Inja’s research focuses upon 19th Century performance practice, combining: 1) musicological research, with emphasis upon 19th Century reception, stylistic tendencies, and performance techniques; and 2) practice-based research, involving historically-informed performance practice. Inja’s research interests include: 1) early sound recordings and mechanical recording processes; 2) performance practice 1780-1930; 3) Frédéric Chopin’s reception, and; 4) topics associated with piano performance and repertoire.
Publications (written)
- Reviving the Brave Belgians: Mechanical recording practices as a guide in historical performance (co-authored with Dr. Jeroen Billiet, Royal Brussels Conservatoire, Belgium) Article accepted in Music & Practice (forthcoming).
- Pachmann on Record: Digital analysis as a method for understanding early recordings, book chapter in: Softwaregestützte Interpretationsforschung: Grundsätze, Desiderate und Grenzen, ed. Julian Caskel, Frithjof Vollmer, Thomas Wozonig (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. December, 2022).
- Julius Block’s Cylinder Collection: Masterpieces of music networking, chapter in: Musical Networking in the ‘Long 19th Century’ ed. Vjera Katalinić (Croatian Musicological Society, forthcoming).
- Early Sound Recordings: Academic Research and Practice. Co-editor with Dr. Eva Moreda Rodriguez, University of Glasgow; Routledge (March, 2023).
- A Chip Off the Old Block? introducing the practice of historically-informed recording(co-authored with Dr. Adam Stanović). Seismograf. Sounds of Science. Methods and Aesthetics in Auditory Research Practices (April, 2021).
- Remember me, Remember me not (Part II): Chopin’s Reception in Great Britain, 1849 to 1899. Article in: Musica Iagellonica, Vol. 11, 2020. ISSN 1233–9679.
- The Early Sound Recordings as Primary Evidence: late nineteenth-centuryexpressive techniques relating to Chopin’s Nocturnes, lecture-recital and paper in: proceedings of ‘Doctors in Performance’ Conference, Vilnius (September, 2022).
- ‘Brilliant but not Difficult’: amateur playing of Chopin in nineteenth-century Britain, book chapter in: The integration of a work: from miniature to large scale; Research and Publishing Department of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute (December, 2022).
- Love me, Love me not (Part I): Chopin’s reception in Great Britain, 1830-1849, article in: Musica Iagellonica, Vol. 10, 2019. ISSN 1233–9679 (December, 2019).
- (Re)constructing Early Recordings: a guide for historically-informed performance, paper in: proceedings of Research Hands on Piano: International Conference on Music Performance (University of Aveiro Publications, 2019).
- The Early Classical Recordings of First World War England: Process, preoccupation and performance, chapter in: The Great War 1914-1918 and Music. Compositional Strategies, Performing Practices, and Social Impacts (Hrvatsko Muzikološko Društvo, 2019).
- Back to the Future: the digitisation of reproducing piano rolls as a rendering of the past, article in: Svensk tidskrift for musikforskning: Swedish Journal of Music research (March 2018).
- Masculine and Feminine Compositions: Frederic Chopin and his body (of work), article in: HARTS & Minds Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (December, 2017).
- Performing Music, Performing Culture: bridging the cleavage between forms of practice’ (co-authored with Adam Stanovic), paper in: proceedings of ‘Music, Sound and Culture (MUSICULT 2016)’ (May 2016).
Publications (music)
Austro-German Revivals: (Re)constructing Acoustic Recordings. Inja Stanović, piano and David Milsom, violin. (Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield Press).
CD with works of John Donaldson, J. S. Bach and J. Field (recorded on 1804 Broadwood Square Piano and Steinway B) CD accompanies the book: Michael Hannon, Mrs. Findlay’s Broadwood Square Piano (Ranmoor Publications, 2015).
PhD Thesis
Chopin in Great Britain, 1830 to 1930: reception, performance, recordings. Available to download HERE.
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