Conference of the New Zealand Musicological Society

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: Conference registration form (94 KB, WORD)

: Accommodation reservation form (105 KB, WORD)

: Conference abstracts (1.0 MB, PDF)

Voyages of Discovery

Hosted in association with The University of Auckland School of Music

The University of Auckland School of Music, 6 Symonds Street, Auckland 1142, New Zealand

30 November-2 December, 2012

Keynote speakers
James Webster (Cornell University);
Patricia Shehan Campbell (The University of Washington)

This conference seeks to investigate and promote the breaking of new ground within and between our fields of music study: musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music, jazz, music therapy and music education. ‘Voyages of Discovery’ relates here to intellectual travel; the charting of new territory within music disciplines; and interdisciplinary journeys. To register for the conference and reserve a room at The University of Auckland's O'Rorke Hall, please download, complete and return the forms at right. For more information about the New Zealand Musicological Society, go to their web page: musicologynz.org.nz

Programme

	Friday 30 November
9.00am-10.00 am	Registration/book display (on-going) Music Theatre Foyer (see Map 2)
10.00am-10.45am	Pōwhiri/Dean’s Welcome Music Theatre
10.45am-11.00am	Morning tea/registration
11.00am-1.00pm Session 1	Music Theatre (MT) Panel on Music Pedagogy: Reshaping Pedagogy Perspectives for Community Music Teachers in the Studio and Classroom Chair: Patricia Campbell David Lines Redefining Studio Pedagogy and Music Education Rae de Lisle Building Secure Foundations for Performance Health Te Oti Rakena Globalising a Music Degree in Postcolonial Settings: The Voice of the Indigenous Community Graham McPhail Crossing Boundaries: Sharing Concepts of Music Teaching from Classroom to Studio Respondent: Patricia Campbell	Seminar room, 115 Baroque and Bach Chair: Peter Walls Warren Drake A voyage into the Unknown: Exploring an Alessandro Scarlatti Manuscript Rosalind Halton Seriously Funny or too Sublime for Words? Vinci's Terzetto 'Sento scherzar nel petto' in Medo (1728) Sean Scanlen A Concluding Schema in the Works of J.S. Bach James Tibbles ‘Yes, Humphrey, but what does it MEAN?: The Interpretation of Articulation Markings in the Keyboard Works of J.S. Bach
1.00pm-1.45pm	Lunch (MT Foyer)
1.45pm-2.30pm	Concert: Darija Andjelic-Andzakovic and Rachel Grimwood; ETACETI: Abigail Sperling, Liam Wooding, Robert Drage MT
2.30-3.30pm Session 2	Discourses of Jazz Chair: David Lines Aleisha Ward Jazzy Nerves, Aching Feet and Foxtrots: Representations of Jazz in the New Zealand Nick Tipping Celebrating our music: Jazz Festivals and the Discourse of Ownership	Cello & Bass Virtuosity Chair: Samantha Owens Francis Yapp Les Pretentions du Violoncello: Virtuosity in early French cello sonatas Darija Andjelic-Andzakovic From Sonata to Concerto: Looking at J. M. Sperger's Terminal Concertante Works for Double Bass
3.30pm-3.45pm	Afternoon tea
3.45pm-5.15pm Session 3	Film, Masculinity, and Voice Chair: Adrian Renzo Stephen Prock Music and Masculinity in Miklos Rozsa's ScoBenr Victor Vicente Dance Raja Dance: Music and the Aesthetics of Male Dance in Indian Film Dave Cosper Cinesthetic Intimacy in Björk’s Selmasongs	Baroque: Theories, Practices, and Reception Chair: Allan Badley Samantha Owens 'The Most Modern Methods of Propaganda': Robert Dalley-Scarlett and the Halle Handel Medal (1940) Peter Walls Found in Translation: Geminiani and the Developing art of Playing on the Violin Ayako Otomo Conceptual and Cultural Confluences of the Sublime – A Voyage from France to Britain
5.15-6.15pm	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Joseph Haydn: Voyages of Discovery James Webster MT
7.30pm-	Conference Dinner Mecca, Chancery (see Map 3)
	Saturday 1 December
9.00am-11.00am Session 4	MT Popular Music and Analysis Chair: David Lines Adrian Renzo Canonising by Complexity? The case of Xenomania Thomas Robinson Paradigms and Syntagms in the Songs of Neil Diamond Kirsten Zemke Ethics in Popular Music scholarship Nick Braae Analysing Queen's Idiolect	Seminar room, Songs in Context Chair: Patricia Campbell Gillian Lander Silent Witness: A Rare Music Far-flung from Home Peter Fielding The Traditional Vocal Repertoire of Nova Scotia: Distilling Scalar Trends and Reconciling Alternate Encodings Richard Moyle Good Ole Songs Dustin Dennis Odell Wiebe Performing Christian Kebal: Balinese Music and Dance as Interreligious Drama
11.00am-11.15am	Morning tea
11.15am-12.15pm	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Surround-Sound: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Patricia Campbell MT
12.15am-1.00pm	Lunch
1.00pm-1.45pm	Jazz Concert: Nick Tipping, Ron Samson, Kevin Field
1.45pm-3.15pm Session 5	Discourses of Music Education Chair: David Lines Georgia Pike Boys will be Boys: A Music Making Journey Combining and Analysing Concepts of Leadership, Altruism and Excellence Alina Abraham Musical Creativity: Harmonic Series Structures, from Pictorial Representation to a Method of Teaching and Coaching for Music Performance	Vienna: Monuments, Masses, and Manuscripts Chair: James Webster Nancy November Marketing Ploys, Monuments, and Myths: Reading Early Title Pages of Mozart’s Music Allan Badley Expedience or Experience? Leopold Hofmann’s Variant Mass Settings Marie-Claire Taylor A-Wn Mus.Hs.11084 and Mus.Hs.11085: An Archduchess' Music Collection
3.15pm-3.30pm	Afternoon tea
3.30pm-4.30pm Session 6	Panel: Our Voyage: Traversing Maori performance Chair: Patricia Campbell Angela Karini Haka Ventures into Crossover and Artistic Collaboration Teurikore Biddle Ranga Performing Kapa Haka on the Page: The case for the Academy	Sociability and Topicality c. 1800 Chair: James Webster Ken Hartdegen Sociability in Music: Conversation, Declamation and Decibels W. Dean Sutcliffe Topics in the Chamber
4.30pm-6.00pm Session 7	Technologies and Tales from Auckland Chair: Kirsten Zemke Rob Tedesco The Economics and History of the Auckland Philh Michelle Williams Dancing the Past, Dancing the Future: Polycultural Capital in the Pacific Diaspora of Auckland, New Zealand Alex Bennet Sound Recordings: Capturing and Representing	Nineteenth Century Chair: Dean Sutcliffe Michael Weiss The Nineteenth-Century Fonte: A Galant Formula in Romantic Music David Banney Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking in Music Inge van Rij Musical telegraphs: virtual voyages and uncanny discoveries
8.00pm	Concert: Age of Discovery (optional) Auckland Cathedral
	Sunday 2 December
10.00am-11.00am Session 8	MT Colonialism Chair: Nancy November Jennifer Cable Musical Life in Colonial Virginia: Considering Musical Education and Performance Andrea Low A Night in Honolulu: Finding Agency in the Interzone	Singers, Repertoire, and Embodiment Chair: Inge van Rij Margaret Medlyn Embodiment: How Opera Singers Connect Mind and Body, and Create the Intensity of Operatic Experience for Themselves and their Listeners Imogen Thirlwall Inner Compulsions: Performing 'Ways In' to Schoenberg's Das Buch der hängenden Gärten through Visceral Experience
11.00am-11.15am	Morning tea
11.15am-12.15pm Session 9	Guitar Voyages Chair: Nick Tipping Barnaby Ralph Faking It: The Gibson Les Paul and the Journey away from Cultural Authenticity Le-Tuyen Nguyen Australian guitar music with Vietnamese cultural influences	Seminar room, Twentieth Century Chair: Dean Sutcliffe Andrew Deruchie Narrative, Syntax, and Sound in Vincent d’Indy’s Second Symphony Lars Helgert Lukas Foss's American Landscape as an Expression of the Immigrant Experience
12.30pm-1.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm-2.30pm	NZMS AGM MT
3.00pm-4.30pm	Closing Concert: Schubert, Sommerreise … a new performance practice of an old piece Jeffrey Chang , tenor ; James Tibbles, square piano (Collard and Collard, 1840) MT (run by the Age of Discovery)

Full abstracts (997 KB PDF)

Events

Age of Discovery concert

Noel, Noel – 1 December, 8pm, Holy Trinity Cathedral

The combined forces of Age of Discovery's specialist early music choir and baroque orchestra combine to celebrate Advent and Christmas. Charpentier's gorgeous Messe de minuit, Mediaeval carols, Renaissance motets, and - to top it all off - Corelli's dramatic Christmas Concerto together make for a celebratory spectacle to conclude the year.

Programme 
Medieval and Renaissance carols and motets, Charpentier's Messe de minuit, Corelli's Christmas Concerto, and Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols.

Tickets will be on sale from 1 November and conference delegates will be able to quote the code Corelli to receive the discounted ticket price of $30 for adults and $15 for concessions.

For further details please see: www.ageofdiscovery.co.nz

Maps & Venues

Map 1 Conference Accommodation at O’Rorke Hall, 16 Mount Street. Tel 09-302-0266. To reach the School of Music turn left on Symonds Street and walk ca. 10 mins to 6 Symonds St. The School of Music is on your right.

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Map 2 Conference Venue: the School of Music. Entrance through the glass doors at 6 Symonds Street. Walk down the stairs and through the Quad, and enter the Music Theatre Foyer through the glass doors. The Music Theatre is on your left (upper arrow on the map); Seminar Room 115 is straight ahead and slightly to the left (lower arrow on the map).

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Map 3 Conference Dinner at Mecca Chancery, Shop C4/13 Bacons Lane. Tel. 09-356 7028. To reach Mecca from the School of Music turn left onto Symonds Street and cross at the pedestrian crossing onto Waterloo Quadrant; then walk ca. 10 mins to Bacons Lane, off Kitchener St.

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