Research Seminars
The School presents an annual program
of Research and Work-in-Progress seminars by
visiting scholars, staff and post-graduate students. In addition
it presents the Distinguished Lecture Series
(two lectures by visiting scholars p.a.). The Meet-the-Composer
Series, which has been held annually over the past ten
years, includes a lecture on the life and works of a chosen Australian
composer and a concert of his/herselected works, in the presence
of the composer.
Semester 1 and 2, 2008
The School of Music has been running
a Research and Work in Progress Seminar series for many years. Seminars
are held on Monday evenings (6:00-7:30) and Thursday mornings (9;30-11:00)
throughout the University year, in the Performing
Arts Centre. All those interested are warmly invited to attend. For
enquiries please contact Dr Made Mantle Hood at Made
Hood@arts.monash.edu.au
Semester 2
Program - Download
Thursday 28 February, 9.30am - 11.00am
SG02, Manton Rooms, Menzies Building 11
Baduy Music and life 1976-2003: Temptations for Ascetics in West Java, Indonesia (Seminar and Film in Progress) by Wim van Zanten, the Netherlands
Thursday 20 March, 9.30am - 11.00am
Burchill Room, G38, Building 68
Agent Based Interactive Composing Systems Michael Spicer. Composer and School of Music PhD candidate. This seminar will dicuss an approach to building interactive composing systems that is based on the idea of creating "virtual Performer" agents in software
Thursday 10 April, 9.30am - 11.00am
Burchill Room, G38, Building 68
From press and draw and back again: Modernity and Irish accordion style Dr Graeme Smith, School of Music - Conservatorium
Monday 5 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Asian Orchestra's Room, G01, Building 68
How Italian are the Italians in Canberra, and why their music helps us find out Dr Marcello Sorce Keller, Visiting Italian Ethnomusicologiest
Monday 21 July, 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Burchill Room, G38, Building 68
Modular approach to the composition of film music Bartlomiej Walus, MA Composition Candidate, School of Music - Conservatorium
Thursday 24 July, 9.30am - 11.00am
Asian Orchestra's Room, G01, Building 68
Crusading to Pluralism; "l'homme arme" and The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (1999) Stephanie Rocke, MA candidate, Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University
Thursday 31 July, 9.30am - 11.00am
Asian Orchestra's Room, G01, Building 68
Beethoven's Ninth: Iconic Symphony? Dr Raymond Holden, Research fellow and Lecturer, Royal Academy of Music, London
Thursday 14 August, 9.30am - 11.00am
Burchill Room, G38, Building 68
What was 20th century music? Implications for the study of modernity Eduardo De Fuente, School of English Communications & Performance Studies, Monash University
Thursday 25 September, 9.30am - 11.00am
Burchill Room, G38, Building 68
Music for the People: Alan Bush's "Nottingham" Symphony and the Prague Manifesto Julie Waters, PhD candidate, School of Music - Conservatorium
Thursday 9 October, 9.30am - 11.00am
Burchill Room, G38, Building 68
Styles in English music for solo recorder and keyboard 1939-1989; what style analysis contributes to notions of "Englishness" in twentieth-century art music Katrina Dowling, MA candidate, School of Music - Conservatorium