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]

Registration is now open for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) biennial global conference, hosted by the US branch (IASPM-US) in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. The global conference has not been hosted in North America since 2007 and not in the US since 1993. The conference runs Monday, June 26…[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

Hi Everyone!

We are currently accepting informal proposals and ideas for the topic and format of our Fall meeting. We will be in Denver in November for SMT, which is being held jointly with AMS. We are particularly interested in formats that include some element of interactivity with attendees, though any and all proposals will be considered. We…[Read more]

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]

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]

Popular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School (IPM-IPM-SMA)
Tuesday 29th – Thursday 31st August 2023, University of Liverpool
 

The Institutes of Popular Music of both Rochester and Liverpool, together with the Society for Music Analysis, are pleased to announce their second Summer School dedicated to popular music theory and analysis. Teachin…[Read more]

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]