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]

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

Hello, everyone!

As those of you who attended our January meeting might recall, the HHRIG currently assembling a hip-hop studies bibliography. In its current form, the bibliography is being drafted as a Google Doc and has just over fifty entries. I have also added a PDF copy of it to the Files Tab on this group page. I am reaching out today to…[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]

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]

SYMPOSIUM: 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]

The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Edith Cowan University) is co-hosting a hybrid conference from 31 May-3 June 2023 entitled “Global Connections in Performance Pedagogy and Practice” along with Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore) and The National University of Theatre and Film I.L Caragale (Romania). Held from 31 May – 3 June…[Read more]

Apologies for cross-posting!

Memories of Musical Lives: Music and Dance in Personal Music Collections from Australia and New Zealand, edited by Rosemary Richards and Julja Szuster (Melbourne: Lyrebird Press, 2022). This collection of nine essays looks at music and dance collections found in libraries, historic houses, archives and homes.…[Read more]

University of Melbourne Archives and Special Collections, Public Program: Talk

“The Highest Developments of Civilised Life”: Performances of Wagner in Colonial Melbourne

Suzanne Cole, Kerry Murphy

Wednesday 1 March 2023, 5.30pm Dulcie Hollyock Room, ground floor, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne

In association wit…[Read more]