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School of Music Seminar Series
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, 2007
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 Burchill Rooms, Performing
Arts Centre. All those interested are warmly invited to attend. For
enquiries please contact Dr Graeme Smith at graeme.smith@arts.monash.edu.au
or Dr Made Mantle Hood at Made
Hood@arts.monash.edu.au
Semester 2
Program - Download
March
| Date | Title
| Presenter |
| Thursday 22 March 9.30-11.00am |
"Sounding the City: Ethnicity, identity and the Irish
tradition in the fiddle music of Chicago's Liz Carroll" |
Dr Aileen Dillane, University College Cork |
| Thursday 29 March, 9.30-11.00am |
"Gamelan
pedagogy in Japan " | Stephanie
Helm, MA
candidate, School of Music, Monash University |
April
| Date | Title
| Presenter |
| Thursday 19 April, 9.30-11.00am |
"Unifying composition and improvisation: Applying
Bob Brookmeyer's pitch module concept " | Michael
Wallace, MA
candidate, School of Music, Monash University |
| Thursday 23 April, 9am-1pm | Community
based research workshop | Randy Stoecker (Univ.
of Wisconsin) supported by the Centre for Community Networking Research
(Caulfield) and an Arts/IT
grant through the School of Music (Clayton) |
May
| Date | Title
| Presenter |
| Thursday 10 May, 9.30-11.00pm |
"Music in contemporary Brazil" | Carlos
Galvao, Visiting Scholar (Musicologist/Composer), Brazil |
| Thursday 17 May, 9.30-11.00am |
"Music for business as well as for pleasure: Granville
Bantock's concerts at the New Brighton Tower, Cheshire, in the
late 1890's " | Paul Watt, School of
Music, Monash University |
| Thursday
31 May, 9.30-11.00am | "Performance practice
and critical editions of music by Hurlstone" | Kenji
Fujimura , PhD candidate, School of Music, Monash University |
August
| Date | Title
| Presenter |
| Thursday 23 August, 9.00-10.30pm |
Richard Strauss Conducts Beethoven. | Dr
Raymond Holden, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Royal Academy of Music
|
| Monday 27 August, 6.30
- 8pm | Developing an improvisers 'Tool-kit':
Exploring methodologies towards the development of improvisational
skills and fluency within the performance of original works. |
Lliam Freeman, Master of Arts (Music Performance), Monash
University |
September
| Date | Title
| Presenter |
| Monday 10 September, 6.30 - 8pm |
Incipient nationalism and Sôkyoku-jiuta. | Philip
Flavin , PhD , Research Associate, Monash University |
| Thursday 13 September, 9.30 - 11am |
"How can an Australian become an Irish musician? Irish
traditional music and transnational identities" |
Helen O'Shea, PhD, Research Associate, Monash University |
| Thursday 20 September, 9.30 - 11am |
"South African Jewish Cantorial Music: transplantation
from the 1990's South Africa to Australia migration in the Melbourne
Jewish orthodox community" | Kerrin Hancock
, PhD student, Monash University |
October
| Date | Title
| Presenter |
| Monday 8 October, 6.30 - 8pm |
Interpretative issues, with a specific focus on performing
the piano music of English composer William Hurlstone (1876-1906) |
Kenji Fujimura, PhD student, Monash University |
| Thursday 11 October, 9.30 - 11am |
The Didjeridu and the Kyotaku:The Processes and Results
of Contemporary Transplantation from Indigenous Roots to Western
Societies | Lauren Rubin, PhD student, Monash
University |
| Monday 15
October, 6.30 - 8pm | "Achieving
a historically informed performance of an Australian composition
for horn composed in the 1950s with specific discussions pertaining
to horn design and construction and performance styles and trends."
| Jeff McGann, MA, Monash University |
| Thursday 18 October, 9.30 - 11am |
Program: To be advised at a future date | Graeme
Smith, Lecturer, School of Music , Monash University |