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Recognising that the subdisciplines in contemporary music research –including historical and analytical musicology, ethnomusicology, music technology and music education– increasingly overlap in methodologies and require interdisciplinary approaches, the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre has chosen to organise its research efforts across four focus areas (and the interplay between them).
Artistic practice as research
Artistic practice as research examines the role of research in creative processes in music, and aims to make those processes more transparent for practitioners, students, listeners, and those involved in research policy. This suite of projects explores the research components of the trajectory from concept to concert, including the gamut of research tools available to a practising artist that inform creative decisions from historical scores and recording studios to personal 'aural libraries'.
Music and communities
Music and communities looks at the changing nature and contexts for music within contemporary environments, ranging from 'local histories' such as the establishment of Queensland Conservatorium to global concerns about shifts and challenges in the musical arena as a result of rapid developments in technology, travel, and migration.
Music education and training
Music education and training reflects on the way music learning and teaching occur in contemporary contexts, including classical, jazz, popular, Indigenous, and world music. This project cluster includes research into school music education, community music, and especially the training of music professionals for the twenty-first century.
Music and technology
The interplay between music and technology plays a role not only in recording and distribution, but also in learning and making music. Across various research activities and outputs, this focus area develops and champions contemporary applications to creating, performing, and learning music, with an emerging emphasis on music and the moving image.