MSA Diversity Resource List

Musicological Society of Australia Resources for Diversifying Music Curriculum, Programming, and Research

The Musicological Society of Australia is collecting links to web resources that will be useful to those wanting to strengthen the inclusivity of their research, teaching, and concert programming.

Below you will find links to repertoire lists, co-design protocols, discussion groups, sample syllabi, databases and more. There are many similar lists online, and with this there is always a risk of information-overload, so please do simply treat this list as a starting point in a larger process of engagement with the possibilities of genuine structural change.

If you come across a web resource not listed here that you think would be useful to others, please let us know (email sarah.collins@uwa.edu.au).

Thank you to those who have contributed to the list already (named below)!

Curriculum Resources

• Women in Music Theory Examples: https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/c.php?g=720474&p=5151962 – An “evolving guide” that links to a small number of sites with resources “documenting the impact of women composers on all musical cultures.” 
• Global Musicology; Asian German Studies in Music: https://globalmusicology.org/agsm/ 
• Composers of Colour Resource Project: https://composersofcolor.hcommons.org/
• Inclusive Early Music: https://inclusiveearlymusic.org/ 
• Black Central Europe: https://blackcentraleurope.com/ 
• Engaged Music Theory: https://engagedmusictheory.com/
• Beyond Tokenism: https://musichistoryredo.wordpress.com/ 
• Many Many Women: https://manymanywomen.com/about/  – Index of women making various kinds of experimental/avant garde music.
• Listening to Ladies: http://listeningtoladies.com/ – A podcast of interviews with composers who identify as women, interwoven with samples of their work.
• Oxford Music Online: https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/page/women-composers-by-time-period – A useful timeline
• Music Theory Examples By Women: https://www.musicbywomen.org/ – A database of “high-quality easily-accessible materials striving to elevate the visibility of women composers and theorists.” Contains scores, recordings, short biographies, and links to scholarly literature and other resources. 
• SIMM – An international network
• Analytical approaches to world music (open access journal)
• Global musical modernisms (Gavin Lee’s site)
• Music by women
• Composers of color resource project
• Diverse music theory examples – A collection of scores and sound examples by “composers who have worked within the common practice who are not normally encountered in music theory courses. These composers include: women composers, LGBTQ composers, composers of color, and non-Western European composers.”
• Art song augmented
• Creadoras (interactive map with links)
• Resources for Diversifying Music Theory: http://diversity.societymusictheory.org/pedagogy/ – Compiled by the Society for Music Theory’s Committee on Race and Ethnicity. Organised in categories: “Broader Themes and Philosophies,” “Specific Methods and Musical Genres,” Journals, and “Other Resources on Race and Ethnicity in Music Theory.” 
• Syllabi for Diversity in Course Design (Society for Music Theory): https://societymusictheory.org/grants/dcd/syllabi – These undergraduate syllabi are the winners of the SMT’s Diversity Course Design award and together serve as a model for other instructors of music theory in implementing an inclusive music theory curriculum.
• https://www.worldmusictextbook.org/
• https://www.nateholdermusic.com/blog
• https://www.shareourpride.org.au/ (not music-specific)
• https://culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/
• https://theglobaljukebox.org/
• https://www.ethnomusicology.org/page/Ukraine
• https://www.ethnomusicology.org/page/Resources_Social

Undergraduate Course Syllabi

• Chris Stover, ‘Global Musical Modernisms’, Griffith University, Australia
• Michael Hooper, ‘Critical Investigations in Music’, UNSW, Australia
• Cecilia Sun, ‘Women in Music’, UWA, Australia
• Emily Dolan, ‘1000 Years of Listening’, Brown University, USA
• Mark Seto, ‘Orchestra’, Brown University, USA
• John Gabriel, ‘Music and Politics’; ‘Music and Gender’; and ‘Western Music History 2: the Long 19^th Century, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Society for American Music, Course Syllabi List: https://www.american-music.org/page/RscSyllabi
• Course syllabi in Music Theory: https://societymusictheory.org/grants/dcd/syllabi
  • “These undergraduate syllabi are the winners of the SMT’s Diversity Course Design award and together serve as a model for other instructors of music theory in implementing an inclusive music theory curriculum.”
• CUNY Graduate Centre Music Department Teaching Hub: https://gcmteachinghub.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
• Alda M. Blakeney, Antiracist Pedagogy: Definition, Theory, and Professional Development

Research Centres and Groups

• Project Spectrum https://www.projectspectrummusic.com/resources
• Global Musicology https://globalmusicology.org
• International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) https://in-csa.com/about/
• Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s Music Diversity Lab: https://www.sydney.edu.au/music/our-research/music-diversity-lab.html
• Swap’ra: https://www.facebook.com/SWAPra2018/ – Trying to enact positive change in the opera world for Women and parents
• https://www.griffith.edu.au/creative-arts-research-institute
• https://orpheusinstituut.be/en/
• https://thenew.institute/en
• https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/resilient-societies/centres/forum-for-indigenous-research-excellence
• https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ethnomusicology.org/resource/resmgr/ethics/ethics_statement_2018.pdf
• https://climarte.org/about-us/
• https://facultyforafuture.org/

Concert/Recital Programming (some of these databases are organised by instrument)

• https://www.philomelproject.com – A database of solo and chamber works by women composers, searchable by type, instrumentation, language, and more.
• Chineke! https://www.chineke.org  
• On Curating. 
• https://henselsongsonline.org/theedition – Scores for all of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s songs, including many in various transpositions.
• https://www.tenthmuseinitiative.com.au/resources-1
• https://www.tenthmuseinitiative.com.au/repertoireguides – Repertoire guides arranged by instrument and period, with links to sheet music
• https://donne-uk.org/amplify/https://morebipocvoices.com/ – Music by BIPOC composers with works for voice and orchestra or vocal chamber music.
• https://morebipocvoices.com/more-resources/ – List of more resources for BIPOC especially African Diaspora Music Project: https://africandiasporamusicproject.org/
• https://www.womeninmusic.org/ – A non-profit organization committed to advancing equality, visibility and opportunities for women in the musical arts through education, support, empowerment and recognition.
• http://linfoulk.org/ – Works with Horn by Female Composers Catalogue
• https://www.coreliaproject.org/ – Works by women and gender-marginalised composers. Includes information about the pieces of music, how to listen and how to get the music/how to contact the composer. Can filter by score availability.
• https://www.pualaniflute.com/repertoire/ – A repertoire database for flute
• https://clarinetmusicbywomen.com/ – A repertoire database for clarinet
• https://www.violinmusicbywomen.com/ Graded anthologies for Violin and Viola
• http://www.claireedwardes.com/femaleworkslist – Repertoire for percussion
• https://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/content/index.xml
• http://www.drama-musica.com/Donne.html Linked to the music label Drama Musica
• Hildegard Publishing: http://store.hildegard.com/  Founded by Sylvia Glickman in 1988 – catalogue of over 400 works by women composers and the complete works of Hildegard of Bingen.
• International Alliance for Women in Music: https://www.iawm.org/ 
• Women’s revolutions per minute: http://www.wrpm.org.uk/ (Now archived but still lots of useful info on here)
• Women of Note: http://www.womenofnote.co.uk/  Biographies and lists of major works of predominantly British and European women composers, compiled by Diana Ambache.
• Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy: https://wophil.org/ – Data from US orchestral seasons, and also have a list of 500 operas by women
• Kassia Database: https://www.kassiadatabase.com/  – A database of Art Songs by women, voice orientated. Their resource page also has links to smaller publishers who produce a large amount of score by women.
• Institute for Composer Diversity: https://www.composerdiversity.com/  Originally a crowd sources database, now a search able website that is being added to constantly. 
• A Modern Reveal: https://www.amodernreveal.com/ – Articles focusing on telling the stories of women composers.
• Archiv Frau Musik: https://www.archiv-frau-musik.de/en/ – An International Alliance for Women in Music, the archive has a large collection representing over 1900 female composers, as well as conductors. Collection includes sheet music, recordings, historical documents, and also includes popular music and jazz.
• Illuminate Women’s Music: https://www.illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk/

Concert series that commissions and performs works by women composers since 2018. Concert programs, and some recordings are hosted on the site, along with biographies of featured composers.

• Canadian Women Composers Project: https://www.canadianwomencomposersproject.com/  – A focus on raising awareness of vocal music by Canadian women composers. Biographies of featured Canadian women composers, repertoire list and link to some recordings.  Has not been updated since 2018.
• https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/About-the-Weill-Music-Institute  

K-12 Resources

• https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/product/female-composer-club/ – This one is great for teachers who want resources to teach about specific composers. She also produces colouring books, 2 piano volumes, and listening guides.
• ASME: https://www.asme.edu.au/wa/projects/indigenous-resource-page/
• https://music.si.edu/learn
• https://www.musicconstructed.com/tool/music-by-women/
• https://www.songtrust.com/womens-in-music-resouces

Co-Design Protocols for Music Research and Cultural Collections

• National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia (NRPIPA) https://msa.org.au/nrpipa/

NRPIPA vision is to foster a supportive network of performers, scholars, allied professionals and community stakeholders who are committed to assisting Indigenous Australians to record, document and securely archive their endangered traditions of music and dance, and to apply these unique resources to strategic innovations in business, information technologies, the arts, education, research, governance, health and beyond.

• PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) https://www.paradisec.org.au/

Direct link to PARADISEC catalogue: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au, Direct link to PARADISEC podcast Toksave – Culture Talks: https://www.sydney.edu.au/music/our-research/paradisec/toksave-podcast.html

PARADISEC digitises and archives records of the many small languages of the world, working to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities and conforms to international standards for digital archiving. PARADISEC holds 15,700 hours of audio recordings and 2,600 hours of video recordings that might otherwise have been lost. These recordings are of performance, narrative, singing, and other oral tradition. This amounts to over 200 terabytes, and represents 1,350 languages, mainly from the Pacific region.

Research Resources

• Ngara – listen here – hear, learn – https://music-hdr-indigenous-methods.sydney.edu.au/

Ngara is a resource created for HDR students at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney. Structured around six interconnected themes, it invites students to listen to Indigenous ways of thinking, learning and understanding culture. It introduces the ideas of key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars and their Indigenous research methodologies; understanding of Country; how to position oneself in research; the “cultural interface” (Nakata 2007); cultural protocols; and the “right of reply” to archives holding records of Indigenous peoples and cultures.

• Reclaiming Performance Under Assimilation – https://www.reclaimingperformance.info/

Reclaiming Performance Under Assimilation is a collaborative project funded as an Australian Research Council Discovery Project. It has uncovered a largely hidden and dispersed history of ongoing Aboriginal cultural engagement, political mobilisation, and reclamation through performance. Explore visualisations of our research on these pages, including network maps showing the interconnectedness of performance networks, timelines, and mapping of events and places. The visualisations show networks of events and Indigenous performers in the southeast of Australia, and also show how these groups were connected with Aboriginal performers in the continent’s far north.

• True Echoes: https://www.true-echoes.com/

True Echoes is a research project that is reconnecting a rich archive of early sound recordings of Oceanic cultures with the communities from which they originate. True Echoes is working with cultural and research institutions in the region and in the UK to enhance the visibility and accessibility of these collections, ensuring that they are catalogued in ways that are accessible to the communities whose heritage they represent. This website aims to showcase the recordings and the research that has been undertaken between 2019 and 2022.

• Australharmony: https://www.sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/

An online resource toward the early history of music in colonial Australia

List Contributors:

John Gabriel

Emily Dolan

Amanda Hsieh

Louise Devenish

Cecilia Sun

Amanda Harris

Michael Hooper

Sarah Collins

Hannah Lee Tungate

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Chris Stover

Cathy Grant

Denis Collins