Deputy-Head of School
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| Dr Denis Collins |
Dr Denis Collins
BA BMus (NUI Dublin), MA PhD (Stanford)
Denis Collins’s research interests lie in the history of music theory with a particular focus on canon and related contrapuntal procedures in Western art music from ca. 1500 to ca. 1800. He has published widely on these topics in international journals and in 2007 his critical scholarly edition of Elway Bevin’s A Briefe and Short Instruction of the Art of Musicke was published by Ashgate. He is currently preparing an online edition of the collection of over 1,000 Miserere canons by George Waterhouse (d. 1602) for Computerized Mensural Music Editions. He has presented at conferences worldwide, including an invited paper at the international symposium on Thomas Morley’s A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Pracitcall Musicke in Bowdoin College, Maine in 2009 and a keynote address to the annual meeting of the National Association of Composers in the USA at Texas State University, San Marcos in 2010.
Denis teaches first-year music techniques and history courses, second- and third-year elective courses in counterpoint and music history, as well as honours research courses. He also teaches a second-year elective course on the music of Ireland. He is currently Director of Research Higher Degrees at the School of Music, and he is supervising nine MPhil and PhD students.
Denis’s sustained excellence in teaching musicology at UQ was recognized through a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 2010.
Publications
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Research interests
Dr Denis Collins' research interests are in the history of music theory, renaissance and baroque counterpoint and computer applications to music research.
Contact details
School of Music
Zelman Cowen building (51)
The University of Queensland
T: +61 7 3365 3512
E: denis.collins@uq.edu.au
