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Sound Footings
To create a web-based research infrastructure in support of two major music archives: The Eileen Joyce Collection (The University of Western Australia) and The Asian-Australian Music Collection (Monash University). Description Additional music archive resources at The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Monash University (Monash) are now available to researchers through the use of web-based methods of delivery: the Eileen Joyce Collection (UWA) and the Asian-Australian Music Collection (Monash). Scope Sound Footings is the second stage in an ongoing national project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). It builds on the 2004 ARC-funded project, Preserving Australia’s Sound Heritage, by adding two collections and including print documents in multiple formats as well as historic sound recordings. Using infrastructure based at the School of Music’s Callaway Centre Archive, UWA has fostered Australian music research through the cataloguing, preservation, digitising and digital archiving of the Eileen Joyce Collection. Eileen Joyce was an Australian born and internationally acclaimed concert pianist from the 1930s through to the 1960s. Before her death in 1991 she transferred her personal papers and music to the Callaway Centre Archive at The University of Western Australia. This collection offers researchers a rare glimpse into the day to day life of a publicly-adored concert pianist: the gruelling schedules, as evidenced through her engagement diaries; the detail necessary in arranging tours, as shown in her correspondence files; and her choice of performance editions. The Eileen Joyce Collection contains over 3,000 items across varying formats, including scrapbooks, sound discs, photographs and letters. Information about the Monash project can be found through its website. Duration 2 years, 2006-2007 (Complete) Key Personnel at The University of Western Australia
Research Audience Australian studies, Twentieth-century pianism, Performance studies Benefits As a result of the development of this significant collection, the Sound Footings project:
The Eileen Joyce Collection is a unique and important collection. It reveals much about pianism in the early-mid twentieth century, and the editions from which Joyce played are in themselves a valuable guide to her musical influences, values and pianistic approach. Outputs The UWA project outcomes can be viewed from the following links:
Further Information Technical information about the role of the Callaway Centre Archive in this project can be found through its website. Acknowledgements This infrastructure was established through funding provided by the Australian Research Council's Linkage Infrastructure Projects (project number LEO 668458 - Sound Footings: creating a web-based research infrastructure of major music archives) and The University of Western Australia's Research Matching Fund. Further support and expertise were provided by the National Library of Australia and the library at The University of Western Australia. The Chief Investigators acknowledge and thank the ARC, The University of Western Australia and the National Library of Australia for their support. |
