This site is no longer updated and will not be available after December 2010. Faculty of Music Postgraduate Seminar
The Faculty's Graduate Seminars are held each Thursday between 11.00am and 1.00pm. At these seminars, students present work-in-progress and required papers, staff present occasional papers, and visiting speakers are often featured. All postpgraduate students are strongly encouraged to attend.
VENUES:
Joint & Performance - Tallis Wing
Musicology - Loughlin Room (Basement)
2010, Semester 1
Thursday 4 March (Week 1)
Joint 11.00 Welcome
11.45 Peter Tregear:
“The Politics of the Unpolitical? Classical Music and Protest”
Thursday 11 March (Week 2)
Performance 11.00 Ian Holtham: “Celebrating Chopin”
Musicology 11.00 Dolly MacKinnon: “The Sound of Music from within a Glass Case: Musical Objects from Museum Victoria and the University of Melbourne's Anatomy collections, c.1750-1945”
12.00 Roger Hillman: “Music and National Identity on Film Soundtracks”
Tuesday 16 March – extraordinary presentation
ALL WELCOME 3.15-5.15pm Manfred Nowak: “The Klagenfurt Organ tablature”
VENUE: Early Music Studio, 27 Royal Pde
Thursday 18 March (Week 3)
Joint 11.00 Bernard Keeffe: “First Thoughts or Last Thoughts: Manuscripts and Editions of Schumann, Debussy and Stravinsky”
Performance 12.00 Mario Dobernig: “Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat”
Musicology 12.00 Rachel Landgren: “Emma Kirkby and the Early Music Revival”
Thursday 25 March (Week 4)
Joint 11.00 Sally Treloyn: “Songs that Pull and the Sustaining Kimberley Song Project: Analysis, Aesthetics and Applied Ethnomusicology in Northwest Australia”
Thursday 1 April (Week 5)
Joint 11.00 Michael Christoforidis: “Images of Granada in the Music of Isaac Albéniz, Claude Debussy and Manuel de Falla”
EASTER NON-TEACHING PERIOD: 2–11 APRIL
Thursday 15 April (Week 6)
Performance 11.00 Una Machlak: “The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Piano School”
12.00 Jessica Ipkendanz: “From the Practice Room to the Stage: Strategies for Improving Performance”
Musicology 11.00 Sue Robinson: “ ‘As Bad as the Worst French Novels’: Wagner, Smyth and the Problem of Adultery”
12.00 Liz Kertesz: “Emma Calvé and the Re-invention of Carmen”
Thursday 22 April (Week 7)
Joint 11.00 Brett Dean: “On Bliss”
Thursday 29 April (Week 8)
Joint 11.00 Bronwen Robertson: “Subterranean Sounds and Reverberations of Dissent: Unofficial Rock Music in the Islamic Republic of Iran” [Final PhD presentation]
Thursday 6 May (Week 9)
Performance 11.00 Tristan Rebien: “The Emergence of the British Brass Band”
12.00 Stephanie Arnold: “The Relationship Between Western Classical Music and the Ottoman Empire”
Musicology 11.00 Kerry Murphy: “Paris and Beyond” [Report on Sabbatical]
12.00 Research trip reports
Thursday 13 May (Week 10)
Joint 11.00 Howard Penny: “An Introduction to Rhetorical Style - The Bass Line Lives!”
Thursday 20 May (Week 11)
Performance 11.00 Alwyn Mott: “The AMEB’s Role in Music Education – Past, Present and Future”
Musicology 11.00 Jan Stockigt and Shelley Hogan: “‘Comme un homme qui joue du grand violon…est absolument necessaire’: String basses and bass continuo in Dresden during the first half of the 18th century”
Thursday 27 May (Week 12)
Joint 11.00 Neil McLachlan: “The Acculturation of Musical Perception: A New Theory of Musical Harmony”
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