Dear AADIG members,At the end of the 2023 SMT meeting in Denver, Danny Jenkins’s two-year term as Co-Chair of SMT’s Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group (AADIG) will come to a close. We are writing to announce the call for nominations for a new Co-Chair. As per our by-laws, the election will commence one month before SMT and will be e…[Read more]

The next speakers in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Musicology Colloquium Series will be Elizabeth Kertesz and Michael Christoferidis of the University of Melbourne.

‘Revolutionary’ Adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen Between the Two World Wars By the early 20th century Georges Bizet’s Carmen had already been part of a long history of adaptation an…[Read more]

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]

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]

The AADIG keeps a database of scholarship in music theory that engages autographs and archival documents. You can always access the database from our webpage at societymusictheory.org. Have additions? Please contact one of the co-chairs. https://societymusictheory.org/interest-groups/autographs_and_archives

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]

We are thrilled to announce that our Special Session, “A Survey of the Sources of Serialism at its Centenary,” has been accepted for presentation at SMT! Congratulations to our colleagues who submitted a proposal for this session: David Thurmaier (University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory), “Walter Piston’s Serial Journey: What Archival Do…[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]