REMINDER – CFP

The interwar period in both Europe and Australia was a fascinating and crucial time for the re-building and reconsideration of national identity. Reeling from the trauma of the Great War, negotiating postwar transitions, surviving the Depression of the 1930s, and hurtling towards yet another world war, all had an impact on c…[Read more]

Dear colleagues

Applications are now open for the 2024 Elizabeth Wood Fellowships at The University of Adelaide:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/363068/the-elizabeth-wood-research-fellowship-in-musicology/

Note that this year two fellowships will be awarded.

Kind regards

Paul

Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 45/1, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmus20/current

Musicology Australia is open to new submissions at any time. Contributors are not required to write on Australian music or be Australian-based musicologists. For further information and instructions for potential…[Read more]

Musical Nationbuilding and Cultural Exchange in Interwar France and Europe
2-3 August 2024, Melbourne
 

The interwar period in both Europe and Australia was a fascinating and crucial time for the re-building and reconsideration of national identity. Reeling from the trauma of the Great War, negotiating postwar transitions, surviving the…[Read more]

We are pleased to announce the program of the 2023 Grainger Symposium ‘New Media and Old Archives – Exploring Twentieth-Century Music, Media and Technology’ at the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne on 8 December 2023.

Details of the program and registration (for both online and in-person participation) are available here: https://grainger.u…[Read more]

The Victoria Chapter of the MSA will be holding its 2023 Chapter conference and AGM this Friday, 27th October at Trinity College. Please see attached the conference schedule for additional information on the time and location, and for the speakers’ abstracts. The conference is free and open to the public; voting at the AGM is limited to chapter…[Read more]

MSA members are warmly invited to attend a symposium on

Picasso and Musical Modernity (c.1900-1940) / Picasso y el Modernismo Musical (c.1900-1940), hosted by the 15th Symposium FIMTE and the University of Melbourne, and in hybrid format (in person and online)

• 12-14 October 2023
• Download the conference program HERE (please note that sessions…

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Book Talk: Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America 

When: Wednesday 13 September at 6pm

Where: Prudence Myer Studio – Level Five, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street Southbank, VIC 3006 and streaming online

Please join us to launch Nick Tochka’s Rocking in the Free World: Popular Mus…[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]

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]