Showcase of Music HDR Projects

Showcase of Music HDR Projects

Associate Professor Diana Blom

The showcase reflects a breadth of music research projects being undertaken by HDR candidates, academic staff, and Summer Undergraduate Scholarship researchers. Some projects are located overseas - the dissemination of Korean women’s folksong; community music in Malta and its relationship to music education; the influence of first language on English as a second language writing of undergraduates of the University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Sri Lanka. Others engage with artistic practice – exploring co-performers’ communications in a newly-formed piano duo; how a contemporary composer can work with creative methods and historical traces to reveal new insights into two Baroque women composers; and contemporary blues tonality, heritage and hybridity. Music education frames the topic of issues of self-efficacy and growth mindset for the generalist primary teacher teaching music. And music itself is the focus for two projects drawing academics and undergraduate researchers together - how music has meaning in the time of COVID-19, 2020 – an Australian perspective; and three rationales when sequencing a CD of works by various composers.

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dan Johnston

Diana Blom is Associate Professor, Music, in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. Current research interests focus on music education, tertiary performance (assessing group performance, collaboration, interpretation); preferences for, responses to, and descriptions of, music; the relationship between music and words in the musical; music and ANZAC war commemoration; and how arts practitioners working in academia view their practice as research. As a composer and performer (harpsichord and piano), she engages in practice-led research and in 2011 received an APRA/AMCOS music award, with Dawn Bennett, for a project of newly composed viola and piano music, Australia East & West. In 2011 she was a member of a team awarded an ALTC Innovation and Development Grant into 'e-Portfolios for creative arts students'. Recent publications in several journals, including Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, Higher Education Research & Development, International Journal of Education and the Arts, International Journal of Music Education, have resulted from several of these research interests. She is co-author, with Matthew Hindson and Damian Barbeler, of Music Composition Toolbox (Science Press), a composition text for secondary and lower tertiary students. Diana is a composer, represented by the Australian Music Centre and SOUNZ, published by Wirripang Pty. Ltd., Orpheus Music and Wai-te-ata Music Press, and a performer on harpsichord, piano and toy piano.