The notebook preserves something that composer-centred histories often miss: the musical work taking place around Mozart, in this case by a young woman.
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Among contemporary African musicologists, Agawu has been one of the most distinctive voices over the past half-century.
Opera singer, producer and librettist Caitlin Vincent explores big questions about her art form in Opera Wars – a lively book bristling with ideas.
This is an essential binge-watch for the Christmas period.
The film highlights Maria Anna Mozart’s legacy, as well as the struggles women musicians faced in the 18th century (and continue to today).
A new production by Kate Gaul does not shy away from pantomime silliness.
Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
The predominantly white European field of music education in the US is changing radically these days as schools confront anti-Black histories.
In popular media, Beethoven is imagined as a punk rocker. But what do these claims reflect about our relationship to classical music?
Princess movies and opera alike reveal the limited number of models available to women. “Le Dernier Sorcier”, composed by Pauline Viardot in 1869, shows that a much richer world is possible.
Gioachino Rossini’s opera was originally meant as a satire of royalist France. A new production updates the work for a modern audience, setting the drama in a museum where the paintings come to life.
The book took eight years from conception to publication. In the earliest dummy, the monsters that millions have grown to love actually started out as horses.
A new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute uses animation to bring the fantastical opera to life.
Should unfinished art remain so?
Schiff persuaded his near-capacity audience to remain completely silent until the very end of each half of the program – a major coup.
Opera Australia’s new production of Aida features movable LED panels with digital scenery. It’s part of a revolution transforming the art form.
In his short play from 1830, ‘Mozart and Salieri,’
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin proposed that genius and evil are incompatible. Here’s why this argument is worth revisiting in light of #MeToo.
A new recording of South African composer Arnold van Wyk’s complete solo piano music explores new perspectives.
Divine inspiration was at the centre of music for thousands of years – until post-war conservatoires got other ideas.
Listening to your favourite album might not be the best idea if you’ve got something to do.
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Clinical Professor of Management, University of Montana
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Lecturer in Music, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St Andrews
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Professor of English, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Musicology, University of Sheffield
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Professor, Musicology, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Academic Program, Music, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor and Head of Composition, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Head of Creative Arts and Music Therapy Research Unit; Director of Researcher Development Unit, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, UCL
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Cellist and musicologist, University of Sydney
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Professor of Music Theory, Hunter College
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Musicologue et musicienne, Sorbonne Université