Musicology

The musicology area is the focal point in the School of Music for critical and historical, theoretical, and cross-cultural research in music. Staff research interests include music of the late-eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, contemporary music, gender studies, ethnomusicology and music and film. There is a particular emphasis on music in the Australian context: indigenous music and folk music, music in the colonial period, contemporary composition and music of women composers. Staff are involved with a number of collaborative projects with researchers in other areas-most notably in film and music, with the School of Humanities and indigenous music, with the Centre for Cross-cultural Research and School of Archeology and Anthropology. 

These diverse research interests are reflected in courses offered at undergraduate and graduate level; staff also offer specialist courses in musicological research techniques. The undergraduate courses attract students from single and combined degree programs from all faculties of the university. The musicology area plays a significant role in the supervision of honours and graduate research projects, and staff run a weekly research seminar and a research symposium each semester. A number of graduate students undertake interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with other faculties and centres of the university.

Head of Area Musicology

Dr Ruth Lee Martin, BMus hons (UNE), PhD (ANU)
T: +61 2 6125 5777
F: +61 2 6248 0997
E: Ruth.Martin@anu.edu.au

Visiting Fellows

Dr Hazel Hall, BA PhD (Monash), TPTC (Toorak Teachers' College), Advanced Dip Naturopath Cert 4 Massage (CIT)
T: +61 2 6125 7635
F: +61 2 6248 0997
E: Hazel.Hall@anu.edu.au

Stephen Wild, BA hons (UWA), MA (UWA), PhD (Indiana)
T: +61 2 6125 5764
F: +61 2 6248 0997
E: Stephen.Wild@anu.edu.au

Staff

Alistair Noble

Katrina Hunt