Musicology and Ethnomusicology
The Musicology program incorporates scholarship in music history and ethnomusicology, as well as in jazz and popular music studies, and such interdisciplinary fields as organology, music sociology and aesthetics, music analysis, and music cognition. Musicology at the School of Music - Conservatorium is offered as a major stream within the Bachelor of Music, and in advanced studies at Honours, Masters and PhD levels. The School's unit offerings cover a wide spectrum of study topics in historical periods of Western music and area studies in various World Music traditions.
Musicology / Ethnomusicology Staff and their areas of research interest
Dr Joel Crotty (BSocSci RMIT, BA, MA, PhD Monash University)
Eighteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century art music; in particular Australian and Romanian music, repertoire and performance studies.
Associate Professor Craig De Wilde (BA Whittier College, MFA University of California Irvine, PhD University of California Santa Barbara)
Nineteenth and twentieth century art music, German romanticism, general music history, popular music history of the United States and Australia, music business.
Dr Made Mantle Hood (BA Maryland, MA Hawaii, DrPhil Cologne)
Empowering musical diversity, music and philosophy/religion/healing, media and performance in Southeast Asia, applied ethnomusicology, traditional and contemporary Javanese/Balinese gamelan performance.
Professor Margaret Kartomi, AM (BA BMus [Hons] University of Adelaide, DrPhil Humboldt FAHA)
Musicological and ethnomusicological theory, organology, ethnography of Indonesian and other Southeast Asian music and performing arts, Aboriginal Australian children's music, popular music of Southeast Asia, Baghdadi-Jewish Asian diaspora music, youth orchestras.
Dr Graeme Smith (BSc DipEd University of Melbourne, BA Hons PhD Monash University)
Popular music studies and ethnomusicology, especially music and national and group identity, folk revival musics, Irish traditional music, Australian country music, multicultural and world music, construction of social meaning, voice and body.
Unit offerings in Musicology / Ethnomusicology
First-year units
- MUS1030 Australian and Asian popular music
- MUS1040 American music and popular culture
- MUS1060 Gamelan performing arts
- MUS1100 Exploring music I
- MUS1110 Exploring music II
Second-year units
- MUS2110 Analytical and compositional techniques I
- MUS2120 Analytical and compositional techniques II
- MUS2140 From Schubert to Strauss: music of the Romantic ideal
- MUS2480 Performance studies: Indonesian gamelan
- MUS2490 Indonesian gamelan: special studies
Third-year units
- MUS3330 Music of north and south India
- MUS3390 Music aesthetics, criticism, sociology and psychology
- MUS3490 Indonesian gamelan: special studies
- MUS3580 Contemporary music
- MUS3880 Music of China, Japan and Korea
- MUS3910 Music of sub-Saharan Africa
Honours units
- MUS4420 Research methods
- MUS4600 Special research project in music
- MUS4640 Fieldwork techniques and technology
- MUS4720 Thesis
Postgraduate units
- MUM4120 20th and 21st century repertoire studies
- MUM4420 Research methods in music
- MUM4600 Special research project in music
- MUM4640 Fieldwork techniques and technology
- MUM5010 Topics in musicology
- MUM5020 Directed reading in music
- MUM5030 Australian music history
- MUM5050 Musicology (including ethnomusicology) scholarship
- MUM5060 Research project in musicology or ethnomusicology
Sample of Recently Completed MA & PHD Research Dessertations in Musicology / Ethnomusicology
Ahmad Naser Sarmast (2004)"A survey of the history of Music in Afghanistan from Ancient times to 2000AD with special reference to art music from c.1000AD"
Nino Tsitsishvili (2004)"National unity and gender difference in Georgian traditional song-culture: ideologies and practices"
Mark Dale (2006)"The Ponce-Sergova collaboration: creating the modern guitar repertory"
Iwan Dzulvan Amir (2006) "Sing, Adapt, Persevere: Dynamics of Traditional Vocal Performances in the Islamic Region of Aceh from the Late 19 th to the Early 21st Century"
Vicki-Ann Ware (2006) "Stylistic and Cultural Transformations in Bangkok Fusion Music from 1850 to the Present Day, Leading to the Development of Dontri Thai Prayuk"