Dr Paul Watt

BMus (ACU), MA (Monash), PhD (Sydney)
Lecturer in Musicology & Research Officer

Email: paul.watt@monash.edu
Phone: (03) 9905 3235
Fax: (03) 9905 3241
Location: Room 212, Performing Arts Centre, Building 68, Clayton Campus

Biography

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. Combining his interests in print culture, nineteenth-century music and literary criticism, his research is interdisciplinary and includes a mix of both individual and collaborative projects.

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.

Research Interests

Nineteenth-century music; British music; music criticism and biography.

Teaching

• ATS1345 Exploring Western Music
• ATS2804 From Schubert to Strauss: Music of the Romantic Ideal
• ATS2900 Music Aesthetics and Criticism
• ATS2797 Professional Practice in Music 1

Recent Publications

Books

• Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period (gen. ed. with Patrick Spedding)

Book Chapters

• ‘General  Introduction: Historical, Social and Musical Contexts of a Forgotten Repertory’, by Paul Watt and Patrick Spedding  in Watt and Speeding (eds), Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period vol .1 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), xv-xxv.
• 'The Historiography of Opera Criticism', in The Oxford Handbook of Opera, ed. Helen Greenwald (forthcoming)

Refereed Journal Articles

• 'Ernest Newman’s Draft of a Berlioz Biography (1899) and its Appropriation of Emile Hennequin’s Style Theory’, Nineteenth-Century Music Review (forthcoming)
• ‘A gigantic and popular place of entertainment”: Granville Bantock and music-making at the New Brighton Tower in the late 1890s’, Research Chronicle of the Royal Musical Association (June 2009): 111-66
• ‘The catalogue of Ernest Newman’s library: revelations about his intellectual life in the 1890s’, Script & Print 31/2 (2007), 81-103
• ‘Ernest Newman’s The Man Liszt of 1934: reading its freethought agenda’, Context: A Journal of Music Research 31 (2006), 193-205

Work in Progress

• Ernest Newman: An Intellectual Biography (book, sole author)
• Musical Biography since 1800 (book, sole author)
• Josef Holbrooke: Composer, Critic and Champion of British Music (with Anne-Marie Forbes) (edited book)
• The musical life of Alexandra Palace in the late nineteenth century (with Alison Rabinovici) (refereed journal article)
  

Prizes, Grants, Honours

• 2010-2011: Alfred A. Knopf and Blanche W. Knopf Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, to undertake research for an intellectual biography of Ernest Newman using materials from the Knopf Collection (US$1700)
• 2010: Music and Letters Award for research costs towards an article on the musical life of the Alexandra Palace in the late nineteenth century (£500)
• 2009: Visiting Research Fellow (June-July), Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
• 2008: Monash University European Travel Grant ($6700)
• 2003: Special Achievement Award, Cambridge University Press UK, for ‘Exceptional Contribution’ to CUP, July–December

Consultancies, Committees and External Affiliations

• Publications Committee, Royal Musical Association
• Corresponding Member, Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth, University of Bristol
• Editorial Adviser, Cambridge Library Series, Cambridge University Press
• Review Committee, BMus and BA/BMus courses, Australian Catholic University (2008)
• Chair, Electronic Publishing Working Party, Musicological Society of Australia (2008)