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SCM Research Projects

Australian Research Council funded projects

  • Transformations from Renaissance to Baroque: The cultural and musical significance of Giovanni Gabrieli ARC Discovery Project 2006 - 2010. (Prof Richard Charteris)
  • Soundlinks: community music in Australia ARC Discovery project 2006 - 2008. (Prof Huib Schippers, Dr Dick Letts, Assoc Prof Peter Dunbar Hall)
  • Preserving Australia's endangered heritages: Murrinhpatha song at Wadeye ARC Discovery Project 2004-2008. (Prof Allan Marett, Dr Michael Walsh, Dr Nicholas Reid, Dr Lysbeth Ford, Assoc Professor Linda Barwick)
  • A cross-cultural study of the music play practices of children in school playgrounds ARC Discovery Project 2002-2004. (Dr Kathryn Marsh)
  • An ethnomusicological study of Lirrga, a genre of Australian Aboriginal song from NW Australia. ARC Discovery Project 2001-2003. (Prof Allan Marett)
  • The music of Giovanni Gabrieli and his venetian contemporaries ARC Discovery Grant 2001-2003. (Prof Richard Charteris)
  • Planning for sustainability of the National Recording Project on Indigenous Music of Australia ARC Linkage Project 2005. (Prof Allan Marett, A/Prof Linda Barwick, Dr Aaron Corn, Prof Marcia Langton)

Internally funded projects

  • Transcription for harpsichord of Johann Sebastian Bach's Six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin without bass (A/Prof Winsome Evans)
  • The romantic pianist: Sounds & expressions of a lost age (Dr Neal Peres da Costa)
  • The conductor's role in the birth of an opera production (Professor Imre Pallo)
  • Music, mutiny, shipwreck & murder: The fate of the three trumpeters aboard the 17th Centry Dutch East Indiaman "Batavia" (1629) (Andrew Evans)
  • Development of 24 carat gold contact surface on flute pads (A/Prof Alexa Still)
  • An ethnomusicology of hymnodies in a contemporary urban setting in Papua New Guinea (Dr Michael Webb)
  • Di depan dan di belakang kelir: DVD of Balinese wayang kulit performance and publications about the performance (A/Prof Peter Dunbar-Hall, Hideki Isoda)
  • Textual Relationships and the Narrative Orchestra in Operatic Adaptations of Dramatic Works Development of an analytical framework for the word/music/performance relationships in Opera (A/Prof Michael Halliwell)
  • Digitisation of Cross-cultural field recordings for Archiving, Repository and Publication (Dr Kathryn Marsh)
  • Bridges 2008 - Connecting Contemporary Composers Cross-cultural Multimedia Compositions and performances in Sweden and Australia. (Ivan Zavada)
  • Creation and Application of Plug-in Tailored to Score-based Musical Composition Creation of plug-ins for Compositions (Dr Matthew Hindson)
  • Performance Assessment Model for Individual Musicians in Symphony Orchestras Dr Goetz Richter
  • A History of Change: Scholarly presentation and publication on the study of a liturgical manuscript Dr Kathleen Nelson
  • Rhetoric and Performance Practice in Early Music Dr Alan Maddox