"Performing History"

Joint NZMS /40th MSA Conference

8-10 Dec 2017

University of Auckland

Conference Centre, Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries

26 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand

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In what sense are musical works, and writings about music, witnesses to the past? Theories of performativity set one thinking about the broader implications of communicating about, and through, music. Scholars, composers, and performers construct or perform relationships between history and music. This conference celebrates the manifold modes by which they do so, through writing, analysing, editing, teaching, composing, and not least through making music. Topics related to the conference theme might include studies of:

Analysis as performance
Performance theories
Performance practices
Historiography
Historically informed performance
Music editing as performance
Musical works as historical witnesses
Musicologist as historical narrator
Music biography and theatricality
Teaching music histories critically

Organising Committee

Allan Badley, Gregory Camp, Nancy November, Stephanie Rocke, W. Dean Sutcliffe

Keynote Speakers

Mary Hunter

John Rink

Friederike Wimann

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