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Tim Daly started the topic CONF: Musical Topics and Performance Practice: A Symposium in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoMusical 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]
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Paul Watt started the topic Applications Open: Elizabeth Wood Research Fellowship is Musicology, U Adelaide in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues
Please see this link for details about the newly gifted Elizabeth Wood Research Fellowship in Musicology tenable at The University of Adelaide:
Kind regards
Paul
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Alison Tokita replied to the topic Program: Musical Exchanges, Networks and Migrations to and from Australia in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoHello
I would like to register for attending this by zoom.
Can you please send me the link.
Alison Tokita
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Paul Watt replied to the topic Program: Musical Exchanges, Networks and Migrations to and from Australia in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoMusical Exchanges, Networks and Migrations to and from Australia
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Ian Potter Southbank Centre Room 701
Program
10.00 Welcome and Introduction
John Gabriel
Session 1
Facilitator: John Gabriel
10.15
Resonant Histories of Musical Encounter in Australia
Amanda Harris, University of Sydney
This project aims…[Read more]
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Paul Watt started the topic Program: Musical Exchanges, Networks and Migrations to and from Australia in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoDear 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]
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Sarah Kirby started the topic CFP: Musicological Society of Australia 46th National Conference in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe 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]
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Paul Watt started the topic CFP: Musical Exchanges, Networks and Migrations to and from Australia in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe 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]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited The Myth of the Speakers: A Critical Reexamination of Dolby History in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article corrects misconceptions regarding the history of film stereo. I show that the technical and aesthetic innovations regularly credited to Dolby Stereo, to sound designers like Walter Murch, and to films like Apocalypse Now (1979) were not revolutions but extensions of surround-sound practices that Hollywood codified in prior decades. I…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Under the Standard: MGM, AT&T, and the Academy’s Regulation of Power in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited The Myth of the Speakers: A Critical Reexamination of Dolby History in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article corrects misconceptions regarding the history of film stereo. I show that the technical and aesthetic innovations regularly credited to Dolby Stereo, to sound designers like Walter Murch, and to films like Apocalypse Now (1979) were not revolutions but extensions of surround-sound practices that Hollywood codified in prior decades. I…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Under the Standard: MGM, AT&T, and the Academy’s Regulation of Power in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[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, 10 months agoThe 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]
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Sarah Kirby started the topic Seminar: Using the Eyes to Guide the Ears: On Visualizing Music Eric J. Isaacson in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSeminar 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]
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Tim Daly started the topic CFP Musical Topics and Performance: A Symposium in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMUSICAL 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]
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Sarah Kirby started the topic CFP (articles): Musicology Australia in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMusicology 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]
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Rachel Orzech started the topic Wagner Symposium: Rivers of Gold! Wagner in Bendigo, 22 April 2023 in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWagner 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]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la colegiata de Talavera de la Reina en la primera mitad del siglo XIX in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoAfter the period of splendour experienced by the musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina during the 18th century, we witnessed a period of decline, which was part of the crisis experienced by Spanish religious music during the 19th century. The effects of the War of Independence, the successive…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La transición al siglo XIX en la Catedral de Jaén: el maestro de capilla Ramón Garay (1761-1823) [The transition to the 19th century in Jaén Cathedral: the maestro de capilla Ramón Garay (1761-1823)] in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis article focuses on the personal and artistic career of one of the most representative composers of Spain in the second half of the 18th century and the first third of the 19th century. Ramón Garay, born in 1761 in Asturias, held the post of Chapel Master of Jaén Cathedral for 36 fruitful years, which saw the birth of an extraordinary p…[Read more]
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Bernd Brabec deposited Academic (In)Discipline, Research (In)Sanity and the Conundrum of (Indigenous) Timescapes in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis contribution focuses on strategies to bridge what in anthropology is called ontological incommensurability: Indigenous worlds often seem inaccessible to modern thought. Instead of trying to open Indigenous worlds to Westerners, I rather intend to make Western worlds accessible to Indigenous thought; and likewise, academic disciplines…[Read more]
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Michael Christoforidis started the topic CFP: Picasso and Musical Modernity (c.1900-1940) – 12-14 October 2023 in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSYMPOSIUM: 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]
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