Introduction. The future of music research in Australia and the legacy of Mozart note crunching / Steven Knopoff -- Performance, aesthetics, experience : thoughts on Yawulyu Mungamunga songs / Linda Barwick
The performance of early music. Johannes de Grocheo's De musica as a guidebook for thirteenth-century Parisian musical practice / Carol Williams -- Comparative aesthetic thought in early eighteenth-century England / Barnaby Ralph -- A brief polemic about the early music movement / Michael O'Loghlin -- Early music performance in Australia : cultural and historical perspectives / David Irving -- Producing major early music events in a conservatorium context : lessons learned / Peter Roennfeldt
Aesthetics and experience in music of the eighteenth century. An experimental investigation of musical character portrayed by piano versus harpsichord performances of a J.S. Bach excerpt / Emery Schubert and Dorottya Fabian -- The nurturing of the late eighteenth-century prima donna / Samantha Cobcroft -- Meaning in harpsichord decoration : the Flemish and French schools of soundboard painting / Ayako Otomo
Music as cultural product. Let's hear it for the boys : the place of boys' music in a feminist world / Scott D. Harrison -- The learning and transmission of Rebetika in the Greek-Australian diaspora community in Melbourne / Kipps Horn -- Celebration of cover up? : "My island home", Australian national identity and the spectacle of Sydney 2000 / Katelyn Barney -- "Don't you know they're talking about a revolution" : the trovador in socialist Cuba / Susan Monk -- Writing close to dance : expression in Yolngu performance / Franca Tamisari -- On slumber sea : lullaby as transitional vehicle / Robyn Brady
Gender issues and queer musicology. Women and music. The personal is political is musical : understanding aboriginal women's performance practice / Liz Mackinlay -- Reflections on females conducting / Brydie-Leigh Bartleet -- Women do country music : Australian women's country music and music culture scholarship / Shirley Tucker. Queer musicology. Inside out : queer theory and popular culture / Mark McLelland -- Queer musicology / John Phillips -- Opening Pandora's box : role and representation in music criticism in late nineteenth-century Melbourne / Johanna Selleck
Music education, musicology, and technology : performing relationships. Musicology and music education. Re/positioning the relationship between musicology and music education : an introduction / Kathryn Russell -- Does musicology have something to offer music education? : reflections from the classroom / James Cuskelly -- The interface between musicology and music education : an ethnomusicological perspective / Elizabeth Mackinlay. Music and technology. Learning through recording / Don Lebler -- Meaningful engagement with music technology / Steve Dillon
The present volume is an examination of aesthetics and experience in music over a wide range of areas of contemporary interest to musicology. Early music, the eighteenth century, gender studies, music technology, music education and ethnomusicology are all subsumed and unified under this theme