Hearing the Music
of Early New South Wales
Reimagining Musical Programming Symposium
This two-day symposium brought together interdisciplinary scholars and interpreters of music in rethinking how musical programs of the past might be meaningfully reimagined in the present.
Contributors considered how contemporary scholarship offers new possibilities for staging musical concerts in ways that innovatively weave together our musical past with our musical present.
Efforts to decolonize music programs, recuperate Indigenous song practices, critique canon formation, and engage with historically-inspired performance practices, are just a few approaches at play in this expansive arena of cultural work.
You can view the programme to the left and the presentations in the playlist below.
Alfred Hook Lecture Series
Renewing Aboriginal Songlines in
New South Wales
Jesse Hodgetts, Nardi Simpson,
Jacinta Tobin and Jakelin Troy
5 October 2023
Publications
Coady, Christopher, Amanda Harris, Neal Peres Da Costa and Nicole Cherry (eds), 'Musical Entanglements and Artistic Research in Australia', Special Issue of Music & Practice, forthcoming 2025.
Harris, Amanda, ‘Iconic Musical Sites in Australia’, in The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia, Amanda Harris & Clint Bracknell (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 311-326.
Peres Da Costa, Neal 'The Case for Un-Notated Arpeggiation in Beethoven's Compositions for or Involving the Piano', in Beethoven and the Piano. Philology, Context and Performance Practice, eds. hg. von Leonardo Miucci, Claudio Bacciagaluppi, Daniel Allenbach und Martin Skamletz (Schliengen: Argus 2023), https://doi.org/10.26045/kp64-6180.
Stephens, Matthew, ‘A Decorated Tune in a Decorated Room: Interpreting the Musical Palimpsest in Historic House Museums’, in Sound heritage: making music matter in historic houses, Jeanice Brooks, Matthew Stephens & Wiebke Thormählen (eds.) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2022).
Stephens, Matthew, ‘From Piano Stool to Library Shelf: Reconnecting Library and Museum Owner-Bound Music Collections with Audiences’, in Memories of Musical Lives: Music and Dance in Personal Music Collections from Australia and New Zealand, Rosemary Richards and Julja Szuster (eds.) (Melbourne: Lyrebird Press, 2022)
Russoniello, Julia, ‘A History in Blue Pencil: Cyril Monk’s Performance Annotations and a Bygone Musical Style’, Musicology Australia, vol. 44 (2021): pp. 1-25.
Troy, Jakelin, ‘Singing from the Mountains: when things really go right in Indigenous research a story of creative collaboration and Ngarigu cultural renewal’ in Keeping Time, Sally Treloyn, Amanda Harris, Nick Thieberger & Myfany Turpin (eds.) (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2024), 313-323.
Harris, Amanda & Clint Bracknell, ‘Introduction and Historiography of Music in Australia’, in The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia, Amanda Harris & Clint Bracknell (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 1-20.
Brooks, Jeanice, Matthew Stephens, & Wiebke Thormählen (eds.) Sound heritage: making music matter in historic houses (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2022)
Peres Da Costa, Neal (2022). 'Performance Practices for Romantic and Modern Repertoire'. In Gary E. McPherson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, Volume 1. New York: Oxford University Press.
Foster, Shannon and Amanda Harris, ‘Informing practice through collaboration: listening to colonising histories and Aboriginal music’, in Creative Research in Music: Informed practice, innovation and transcendence, Anna Reid, Neal Peres Da Costa & Jeanell Carrigan (eds.) (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 82-92.
Skinner, Graeme, ‘Eliza Hamilton Dunlop, Irish and colonial melodist: her songs for music and collaborations with Isaac Nathan’, in Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier, Anna Johnston & Elizabeth Webby (eds.) (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2021), pp. 121-158.
Case, Laura and Amanda Harris, ‘Cultivating European concert culture in early colonial towns’, in The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia, Amanda Harris & Clint Bracknell (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 93-110.
Troy, Jakelin, “Standing on the Ground and Writing on the Sky: An Indigenous Exploration of Place, Time, and Histories” In Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History, edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker and Jakelin Troy (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press & American Philosophical Society, 2023).
Peres Da Costa, Neal, Helen Mitchell & Matthew Stephens, ‘The Dowling Songbook Project’, in Sound heritage: making music matter in historic houses, Jeanice Brooks, Matthew Stephens & Wiebke Thormählen (eds.) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2022).
Harris, Amanda, Linda Barwick & Jakelin Troy, ‘Embodied Culture and the Limits of the Archive’ in Music, Dance and the Archive, Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick & Jakelin Troy (eds.) (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 1-13.
Mitchell, Helen, Neal Peres Da Costa & Matthew Stephens, ‘The Dowling Songbook Project: A Uniquely Australian Opportunity in HIP Learning’, in Creative Research in Music Informed Practice, Innovation and Transcendence, Anna Reid, Neal Peres Da Costa & Jeanell Carrigan (eds.) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2021).
Troy, Jakelin & Linda Barwick, ‘Claiming the "Song of the Women of the Menero Tribe"’, Musicology Australia, vol. 42, no. 2 (2021), pp. 85-107.
Conference Papers
Amanda Harris and Shannon Foster, ‘Art Song and Aboriginal Australia’, 20th Century Global Art Song: Hybridity, Multiplicity, Interculturality, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, 14 March 2024.
Matthew Stephens, Neal Peres Da Costa, Graeme Skinner and Jakelin Troy ‘Discovering the Intangible Spirit of Place through Musical Performance in Historic Spaces’, Reimagining Musical Programming Symposium, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 24-26 November 2022.
Toby Martin and Jacinta Tobin ‘Performing new songs with old: the past in the present’, Reimagining Musical Programming Symposium, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 24-26 November 2022.
Amanda Harris, ‘Re-programming Music History Imaginaries’, Reimagining Musical Programming Symposium, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 24-26 November 2022.
Amanda Harris, Toby Martin, Jakelin Troy, Christopher Coady, Andrew Hurley, Henry Reese and Julia Russoniello, ‘Roundtable: Hearing Australian histories’, Urgent Histories: Australian Historical Association Conference, Deakin University, 28-30 July 2022.
Amanda Harris with Jacinta Tobin, ‘Continuity, Change, and Representations of Aboriginal music on public stages’, Keynote Lecture, Undergraduate Musicology Conference, Western Sydney University, 9 June 2022.
Graeme Skinner, Jakelin Troy, Linda Barwick, Amanda Harris, Neal Peres Da Costa, ‘Hearing Aboriginal Singing in New South Wales: Processes of Discovery in Nineteenth-Century Piano-Accompanied Song’, Nineteenth Century Studies Association 42nd Annual (Virtual) Conference: Discovery, 12 March 2021.
Toby Martin, Amanda Harris, Jakelin Troy, Neal Peres Da Costa, ‘Performing the Musical Past: reimagining 1826 Sydney concerts in 2021’, Unfinished Business: 39th Annual Conference of the Australian Historical Association, UNSW [online], 30 November 2021.
Jakelin Troy, Amanda Harris and Linda Barwick ‘Dialogic processes in renewing Ngarigu performance practice from manuscript sources’, 20th Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance, UNSW [online], 10 December 2021.
Media
Kate Evans, ‘Of Moths and Marsupials’, Biographic, 26 April 2023.
Planetary Health, ‘Reconnecting the Seven Sisters Songlines from Uluru to the East Coast of Australia’, Mid Mountains Local News, 18 May 2023.