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Music and World-Building in the Colonial City: Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships 1860–1880 Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Rosemary Richards
Published in Musicology Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Cambridge encyclopedia of historical performance in music Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Sigrid Harris
Published in Musicology Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘The Event of the Age’: Appraising the Sousa Band’s 1911 Australasian Tour Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Ross Chapman
This article argues for the significance and impact of the Sousa Band’s 1911 Australasian tour on local musical practice, through the lenses of cultural dynamics, reception, and legacy. Set against...
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Australian Piano Music, 1850–1950: A Guide to the Composers and Repertoire and The Music of Meta Overman: Queen of Colour and Fantasy Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Scott Davie
Published in Musicology Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Opera, Emotion and the Antipodes Volume II: Applied Perspectives, Compositions and Performances Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Michael Ewans
Published in Musicology Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Du métronome au gramophone: Musique et révolution industrielle Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Robert James Stove
Published in Musicology Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I: Historical Perspectives: Creating the Metropolis; Delineating the Other Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Michael Ewans
Published in Musicology Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Peter Philips and Richard Dering: Consort Music Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Graham Strahle
Published in Musicology Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Adapting The Wizard of Oz: Musical Versions from Baum to MGM and Beyond Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Narelle Yeo
Published in Musicology Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Agency, Social Organization, and the Musical Practices of Jazz Bass Players in Australia Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Benjamin Phipps
The democratic and agentic social meanings of jazz and improvisation have been widely understood in relation to US history; however, performing jazz musicians’ everyday experiences cannot necessari...
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Writing for the Aurally Engaged Reader: Focusing Words with Music in an Age of Digital Mediation Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Andrew Alter
This article reviews three books and uses these as motivation to consider the changing conditions for the discourse communities which define musicology and its companion disciplines. More specifica...
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Thérèse Radic’s A Whip Round for Percy Grainger (1982) and the Archive on Stage Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Sarah Kirby
Thérèse Radic’s play A Whip Round for Percy Grainger: A Serious Comedy in Two Acts was premiered in Melbourne in 1982, as part of the celebrations for the centenary of the birth of Australian compo...
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‘Take Me to Spain’: Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Ken Murray
Published in Musicology Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Memories of Musical Lives: Music and Dance in Personal Music Collections from Australia and New Zealand Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Duncan Stuart Warren Reid
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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‘Take Her Out and Air Her’: Irish Dances as Arranged by Stanford and Grainger Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Adèle Commins
Irish-born composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) has received both acclaim and criticism for his integration of Irish folk melodies in his compositions and for his role in publishing colle...
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Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Rhoderick McNeill
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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Destiny: The Extraordinary Career of Pianist Eileen Joyce Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Jeanell Carrigan
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Sophie Fuller
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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‘Keep the Music Going’: How the Isolation Tour 2020 Maintained Community and Cultural Connectedness during the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown in Western Australia Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Brigitta Scarfe, Amy Budrikis, Clint Bracknell
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent social isolation measures had a profound impact on communities worldwide. In regional and remote Western Australia, the use of online platforms has become incre...
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Composing Australia: Nostalgia and National Identity in the Music of Malcolm Williamson Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Rhoderick McNeill
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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Music in the West Country: Social and Cultural History Across an English Region Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Paul Watt
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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French Art Song: History of a New Music, 1870–1914 Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Stephen Rumph
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Siècle Tonality (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Federico Favali
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context (Proceedings of the British Academy 211) Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Gillian Dooley
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Madeline Roycroft
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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La Musique religieuse en France au XIXe siècle. Le sentiment religieux entre profane et sacré (1830–1914) Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Robert James Stove
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France: Music and Entertainment before the Revolution Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Erin Helyard
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809–1865) and His Family (Music in Britain, 1600–2000) Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Paul Watt
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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Hainbach and the Sound of Destruction Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Billy Badger
Hainbach is the stage name of the Berlin-based composer, lyricist, and live musician, Stefan Paul Goetsch, who is perhaps best known from his YouTube channel of the same name. Descriptions and clas...
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Editorial Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Sarah Kirby
Published in Musicology Australia (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2022)
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The Adaptation of Violin Playing by Indigenous People in Early Twentieth-Century Western Australia and New South Wales Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Laura Case
Abstract This article will use the European violin as a lens through which to reinterpret interactions between Aboriginal people and Europeans in twentieth-century Australia. The violin is a particularly well-respected instrument within the western art music tradition. Accordingly, the Europeans took the Indigenous embrace of the violin as evidence of successful assimilation policies and the acquisition
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Colloquy: A Case for a Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Janice B. Stockigt, Michael Talbot, Andrew Frampton, Frederic Kiernan, Denis Collins
Abstract The wealth of new source discoveries alongside an enormous growth in performing and recording of the music of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) over the last twenty years signals a pressing need for a critical edition of his complete works, including a thorough revision of the Zelenka-Werke-Verzeichnis (ZWV). The contributions to this colloquy consider principles around the composition of an
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Musical Catharsis and Identity in Holocaust Cinema: Der letzte Zug (2006) Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Matt Lawson
Abstract Holocaust representation in film has received much academic attention, with a focus on how cinematography and the narrative may assist our memorialization process. One aspect of film which has received little academic attention, however, is the issue surrounding the musical accompaniments of such films. The three countries of East, West and reunified Germany each attempted to engage with the
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A History in Blue Pencil: Cyril Monk’s Performance Annotations and a Bygone Musical Style Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Julia Russoniello
Abstract Australian violinist Cyril Monk (1882–1970) was described in the 25 July 1920 edition of Sydney’s Sun newspaper as ‘one of the best-known violinists in the Commonwealth’. Although he is an unfamiliar name today, Cyril Monk was a prolific recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, and lecturer, as well as a pioneer in the presentation of Australian music. As Monk’s early musical training
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Messiaen’s Australian Birds: The Impact of H. Sydney Curtis Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Hollis Taylor
Abstract Australian birds feature prominently in Olivier Messiaen’s birdsong transcriptions and compositions, especially in the final works, including his masterpiece Éclairs sur l’Au-delà …. This article catalogues the composer’s Australian birdsong phrases and, when possible, identifies their sources. In particular, it reviews the correspondence between Messiaen and ornithologist H. Sydney Curtis
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Professional Pathways for Musicians with Disability in Victoria, Australia Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Anthea Skinner, Grace Thompson, Katrina Skewes McFerran
Abstract The work of disabled musicians has become the focus on of an increasingly large body of academic work; however, existing literature rarely provides details about the educational experiences of these musicians, or how disability impacted these experiences. This study interviewed eleven performing musicians living with disability in Australia to elucidate the barriers and enablers that they
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Rave Music as Top Forty Pop Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Adrian Renzo
Abstract The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a marked increase in the number of rave tracks appearing on the UK Top Forty chart. This music appeared to have little to do with conventional song forms. Rave tracks often lacked vocals, foregrounded left-field synthesizer sounds, and eschewed the verse–chorus structures that had dominated the charts since the 1970s. This article asks: is it possible that
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The Creation of the ABC Studio Orchestras, 1935–1945 Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Kenneth Morgan
Abstract This article analyses the creation of studio orchestras by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) as part of a policy of musical federalization. The orchestras were created in the decade after 1935 in all six Australian states, and later expanded to form state symphony orchestras for radio broadcasting and for public performances in concerts. The article argues that the combined effort
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‘Exiled from the Musical Activities of His Homeland’: Dean Dixon in the Australian and African American Press During the Era of Immigration Reform Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Christopher Coady
Abstract During the 1960s, international and domestic pressure on the Australian government led to a softening of restrictive immigration practices that had played a key role scaffolding what is commonly referred to as the White Australia policy. The appointment of Dean Dixon—an African American expatriate—to lead the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1963 was celebrated by both the government and a cohort
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Sounds from Foreign Shores: Non-Traditional String Instruments and the Irish Folk Music Movement 1960–1979 Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Breandán Seosaimh Ó Luain, Anne-Marie Forbes
Abstract The socio-political revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and the simultaneous explosion in the commercialization of popular music, brought a period of rapid growth and change in Irish music, challenging divisions between folk and traditional music in both repertoire and instrumentation. This growth and change were driven by a diverse range of instrumental, structural and stylistic changes, coupled
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Women in World War II RAAF Bands: An Untold Story Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Anthea Skinner
Abstract Existing research into Australian defence force bands, including that published by the Australian Defence Force itself, assumes that women were not eligible to join mainstream military bands until the 1980s. Prior to this, it was thought women’s involvement in music in the Australia defence forces was limited to concert parties and membership of women’s auxiliary ensembles. This article will
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Foreign Models, Familiar Themes: The Aesthetic Function of Folklore in Works by Szymanowski and Górecki Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Alex Chilvers
Abstract There is an overwhelming tendency for scholars of Polish music to politicize the presence of folk music references when they appear in art music compositions. This has particularly been the case in studies of Frédéric Chopin, where certain myths pertaining to that composer’s extramusical intentions have long dominated how his music was unpacked in musicological literature. In this article
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Nature in Berg’s Wozzeck Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Michael Ewans
Abstract This article demonstrates the importance of Nature to both Georg Büchner, author of Woyzeck, and Alban Berg, who adapted the play into the text for his opera Wozzeck. The argument is that Nature in these works is not an indifferent, mechanical force—as it has previously been claimed to be—but an animate power, which interacts with and influences the actions of the protagonist. After outlining
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Classical Musicians in Australia during the 1850s Gold Rush: The Colonial Tour of Miska Hauser, Virtuoso Violinist Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Anna McMichael, Judith Healy
Abstract Among the multitudes lured to Australia’s shores in the 1850s by the glitter of gold were entrepreneurial musicians who hoped to attract audiences eager for entertainment and culture. The tours of nineteenth-century virtuoso musicians around Europe and the Americas are well-researched, but less so touring musicians to the Antipodean gold rush. While the 1850s gold rush had profound impacts
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Morceau de Concours (2007): Recycling, Transcription and the Concert-Paraphrase in the Music of Roger Smalley (1943–2015) Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Adam Pinto
Abstract The recycling of pre-existing material in pianist-composer Roger Smalley’s compositional process is an important characteristic of his output. Such a broad assertion, however, encompassing a range of examples exhibiting varying degrees of re-contextualization, perhaps risks diminishing the sophistication of his compositional process. Smalley’s final work for solo piano, Morceau de Concours
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Wanji-wanji: The Past and Future of an Aboriginal Travelling Song Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Myfany Turpin, Calista Yeoh, Clint Bracknell
Classical Aboriginal culture in Australia consists of many different kinds of ceremonies, including travelling ceremonies that are often shared across linguistic and geographical boundaries. Each of these ceremonies is made up of dozens of different verses. Perhaps the most widely known travelling ceremony is one referred to in some areas as ‘Wanji-wanji’. This was known over half the country and dates
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Desert Harmony: Exploring the Cultural, Social, and Economic Value of a Multi-Arts Festival in the Remote Barkly Region Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Naomi Sunderland, Sarah Woodland, Sandy O’Sullivan
This article examines the role that the arts sector plays in supporting and sustaining communities in one of Australia’s remotest regions, the Barkly (Northern Territory). Drawing on findings from a three-year Australian Research Council Linkage project, ‘Creative Barkly’, the article outlines how artistic and creative activities in very remote regions, such as the Barkly, constitute significant cultural
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Ngarra-ngúddjeya Ngúrra-mala: Expressions of Identity in the Songs of the Ripple Effect Band Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Jodie Kell, Rachel DjÍbbama Thomas, Rona Lawrence, Marita Wilton
Until recently, throughout Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia, both ceremonial and popular music forms have been almost entirely the domain of men. This article is written by an innovative group of women from this region, who are currently forging new ways to negotiate musical practices, compose, play instruments, sing and perform in public. The Ripple Effect Band are a ground-breaking
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East Timorese Songs From the Ancestors: Have a Care They may be Lulik Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Ros Dunlop
The most widespread form of music making in East Timor is singing. Songs are sung by the East Timorese for many of the occasions of daily life and often utilized in many of the rituals associated with life and death and as a means of communicating with ancestors. Ancestral worship is the foundation of the indigenous belief system of the East Timorese and integral to it is lulik. Lulik translated into
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Yama Karra Paay? When is it Going to Rain? The Regrowth and Renewal of Old Ngiyampaa and Wiradjuri Songs to Empower the Cultural Identity of Ngiyampaa and Wiradjuri People of New South Wales Today Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Jesse Hodgetts
Songs of the Ngiyampaa and Wiradjuri people were recorded and stored in archives, locked away from our communities for decades. With the surge of cultural revitalization activity across New South Wales in Australia, the repatriation and analysis of Ngiyampaa and Wiradjuri songs comes with perfect timing. The archived songs are enriching the revitalization process and our song knowledge is being actively
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Editorial Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 Aaron Corn, Clint Bracknell
(2020). Editorial. Musicology Australia: Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 65-69.
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The Fringe or the Heart of Things? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musics in Australian Music Institutions Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 Clint Bracknell, Linda Barwick
Teetering on the fringe of Australian music scholarship and knowledge institutions, research and teaching of local Indigenous musics hold a marginal place, belying the positioning of Indigenous music-makers at the centre of international representations of Australian culture, and the dynamic local connections of Indigenous music-making to Australian landscapes and social realities. Music’s ubiquity
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The Aboriginal Artists Agency and the Prominence of Indigenous Music and Dance in the Growth of the Australian Arts Industry Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 Aaron Corn
This article focuses on the formative role of the Aboriginal Artists Agency in building today’s global market for Australian Indigenous artists. From 1976 to 1986, the Agency worked with Australian Indigenous musicians and dancers to undertake many innovative recording and touring projects. This study addresses the Agency’s early innovations in encouraging and supporting the recording and touring aspirations
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Claiming the ‘Song of the Women of the Menero Tribe’ Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Jakelin Troy, Linda Barwick
This article aims to re-evaluate Johann Lhotsky’s published sheet music ‘A Song of the Women of the Menero Tribe near the Australian Alps’ to claim it as a distinctively Ngarigu document that speaks to Ngarigu people today. Following a method suggested by Graeme Skinner, we recover additional information, strip out the ‘improvements’ of the arrangers and create a new Ngarigu-oriented reading with what
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Kungkarangkalpa Inma Alatjila Kuwari Palyani: Dancing the Seven Sisters Songline Today! Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Diana James, Inawinytji Williamson
The focus of this article is the cross-cultural translation space of bicultural bilingual performance of Inma, traditional Pitjantjatjara song and dance. The article structure reflects the two languages and cultural concepts of storytelling, song and dance in which the Kungkarangkalpa Inma—Seven Sisters performance was presented at the Centenary of Canberra Indigenous Festival in 2013. This method
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Henry Handel Richardson and Marie Hansen: Musical Lives in Fact and Fiction Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Rachel Solomon
Australia’s most internationally celebrated author of the first half of the twentieth century, Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946), was at one time an aspiring concert pianist who also had a flair for music composition. Richardson’s accounts of her talents and achievements in music performance during her school days in Melbourne, and then at the Leipzig Conservatorium of Music, have been at best vague
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Music and Diplomacy: The Correspondence of Marshal Jacob Heinrich Flemming and Other Records, 1700–1720. Part II: The Wedding Ceremony of Friedrich August and Maria Josepha in Vienna (1719)* Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Szymon Paczkowski
In September 1718, Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, the Saxon Field Marshal and the first minister of the Saxon Privy Council, came to Vienna to complete the political negotiations between Austria, Saxony, and Poland that were to lead, inter alia, to the dynastic pact between the Wettins and the Habsburgs. This alliance was embodied in the marriage of Friedrich August (son of August II, king of Poland
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Being Distinctive: Cocos Malay Islamic Music in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Mainland Australia, and Beyond Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Jenny Mccallum
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a tiny coral atoll in Australia’s Indian Ocean Territory, are home to around 450 Malays and 150 others. Cocos Malays largely identify as Malay and Muslim and have strong connections with the Malay world (Indonesia and Malaysia) as well as the wider Islamic world. They are also Australian citizens, part of its economy and culture, and have migrated in significant numbers
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Carmen and the Staging of Spain: Recasting Bizet’s Opera in the Belle Epoque Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Paul Watt
(2020). Carmen and the Staging of Spain: Recasting Bizet’s Opera in the Belle Epoque. Musicology Australia: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 63-64.
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The Middle of Life: Vocal Works of Benjamin Britten 1953–1958 Musicology Australia (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-05-04 Paul McMahon
(2020). The Middle of Life: Vocal Works of Benjamin Britten 1953–1958. Musicology Australia: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 61-63.