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Rachel Marian Campbell started the topic Sydney Musicology Colloquium: Carmen stagings in the interwar period in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe 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]
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Nick Tochka started the topic Book Talk: Rocking in the Free World (13 September, 6pm) MCM / Online in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoBook 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]
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Sarah Collins started the topic New issue of Music & Letters now available in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe 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]
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Bernd Brabec deposited Auditive Wissenskulturen: Wissen, Macht und die Welt der Klänge in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoIn der Einleitung zum Sammelband Auditive Wissenskulturen – Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis stellen die Autoren zuerst die Diskrepanzen der jeweiligen Beziehungen des Visuellen und des Auditiven zu Wissen anhand einiger Beispiele vor. Sie exemplifzieren auch, wie sowohl auditive Praxis als auch die Hervorbringung und Vermittlung von Wissen in s…[Read more]
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Johanna Selleck replied to the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: New Media and Old Archives – 2023 Grainger Symposium in the discussion
MSA Forum via email on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoHi Sarah,
I would be interested in this symposium – to present something about Amos’s and my residency at the Museum, in particular the 6 electroacoustic works (sound installations)that have been created – specifically tailored to the architectural design of the building.Would that be a suitable topic? If you think so, I will put in a…[Read more]
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Sarah Kirby started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED: New Media and Old Archives – 2023 Grainger Symposium in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoCFP 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]
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Rachel Marian Campbell started the topic Sydney Conservatorium of Music Musicology Colloquium Series in the discussion
MSA Forum via email on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe 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]
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Gillian Dooley started the topic Special issue: Music and the Written Word in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoCalling 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]
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Gillian Dooley replied to the topic CFP: Musicological Society of Australia 46th National Conference in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe MSA National Conference Committee for 2023 with the theme of Open Borders: The Future of Music Research has extended the deadline for submissions to 15 September. See revised CFP attached.
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Michael Christoforidis started the topic Joaquín Rodrigo and the Guitar (Friday 28 July 6:30-7:30 PM AEST; hybrid event) in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoLouise 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]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]
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Joel Edelman deposited A Coherent Model of Musical Consonance in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoWithout fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]
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Adrian Curtin started the topic CfP for online symposium: The Experimental Orchestra (December 13, 2023) in the discussion
Music on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEvent date: December 13, 2023
Submission deadline: September 1, 2023
Orchestras around the world are conducting experiments related to performance, to the constitution of the orchestra, and to its operation. Professional classical music ensembles, like many other organisations and institutions in the cultural sector, face an existential…[Read more]
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Sarah Kirby started the topic CFP: New Media and Old Archives – 2023 Grainger Symposium in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoNew 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]
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Joel Edelman deposited Clarifying Musical Consonance in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoWithout fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]
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Gillian Dooley replied to the topic CFP: Musicological Society of Australia 46th National Conference in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThe conference will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, from 29 November to 2 December 2023.
Further information about the conference can be found at https://msa.org.au/conferences/call-for-papers/
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Sarah Kirby started the topic NEW ISSUE: Musicology Australia in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoMusicology 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]
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Eric Sirota started the topic New Movie: Frankenstein (musical) based on Mary Shelley’s novel in the discussion
Music on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoI’m excited to tell you that my musical, “Frankenstein” that played Off-Broadway in NY for 3 years, was adapted for screen, with an expanded score and orchestration. It was just released this week and is available on StreamingMusicals.com or from the website https://TheFrankensteinMusical.com
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