CFP: The British Organ in the 20th Century and Beyond (Oxford University)

THE BRITISH ORGAN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND

OXFORD ORGAN CONFERENCE 2010

15 - 18 APRIL 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Betts Fund of the University of Oxford, and the British Institute of Organ Studies are pleased to announce the last conference of a four-year sequence entitled 'The Organ in England: Its Music, Technology, and Role through the Second Millennium'. This year, the Royal College of Organists will be holding its spring meeting in Oxford at the same time and some joint events will be included in the Programme.

The conference will take place from 15 to 18 April 2010 at Merton College, Oxford, and will cover the organ and its music in the present era and into the future. The title for the conference is 'The British Organ in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.'

300-word proposals for 20-minute papers and lecture-recitals are welcome on any and all relevant topics. The following broad areas are given as suggestions for possible lines of enquiry, and are not meant to be limiting:

The organ in musical and artistic culture

* The changing sound of the organ from Edwardian to neo-baroque to modern

* The rediscovery of the organ case its form and function

* The interest in new organs in historic styles

* The presentation of the organ in audio and visual media

* Historically informed performance and the organ

Organ Builders

* The decline of nineteenth-century factory builders and the rise of a new generation

* The impact of electrical and electronic technology for organ control and sound

* The rediscovery of classical principles

* Changing attitudes to conserving and treating old organs

* The impact of imported organs in the UK

* Future clients for future organs

* Specific builders

Composers, Performers, and Teachers

* Who wrote for the organ and what did they write?

* Who performed it?

* Who were the prominent teachers, and what was their impact?

Organ builders and organists in association

* The emergence of amateur and professional associations for organists and organ builders, and their impact

Twentieth-century icons

* Organs, organists or advisers who reshaped organ culture in the UK

Abstracts will be due by 11 December, with responses from the panel of readers by 18 January.

For more information, please contact:

Dr Katharine Pardee

Betts Scholar in Organ Studies

Director of Chapel Music

Wadham College

University of Oxford

kfpardee [at] yahoo.com

CFP: Stanford Forum on Opera (Stanford University)

STANFORD FORUM ON OPERA - GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

27 - 28 FEBRUARY 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Graduate students from all disciplines are encouraged to propose a paper on a topic related to opera from 1600 to the present. Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words outlining the project by January 3, 2010. Applicants will be notified of the conference program by January 11. Papers will be allotted 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion.

Please send abstract as a pdf, doc, or docx file along with any other inquiries to: lmayne at stanford.edu

Keynote address to be given by Karol Berger on the works of Richard Wagner.

Join our Facebook group at:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=148509531716

Website coming soon.

CFP: Music without Walls? Souce Studies in the 21st Century (Queen's University, Belfast)

INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM: MUSIC WITHOUT WALLS?

SOURCE STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND SONIC ARTS, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST

16 - 17 DECEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Website: http://www.symposiummusicwithoutwalls.co.uk

The symposium ‘Music without Walls?’ is being held to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and to celebrate subsequent developments in music source studies. The aims of this interdisciplinary symposium are to present and contextualize recent findings and to discuss how new technologies may facilitate and enhance our understanding of these issues.

Proposals exploring any aspect of this theme are invited, although those relating to new discoveries, archival research in former ‘Eastern-Bloc’ countries, case studies of various geographical locales, the implications of technological developments and future directions in source studies, are particularly encouraged.

The symposium will open with a research seminar given by Dr Michael Maul (Bach-Archiv, Leipzig) Wednesday 16 December 2009, 1 pm.

Individuals may submit one proposal in the form of an abstract of not more than 300 words (individual papers), or not more than 400 words (round table sessions).

The abstract should be preceded by information under the following headings:

NAME, INSTITUTION, POSTAL ADDRESS, EMAIL ADDRESS.

Abstracts may be emailed to Alison Dunlop adunlop04@qub.ac.uk Attachments (in MS word file or .rtf format) are preferred for the text of abstracts, but all attachments should be backed up with a plain-text version in the main email.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1 September 2009.

Alison Dunlop

School of Music and Sonic Arts (Music Building)

University Road

Belfast

Northern Ireland

BT7 1NN

Tel : +44 (0)28 9097 5337 (School Office)

http://www.symposiummusicwithoutwalls.co.uk/

CFP: American Music (journal)

AMERICAN MUSIC

CALL FOR PAPERS

American Music (1983–) invites submissions for possible publication. Authors are encouraged to visit the journal website at: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/am.html

American Music was the first journal published devoted exclusively to American music and to music in America. Articles cover American composers, performers, publishers, institutions, events, and the music industry.

Recent article topics have included: Duke Ellington and early radio; John Cage’s HPSCHD; the WPA music copying project; defining the Easy Listening era; Milton Babbitt in academia; the soul roots of Bruce Springsteen; the benefit concerts of Jack Benny and Danny Kaye; and the boyhood of Henry Cowell. The journal also includes interviews with composers and reviews of

books, recordings, films, websites, and concerts.

Since its inception, American Music has been published by the University of Illinois Press, which was established in 1918 as a not-for-profit scholarly publisher at the University and is one of the founding members of the Association of American University Presses in 1937. UIP is ranked as one of the country's larger and more distinguished university presses and publishes works of high quality for scholars, students, and the citizens of the state and beyond.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Prospective articles—typically 20 to 70 pages, double spaced--should be submitted electronically to michael_hicks@byu.edu. or in hard copy to Michael Hicks, Editor, American Music, C-550 HFAC, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. (Please note that except for originals of illustrative materials, hard copy submissions are not returned to authors.) Electronic file attachments should be in Microsoft Word or rich text format.

The author's full name, mailing address, and e-mail address should appear only in the cover letter, as submissions are reviewed anonymously. Please ensure that your identity does not appear in running heads, references, or notes. Page numbers should appear at the top right of all pages after page 1. All parts of the article, including endnotes, quotations, song texts, bibliographies and discographies, appendices, and captions for illustrations, must be double spaced (and if in hard copy, printed on one side of the sheet only, on 8 ½ by 11" paper with 1" margins). Music examples, figures, tables, and illustrations must be numbered and presented

separate from the main body of the text, with the desired location clearly indicated in the text. Submissions not conforming with these instructions may be returned to the author for correction prior to consideration. American Music follows the guidelines in the 15th edition of The Chicago

Manual of Style.

Books, recordings, and multimedia items should be addressed to American Music, c/o University of Illinois Press, 1325 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820.

American Music is available online to subscribers at http://am.press.uiuc.edu/.

CFP: First International Conference on Analytic Approaches to World Music (UMASS)

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ANALYTICAL APPROACHES TO WORLD MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
20 - 21 FEBRUARY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference seeks to expand the potentials for musical analysis from a cross-cultural perspective by applying diverse theoretical and analytical concepts to repertoires outside the Western art music tradition. It is our hope that by bringing together analysts from a broad range of conceptual and cultural traditions, new modes of musical description and understanding may emerge that are capable of navigating the multicultural soundscape of the twenty-first century.

We welcome submissions that examine world musical traditions from a wide variety of analytical and theoretical perspectives. These may include but are not limited to: the adaptation of analytical approaches usually associated with Western art music to address various world music traditions; the use of indigenous analytical tools and strategies to characterize particular musical styles and genres; and the development of "hybrid" analytical systems and theories that integrate the aforementioned approaches.

Papers in English, not exceeding 20 minutes duration (plus 10 minutes for discussion), should emphasize analytical and/or theoretical issues pertinent to a particular musical culture. Reflection should be backed up with concrete analytical examples.

Proposals for individual papers, not exceeding 700 words (excluding examples) together with a short biography should be sent or emailed to:

Margaret Farrell (Program Committee Chair)
Ph.D./D.M.A Programs in Music
The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
mfarrell at gc.cuny.edu

Submission deadline: October 1, 2009.

Notification of acceptance will be sent via email on November 1.

For additional information regarding conference planning and organization at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst please contact:

Kalin Kirilov (kkirilov at music.umass.edu)
Rob Schultz (rschultz at music.umass.edu)
Lawrence Shuster (lshuster at music.umass.edu)

CFP: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA)

THE ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY (TAPJA)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

I would like to draw your attention to The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA), a journal whose editorial board is based at the Australian National University, and for which I am the multimedia reviews editor. On behalf of the editorial board, I would like to invite article submissions by ethnomusicologists to the journal, and in particular to invite submissions of multimedia material to be reviewed by the journal. The primary requirement is that article submissions, and submissions of material for review, must be related to research in anthropology in the Asia-Pacific region.

TAPJA welcomes article submissions from those working in the field of anthropology broadly speaking, and this includes ethnomusicology. The interest of the journal in music research is evident in the latest issue, edited by myself and Prof. Timothy D. Taylor, which is a special focus issue on contemporary music research in the Asia-Pacific region (TAPJA 10 (2), June 2009).

The multimedia reviews section of the journal was established in 2005, and continues to grow. We invite submissions of material for review, including audio recordings, documentary films, websites, and CD- or DVD-ROMs. So if you have been involved in any productions of such multimedia material and would like to see it reviewed, we would be very pleased to hear from you.

Please forward article submissions and suggested material for review to tapja@anu.edu.au.

With kind regards,

Dr. Kirsty Gillespie
Visiting Fellow
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Coombs Building 9
The Australian National University
ANU ACT 0200
Australia
Email: kirsty.gillespie@anu.edu.au

Post-Doc Opportunity: Musicology of Contemporary Techniques (IRCAM)

POST-DOCTORAL APPOINTMENT: MUSICOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES
IRCAM-CNRS, PARIS
DEADLINE 31 MAY 2009

The Analysis of Musical Practices Research Group, IRCAM-CNRS, is pleased to announce a 18-months ANR Post-Doctoral Fellowship, to begin in September 2009. We seek scholars in the early stages of their academic careers whose research will contribute to our multidisciplinary project « Musicology of Contemporary Compositional Techniques », led by IRCAM in collaboration with University of Lille-3, Technological University of Troyes and the Geneva Conservatory.

PROJECT
The researcher will be involved in a collective work program which aims at a better understanding of the techniques, methods or logic of composition at stake in art music from the last 50 years. S/he will be based at IRCAM, APM (see http://apm.ircam.fr/).

His/her twofold contribution will be: (1) an in-depth study of the creative process of a significant new music composer between the years 1948-78, based on a corpus which includes sketches, manuscripts, correspondence and/or any other traces of the activity of composition; 2) participation in a study led by a member of APM about an ongoing creative process, based on interviews with the composer.

As regards (1), the researcher will propose one (or more) plausible material(s) to investigate, be it or not as a pursuit of her/his past research. The creative process at stake should become part of the whole project that integrates various other studies (see http://apm.ircam.fr/mutec/), each of these dealing with a creative process that implements a specific technique, technology or constraint in addition to the standard tools and resources used by the composer considered. Method of data analysis might take inspiration from "genetic criticism" (sketch studies), music analysis, human sciences, social sciences.

The researcher will contribute internal seminars as well as a symposium during the Fellowship. Two articles will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals at the final stage of the Fellowship. The researcher may contribute the final publication gathering every major output of the whole project.

PROFILE
Musical and musicological skills are required (historical musicology and/or ethnomusicology and/or music theory & analysis).
Experience in (musical) sketch studies is highly valued. Experience in sketch studies from other fields would be taken in consideration.
Experience in psychological and/or ethnological and/or sociological research would be valued.
Skills in computer music and/or multimedia technologies would be appreciated.

Although French-speaking ability might certainly prove necessary in the course of the work, it is not a sine qua non requirement for this application. Others languages involved in the project-not to mention English-are Italian and German.

APPLICATION
The Fellowship will bring a salary of E 2379 per month.

A letter of application should be accompanied by:
(1) A statement of research for the Fellowship period (up to 1500 words)
(2) A curriculum vitae
(3) One sample of work (an article, a book, a dissertation chapter, or so)

After initial review, the committee may request further written material from applicants.

Applications must be received by 31 May 2009. Send applications to:
Nicolas Donin
I.R.C.A.M.
1, pl. Igor-Stravinsky
F-75004 PARIS