Matthew Lorenzon

*Note that accommodation is still available at Medley Hall. Please contact the course convenor at matthew.lorenzon at gmail dot com if you would like to book.*

Recognising the shortage of music analysis teaching in Australia, we decided to bring together the most insightful musical minds we could find to pick apart scores for a week. The lecture-driven course will be open to all. There will be no prerequisites and no assessment, just music and curiosity in the urbane surroundings of Melbourne's Medley Hall.

Participants may include, but are not limited to: Undergraduates who want a taste of high-level music analysis or want fresh insights into the music they perform, postgraduate students working in the field, as well as staff and members of the public who want to hear and study music in new and surprising ways.

We have assembled some of the most inspiring music analysis teachers in the country to provide courses and single lectures in diverse topics from the common practice period (baroque/classical/romantic) to today.

Courses:

Richard Cohn (Yale/Sydney): Meter
David Larkin (Sydney): Sonata forms
Martin Greet (Melbourne): Schenkerian analysis
Alistair Noble (independent/Brisbane): Post-tonal analysis

Sketch studies lecture series:
Alan Davison (University of New England): Schubert/Liszt
Allan Walker (independent/Melbourne): Keith Humble
Elliott Gyger (Melbourne): Analysis and the compositional process
Michael Hooper (UNSW): Performance analysis

Schedule:


Prerequisites: While the only prerequisite is a desire to sit through a week of music analysis, some basic music theory will help you get the most out of the week. We expect participants to be able to read and describe musical notation. Cohn's course requires some familiarity with terminology associated with meter, but not too much, as his approach will involve unlearning assumptions about how meter works. Basic knowledge of functional harmony will help you understand Greet's course in Schenkerian analysis. Noble's post-tonal analysis course will explain music in terms of pitch-class set theory, so again your understanding of music will be built from the ground up.

When: 30 November–4 December 2015

Where: Medley Hall, 48 Drummond St, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

What: Registration gives you access to the lot. Morning and afternoon tea will be provided, while participants will be let loose on Lygon St for lunch.

But where will I sleep?: Accommodation is available at Medley Hall at the reduced rate of $75 per night, inclusive of breakfast. Please contact the convenor (matthew.lorenzon at gmail.com) to arrange this separately from your course registration.

How: Registrations will be processed through the Pozible rewards listed on your right.

Legal notes:
(i) Crowdfunding will be held on trust by the course convenor on behalf of Melbourne Music Analysis Summer School Incorporated, an incorporated not for profit association;
(ii) Tax deductions are not available for donations, although we hope to achieve Deductible Gift Recipient status for the incorporated not for profit association in the coming year;
(iii) The course will be held entirely within the premises of Medley Hall, 48 Drummond St, Carlton, Victoria, Australia. Attendees at the course acknowledge that neither the convenor nor the incorporated non-profit association have any responsibility at law for any loss, damage or injury suffered by an attendee arising from participation in the course or any activity associated with the course; and
(iv) Donations made through this Pozible campaign are not refundable. In the event that you donate, but find you are unable to attend the course, an application for reimbursement may be made in writing to the Convenor. Any reimbursement is at the Convenor’s sole discretion.

We really want to reinvigorate music analysis in Australia and so are running the event as cost-effectively as possible. Here's the breakdown of our costs:

Honorariums: $4000
Flights and accommodation: $2000
Venue hire: $2500
Catering: $600

If we exceed our funding goal, up to $1000 will be used to pay for administration costs. Any amount in excess of this will go towards running the school the next year.

This project is independently-run and can only proceed if we receive enough registrations by the closing date of the campaign. Our Facebook soft-launch received enough expressions of interest to give us a chance of meeting our funding target. However, we have lowered our student/concession fee in the hope of attracting those who are passionate about music analysis, but who would otherwise be unable to attend for financial reasons. Please share the campaign generously and invite full-fee paying members of the public to help make ends meet. Consider becoming a patron (pledges of $1000 or more) of the inaugural Music Analysis Summer School and have your name emblazoned forever in the MASS program.