.oup.com/ml/issue)

Articles:

James Burke, ‘The Custodial History of the Sadler Partbooks (Oxford, Bodleian Library MSS Mus. e. 1–5)’

Danielle Padley, ‘From Ancient to Modern: Identifying Anglicanism in an Anglo-Jewish Hymnal’

Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, ‘Mediated…[Read more]

Seminar at UNSW Kensington, April 3, 12noon – All welcome

Using the Eyes to Guide the Ears: On Visualizing Music – Eric J. Isaacson (Indiana University)

Musical experience is ephemeral and unique to each person. To communicate about music, scholars therefore sometimes employ graphical musical representations. Such musical images can repr…[Read more]

MUSICAL TOPICS AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE: A SYMPOSIUM

(With apologies for cross-posting)

Date: 1-2 June 2023  Melbourne Conservatorium of Music |Faculty of Fine Arts and Music The University of Melbourne

Over the past four decades, the theory of musical topics has evolved into a powerful tool for studying the construction of meaning and…[Read more]