HAMISH ROBB
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Written Publications

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Articles and Chapters
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- Hamish Robb. "Marie Jaëll: Pioneer of Musical Embodiment Studies." 19th-Century Music 45/3 (2022).

- Hamish Robb. "Waxing and Waning: Musical Depictions of Cyclicity and Fluidity in Moonlight." In Lawrence Kramer & Alberto Nones (eds.), Classical Music in a Changing World: Crisis and Vital Signs (Vernon Press, 2021).

- Hamish Robb. "Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: An Embodied Approach." In Music as Communication: Perspectives on Music, Image, and Performance. ABE, Milano. (2018).

- Hamish Robb. “Review of Arnie Cox’s book, Music & Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking (Indiana University Press).” Music Theory Spectrum 40.1 (2018).

- Hamish Robb. "Imagined, Supplemental Sound in Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: Towards a Fuller Understanding of Musical Embodiment." Music Theory Online 21.3 (2015).
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​- Hamish Robb. “Looking Beyond Facile Understandings of ‘Literalness’ in Music-Dance Collaborations: Mark Morris’s All Fours.” Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research 30, No. 2 (2012).


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Select Podcasts and Programme Notes

- Podcast for Chamber Music New Zealand's series, "Programme Notes." (July 2021). Episode 4: "Gabriel Fauré and the belle époque Parisian salon." (Hamish Robb, Script Writer). Listen

- Podcast for Chamber Music New Zealand's series, "Programme Notes." (June 2021). Episode 3: "Musical Time." (Hamish Robb, Script Writer). Listen here: rss.com/podcasts/programme-notes/

- Podcast for Chamber Music New Zealand's series, "Programme Notes." (April 2021). Episode 2: "Night and Music." (Hamish Robb, Script Writer). Listen here: rss.com/podcasts/programme-notes/

- Podcast for Chamber Music New Zealand's series, "Programme Notes." (March 2021). Episode 1: "Schoenberg: Looking Back, Looking Forward." (Hamish Robb, Script Writer). Listen here: rss.com/podcasts/programme-notes/

- Programme Notes for Chamber Music New Zealand's National Concert Tour, "Transfigured Night." (March 2021). Read programme notes here: 
https://chambermusic.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Transfigured-Night_Programme.pdf

- Programme Notes for Chamber Music New Zealand's National Concert Tour, "Nocturnes." (April 2021). Read programme notes here: chambermusic.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Nocturnes_Programme-web2.pdf

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Select Conference Papers

- "Waxing and Waning: Musical Depictions of Cyclicity in Moonlight (2016)." 
Academic Conference on Music, Communication, and Performance. Montecassiano, Italy, June 2020.

- "Marie Jaëll: Forgotten Pioneer of Embodiment Studies." Conference of the New Zealand Musicological Society. Auckland, December 2019.

- "Marie Jaëll's Theory of Musical Embodiment." Performing and Embodying Sound Conference. New Zealand School of Music, Wellington, April 2019.

- "'That sustained, melancholy sound': Coordinating inner, imagined sound in four-hand piano performance." Piano Four Hands Music Symposium "Vierhändig, immer einmal!", Graz, Austria, January 2019.

· “Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: An Embodied Approach.” Academic Conference on Music, Communication, and Performance, Montecassiano, Italy, June 2018.

· "Imagined, Supplemental Sound as a Source of Agency in Musical Embodiment." 2015 Annual Meeting of the South Central Society for Music Theory, Loyola University, New Orleans, March 2015.
 
· "Imagined (Supplemental) Sound in Musical Embodiment." THEMUS Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, April 2015.

· “Familiar Recordings and the Ritual of Repeated Listening.” Conference of the New Zealand Musicological Society, Wellington, New Zealand, October 2015.
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· “Imagined Sound in Performances of Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: An Embodied Approach.” Performance Studies Network–Third International Conference, University of Cambridge, July 2014.
 
· “Imagining and Performing Sound in Nineteenth-Century Piano Music.” Imagining Sound in the Early Nineteenth Century Conference, Cornell University, April 2013.
 
· “What’s Wrong with Being ‘Literal’? Mark Morris’s All Fours.” Princeton, Cornell, Penn, & Columbia Conference, Princeton University, February 2012.

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