E/Prof. David Tunley talks about French music in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Tuesday 10 June 2008 at 7:30pm for 8pm
Library Meeting Room
Ground Floor
Reid Library Building
The University of Western Australia
E/Professor David Tunley
Music in Three Palaces: the influence of politics on French Baroque music
It has been remarked that ‘rarely in history have the relations between politics and music lain more openly on the surface than during the French absolutism.’ This talk explores this idea taking the Palace of Versailles, the Palais Royal and the Tuileries Palace as focal points in tracing the development of French music in the 17th and 18th centuries.
About the Speaker
Emeritus Professor David Tunley’s musical activities have ranged over choral conducting, composition and creating various festivals such as the York Winter Music Festival and the Terrace Proms. However, he is best known as a musicologist, enjoying particularly an international reputation in French music of the 17th to the 19th centuries, a field in which he has published four books and edited 23 volumes of vocal music. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a member of the Order of Australia and a Chevalier in the Napoleonic Order of Palmes Académiques.
Please note that the ground floor entrance to the Library, nearest to the carpark, will be open from 7.30pm - 7.45pm.
Members: Free Non-members: $5.00 donation
