Upcoming Conf: International Conference on Music Performance Analysis 2009 (Switzerland)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS 2009
ICOMPA 2009
LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS, SWITZERLAND
1 - 2 JULY 2009

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Musikpavillon, Obergrundstrasse 9, Luzern (Switzerland)

Symposium 1: Perspectives on 'Body and Soul' (July 1)

The symposium explores several recorded versions of Johnny Green's famous Broadway show tune 'Body and Soul' (1930). Speakers: Martin Pfleiderer (Hamburg), Cynthia Folio / Alexander Brinkman (Philadelphia), Olivier Senn (Luzern), John Gunther (Boulder), José Antonio Bowen (Austin).

Symposium 2: Methods of music performance analysis (July 2)

The symposium addresses methodological questions in the analysis of music performance. Speakers: Richard Turner (Saint Julien de Jonzy), Olaf Eggestad (Oslo), Matthias Arter (Bern), Elena Alessandri (Lugano), Marc-Antoine Camp / Lorenz Kilchenmann (Luzern), Jürg Huber (Luzern), Claudia Di Luzio (Berlin).

Detailed conference programme and registration: www.hslu.ch/icompa.

The conference is organized by Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in cooperation with the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ).

CFP: International Conference on Music Performance Analysis (Lucerne)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
LUCERNE (SWITZERLAND)
1 - 2 JULY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts organizes a conference in the field of music
performance analysis. The conference will take place during the annual meeting of the
“International Association of Schools of Jazz” in Lucerne, and it will attract a mixed audience of
jazz students/teachers and researchers in the field of performance. The conference consists of two symposia:

Symposium 1: Perspectives on ‘Body & Soul’
Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 13:30-18:30
‘Body & Soul’ (1930) is famed to be the most recorded American popular song of all time: In 1980, Gary Giddins counted nearly 3000 recorded versions of the song, and the three decades since then have added considerably to this impressive number. The attraction of this intricate melody with its harmonically surprising bridge doesn’t seem to fade away. The papers of the symposium analyse recorded performances of the tune; they describe individual responses of musicians and singers to the composition, the lyrics and to earlier renditions of ‘Body & Soul’.

Symposium 2: Methods of music performance analysis
Thursday, July 2, 2009, 09:00-16:30
The analysis of music performance is a relatively new field in music research, and the methods of
analysis are still in an experimental stage. The papers of this symposium present innovative
analytical procedures and demonstrate the scope and limit of these methods by applying them to
concrete musical examples of different genres (examples of both popular and classical music are
welcome).

Call for papers
Researchers and musicians, who are interested to contribute a paper, send their abstract of approximately 400 words to Olivier Senn (olivier.senn@hslu.ch) before December 14, 2008. The
presentations (30’ each) and discussions will be held in English. All presented papers will be
published within the conference proceedings.