My new book is primarily a work of literary criticism about the British novelist Iris Murdoch and the music and sound in her novels. I discuss various examples of the way she deploys sound and silence, how music appears as a theme and so on. I also survey musical works setting her words, by composers including Malcolm Williamson and William…[Read more]

This two-day symposium will bring together interdisciplinary scholars and interpreters of music in rethinking how musical programs of the past might be meaningfully reimagined in the present. Contributors are invited to consider how contemporary scholarship offers new possibilities for staging musical concerts in ways that innovatively weave…[Read more]

The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe. Such interrogation requires consideration of gender from multiple viewpoints,…[Read more]

Dear MSA,

I am pleased to announce the recent publication of England’s Folk Revival and the Problem of Identity in Traditional Music (Routledge 2022). Details of the publication can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/Englands-Folk-Revival-and-the-Problem-of-Identity-in-Traditional-Music/Williams/p/book/9780367648152

There will be an o…[Read more]

Dear MSA colleagues

I am writing to alert you to the release, today, of my new book entitled The Symphony in Australia 1960-2020.  Published by Routledge, this book follows on from my previous work The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960 (Ashgate/Routledge 2014), thus completing a comprehensive survey of the form as treated by Australian…[Read more]

Hello, Everyone–

My video file is too large to attach to this post, so here is the link to my social media post: https://twitter.com/ArunLuthra/status/1559252306738049026.

Can anyone point me in the direction of recordings, oral histories, writing, etc. on the type of songs which V. Sriram is talking about in this interview?  The video is an ex…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

A message from the IMS:

On behalf of Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, current Executive Director of RILM, we would like to bring to your attention the following announcement:

August 15, 2022—The Board of Directors of Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is delighted to announce that Tina Frühauf, curr…[Read more]

Dear MSA colleagues,

We are delighted to announce our two keynote speakers for the 45th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, to be held online 1–3 December, 2022:

Kate van Orden (Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music, Harvard University; President of the International Musicological Society, 2022-2027): “Songs in Une…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book, A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, this book presents accounts of creative processes and contextual issues of current-day and early-twentieth-century women composers. This collection…[Read more]

This two-day symposium will bring together interdisciplinary scholars and interpreters of music in rethinking how musical programs of the past might be meaningfully reimagined in the present. Contributors are invited to consider how contemporary scholarship offers new possibilities for staging musical concerts in ways that innovatively weave…[Read more]

Dear MSA members,

Please find attached a call for papers for an online music research journal.

The Journal of Music Research Online (JMRO) is a freely accessible, peer-reviewed journal for the publication of scholarly research in music. It has a distinguished international editorial board, broad scope and only publishes research which is of the…[Read more]

https://events.unimelb.edu.au/finearts-music/event/16521-1

Please join us at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music for a guest lecture by our visiting Macgeorge Fellow, Prof Kyle Devine (University of Oslo).

When: 18 August 6pm

Where: On Zoom, and at the Prudence Myer Studio (513), in the The Ian Potter Southbank Centre (880), Southbank Campus…[Read more]