Ethnomusicology and Musicology
The Ethnomusicology and Musicology program is well known and highly regarded for its wide-ranging curriculum. It incorporates subjects in music history, jazz and popular music studies.
The program also explores related fields such as organology (the study of musical instruments), sociology, aesthetics, criticism and analysis.
The Ethnomusicology and Musicology program is offered as a major stream within the Bachelor of Music degree, and in advanced studies at Honours, Masters and PhD levels.
Many Ethnomusicology and Musicology staff have received awards or citations for their quality of teaching in the BMus degree and for their supervision of higher degrees.
Ethnomusicology and Musicology Staff
Dr Joel Crotty
Eighteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century art music; in particular Australian and Romanian music, repertoire and performance studies
Professor Margaret Kartomi
Musicological and ethnomusicological theory; organology; historiography; ethnomusicology of Indonesia and Southeast Asia; Aboriginal Australian children’s music; Baghdadi-Jewish music; youth orchestras; music education; public policy; music performance; music across the arts; music aesthetics
Dr Graeme Smith
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.
Dr Paul Watt
19th-century music; musical and literary criticism (especially the 1890's); aesthetics, historiography and biography; early Victorian popular music
Higher Degrees in Progress
Masters
- Katrina Dowling, Music of Gordon Jacob, Edmund Rubbra, Malcolm Arnold, Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Cooke and Alan Ridout
PhD
- Julia Cornwell, ‘The Crucible: An American Opera by Robert Ward'
- Runa Fanany, ‘The Devil’s Due: The Musical Depiction of the Devil in Selected Hollywood Film Scores’
- John Garzoli, ‘Thai and Jazz Explorations of Improvisatory Expression in Music’
- Kieran Hancock, ‘Transplantation, reception and responses in Australia (Melbourne) of the choral synagogue music of South African Jews’
- Marina Kostromin, ‘The Australian Pianist Paul Grabowsky – A Study in Eclecticism’
- Julie Waters, ‘“Against the Stream”: Alan Bush's First Three Symphonies, Marxism, and the Search for Political Commitment in Music’