CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The UQ Node, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100 - 1800 presents an event for Secondary School Teachers
LISTENING FOR EMOTION IN SONGS OLD AND NEW
GRAEME M. BOONE DENIS COLLINS
The State University of Ohio, School of Music UQ School of Music & ARC Centre for the History of Emotions
Date: Time: Location: RSVP:
Thursday, 23 July, 2015
4:30-6:00 pm
Nickson Room
UQ School of Music
St Lucia Campus
[email protected] (07) 3365-4913
Please register by Monday 20 July
Listening for Emotion in Songs Old and New.
How does music go about expressing emotion? While the feelings we get from playing or listening to music are among its most
compelling qualities, the relationship between emotion and music turns out to be a complicated topic to understand or explain,
because it touches on so many aspects of the music and also
of our emotional and social lives. In this seminar, we shall listen
to songs from different times and places in order to explore the
diverse ways in which words and music work together to express
mood and feeling using the common materials of poetry, melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre, and simple formal patterning. Medieval troubadour song, classical German Lieder, Broadway song, and contemporary popular music will provide specific
examples to discuss, compare, and frame as tools for teaching.
GRAEME BOONE is Professor of Music and Director of the Centre
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University, USA. His recent work includes an edited volume, Music in the
Carolingian World: Witness to a Metadiscipline, and numerous
essays on the music of the 15th-century composer Guillaume
Dufay and the history of early music notation. Graeme is a Visiting
Scholar at the UQ node of CHE where he is presenting work on
Dufay and the emotions of 15th-century song. His other interests
include popular music, especially the Grateful Dead, and he has
published widely in this field including the co-edited book
Understanding Rock: Essays in Music Analysis.
DENIS COLLINS is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at The
University of Queensland. His recent work includes the article on
Counterpoint in Oxford Bibliographies Online and an edited
volume, Music Theory and its Methods: Structures, Challenges,
Directions, and he is currently working on a project supported
by the Australian Research Council on musical canon in Medieval
and Renaissance music. In 2013-14 Denis was an Associate
Investigator at the Centre for the History of Emotions.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT, ALL WELCOME
Please register by email to Penny Boys at
[email protected] or phone (07) 3365-4913 by 20 July.
CPD Certificates of Participation will be available on
request. Afternoon tea will be available before the
workshop, starting at 4:00pm.
The School of Music is located in the Zelman Cowan
Building (51) on Staff House Road. For parking and
transportation information: http://www.pf.uq.edu.au/
parking.
Images: Robinet Testard, Nature exhorts man to flee laziness, 15th C., Bibliothèque
Nationale de France; Franz Schubert, W. A. Reider, 1875, Historisches Museum der Stadt
Wien; Art Kane, Jim Morrison, 1968, snapgalleries.com.