Interviews, Essays and Articles

Articles


Edinburgh, Scotland

'Framing ambiguity and desire through musical means in Sally Potter's film Orlando' (publication pending).

'Sound-colour and accretion as structural devices in Helen Gifford's Music for the Adonia'. Current issues in music, vol. 1, 2008, 67–78.

'On the wings of the wind: the characterisation of the feminine in Mary Mageau's The Furies'. In Music research: new directions for a new century. Edited by Michael Ewans, Rosalind Halton, and John A. Phillips. London : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005.

'Aspects of corporeality and narrative in Anne Boyd's Black Sun'. In Loose Canons. Edited by Ruth Lee Martin, Graham Hair, and Linda Kouvaras. Sydney : Southern Voices, 2004.

'Songs of presence and place'. In An Teachdaire Gaidhealach, February 2006.

'One common thread'. In National Library of Australia News, May 2006.

'La Monte Young'. In Music of the avant-garde. New York : Greenwood Press, 2002.

Conference papers

'Percy Grainger's settings of the Gaelic folk song Mo Nighean Dubh'. Musicological Society of Australia conference, Newcastle, 2009.

'Leaving makes me sorrowful: songs of Gaelic migrants in Australia'. Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig (a biennial academic conference on matters relating to Gaelic culture), Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye, July 2006.

'Accretion as a structural element in Helen Gifford's Music for the Adonia'. International Musicological Society Conference, Melbourne, 2004.

'Four women — two traditions: case studies of four women poets from Iceland and Scotland 1600–1800'. Musicological Society of Australia, Wellington New Zealand, 2003.

'On the wings of the wind: the characterisation of the feminine in Mary Mageau's The Furies'. Musicological Society of Australia conference, Newcastle, 2002.

'Aspects of corporeality and narrative in Anne Boyd's Black Sun'. Musicological Society of Australia conference, Melbourne, 2001.

Interviews

Composer Don Kay interviewed by Ruth Lee Martin, National Library of Australia, 1999.

Composer Helen Gifford, interviewed by Ruth Lee Martin, National Library of Australia, 2000.

Composer Ruth Lee Martin, interviewed by Jennifer Gall, National Library of Australia, 2001.

Composer Felix Werder, interviewed by Ruth Lee Martin, National Library of Australia, 2001.

Composer Moneta Eagles, interviewed by Ruth Lee Martin, National Library of Australia, 2001.

Composer Larry Sitsky, interviewed by Ruth Lee Martin, National Library of Australia, 2001.

Composer Graham Hair, interviewed by Ruth Lee Martin, National Library of Australia, 2002.

Composer Ann Carr-Boyd, interviewed by Ruth lee Martin, National Library of Australia, 2004.

Gaelic singer Christine Primrose, interviewed by Ruth Lee Martin, National Library of Australia, 2005.

Ruth Lee Martin, interviewed on BBC Radio nan Gaidheal.