School of Arts & Sciences

@ Australian Catholic University

Geoffrey Cox

 

Lecturer

Qualifications
  • BA
  • BmusHons (QLD)
  • Dphil (Oxon) FTCL
  • LMusA
  • ARCO
  • FRSCM
Units taught
  • History of Music (17th & 18th Centuries)
  • Music & Liturgy
  • Choral Conducting
  • Practical Study (Organ)
Recent publications
  • Faber Early Organ Series: European Organ Music of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, i-iii: England. Ed. Geoffrey Cox. London: Faber Music, 1986
  • Organ Music in Restoration England: A Study of Sources, Styles and Influences. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1989
  • "Church Music". In The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, ed. Warren Bebbington (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 190-203.
  • "Church Music in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 1847-1997", in People of the Past? The Culture of Melbourne Anglicanism and Anglicanism in Melbourne’s Culture, ed. Colin Holden.   Melbourne University Conference and Seminar Series, 9.   Parkville:  Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2000, pp. 67-88.
  • "Cum Angelis canimus:  Re-examining the role of the choir at the Eucharist,"  Pastoral Music, 24/2 (December -January 2000), 25-33;   also in The Australasian Catholic Record, 77/1 (January 2000), 61-75.
  • “Impulse zur Zukunft der liturgischen Musik:  Aus dem Diskussionsprozess rund um das ‘Snowbird Statement’,”  in Heiliger Dienst [Austrian Liturgical Periodical], 2/2000 954, Jarhgang, pp. 140-51.
  • "Text and Context - The Snowbird Statement on Catholic Liturgical Music,"   Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal,  vol. 6, No 3 (2001), pp. 37-48.
Recent conference presentations
  • Englishing the Chant: A Case Study – The Lord’s Prayer (July 2004)
  • Preserving the Treasure of Sacred Music in the Spirit of Vatican II (September 2004)
Awards  
Professional & community involvements
  • Organist & Director of Music, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne.
  • Music Consultant to the National Liturgical Commission of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
  • Music Consultant to the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), for provision of ministerial chants to the revised English translation of the 2002 Missale Romanum
Research interests
  • English Keyboard Music – 17th Century
  • Music and Liturgy
  • Adaptation of Gregorian Chant to English
  • Church Music in Australia
  • History of the Pipe Organ in Australia

 

 

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