Thursday, 2 July 2009

Researchers at the School of Music are challenging perceptions of Australian music history through several publications.

Associate Professor David Symons ’ recent article in Musicology Australia presented ground-breaking research on the early work of Sydney-based composer John Antill.

Assoc/Professor Symons is now working on a paper which investigates Antill’s later music. This new research questions the commonly held perception of Antill’s famous ballet Corroboree as his only worthy composition, and the pervasive view that his other works are pale and conservative in comparison.

Further ground-breaking work in the area of Australian music research has been undertaken by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers , who is in the final stages of preparing the manuscript of her monograph, ‘The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks’, for publication by Ashgate in September 2009.

Associate Professor Rogers is currently engaged in the challenging and interesting task of preparing the index. That a prestigious international academic publisher is to release a monograph on Australian music is evidence of the growing acceptance of this area of research within the wider international sphere of musicology.

Assoc/Professor Rogers has also completed, together with co-author Dr John Meyer, an invited book chapter on the history of music at UWA. The chapter will be published in an edited volume, due to be released in 2011 to coincide with the UWA Centenary Celebrations. The chapter highlights the rich culture of music making and scholarship which has characterised music at UWA, particularly in the last two decades of Professor Sir Frank Callaway’s tenure as Chair of Music.

Professor Callaway’s broad vision for music and music education is well aligned with the community work which is now being undertaken by Winthrop Professor Jane Davidson , together with Assistant Research Professor Robert Faulkner and Assistant Professor Jonathan McIntosh.

School of Music newsletter, Issue 2, July 2009.

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