cathya

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	Network Member	Cathy Aggett
	Organisation/Institution	University of Western Sydney
	Department/Centre	College of Arts, School of Communication Arts
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	Research area	Australian art song
	Research keywords	Australian art song; strategies; performance analysis; pedagogy

Research Interests

This pedagogical approach to researching Australian art song is aimed at making the repertoire more accessible to singers and vocal teachers. Performative, contextual and musical criteria of 41 songs spanning 100 years by 31 composers has been informed by self-reflection and performance analysis of the repertoire. Three phases to the research have occured involving an international study with professional singers to discover strategies they used in preparing and selecting solo vocal repertoire for a performance; applying some of those strategies to the preparation of Australian art songs for a recital; writing performance analyses of the songs in a structure sent internationally to vocal teachers for comment - the current stage of the project. Two publications on this work are "Singer's strategies for performing and learning 20th Century Australian art song: "I'm Nobody' from "Frogs" by Nigel Butterley" (2008). Conference Proceedings. 28th ISME World Conference, Music at all ages, Bologna. ISBN: 9780980456028. and "Lotte Latukefu: A singer's journey in an Asian-Pacific Cantata" (2008) in B.Crossman & M.Atherton (Eds.), 'Music of the Spirit: An Asian-Pacidic Musical Identity' Sydney: Australian Music Centre. ISBN 9740909198650

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