CFP: Proposals for Editions of Music Scores (A-R Editions)

PROPOSALS FOR EDITIONS OF MUSIC SCORES
A-R EDITIONS RECENT RESEARCHES IN MUSIC SERIES

A-R Editions seeks proposals for editions of music to be included in the Recent Researches in Music series. Each edition is usually devoted to works by a single composer or to a single genre of composition and contains an introduction to the music and its historical context, a critical report, and translations of vocal texts. We are especially interested in reviewing proposals for the following series:

- Medieval & Early Renaissance
- Renaissance
- American Music
- Oral Traditions

A-R Editions also seeks proposals for editions of music to be included in the Collegium Musicum: Yale University series. This series seeks to present a varied selection of works that draws from a particular repertory or historical context or that reflects a particular thematic focus. The works should be of interest to early music performers and ensembles (medieval through mid-18th century).

For proposal requirements, see our Author's Corner: http://www.areditions.com/ac/
For more information about our publications, see our website: http://www.areditions.com/rr/

Pamela Whitcomb
Managing Editor
pamela.whitcomb at areditions.com

CFP: Symposium on British Museum Citole - New Perspectives (British Museum)

SYMPOSIUM ON THE BRITISH MUSEUM MEDIEVAL CITOLE
BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON
NOVEMBER 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The British Museum is pleased to host a symposium to highlight recent research related to the medieval citole in its collection. This is the first international symposium on this unique instrument, and celebrates recent work done by scientists at the British Museum as well as significant new research by scholars in many fields.

The British Museum citole (formerly known as the ‘Warwick Castle gittern’) is one of a small handful of medieval stringed musical instruments to have survived, providing an invaluable link between iconography and reality. Equally, it is important as one of the most extraordinary examples of craftsmanship and decorative arts from the fourteenth century, prominently displayed in the newly renovated medieval gallery of the Museum.

A rich post-medieval existence is indicated by an engraved silver plate which links the instrument to Queen Elizabeth I and her favourite, Robert Dudley. The instrument was modified into a violin, receiving a new soundboard, fingerboard, tailpiece, peg arrangement, and other fittings. The history of these later accretions yield valuable insights into the violin and violin making in Britain.

By taking as its focus the single extant instrument, it is hoped that this symposium will promote research and discussion about a number of diverse topics. We invite participants to submit paper proposals relating to any aspect of the British Museum citole. The following list of topics, which is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive, may serve as an inspiration:

• Iconography and morphology of citoles
• Citoles in documents and literature
• Citole performance practices
• The artwork on the British Museum citole
• The craft of the medieval instrument builder
• Stringed instruments in the medieval period: performers, producers, and patrons
• The violin fittings on the British Museum citole
• Music and musical instruments of Elizabeth I

Papers should be 20 minutes in length, and the symposium will feature time for questions as well as roundtable discussions with researchers, makers, and players of this instrument type. It is intended that the conference proceedings will be published.

Abstracts of 300-400 words and a brief CV should be submitted by 15 January 2010, as Word attachments to an email to the address below. For further information, please contact Naomi Speakman, Project Curator of Medieval Collections, Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum, London, WC1B 3DG, 44-(0)20-7323-8467 (phone), 44-(0)20-7323-8496 (fax) or email: nspeakman at britishmuseum.org.

CFP: Luther in Medieval Context (Kalamazoo)

LUTHER IN MEDIEVAL CONTEXT
45th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
13-16 MAY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

An interdisciplinary special session has been called regarding the early life and works of Martin Luther. While this leaves the session open for many topics, participants are encouraged to focus on the formation of Luther's early thought up to the Reformation. Of particular interest (though not limited to) are Luther's developing views on liturgy, music (including secular), Catholic mysticism, Judaism, Byzantium, a/Authority, law, banking and politics.

Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words and a completed Participant Information Form (required by the Medieval Institute); the form is available at

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF

Please email your abstract and completed Participant Information Form to Christian McGuire at mcguire at augsburg.edu

Please write in the subject part of the e-mail the following: KZOO 2010 - LUTHER

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 13 SEPTEMBER 2009

For more information, or to submit a proposal please contact:

K. Christian McGuire
Augsburg College
Music Department
2211 Riverside Avenue
Mpls MN 55454
cell: 651-270-5807
mcguire at augsburg.edu
http://www.augsburg.edu/music/

International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies, Treasurer & Webmaster: http://www.hildegard-society.org/

To find out more about the International Congress on Medieval Studies, visit: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html

CFP: Performance and the Page: Exploring Manuscript Production and Interpretations - International Medieval Congress (Leeds)

PERFORMANCE AND THE PAGE: EXPLORING MANUSCRIPT PRODUCTION AND INTERPRETATIONS
INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS
LEEDS, UK
12 - 15 JULY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/

This interdisciplinary session will consider the metaphorical journey undertaken by all those involved in manuscript production and interpretation. From manuscript design to current presentation and preservation, from the conception of a work to its reception today, this session seeks to explore how manuscript layout and design influence (and are influenced by) reception, past and present.

Papers are invited on all aspects of "performance and the page", and could include:
--Issues of manuscript interpretation (medieval and/or contemporary)
--Issues of manuscript design
--Reconstruction of manuscript "texts" (including music)
--Aural performance of manuscript "texts" (including music)
--The visual impact of the manuscript page
--Presentation of manuscripts and their contents
--The influence of media (e.g. printing, digitisation) on the interpretation of manuscript contents
--The impact of manuscript digitisation on reception
--Reader manipulation through manuscript layout and design
--The manuscript portrayal of the author(s)
--Editing processes (both medieval and contemporary)
--The roles of some or all of those involved in manuscript production and transmission, from author to 21st-century reader.
--Relations between "text" and image

The conference theme for 2010 is "travel and exploration", and papers should address this theme in some way.

Please send proposals of 200 words before 8th Aug 2009 to: K.Maxwell at music.gla.ac.uk

CFP: 45th Intl. Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo)

45TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

13 -16 MAY 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The program committee for Musicology at Kalamazoo is pleased to announce the following sessions for the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 13-16, 2010:

I. Motets and the Like;

II. Musical Instruments and Performance;

III. The Music Theorist as Polymath;

IV. Text(s) and Music, Music(s) and Text;

V. Chant and Liturgy;

VI. Performances: Indoors and Outdoors;

VII. Music and Visual Culture;

VIII. Medievalisms and Music: Yesterday and Today;

IX. Source Studies

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 2010 (Please send submissions to musicology.kzoo 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/index.html. 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

5429 S. Hyde Park Blvd.

Chicago, IL 60615

Phone: 773-955-0558

cathy.elias at gmail.com

Cathy Ann Elias (DePaul University)

Julia Wingo Shinnick (University of Louisville)

Mary Wolinski (Western Kentucky University)

Nothing New: Understanding Newness in Medieval and Contemporary Music (Huddersfield)

NOTHING NEW: UNDERSTANDING NEWNESS IN MEDIEVAL AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD
24 - 25 APRIL 2009
REGISTRATION OPEN

Registration is now open for this two-day conference, held 24 - 25 April 2009 at the University of Huddersfield in association with the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society and the Royal Musical Association

Registration forms, accommodation information and a provisional programme can be found at:

http://www.plainsong.org.uk/conference2009.php

The conference will include two concerts (Edges Ensemble and Le Basile), a keynote address by Magnus Williamson and Bennett Hogg, workshops for composers, the award of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society Composition Prize and papers by speakers from the UK and abroad.

A concessionary rate is available to members of the RMA, PMMS, University of Huddersfield and to students who register in advance of 1 April 2009.

Citation, Intextexuality, Memory in the Middle Ages (Upcoming Conf, Exeter)

CITATION, INTERTEXTUALITY, MEMORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES: TEXT, MUSIC, IMAGE

An international and interdisciplinary conference

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES

29 - 30 JANUARY 2009

Registration deadline: 17 December 2008

Just as our own society delights in exploiting citation, quotation, and allusion in an array of different contexts, medieval writers, artists, and composers were intensely aware of the vast potential for such external references to enrich their works. By evoking canonical texts or their producers from the distant or the more recent past -- whether from Classical antiquity, the sacred tradition, or recent vernacular contexts -- medieval authors demonstrated their respect for tradition while impressing on their own work the stamp of authority. Recent books on memory in the Middle Ages are stimulating the interest of scholars across a range of disciplines. The theme of intertextuality continues to attract attention, especially that of literary scholars but equally scholars from other disciplines concerned with the Middle Ages, including historians, art historians and musicologists. The conference that will be held in Exeter on 29-30th January 2009 locates itself within this attempt to stimulate further scrutiny of this theme from broad disciplinary and chronological perspectives.

The programme of the conference is available on line at the web address:

http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/medievalstudies/projects/citation_conference.shtml

CFP: Space in Medieval France (Sorbonne)

SPACE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
6TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITE' DE PARIS I (SORBONNE), FRANCE
24 - 26 JUNE 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2009
Keynote speakers: Dominique Iogna-Prat and Philippe Plagnieux

The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2009 Symposium organized around the theme of space in medieval France.

Questions about ideas of space have recently invigorated the field of medieval studies, challenging prevailing Modernist views that the concept of space only existed from the Renaissance onward. The Sorbonne's collection Constructions de l'espace au Moyen Age: pratiques et représentations (2007) showcases recent historical research on spatiality, particularly regarding geographical limits and boundaries, as well as the role of space in social relations and practices, while Sarah Kay's Place of Thought (2007) re-evaluates the complexity of the locus communis from a literary perspective. These publications complement ongoing investigations by historians of visual culture into the dynamic meanings, uses and phenomenologies of medieval space.

This symposium aims to generate an interdisciplinary forum on space in medieval France between c. 500 and c. 1500 that will enrich these ongoing debates and our knowledge of space in the Middle Ages by approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives. Papers should address France, Francia or post-Roman Gaul in some way, but they need
not be exclusively limited to this geographic area.

We encourage papers on the following topics, as well as papers for open sessions in all disciplines:
• Public and private space
• Walls, boundaries, limits
• The shape of space in medieval art, architecture, and music
• Space or place?
• Astronomy
• Sacred and profane space
• Commercial space
• Performance and the use of space
• Space and identity in the medieval city

Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 1 February 2009. In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information, a CV and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required for your presentation.

The deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2009. The IMS will review submissions and respond via e-mail by 15 February 2009. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS web site. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students).

The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English) organization founded to serve as a centre for medievalists who research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information about the IMS and the schedule of last year's Symposium, please see our website: www.ims-paris.org.

CFP: Medieval-Renaissance Music Conference (Utrecht)

CALL FOR PAPERS
MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE MUSIC CONFERENCE
UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS
1-4 JULY 2009

The program committee of the 2009 Medieval-Renaissance Music Conference, to be held at Utrecht University from 1-4 July, invites proposals for papers on any and all aspects of Medieval and Renaissance music. As usual, there is no overriding central theme to the conference, and interdisciplinary contributions are very welcome, as are proposals for multi-speaker panel sessions.

Proposal deadline: 15 February 2009

Scholarly committee: Marnix van Berchum, Jacques Boogaart, Theodor Dumitrescu, Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Eric Jas, Karl Kügle, Ike de Loos, Rudolf Rasch

Abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20-minute papers, or 1000 words for panel sessions (including abstracts of individual contributions), should include title, author names, and affiliations/locations. Please submit by one of the following methods (email preferred):

Email:
theodor.dumitrescu at let.uu.nl

Fax:
+31 (0)30 253 6167

Post:
Dr. Theodor Dumitrescu
Universiteit Utrecht
Kromme Nieuwegracht 29
3512HD Utrecht
The Netherlands