Dr Paul Watt - Researcher Profile

Paul Watt

Address

School of Music Conservatorium
Faculty of Arts, Clayton

Biography

Paul works in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University as a Lecturer in Musicology and as a Research Officer

Paul Watt’s research interests include 19th-century music, British music and musical biography. His publications include Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period (2011, edited with Patrick Spedding) and articles and book chapters, published and forthcoming, on a range of topics from 19th-century biographical method to early twentieth-century ideas of nationalism.

Since completing his PhD in 2009 Paul has been awarded a  visiting fellowship to the Institute for Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London (June-July 2009) and in July 2011 was an Alfred A. Knopf and Blanche W. Knofp Fellow in the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

Paul is Editor of the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle and Musicology Australia. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and in an editorial adviser to the ‘Cambridge Library Collection’ published by Cambridge University Press.

He is currently working on five projects: a book on the musical criticism of Ernest Newman; an edited book on the music of Josef Holbrooke; an article on the nineteenth-century French literary theoriest, Emile Hennequin; an article on the musical life of Alexandra Palance (London) in the late nineteenth century, and a chapter on opera criticism for the Oxford Handbook of Opera.

Paul welcomes inquiries from potential higher degree students in any aspect of western classical music, but especially in the areas of nineteenth-century music (art music and popular music); British music, and musc biography.

 

Research & Supervision Interests

    19th-century music; music biography, criticism and aesthetics

Keywords

Music history, Musicology, music criticism and biography., Musicology: criticism and biography, Nineteenth-century music, Popular music

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: University of Sydney
Year awarded: 2009
MASTER OF ARTS
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1995
BACHELOR OF MUSIC
Institution: Institute of Catholic Education
Year awarded: 1990

Publications

Books

Spedding, P., Watt, P. (eds), 2011, Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period (series editor), Pickering & Chatto, London United Kingdom.

Book Chapters

Spedding, P., Watt, P., 2011, General introduction: historical, social and musical contexts of a forgotten repertory, in Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Vol 1, eds Patrick Spedding and Paul Watt, Pickering & Chatto Publishers, London, UK, pp. 1-11.

Journal Articles

Watt, P.E., 2009, A 'gigantic and popular place of entertainment': Granville Bantock and music-making at the New Brighton Tower in the late 1890s', Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle [P], vol 42, issue 2009, Royal Musical Assoc, UK, London, UK, pp. 109-164.

Watt, P.E., 2008, The catalogue of Ernest Newman's library: Revelations about his intellectual life in the 1890s, Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol 31, issue 2, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, AUS, pp. 81-103.

Watt, P.E., 2007, Ernest Newman's The Man Liszt (1934): reading its freethought agenda, Context: A Journal of Music Research, vol 31, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 193-205.

Community Service

I am President of the Victorian Chapter of the Musicolocgical Society of Australia. I am the Editor of Musicology Australia and the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
A folio of compositions based on trajectories through musical state spaces.
Supervisors:
Reiner, T (Main), Watt, P (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Baroque for students: Exploring the benefits of teaching performance practice techniques to intermed.
Supervisors:
Watt, P (Main), Murphy, F (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Classical Music Collaborations.
Supervisors:
Fujimura, K (Joint-co), Watt, P (Joint).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Dancing With Ghosts: an exploration of intersubjectivity and the construction of meaning through music composition..
Supervisors:
Reiner, T (Main), Watt, P (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Defining the concert Mass.
Supervisors:
Garrioch, D (Main), Howard, P (Associate), Watt, P (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
FIRE AND AIR: Shakespeare and the phenomenology of song.
Supervisors:
Groves, P (Main), Collins, S (Associate), Watt, P (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Tone and Techniques.
Supervisors:
Reiner, T (Main), Watt, P (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Traditions, Repertoires and Practices: Locating the C19th French Solo Valve Trumpet Tradition.
Supervisors:
Watt, P (Main), Fujimura, K (Associate), Reiner, T (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Understanding performance anxiety and its effects that occur with string players in an assessment situation in an Australian context.
Supervisors:
Murphy, F (Main), Watt, P (Joint).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Dowling, K.
Program of Study:
Stylistic correspondence in the music for solo recorder and piano or harpsichord composed 1939-1989 by Gordon Jacob, Edmund Rubbra, Lennox Berkeley, Arnold cooke, Malcolm Arnold and Alan Ridout. (Masters) 2011.
Supervisors:
Smith, G (Main), Watt, P (Associate).