POLISH MUSIC SINCE 1945
CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY
30 APRIL – 2 MAY 2009
An international conference on 'Polish Music since 1945' will be hosted by the Music Department of Canterbury Christ Church University - England, from Thursday 30 April to Saturday 2 May 2009. This is the first international conference on Polish Music organized by a British University, and will coincide with and augment the long-established Sounds New Music Festival, based in Canterbury. The 2009 festival will focus on and celebrate contemporary Polish music. Krzysztof Penderecki will be in residence during the festival, and one of the many highlights will feature this renowned composer conducting his 'St Luke Passion' in Canterbury Cathedral. He will also participate in the conference.
The conference is in association with:
The Sounds News Music Festival and The Institute of Musical Research
The conference aims to bring together scholars, composers and performers with interests in post-war Polish music. A wide range of contributions will be considered, including:
i) paper presentations (20 minutes, 10 minutes question time)
ii) lecture recitals (40 minutes to 1 hour max, incl question time)
iii) panel sessions (1 hour, with no more than 4 papers, incl question time)
The conference key-note address will be delivered by Prof Adrian Thomas (Cardiff University).
Proposals are invited on topics that address specific compositional and/or analytical aspects of individual composers, repertoires, genres, styles and performance practice. Papers that are more historical or sociological in nature are also welcome, as are those dealing with the broader contexts within which contemporary Polish music has evolved. Possible themes might include, but are not limited to:
- Compositional practice of Polish composers, such as Penderecki, Górecki, Lutoslawski and Panufnik, among many others.
- Polish film music
- Jazz, popular and 'world' musics in Poland
- Music, politics and identity in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras
- The global influence of Polish music
The official language of the conference will be English.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Friday 31 October 2008. Successful contributors will be notified via email by late November 2008.
Abstracts should be submitted via email (preferably as plain text - only attachments in .rtf format will be accepted) to the conference organiser, Dr. Eva Mantzourani at: eva.mantzourani at canterbury.ac.uk.
Postal correspondence should be addressed to: Dr. Eva Mantzourani, Department of Music, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, CT1 1QU, United Kingdom.
For updates and further details visit the conference website: http://www.cccupolishmusicconference.org.uk/
CELEBRATING HAYDN: HIS TIMES AND LEGACY
YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO, CANADA
6 – 9 AUGUST 2009
An international conference to commemorate the bicentenary of Joseph Haydn’s death
This interdisciplinary conference will create an opportunity to celebrate the music of Joseph Haydn and to reflect on his legacy, influence, and reception over the past two hundred years. With a prodigious output in all of the Classical era’s main genres, Haydn has been the focus of much serious scholarship throughout his life and continuing until the present day. While there is already a wealth of extant research, the opportunity still exists to consider Haydn’s music and its reception even further. This conference will provide a forum for both internationally renowned Haydn scholars as well as emerging scholars to share their research in a lively and dynamic environment. As this is an interdisciplinary conference, the organizers welcome paper proposals from a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to, musicology, performance practice, theatre and dance history, drama, and literature.
The programme for the conference will include evening concerts featuring the Penderecki String Quartet as well as fortepianist Malcolm Bilson. There will be four plenary speakers including James Webster (Goldwin Smith Professor of Music, Cornell University), Julian Rushton (Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds), Elaine Sisman (Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music, Columbia University), and Sigrid T’Hooft (dramaturg, choreographer-stage director, International Opera Foundation Eszterháza, Belgium), as well as a Roundtable, and 96 conference papers. A banquet and off-campus events are also being planned.
Scholars and performers are cordially invited to submit 250-word abstracts for papers or proposals for lecture-recitals for review by the programme committee to haydnconference@brocku.ca . Conference papers of 25 minutes and 50-minute lecture-recitals will be followed by a 5-minute discussion period. Deadline for submission of proposals: Oct. 1, 2008. The official languages of the conference are English and French.
The conference organizers, Patricia Debly (Brock University) and Dorothy de Val (York University), look forward to welcoming you to this conference in August 2009.
For further information and conference updates, please see the conference website: http://www.brocku.ca/haydnconferenceyork/
ECHOES OF ELLINGTON: A CONFERENCE ABOUT THE MUSIC AND LIFE OF DUKE ELLINGTON
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
15 – 17 APRIL 2009
In conjunction with a rare staging of Duke Ellington’s comic opera “Queenie Pie,” the Center for American Music and the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin will be sponsoring a conference exploring the music and life of the composer. The conference will feature talks by James Lincoln Collier and John Franceschina, and attendees will be invited to the Butler School’s opening night performance of “Queenie Pie,” with Carmen Bradford singing the title role. The UT Jazz Orchestra will also present an all-Ellington concert.
Call for Papers: The conference organizers welcome submissions that address Ellington’s music, life and times from any perspective, including historical, sociological, analytical, theoretical, and performance. Papers concerning Ellington’s music for the theater and for film are especially welcomed. Proposals for round tables, lecture recitals or novel formats will also be considered. Presentations for individual papers should be approximately 30 minutes.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: submit a one-page abstract to Prof. James Buhler at jbuhler at mail.utexas.edu or fax 512/471-7836. Abstracts must be received by Monday, November 3, 2008. Decision notification will be no later than Monday, December 1, 2008. The final version of selected papers must be submitted by March 15, 2009.
Further information is also available by contacting Prof. Jeff Hellmer, Director of Jazz Studies, jhellmer at mail.utexas.edu
OXFORD ORGAN CONFERENCE 2009
'HOPE AND GLORY: THE BRITISH ORGAN IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
16 - 19 April 2009
The Betts Fund of the University of Oxford, and the British Institute of Organ Studies are pleased to announce the third Conference of a four-year sequence entitled The Organ in England: Its Music, Technology, and Role through the Second Millennium.
The next conference will take place from 16 to 19 April 2009 at Wadham College, Oxford and will cover the organ and its music in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
300-word proposals for 20-minute papers and lecture-recitals are welcome on any and all topics relating to the British organ in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Possible areas of enquiry are organ building, organ music, the role of the organ in church and secular locations, organs and theology, the public role of the organ, the organ as a domestic instrument, organs and voices, organ cases, music and the technology of the period, economics and organ building and/or playing and any other relevant topics. Please note that we not intending to be rigid in applying the specific dates indicated and are more interested in philosophies of organ building, music, performance etc in the general period.
Abstracts will be due by 15 December, with responses from the panel of readers by mid-to-late January.
The website will be updated soon: either follow the links from http://www.bios.org.uk/; or go to www/music.ox.ac.uk/organconference.
For more information, please contact:
Dr Katharine Pardee, Betts Scholar in Organ Studies, Brookman Organ Scholar, Wadham College, University of Oxford, email: kfpardee@yahoo.com
'2009 –A YEAR OF ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS'
SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE AESTHETICS AND SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC
The International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (IRASM) is issuing a special CFP for the year 2009. In light of the fact that 2009 marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of Purcell, the 250th of the death of Handel, the 200th of the death of Haydn, and the 200th of the birth of Mendelssohn, the journal is particularly eager to publish articles focusing on the music (or activities) of any of these composers. All musicological perspectives are welcomed; though in keeping with the journal’s central mandate, we are particularly interested in essays focusing on the social, aesthetic, and broader philosophic significance of Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn for their own time and for our own.
IRASM is the official journal of the Croatian Musicological Society and is published twice yearly (in June and December). For further information, contact its editor, Dr. Stanislav Tuksar at tuksar at hazu.hr, or at the address (or phone numbers) below:
Dr. Stanislav Tuksar, IRASM, Opaticka 18
HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Telephone: +385 1 4651370, Fax: +385 1 4684701
HAYDN: FORMS OF EXPRESSION
NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC, WELLINGTON, NZ
22 – 24 MAY 2009
To commemorate the bicentenary of Haydn's death, The New Zealand School of Music will hold an international conference in Wellington, New Zealand on May 22-24, 2009. The conference is part of a year-long series of events devoted to Haydn at the New Zealand School of Music.
Keynote addresses will be delivered by W. Dean Sutcliffe (University of Auckland) and Richard Will (University of Virginia), and the conference will conclude with a roundtable discussion that will, in addition to the keynote speakers, also include Peter Walls (New Zealand Symphony Orchestra) and, as moderator, Elizabeth Hudson (NZ School of Music).
Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers on topics related to the diverse forms of expression cultivated by Haydn and his contemporaneous and subsequent interpreters. Approaches may be historical, analytical, or critical. Possible topics include but are not limited to issues of genre and style, meaning and significance, performance practice, and reception. We will in addition consider proposals for scholarly presentations involving musical performances, which could also be given extra time. The conference will conclude with a round table discussion.
Proposals (250 words maximum), indicating A/V needs, should be sent by September 30, 2008 as e-mail attachments or by post to:
Dr. Keith Chapin, New Zealand School of Music
P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140 New Zealand
keith.chapin@nzsm.ac.nz
HAYDN 2009
BRITISH LIBRARY, ENGLAND
14 – 15 MARCH 2009
The British Library is pleased to announce a public conference to be held during the weekend of 14-15 March 2009, to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, and organised in association with the Haydn Society of Great Britain. The event will take place in the British Library conference centre in London and the target audience is the musically educated general public.
Presentations, papers or lecture recitals on the themes 'Haydn in London', 'Haydn and the business of music', 'Haydn Iconography', and 'Haydn and Opera', are particularly invited, though submissions on any other aspect of the life and works of the composer would also be welcome. The event at the British Library is intended to be a significant contribution to the Haydn celebrations in 2009, and coincides with a series of concerts the preceding week at the King's Place, the exciting new concert venue close by, which will include Haydn symphonies and music from the operas, performed by Classical Opera (musical director, Ian Page).
Please send proposals - not more than 250 words, please - for submissions lasting no more than 30 mins to richard.chesser@bl.uk <mailto:richard.chesser@bl.uk> by 30 September 2008. Decisions will be made immediately thereafter and the results announced by 24 October 2008.
We would appreciate your bringing this announcement to the attention of those who may not otherwise see it, especially those in other disciplines who may nevertheless be interested or have potentially valuable contributions to offer.
KZOO 2009
44TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
7 – 10 MAY 2009
MUSICOLOGY AT KALAMAZOO
The program committee for Musicology at Kalamazoo (Cathy Ann Elias, Mary Wolinski, and Julia Wingo Shinnick) is pleased to announce the following sessions for the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009:
- Music, Liturgy, and Cluny: 1100 Years of Tradition
- The Medieval Fiddle: Performance, Technology, and Repertory
- Medieval Music: Performance and Improvisation
- Medieval Music Theorists who Hate Each Other!
- Medieval Music Theory and Sister Disciplines
- Medieval Sources: From Song to Book
- Motets in and out of Context
- Mouvance: The Mobility of Medieval Musical Texts
- Musical Medievalism: Now and Then
We hope many if not all of these sessions can foster some real dialogue between musicologists and scholars in other areas, so we encourage specialists in fields other than Music to submit proposals. Please keep in mind as well that we intend these session titles mostly as "hooks" on which a multitude of proposals can be placed rather than limitations, so send us your best work (as the editors of JAMS are fond of saying), even if it doesn't precisely seem to fit one of these topics--we may be able to make it work anyway, and we'll try to find a place for as many good proposals as we can.
Abstracts should be sent by 13 September to Cathy Ann Elias, program committee chair, at the address below. Electronic submissions are welcome. Please write in the subject part of the e-mail the following: KZOO 2009 (Please use my gmail account: cathy.elias at gmail.com)
You'll also need to complete and submit the “Participant Information Form” from the conference website, available at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#Paper. This is very important, not only because it is your only chance to make A-V requests, but because it is required by the Medieval Institute. Please note that the form appears at the bottom of the page. Be aware that this is a PDF document; if you don't have Adobe Acrobat (the writer, not just the reader) on your computer, you cannot save a completed form, so you'll have to print it and send it via snail-mail or fax.
If you have any questions, please contact Cathy Ann Elias. We look forward to seeing you in Kalamazoo next May.
Cathy Ann Elias (DePaul University)
Julia Wingo Shinnick (University of Louisville)
Mary Wolinski (Western Kentucky University)
SINGING MUSIC FROM 1500 – 1900 – STYLE, TECHNIQUE, KNOWLEDGE, ASSERTION, EXPERIMENT
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
7- 10 JULY 2009
National Early Music Association (NEMA) International Conference, in cooperation with University of York Music Department and the York Early Music Festival.
The starting point for this conference is NEMA’s conviction that early music singing is often historically uninformed and musically unsatisfactory. We invite contributors to consider evidence for vocal techniques and styles of the period and how such knowledge can enhance and invigorate current performances. See announcement and PDF link on NEMA’s website http://www.nema-uk.org/ for further details.
The conference is expected to cover most aspects of this huge subject, including: vocal style; ornamentation; intonation; volume and auditoria; deportment; and controversial performance practice issues such as the use/extent of vibrato and lower larynx development. The focus will be on Musica Practica rather than Musica Theoretica, with illustrations, demonstrations, concerts, workshops, discussions and at least one “baroque bel canto” master class.
Proposals for contributions, together with an abstract or description, are invited. They should be submitted no later than 1 January 2009 to:
Dr. John Potter, Department of Music, University of York, Heslington,
YO10 5DD, UK (Email:- jp32@york.ac.uk).
Besides academics, the conference will attract early music enthusiasts and concert goers, as well as singers (whether professional or amateur, solo or choral). Please contact us if you are likely to attend, indicating which topics and periods you would like to see covered. This will help us to estimate attendance and shape the programme. However, no commitment will be expected until the conference fee and accommodation charges are known. To make a provisional booking email Richard Bethell of NEMA at richard.bethell@btinternet.com .
CANTUS ECCLESIASTICUM UT ORNARET: POLYPHONY FOR THE PROPER OF THE MASS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
16-18 JANUARY 2009
Organised by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Research Unit of Musicology and the Alamire Foundation
In 1509, the great Renaissance composer Heinrich Isaac delivered an extraordinary series of commissioned mass-proper cycles to the cathedral chapter at Constance. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of this event, this conference aims to contextualise Isaac’s contribution to the mass-proper genre by examining polyphony for the proper of the mass in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Papers, of around 25 minutes, are invited on all topics relating to medieval and Renaissance polyphonic mass-proper repertories. These may include:
- the earliest mass-proper repertories and their relationships with the beginnings of written polyphony in the West
- source-studies (mass-propers in manuscripts and prints)
- mass-propers and the liturgy
- relationships between mass-propers and other sorts of liturgical music
- analytical aspects (e.g. the treatment of pre-existent chant cantus firmi)
- mass-propers and unwritten polyphony
- precedents, context, and analysis of Heinrich Isaac’s mass-propers
Proposals for panel-sessions are also welcome. The preferred conference language is English, although other languages will also be considered. Abstracts, no longer than 300 words, may be submitted via email to David Burn (david.burn[at]arts.kuleuven.be) or Stefan Gasch (stefan.gasch[at]univie.ac.at) by 15 October 2008. Notification of acceptance will be given no later than 30 November 2008.
The keynote paper will be delivered by Prof. Reinhard Strohm (University of Oxford, UK ).
A published proceedings is planned.
Programme Committee:
David Burn (KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven, B), Stefan Gasch (Universität Wien, A), Birgit Lodes (Universität Wien, A), Christian Leitmeir ( University of Wales , Bangor , UK ), Katelijne Schilz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, D)
For further information, please email:
david.burn@arts.kuleuven.be or
stefan.gasch@univie.ac.at
BECKETT AND MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
7 NOVEMBER 2008
An interdisciplinary symposium organised by the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre and the Department of English and Drama, University of Sussex.
Samuel Beckett had a deep fascination with music. Several of his works incorporate canonical musical texts: Schubert's string quartet "Death and the Maiden" in All That Fall; the same composer's Lied "Nacht und Träume" in the TV drama the same name; Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio (op. 70) in the TV drama The Ghost Trio. In two of his radio plays, Words and Music and Cascando, Beckett engages directly with the problematic of music and language, and he supplied a text for the American composer Morton Feldman’s opera Neither. Beckett was also interested in the philosophical aesthetics of music, in particular the writings of Schopenhauer, and critics have often noted the “musicality” of his approach to writing and theatrical composition. Beckett’s works have also inspired many composers, including Luciano Berio, Geörgy Kurtág, Philip Glass, Heinz Holliger, Michael Finnissy, Roger Marsh and Richard Barrett.
This symposium will provide an opportunity to review work that has been undertaken on Beckett and music since the publication of the 1998 collection of essays Samuel Beckett and Music edited by Mary Bryden (OUP), and to extend that conversation to consider the ways in which Beckett’s engagement with music is conveyed across a range of practices and disciplines.
The symposium will also include a staged performance of Stefano Gervasoni’s short music theatre piece based on Beckett’s text “Pas si” (1998, revised 2008), and performances of other Beckett-inspired musical works.
Proposals for papers or presentations should be submitted as abstracts of no more than 300 words to n.till@sussex.ac.uk by August 30 2008.
We would also welcome any proposals for performative, musical or sound works inspired by Beckett, or based on Beckett texts.
Conference Organisers: Sara Jane Bailes and Peter Boxall, Dept of English and Drama, Nicholas Till, Dept of Music.
