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]

Musicology Australia is now calling for submissions for consideration for our 2023 issues.

Submissions are accepted at any time, and contributors are not required to write on Australian music or be Australian-based. Musicology Australia is the scholarly journal of the Musicological Society of Australia. Since its inception in 1963, the journal h…[Read more]

Wagner Symposium: Rivers of Gold! Wagner in Bendigo, 22 April 2023
A symposium held in collaboration with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne.
 

Delve into Wagner’s works and their afterlives through a series of talks given by leading musicologists and performers. Full program and booking details available here: https://…[Read more]

SYMPOSIUM: Picasso and Musical Modernity (c.1900-1940) – 12-14 October 2023

Parador de Mojácar, Spain – University of Melbourne, Australia; Hybrid (in person and online)

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a witness and frontline actor of the music currents developing in Barcelona, Paris, and other sites prior to World War II. Coinciding with the 50th…[Read more]

The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Edith Cowan University) is co-hosting a hybrid conference from 31 May-3 June 2023 entitled “Global Connections in Performance Pedagogy and Practice” along with Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore) and The National University of Theatre and Film I.L Caragale (Romania). Held from 31 May – 3 June…[Read more]

Apologies for cross-posting!

Memories of Musical Lives: Music and Dance in Personal Music Collections from Australia and New Zealand, edited by Rosemary Richards and Julja Szuster (Melbourne: Lyrebird Press, 2022). This collection of nine essays looks at music and dance collections found in libraries, historic houses, archives and homes.…[Read more]

University of Melbourne Archives and Special Collections, Public Program: Talk

“The Highest Developments of Civilised Life”: Performances of Wagner in Colonial Melbourne

Suzanne Cole, Kerry Murphy

Wednesday 1 March 2023, 5.30pm Dulcie Hollyock Room, ground floor, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne

In association wit…[Read more]

CONTEXT: Journal of Music Research is published by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, and is edited by a committee of staff and postgraduate research students.

Now in its thirty-third year, CONTEXT publishes refereed research articles, book reviews, edited interviews with Australian composers, and research project…[Read more]

The International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz (INARJ), founded in 2019, will host its Third Conference, February 23–25, 2023, at the JAM MUSIC LAB Private University for Jazz and Popular Music, Vienna.The aim of the group’s conferences is to strengthen its network and establish a platform for advocacy for artistic research in jazz and…[Read more]

Roger Smalley and György Ligeti: Virtuosity, Place and Process 

Conservatorium of Music, University of Western Australia, August 25–27, 2023 

Keynote speakers

Professor Amy Bauer (UC Irvine)

Dr Christopher Mark (University of Surrey)

Call for Papers

Deadline for submissions: Friday March 3, 2023

The recontextualization of pre-existing mate…[Read more]

Kia ora tatou, and happy 2023 to you all. The Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network is pleased to announce the call for abstracts for our 2023 conference held at the University of Melbourne in late May please find the CFP and relevant dates here: https://www.ajirn.com/single-project

Ngā mihi nui,

Aleisha

Until recently, studies about Russian composers have dominated music scholarship on the countries of the former Soviet Union. Postcolonial theory can provide a useful framework to expanding research on music repertoire from the former Soviet Republics. The SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group is planning to propose a…[Read more]

International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz (INARJ)
Third Conference, February 23–25, 2023 (Vienna)
Call for Proposals
The International Network for Artistic Research in Jazz (INARJ), founded in 2019, will host its Third Conference, February 23–25, 2023, at the JAM MUSIC LAB Private University for Jazz and Popular Music, Vienna. The aim…[Read more]

The full program and link for registration are now live for the Reimagining Musical Programming Symposium at Sydney Conservatorium of Music (and online) 24-26 November, https://www.sydney.edu.au/music/our-research/research-events/reimagining-musical-programming.html