Knowledge Commons | Simon Petty | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/simonpetty/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Simon Petty is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ffb654fb962b77ca2b00990d9b536d83 Sarah Kirby started the topic NEW ISSUE: Musicology Australia in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/new-issue-musicology-australia-9/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:47:16 -0400 Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 47/2, a special issue on the music of Roger Smalley, guest edited by Adam Pinto and Paul Tanner, and available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmus20/current

Musicology Australia is open to new submissions at any time. Contributors are not required to write on Australian…[Read more]

]]> 6511042c08bd2bc11b053c07e38f3031 Jonathan Paget started the topic 50th National Conference of the MSA 2026 Call for Papers in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/50th-national-conference-of-the-msa-2026-call-for-papers/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:54:02 -0400 Conference: ‘Shifting Terrain’ The ‘50th Anniversary’ National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia
Date: 7-9th December 2026
Location: City Campus, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
Convenor: Jonathan Paget

The twenty-first century is a period of rapid change across the spectrum of political…[Read more]

]]> 11c34b702bd6f924c336235798472566 John Gabriel started the topic Asian German Studies in Music “Pitch Slam” for IMS2027 in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/asian-german-studies-in-music-pitch-slam-for-ims2027/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:27:38 -0400 The Asian German Studies in Music Working Group seeks to facilitate forming Asian-German themed panels for the IMS2027 conference (conference proposals due 15 June; https://ims2027.musicology.org/call-for-papers/). You’re cordially invited to join our one-hour ‘pitch slam’ to present and workshop your ideas. The latter part of the hour will be fo…[Read more]

]]> 56784809cfe855642096c94cbd86b85d Suzanne Robinson started the topic New books from Lyrebird in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/new-books-from-lyrebird-2/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:55:24 -0400 Just released: Early Popular Music in Australia by John Whiteoak and Raising Her Voice: Women Writing Opera in Australia edited by Suzanne Robinson and Joel Crotty. Both are available in print and ebook. Details from the Lyrebird website or the online shop.

]]> d9ec63668acaf2e91a7409a4d78a9b53 John Gabriel started the topic CFP: MSA Vic Musicology Pedagogy Study Day in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-msa-vic-musicology-pedagogy-study-day/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:28:53 -0400 The Victorian chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia is pleased to announce a Study Day on Musicology Pedagogy to be held virtually on 12 June 2026. Membership in the Victorian chapter is not required to submit a proposal or to participate in the study day.

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations related to the teaching of…[Read more]

]]> ae0764bbc47af783c2c84e3b4a59d612 Nick Tochka started the topic EOI: Digital Music Scholarship Workshops at University of Melbourne in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/eoi-digital-music-scholarship-workshops-at-university-of-melbourne/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:49:52 -0400 EOI: Digital Music Scholarship Workshops with Prof Richard Freedman at the University of Melbourne, August–October 2026

 

The Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, invites expressions of interest to participate in a series of digital music scholarship workshops, l…[Read more]

]]> 3fb3db49a6f5573e84b128e8ea99d117 Nick Tochka started the topic Book Launch: Nick Tochka's _The Musical Lives of Charles Manson_ 5 March in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/book-launch-nick-tochkas-_the-musical-lives-of-charles-manson_-5-march/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:07:04 -0500 Please join us to launch Nick Tochka's new book, The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties - or, No Sense Makes Sense, newly published by Bloomsbury. Nick will talk about the book with Prof Paul Long (Monash University); a short reception follows.

 

When: Thursday 5 March 2026 at…[Read more]

]]> a1810ce8086180941051e4a0220c87fa Sarah Kirby started the topic CFP: MSA50 Musicology Australia Special Issue in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-msa50-musicology-australia-special-issue/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:30:21 -0500 In 2026, the Musicological Society of Australia turns 50. Since its foundation, the MSA has provided an intellectual home for the study of music in Australia, and for Australian researchers working in Australia on a wide and varied range of internationally significant topics. In celebration of this major milestone, Musicology Australia will…[Read more]

]]> fe159cbf754343a8feb400e6221e1d4d Sarah Kirby started the topic TALK: Georgina Born - Music and AI Futures in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/talk-georgina-born-music-and-ai-futures/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:37:45 -0500 Presented as a collaboration between the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Faculty of Fine Arts and Music), the Grainger Museum (Department of Museums and Collections) and the Melbourne Connect AI at Melbourne Colloquium Series

Monday, 16 March 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Melbourne Connect - Forum 1 (Superfloor, Level M)
700 Swanston Street, Carlton,…[Read more]

]]> 56ae85d461120ba13dc5125b52155957 Sarah Kirby started the topic TALK: John O’Flynn - Postcolonial Scores? in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/talk-john-oflynn-postcolonial-scores/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:26:04 -0500 The Grainger Museum is pleased to present the second talk in our 2026 series on 19 February.  The Museum will be open from 5:30pm with the talk starting at 6:00pm. Bookings encouraged, drop ins welcome.

Book here: https://events.humanitix.com/music-research-forum-john-o-flynn-postcolonial-scores-maurice-jarre-s-collaborations-with-david-lean

John…[Read more]

]]> 575c96ef693a342098f9bb34e7f3d9d3 Sarah Kirby started the topic TALK: Luis Velasco-Pufleau - Stravinsky in Apartheid South Africa in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/talk-luis-velasco-pufleau-stravinsky-in-apartheid-south-africa/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:21:41 -0500 Join us for the first talk of the year in the Grainger Museum's music research series on 29 January 2026.

The Museum will be open from 5:30pm with the talk starting at 6:00pm. Bookings encouraged, drop in welcome. Book here: https://events.humanitix.com/music-research-forum-luis-velasco-pufleau-stravinsky-in-apartheid-south-africa

Stravinsky in…[Read more]

]]> 1d8641eb66efcdf2a4becc7b4d2b18cd John Gabriel started the topic CfP: 2nd Int. Symposium on Musical Topics and Performance Practice in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-2nd-int-symposium-on-musical-topics-and-performance-practice/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:44:12 -0500 Second International Symposium on Musical Topics and Performance Practice
The University of Melbourne | Faculty of Fine Arts and Music | Melbourne Conservatorium of Music | 10-12 September 2026.

The theory of musical topics is now an established framework for the study of musical meaning and expression. Although musical topics are realised in…[Read more]

]]> 600ac04d6cfe503d8a59a5a2a2618ec0 Ellen Hooper started the topic Music and Risk Symposium - this week! Register to participate. in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/music-and-risk-symposium-this-week-register-to-participate/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:59:47 -0500 <p style="font-weight: 400;">REMINDER! Register to participate this week</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Music and Risk Symposium</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Thursday 27th November, 2025 (online)</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">7pm-10.00pm AEDT (Syd, Melb) / 6pm-9.00pm AEST (Bris) / 4pm-7.00pm AWST (Perth)</p>
<p style="font-weight:…[Read more]

]]> 5f66ff1034ca284660b63d5cf3ac5c07 John Gabriel started the topic CFP: Music Theatre Working Group at IFTR in Melbourne 2026 in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-music-theatre-working-group-at-iftr-in-melbourne-2026/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:26:23 -0500 Sharing on behalf of Prof Tereza Havelkova, Charles University, Prague:

CALL FOR PAPERS for the Music Theatre Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research in Melbourne, Australia, July 6–10, 2026

We welcome papers relating to the general theme of the conference "What Theatre Does" as well as free papers on any aspect of m…[Read more]

]]> 68872993b90f3544cccf17d042152204 Ellen Hooper started the topic Open call for proposals extended: Music and Risk Symposium 27 November in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/open-call-for-proposals-extended-music-and-risk-symposium-27-november/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:54:26 -0500 <p style="font-weight: 400;">Music and Risk Symposium</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Thursday 27th November, 2025 </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">7pm-10.30pm AEDT (Syd, Melb) / 6pm-9.30pm AEST (Bris) / 4pm-7.30pm AWST (Perth)</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">8am-11.30am GMT (UK) / 9am-12.30pm CET (Europe) / 4pm-7.30 CST (Beijing) </p>
<p…[Read more]

]]> e5fbca4ec4d1695dfab4be1940b9bdc1 Sarah Kirby started the topic Registration Open: Music & Fashion - 2025 Grainger Symposium in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/registration-open-music-fashion-2025-grainger-symposium/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 05:39:37 -0500 The program and registration for the conference Music & Fashion at the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne on 10 and 11 December 2025 is now available at: https://grainger.unimelb.edu.au/whats-on/upcoming-events/2025-grainger-symposium-music-and-fashion

Some sessions are in-person only, at the Grainger Museum, and others are on Zoom (though…[Read more]

]]> 6149143491ab629bc3a5b8be9efc5595 Ellen Hooper started the topic Music and Risk Symposium - Thursday 27th November, 2025 (online, half-day) in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/music-and-risk-symposium-thursday-27th-november-2025-online-half-day-2/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:00:02 -0400 Music and Risk Symposium

Thursday 27th November, 2025

Convened by Dr. Ellen Hooper (UNSW)
A/Prof. Chris Stover (Griffith University)
A/Prof. Michael Hooper (UNSW)

Open call for provocations / speed-paper proposals, or to register attendance

‘Risk has acquired a kind of ontological status. Life is henceforth marked by an essential P…[Read more]

]]> 43abb0bbdbff8a85fa4ac7bfb30e5d27 Tui Dougiamas replied to the topic Australian Game Music- Ludomusicology in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/australian-game-music-ludomusicology/#post-97024 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:48:18 -0400 Hi Joanna! I am doing a PhD in Ludomusicology at the University of Western Australia at the moment. Feel free to send me an email at tui.dougiamas@research.uwa.edu.au if you want to chat 🙂

]]> 2faefd45a76bbb6ba70c77011fa2f50a John Gabriel started the topic MSA Vic Chapter Conference 2026: Program and Abstracts in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/msa-vic-chapter-conference-2026-program-and-abstracts/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:08:56 -0400 Dear colleagues,

I'm pleased to share the program (copied below) and abstracts (attached) for this year's MSA Victoria chapter conference, which we are holding this Saturday, 1 November, at the Boyd Community Hub in Southbank. We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Best,

John Gabriel

Secretary, MSA Vic…[Read more]

]]> 01d6a5f3d7de599d96c4597a8a92f723 Frederic Kiernan started the topic Book launch: Varieties of Imagination, Creativity and Wellbeing in Australia in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/book-launch-varieties-of-imagination-creativity-and-wellbeing-in-australia/ Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:56:43 -0400 For our Melbourne-based colleagues:

You are invited to celebrate the publication of Varieties of Imagination, Creativity, and Wellbeing in Australia, edited by Anita Archer, Aaron Corn, Frederic Kiernan, Peter Otto, and Anthea Skinner (Unlikely Publishing, 2025).

To be launched by:
Professor Jennifer Balint (Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of…[Read more]

]]> a381391d59a0e1c52ada71317b25aa96 Joanna Drimatis started the topic Australian Game Music- Ludomusicology in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/australian-game-music-ludomusicology/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:35:00 -0400 Hi Everyone,

In my role at the AMC, I write about a diverse range of topics related the music created by our AMC artists. My latest venture is Australian game music. I have the repertoire to write on and the artists, but am interested in the musicological side of this. I have read some interesting articles from overseas specialists in the area…[Read more]

]]> 0554f6a7e0486a0f27a1dfedb6ab7676 Sarah Kirby started the topic Musicology Australia featured in T&F Promotion in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/musicology-australia-featured-in-tf-promotion/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:37:20 -0400 Musicology Australia is pleased to announce that several of our recent articles have been included in a recent Taylor & Francis promotional campaign around International Day for Universal Access to Information 2025.

Mapping Music Activities in Australia for Older Adults: The Affordances of the Time-Layered Cultural Map by Helen English and Meg…[Read more]

]]> 72211d2c744f1289416e9b8b83c4a125 Sarah Kirby started the topic NEW ISSUE: Musicology Australia 47/1 in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/new-issue-musicology-australia-47-1/ Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:04:46 -0400 Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 47/1, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmus20/current

Musicology Australia is open to new submissions at any time. Contributors are not required to write on Australian music or be based in Australia. For further information and instructions for potential authors,…[Read more]

]]> 86e212c07b2f4109ef3997748841036e John Gabriel started the topic CFP MSA Victorian Chapter Conference 1 November 2025 in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-msa-victorian-chapter-conference-1-november-2025-2/ Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:03:23 -0400 Dear colleagues

You are invited to submit a proposal on any aspect of music research for our annual chapter conference, to be held on Saturday 1 November at the Assembly Hall, Southbank.

Our Annual General Meeting will also be held during the conference.

Submissions from honours and postgraduate students are especially encouraged, and the…[Read more]

]]> 4cf23933db5963ba8f270a4d68e27ba2 Rachel Marian Campbell started the topic Musicology Colloquium Series: Sydney Conseratorium of Music in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/musicology-colloquium-series-sydney-conseratorium-of-music/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 05:57:12 -0400 Dear colleagues,

The program of the Sydney Musicology colloquium series for semester 2, 2025 is as follows:

20 August - Goetz Richter (SCM) “In honour of the late Dr Diane Collins: Phenomenological reflections on listening”

3 September - Andrew Callaghan (SCM) “Hushed Tones: Inaudible Music in Hollywood Docudramas 2005–2015”

17 September - N…[Read more]

]]> 62b6528e841298a69651ce3be8930b53 Sarah Kirby started the topic EOI open: Grainger Museum Residencies 2026/2027 in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/eoi-open-grainger-museum-residencies-2026-2027/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:15:24 -0400 The Grainger Museum seeks proposals for its 2026/2027 residency program.

Grainger Museum Residencies encourage enquiry into the Grainger Museum Collection and Archive in creative, academic and open-ended ways, to deliver research, artistic, learning and/or public-facing outcomes. Residencies are intended to be flexible, with the time frame…[Read more]

]]> 341482cec5688712b7af7b05141e91e5 Sarah Kirby started the topic NEW ISSUE: Musicology Australia in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/new-issue-musicology-australia-8/ Mon, 11 Aug 2025 03:25:00 -0400 Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 46/2, a Special Issue on Music, Disability, Health, and Wellbeing guest edited by Anthea Skinner, Frederic Kiernan & Alex Hedt, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmus20/current

Musicology Australia is open to new submissions at any time. Contributors are not required…[Read more]

]]> d5798146cdbea30a2c1677028bd82eb0 Michael Christoforidis started the topic SYMPOSIUM: The Rise of the Guitar Concerto (8-10 August) in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/symposium-the-rise-of-the-guitar-concerto-8-10-august/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:53:32 -0400 Dear colleagues,

I’m delighted to announce the program for the

SYMPOSIUM: The Rise of the Guitar Concerto and the Orchestral Guitar in the Twentieth Century

WHEN: Friday 8 – Sunday 10 August 2025,

at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, in person at the Ian Potter Southbank Centre and streamed online via…[Read more]

]]> 67a09591e8f2ad605306fe82bbe08bd6 Nick Tochka started the topic Symposium: Musical Exile, Migration and Cultural Mobility (15-16 August) MCM in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/symposium-musical-exile-migration-and-cultural-mobility-15-16-august-mcm/ Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:44:51 -0400 You are invited to attend the symposium, "Musical Exile, Migration and Cultural Mobility" at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (15-16 August 2025). Featuring a keynote by Prof Nils Grosch, performance by Prof Norbert Meyn (Emigre Cabaret, with pianist Kevin Tamanini), and papers by leading scholars from Australia and…[Read more]

]]> ad45ba577283a1f2e45e4f8a9606167b John Gabriel started the topic Public lecture at Melbourne Con, 5 Aug: "Callas’s Studio Recordings" in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/public-lecture-at-melbourne-con-5-aug-callass-studio-recordings/ Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:48:41 -0400 Next week, we are pleased to welcome Professor Giorgio Biancorosso of the University of Hong Kong as a Macgeorge Speaker. He'll be presenting a public lecture titled "Doomed to an Eternal Present?: Callas’s Studio Recordings" on Tuesday, 5 August, at 6pm in the Prudence Myer Studio (Floor 5, Ian Potter Southbank Centre, MAP). Abstract and a…[Read more]

]]> 53051a85edafb17aec2472259827e513 Peck Jin Gan started the topic Call for papers: Journal of Music Research Online in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/call-for-papers-journal-of-music-research-online/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:10:47 -0400 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]

]]> 8b967a5c85e5a1fb01e1b349ba6a5cd8 Elizabeth Kertesz replied to the topic CfP: Haunted? Tracing the spectral in Australasian ballet in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-haunted-tracing-the-spectral-in-australasian-ballet/#post-92710 Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:26:39 -0400 CfP extended to 18 July 2025 for Haunted? Tracing the spectral in Australasian ballet (31 October 2025, Forum Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne)

You can find the call for papers (and other information) on the symposium…[Read more]

]]> 6f692c17f8d385342ef9dc85c1626440 Sarah Kirby started the topic REMINDER: Music & Fashion - 2025 Grainger Symposium in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/reminder-music-fashion-2025-grainger-symposium/ Sun, 15 Jun 2025 23:24:49 -0400 REMINDER: Call for Papers for Music and Fashion – 2025 Grainger Symposium

Deadline: 30 June 2025

The music and fashion worlds have always been closely linked, with each exerting significant influence over the other. The intersections between these art forms occur in practically all genres and time periods: from costume designs for film, bal…[Read more]

]]> b743b1cb6551ed09d5eac79c6e87d2d1 GJ Breyley started the topic Music and Mediation Conference, 9-10 June in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/music-and-mediation-conference-9-10-june/ Tue, 20 May 2025 12:06:21 -0400 The Music and Mediation Conference, generously funded by the MSA's Special Funding Scheme, will be held online and in Adelaide in June.

The program is now available at https://able.adelaide.edu.<wbr />au/music/events/list/2025/06/<wbr />music-and-mediation-conference<wbr />. Registration is open at https://events.humanitix.<wbr&hellip;[Read more]

]]> 395de2130cb585e7acf215015c86bf8b Elizabeth Kertesz started the topic CfP: Haunted? Tracing the spectral in Australasian ballet in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-haunted-tracing-the-spectral-in-australasian-ballet/ Mon, 19 May 2025 08:41:39 -0400 OCTOBER 31, 2025 (HALLOWEEN)

FORUM THEATRE, ARTS WEST, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Ballet is a form that remains haunted by its own past, unable to escape its various ghosts, spirits, wilis and sylphs. Its stages have long been sites for representing the spectral, transforming performances into mediums for ghosts to reappear and for rituals of…[Read more]

]]> 3e52013f39253df7025122b406a2290d Sarah Kirby started the topic CFP: Music & Fashion - 2025 Grainger Symposium in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-music-fashion-2025-grainger-symposium/ Fri, 02 May 2025 03:31:37 -0400 Music and Fashion - 2025 Grainger Symposium
The music and fashion worlds have always been closely linked, with each exerting significant influence over the other. The intersections between these art forms occur in practically all genres and time periods: from costume designs for film, ballet and opera, from Bollywood to the Ballets Russes;…[Read more]

]]> 8ab46b39e088bed08693b5eee0eca248 Michael Christoforidis started the topic CfP: Rise of the Guitar Concerto & Orchestral Guitar in the 20th century in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-rise-of-the-guitar-concerto-orchestral-guitar-in-the-20th-century/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:19:26 -0400 SYMPOSIUM: The Rise of the Guitar Concerto and the Orchestral Guitar in the Twentieth Century

WHEN: Friday 8–Sunday 10 August 2025
WHERE: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Ian Potter Southbank Centre, The University of Melbourne, Australia)
and ONLINE
PROPOSALS DUE: Monday 19 May 2025

The twentieth century witnessed the prodigious rise in p…[Read more]

]]> 5da7dc686a110962472d6324ab2dbe1b Sarah Kirby started the topic TALK: Kat Nelligan - Brand Lady Gaga in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/talk-kat-nelligan-brand-lady-gaga/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:37:42 -0400 Join us for the next talk in the Grainger Museum's music research series for 2025 on 8 May. The Museum will be open from 5:30pm with the talk starting at 6:00pm. Bookings encouraged, drop ins welcome.

Kat Nelligan - Brand Lady Gaga
Who is Lady Gaga and how does she connect with her fans and audiences via storytelling? In what ways does she use…[Read more]

]]> 7911e59e4cfbf41e148aed0d54e5fec4 Nick Tochka started the topic 1 May Colloquium: Dr Gay Breyley: When Politics, Humour and Music Meet (at MCM) in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/1-may-colloquium-dr-gay-breyley-when-politics-humour-and-music-meet-at-mcm/ Sun, 13 Apr 2025 23:10:33 -0400 Dr Gay Breyley: When Politics, Humour and Music Meet: From Laibach to Kneecap and The Coconuts
1 May 2025, 6-7pm at Prudence Myer Studio, Level 5, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre - Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne (Southbank, MEL)
Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/when-politics-humour-and-music-meet
This seminar is presented…[Read more]

]]> e215386704148668aa384d20dbfa9167 Sarah Kirby started the topic CFP: Setting Innovation to Music, From Celebration to Parody in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-setting-innovation-to-music-from-celebration-to-parody/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:23:03 -0400 CFP: Setting Innovation to Music, From Celebration to Parody: A Dialogue between Official Ceremonies and Musical Scenes, 1840-1940

HEM Geneva and University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

3-4 November 2025

***Deadline for the submission of proposals: 9 June 2025***

This international conference proposes a transnational reading of the musical…[Read more]

]]> a375483863bb139179790d99105f76fb Nick Tochka started the topic Reminder!! CFP: Musical Exile, Migration and Cultural Mobility at UOM in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/reminder-cfp-musical-exile-migration-and-cultural-mobility-at-uom/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:04:43 -0400 Friendly reminder! Submissions close 4 April - please get in touch with Nick Tochka (nicholas.tochka@unimelb.edu.au) with any questions

 

Where: Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne

When: Friday 15 August 2025

 

When musicians become migrants, they often exert a profound influence on their new environment: transforming concert…[Read more]

]]> d896d7395ff52f1cfcd61b0e60dae2de Casey Fitzpatrick started the topic Context: Journal of Music Research – Issue 50 Publication & Issue 51 CFP in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/context-journal-of-music-research-issue-50-publication-issue-51-cfp/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:44:31 -0400 It is a thrill to introduce readers to Issue 50 of Context: Journal of Music Research. In keeping with its predecessors, this issue showcases numerous research articles, a research report, a composer interview, and a selection of book reviews. From the sixteenth century to the present, Arnhem Land to Paris, and the Tudor court to Auschwitz,…[Read more]

]]> c4968447f39458fcf24d20c7e73d4c24 Sarah Kirby started the topic TALK: The Grainger You May Never Have Heard - Penelope Thwaites in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/talk-the-grainger-you-may-never-have-heard-penelope-thwaites/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:43:28 -0400 Join us for the first in the Grainger Museum's series of music research talks for 2025 on 20 March. The Museum will be open from 5:30pm, with the talk starting at 6pm. No bookings required.

Penelope Thwaites AM - THE GRAINGER YOU MAY NEVER HAVE HEARD an illustrated lecture
Entering Percy Grainger’s musical world is an experience of bewildering v…[Read more]

]]> dee98ac9f6069661c594c97043fb5573 Nick Tochka started the topic CFP: Musical Exile, Migration and Cultural Mobility in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-musical-exile-migration-and-cultural-mobility/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 02:31:32 -0500 Where: Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne

When: Friday 15 August 2025

 

When musicians become migrants, they often exert a profound influence on their new environment: transforming concert life, creating or reshaping music institutions, and contributing to music education. This symposium considers the significance of migration for…[Read more]

]]> 085c866322d529df9f52b44a28801367 Nick Tochka started the topic Lecture-Recital and Book Launch: Fritz Hart: An English Musical Romantic [...] in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/lecture-recital-and-book-launch-fritz-hart-an-english-musical-romantic/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 04:17:32 -0500 Registration essential: https://events.humanitix.com/lecture-recital-and-book-launch-fritz-hart
Lecture-Recital and Book Launch: Fritz Hart: An English Musical Romantic at the Ends of Empire (Lyrebird Press)
Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) stands as one of the more astonishing and productive figures of Australian music history. To mark the…[Read more]

]]> ca2c625445ab8b67c3930e4911bce165 Suzanne Robinson started the topic New book from Lyrebird Press: Peter Tregear/Anne-Marie Forbes on Fritz Hart in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/new-book-from-lyrebird-press-peter-tregear-anne-marie-forbes-on-fritz-hart/ Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:48:40 -0500 Lyrebird Press announces the publication of Fritz Hart: An English Musical Romantic at the Ends of Empire by Peter Tregear and Anne-Marie Forbes, available with a discount to MSA members until 31 January 2025.

“Fritz Hart offers a vital and pressing opportunity to reflect critically on British music’s complex and entangled relationship with mod…[Read more]

]]> 5ca1a4a753c6b5b6ea84946a07813419 Sarah Kirby started the topic REGISTRATION OPEN: Music and Pasefika Cultural Collections in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/registration-open-music-and-pasefika-cultural-collections/ Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:32:23 -0500 Registration is now open for the 2024 Grainger Symposium on Music and Pasefika Cultural Collections, to be held on 5 and 6 December 2024.

Registration is free, but essential. Book your tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/2024-grainger-symposium-music-pasefika-cultural-collections

The activities of Thursday 5 December will be at the…[Read more]

]]> acd49b19f177255d2964fc7a481fb87d Jason Stoessel started the topic Towards the multimodal sensorium: 19 November 2024, UNE and online in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/towards-the-multimodal-sensorium-19-november-2024-une-and-online/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 02:28:43 -0500 SYMPOSIUM – 'Towards the multimodal sensorium, experience, wellbeing and creativity'
Hosted by: The Department of Creative Arts and Communication, The University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales

When: 19 November 2024
About
This symposium aims to investigate the sensory and cognitive dimensions of multimodal experience in the c…[Read more]

]]> 30c1979afae280ff5b461f11dbd71e0e Sarah Kirby started the topic NEW ISSUE: Musicology Australia in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/new-issue-musicology-australia-7/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:37:29 -0400 Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 46/1, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmus20/current

Musicology Australia is open to new submissions at any time. Contributors are not required to write on Australian music or be based in Australia. For further information and instructions for potential authors,…[Read more]

]]> 6eefedda2e5c990ff2fa43732d532462 GJ Breyley started the topic CFP: Music and Mediation Conference, University of Adelaide, 9-10 June 2025 in the forum MSA Forum https://hcommons.org/groups/msa-forum/forum/topic/cfp-music-and-mediation-conference-university-of-adelaide-9-10-june-2025/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 04:22:20 -0400 Call for Papers

Music and Mediation

Conference at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide

9-10 June 2025

Keynote speaker: Naomi Sunderland, Director, Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University

Deadline for abstracts: Monday 16 December 2024

 

Mediation, in all its senses, from transmission to conflict…[Read more]

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