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]

One item on the business meeting agenda for the PMIG meeting in Denver this year will be updating the group’s bylaws. We would like to begin this process by soliciting changes from group members in advance of the meeting.

The current bylaws are available to view and download from Google Drive. Interested parties should access this document,…[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]

Nominations are officially open for the Popular Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the public…[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]