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]

Hello!

This forum is intended to be a place for news, announcements, questions, advice, and anything else you might want to share with the music cultural collections hive mind. Please share the link with anyone else interested

Sarah

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]

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]

Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 44/1 (2022), 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…[Read more]

We are pleased to announce a meeting to discuss the formation of a Study Group or potential research network for Music Cultural Collections. This meeting will outline the challenges and possibilities of the sector and the potential benefits of establishing a collaborative network to draw together ideas and expertise in this field. Topics to be…[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…[Read more]

https://events.unimelb.edu.au/finearts-music/event/16521-1

Please join us at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music for a guest lecture by our visiting Macgeorge Fellow, Prof Kyle Devine (University of Oslo).

When: 18 August 6pm

Where: On Zoom, and at the Prudence Myer Studio (513), in the The Ian Potter Southbank Centre (880), Southbank Campus…[Read more]

Hello all,

A colleague from Germany asked me to share this with the MSA. She and the other organisers are especially keen to get proposals/topics from outside of North America and Europe!

International Conference: Women at the Piano 1848–1970

University of California, Irvine, 17–19 March 2023

Keynote Speaker: Professor Jann Pasler (Un…[Read more]

Hello MSA friends,

Please come along to my upcoming book launch for Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage and the MSA Victorian Chapter.

Thursday 7 July 2022, 5:30 – 7 pm

Japanese Room, Level 4, Glyn Davis Building (Melbourne School of Design), Masson…[Read more]

THE ASIAN-GERMAN STUDIES IN MUSIC WORKING GROUP** PRE-IMS SEMINAR
In association with the IMS Global Music History Study Group

We are holding a pre-conference seminar online on 8–9 August 2022, prior to the IMS2022 Congress in Athens.We invite interested researchers, teachers, and art practitioners to share work-in-progress in an open and s…[Read more]

Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 43/1–2, available here 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 h…[Read more]

Please find below details of my book launch (in-person and online) for Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933-1944.

If you are interested in purchasing the book, please visit https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781580469708/claiming-wagner-for-france/ and use the promo code BB135 to save 35% before 31…[Read more]