NEER Research Cluster

Cathedral, Court, City and Cloister: Western Music and its Sources 1100-1750

MEMBERS

Dr Jane Hardie (Sydney) - Coordinator
Dr Kathleen Nelson (Sydney)
Dr Janice Stockigt (Melbourne)
Professor John Griffiths (Melbourne)
Dr Robert Curry (Sydney)
Dr Alan Maddox (ECR, Sydney)
Dr Samantha Owens (ECR, Queensland)
Professor David Tunley (UWA)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

This Cluster aims to raise the profile of Australian scholarship into early European music through conference presentations, symposia, publication and training. In particular, it will address ways in which documentary materials (musical and liturgical manuscripts, archival documents, letters, church/state/city documents and so on) can lead to new interpretations and understandings of musical cultures and practices.

EVENTS (INCLUDING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS)

Meetings:

April 2007: Inaugural meeting of the cluster: Sydney
November 2007: second meeting Brisbane

Conferences and symposia:

November 2007: The Cluster mounted two full sessions at the joint meeting of the MSA and the NZ Musicological Society, Brisbane.

July 2008: Symposium "Cathedral, Court, City and Cloister: Spanish Liturgical Music Manuscripts at the University of Sydney and their International Contexts" (University of Sydney).

PUBLICATIONS

Jane Hardie: "Salamanca to Sydney: A Newly-Discovered Manuscript of the Lamentations of Jeremiah", in Music in Medieval Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).

GRANTS ACHIEVED

ARC Discovery Project:
"Urban Soundscapes in Renaissance Spain", CI: John Griffiths, 2007-2009.

ARC Linkage:
"Engaging with Place: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Place-Based Research and Practice", CIs: Sue Broomhall, Jeff Malprass, Joan Barclay-Lloyd, John Griffiths, 2007-2009.

Jane Hardie
University of Sydney, Centre for Medieval Studies. Travel Grant for presenting papers in two international conferences in Zurich (International Musicological Society, and Cantus Planus), Zurich July 2007.

Kathleen Nelson
University of Sydney, Travel Grant for presenting papers in two international conferences in Zurich (International Musicological Society, and Cantus Planus) Zurich, July 2007.

Samantha Owens
Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom): A seven-month, competitive fellowship to complete the manuscript of a monograph on the life and works of composer and music director Johann Sigismund Cousser (1660-1727), December 2007-June 2008.

The University of Queensland Faculty of Arts International Conference Fund, 2007.

Alan Maddox
1. University of Sydney Travel grant for Zurich (International Musicological Society).

2. University of Sydney Teaching Improvement & Equipment Scheme grant titled "Evaluation and integration of Aural Perception teaching materials for blended learning".

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Alan Maddox

PhD: "'On the Knowledge Necessary for One who Wishes to Recite Well in the Theatre': The Rhetorical Tradition of Delivery and the Performance Practice of Recitativo Semplice in Eighteenth-Century Dramma Per Musica". PhD University of Sydney, 2007.

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