Postgraduate Study Day: Research in Music Psychology and Education (Hull)

POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY: RESEARCH IN MUSIC PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF HULL

FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

This SEMPRE Postgraduate Study Day will be hosted by the Department of Drama and Music, University of Hull, and will precede the SEMPRE conference on 'Music and Familiarity' to be held on Saturday 24 October. Students are warmly invited to attend both events. The aim of the Postgraduate Study Day is to provide opportunities for research students to present and discuss ideas in a friendly and supportive environment, as well as to create a meeting place for students from different institutions. The event will include spoken presentations (20 minutes each), a poster display, and open discussions about research in music psychology and education led by invited academics. We welcome submissions from part-time and full-time students who

are undertaking research in music psychology and education. Accepted submissions will be broadly organized into themes and presentations will be chaired by leading researchers. Please send abstracts for spoken presentations (200 words) and for posters (100 words) by email to Dr Elaine King (contact details below) by 14 August 2009.

For further information, please contact:

Dr Elaine King

SEMPRE Conference Secretary

Department of Drama & Music

University of Hull

Hull HU6 7RX

Email: E.C.King@hull.ac.uk

RMA Study Day: Music and Modernism (Courtauld Institute)

RMA STUDY DAY: MUSIC AND MODERNISM

KENNETH CLARK LECTURE THEATRE

COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART, LONDON

15 - 16 MAY 2009

14.45 - 18.30, Friday 15 May (with registration from 14.15)

10.00 - 18.00, Saturday 16 May (with registration from 09.30)

Exploring Kandinsky's contention that the 'various arts are drawing together [...] finding in music the best teacher,' Music and Modernism will re-evaluate the significant connections between the disciplines of music and fine art in the period covering the emergence and flowering of Modernism, c. 1849 - 1950. During this time both music and fine art were concerned with issues of equality, equivalence, relativity and subjectivity - themes that have since been taken as key to the definition of Modernism. Composers and artists repeatedly borrowed from one another, yet their motives have seldom been explored. Did such quotation amount to a conscious statement of their modernity, or was this merely a symptom of shared interests? This study day will question not only what it was music gave to fine art, or fine art music, but will ask whether we can in fact think in terms of two opposing directions of influence in this period at all.

To book a place: £25 (£15 students, Courtauld staff and RMA members) Please send a cheque made payable to 'Courtauld Institute of Art' to: Research Forum Events Co-ordinator, Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book for the 'Music and Modernism study day'. For credit card bookings call 020 7848 2785/2909. For further information, send an e-mail to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk .

PROGRAMME

Friday, 15 May

14.15 - 14.45 - Registration

14.45 - 15.00 - Welcome

15.00 - 17.00 - SESSION 1 - Towards New Truth? German Aesthetics and the Claims of Gesamtkunstwerk

Robert Williams Music and Kunstwissenschaft, University of California, Santa Barbara

Diane Silverthorne (Birkbeck College and the Royal College of Art, London), Music, Modernism and the Vienna Secession: Musical Form in Ver Sacrum (1898-1903)

Petritakis Spyridon (University of Crete), Arnold Böcklin and Music: a Case Revisited

Isabel Wünsche (Jacobs University, Bremen), Seeing Sound - Hearing Colour: Synesthetic Considerations in the Russian Avant-garde

17.00 - 17.30 - TEA/COFFEE BREAK

17.30 - 18.30 - KEYNOTE: Professor Peter Vergo (University of Essex). How to Paint a Fugue (and why should anyone want to)?

18.30 - 19.30 - RECEPTION

Saturday, 16 May

09.30 - 10.00 - Registration

10.00 - 11.30 - SESSION 2: Correspondences: Musical-Visual Language in Late Nineteenth Century France

James Rubin (State University of New York), Courbet, Wagner and the Total Work of Art

Michelle Foa (Tulane University), The State of the Arts in Zola's L'Oeuvre

Corrinne Chong (University of Edinburgh), The Transposition of the Vague: Theme and Variations by Fantin-Latour

11.30 - 12.00 - COFFEE/TEA BREAK

12.00 - 13.00 - SESSION 3: Spiritual Harmony? Modernism and the Anglican Church

Ayla Lepine (Courtauld Institute of Art), Sacred Performance: G. F. Bodley's Design for All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge

Douglas Stevens (University of Bristol), The Status and Reception of Musical Modernism in the Commissions of the Mid Twentieth Century Anglican Church

13.00 - 14.00 - BREAK FOR LUNCH

14.00 - 16.00 - SESSION 4: Music and Modern Life

James Mansell (University of Manchester), Music as a Religion of the Future: Ricciotto Canudo, the Musicalists and the Politics of Modernity

Michael Berkowitz (University College, London), Mannes, Godowsky, and Modernism(s): from Music to Photography and Film

Malcolm Cook (Birkbeck Collge, London), Visual Music in Film, 1921-1924: Richter, Eggeling, Ruttman

Jody Patterson (Smithsonian American Art Museum), 'It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing': Stuart Davis and the Fine Art of Jazz

16.00 - 16.30 - TEA/COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 5: Framing the Modern: Retrospect?

Melissa Warak (University of Texas at Austin), Zen and the Art of La Monte Young

Olga Touloumi (Harvard University), The UPIC: Towards the Synaesthetic Promise

17.30 -18.30 - Plenary Discussion: to include John Deathridge and Simon Shaw-Miller

18.30 - CLOSE

Organised by Charlotte de Mille

RMA Dent Medal Study Day and AGM (Upcoming event)

RMA DENT MEDAL STUDY DAY and ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH, SENATE HOUSE, LONDON
SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2008
10.00 - 17.30

Institute of Musical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London, Room N336 (North Block, Third Floor) Directions at www.music.sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Georgina Born (Dent medallist, 2008), Rachel Beckles Willson, David Hesmondhalgh, Derek Scott, George E. Lewis, Martin Stokes

Full programme at www.rma.ac.uk

Advance registration essential if you require lunch: please email Valerie James music@sas.ac.uk by Wednesday 26 November.

If you intend to come but do not require lunch, advance registration will help us plan refreshments: please email as above.

Attendance and refreshments: RMA members free; non-members £10
Lunch: £10

All monies payable in cash on arrival.

Bach and the Chorale: Influence, Context and Legacy (Upcoming Study Day, QUB)

BACH AND THE CHORALE: INFLUENCE, CONTEXT AND LEGACY
INTERNATIONAL STUDY DAY
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2008

Bach's chorales have been widely regarded as the cornerstone of musical education in the West for more than two centuries; however, for many of reasons, they have not yet been thoroughly researched with respect to a number of issues: for example, how did Bach himself become familiar with them, how did he used them in his own teaching, and how did he compile those works which are now so engrained in the organist's canon? In an attempt to explore the composer's relationship with this genre, Queen's University Belfast is hosting a Study Day 'Bach and the chorale: influence, context and legacy'. Issues to be addressed include: (1) the hymnological sources and tradition which influenced and shaped Bach's compositional practices, (2) the development and expression of chorale related music in the hands of Bach, and (3) the wider implications of this music, including its influence and reception. The Study Day aims to integrate these independent strands and-in so doing-further illuminate our understanding of this important and oft-performed repertoire.

Registration:

The Study Day is free of charge but registration is essential.

The registration from is available from the organiser Ian Mills or from the website:
http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachbib/conferences/Belfast-Nov2008/

CFP: German Palaeography Study Day (Queen's University, Belfast)

GERMAN PALAEOGRAPHY STUDY DAY
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST
SATURDAY 17 JANUARY 2009
With a Special Focus on Music-related Documents Dr Dorothea McEwan (Warburg Institute)
Music Building, Queen's University Belfast

This is an interdisciplinary one-day training course with German Palaeography expert Dr Dorothea McEwan in two sessions. The morning session provides an introduction to the subject of German palaeography. This includes an overview of the different styles of writing found in a diverse range of handwritten documents, and practical assistance will be given in the reading and transliteration of German handwriting. The afternoon session will be much more interactive and tailored to the needs of individual participants, who are encouraged to bring along their own samples. A variety of sources from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries will be examined, including catalogues, musical treatises and personal and official correspondence.

Postgraduate students, particularly PhD students in the field of Music, are encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to those students who can demonstrate that this course will facilitate their current research.

This course is primarily a reading course; therefore participants must have a good knowledge of the German language. Please note that a maximum of 12 places are available on this course. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis, providing that applicants can demonstrate that their research would benefit from this course.

Participation in this event is free and lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Further information and application forms can be found on the QUB School of Music website: www.mu.qub.ac.uk or by contacting the event organiser Alison Dunlop: adunlop04@qub.ac.uk

CFP: Queer Screen Cultures (Study Day, Nottingham)

QUEER SCREEN CULTURES POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
TUESDAY 5 MAY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Queer Screen Cultures is an interdisciplinary postgraduate study day to be held at the University of Nottingham on May 5th 2009 in association with the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. It is devised with the aim of bringing together researchers from across the UK who deal with issues of queer visibility and representation, and so making links across the disciplines and across the academic spectrum.

There has been a perceptible alteration in media representations of queer sexualities since the 1990s, on a global scale. The cultural visibility of queers has increased exponentially, with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters now routinely populating film, television and other digital media, and the mainstream press frequently covering gay and lesbian stories as a matter of course. This interdisciplinary event seeks to explore representations and negotiations of queerness in contemporary screen cultures, as well as their determinants, in addition to interrogating recent queer readings and "reclamations" of earlier screen texts. Supporting scholars from film and media studies, sociology, politics and cultural studies among other disciplines, the event will cover a number of themes and issues pertaining to on screen queer visibility, including but not limited to:

- Cultural mainstreaming and the political contexts of queer visibility;
- Film-making and queer aesthetics;
- Queer audiences and participatory cultures: for example, L Word theme parties;
- On-screen intersections of queerness and other identities: gender, ethnicity, etc;
- Queer "reclamations" of ostensibly non-queer films, television programmes, and other texts;
- "Textual poaching," queer appropriations and slash fictions;
- Queer adaptations;
- Trans and genderqueer visibility: representations and marginalisation;
- National and regional queer identities in cinema and media;
- The impact of digitisation and the multi-platform environment on queer visibility;
- Network branding and queer narrowcasting, as in the here! and Logo channels;
- Internet technologies and queer self-fashioning: YouTube and other online broadcasting.

Gary Needham of Nottingham Trent University, author of the forthcoming Queer TV, and Dr Michele Aaron of the University of Birmingham, editor of New Queer Cinema, will be delivering plenary lectures. There will also be a roundtable discussion which will bring together both speakers and delegates to debate 'the cultural mainstreaming of queerness.'

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from postgraduate research students on any aspect of contemporary queer screen culture. Abstracts of between 200-250 words and any other enquiries should be directed to Natalie Edwards at aaxne@nottingham.ac.uk

EXTENDED Deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2008

CFP: Bach's Passions (SMA Study Day, Glasgow)

BACH'S PASSIONS
SOCIETY FOR MUSIC ANALYSIS SPRING STUDY DAY
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
24 - 25 APRIL 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote speakers: John Butt and Laurence Dreyfus

The Spring Study Day of the Society for Music Analysis will be hosted at the University of Glasgow on the subject of Bach's Passions. The conference is organised by John Butt, Gardiner Professor of Music at Glasgow, whose book, Bach's Dialogue with Modernity: Perspectives on the Passions will be published in 2009. He is also musical director of Scotland's Dunedin Consort, whose recording of the Matthew Passion was released in 2008; members of the consort will be heard during the conference. As well as offering a chance to exercise their post-Enlightenment analytical tools on some earlier repertoire, it is hoped that the occasion will give participants the opportunity to experience something of the richness of the city of Glasgow, perhaps combined with a trip further afield. A visit to a distillery is already rumoured. Proposals are invited for papers on a broad range of analytical topics, including (but not limited to):

* musical form and structure, including the analysis of individual numbers
* studies of compositional process (including different versions of the Passions)
* hermeneutic and philosophical approaches
* Bach and historical listening practice
* analytical reception studies
* the Passions and the musical work concept
* invention and performativity

Proposals (up to 200 words) for papers of c. 20 minutes duration should be sent by 1 February 2009 to John Butt (j.butt@music.arts.gla.ac.uk). All those submitting proposals will be notified by 1 March.

For more information please see http://www.sma.ac.uk/events.htm

Analysing the Musically Sensuous (Study Day) (Liverpool)

ANALYSING THE MUSICALLY SENSUOUS
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2008

A Study Day sponsored by the Society for Music Analysis and the University of Liverpool, including a keynote address by Steve Goodman.

A full programme for this one-day conference has just been announced and is
available at: http://www.sma.ac.uk/events/Autumn2008_StudyDay_prog.pdf

The day is free to current, paid-up members of the Society for Music Analysis, and staff and students of the University of Liverpool. For all others who wish to attend the cost will be:
£10 for students
£20 for non-students

This includes SMA membership until the end of 2009.

Buffet lunch is included for all delegates who confirm their attendance in advance (please mention any dietary requirements when booking).

To confirm your attendance or request further information please email Mirjam Jooss: mirjamjooss@hotmail.com

A limited number of bursaries are available to assist with travel expenses; please see http://www.sma.ac.uk/travel.htm for more details

CFP: SMA Theory and Analysis Study Days (Durham)

THEORY AND ANALYSIS GRADUATE STUDENTS (TAGS) DAYS
SOCIETY FOR MUSIC ANALYSIS
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
FRIDAY 1ST - SATURDAY 2ND - MAY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The SMA's annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students (TAGS) Days will be hosted by the Department of Music at the University of Durham, for the first time over two days, on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 May 2009. Delegates will be invited to arrive by lunchtime on Friday and sessions will finish by late afternoon on Saturday. The extended duration will allow delegates from further afield to attend, while also allowing time for a greater number of papers, following the success of TAGS events in recent years.

The event aims to provide a supportive and friendly environment in which postgraduates can gain experience in presenting their work and meet fellow researchers. Participants who do not wish to present are also very welcome. We are delighted to announce that Robert Gjerdingen (Northwestern University) and Rudolph Lutz (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) will present a
key-note address and recital workshop on the theme of ‘extemporizing partimenti’ on the evening of Friday 1 May.

Proposals are invited from postgraduate students for 20-minute papers addressing any analytical or theoretical subject, although key themes for this year’s event will be improvisation and performance theory, and contributions are welcomed from performers as well as traditional analysts. Proposals for themed sessions containing two or three papers on related topics are also welcomed. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent by email to Jo Buckley at jo.buckley@durham.ac.uk. Please include name, affiliation, postal address, email address and AV requirements on a separate cover sheet. Organisers of themed sessions should submit a brief overview together with the individual abstracts.

The closing date for receipt of proposals is 1 FEBRUARY 2009. All those submitting proposals will be notified by 1 March 2009. Society for Music Analysis http://www.sma.ac.uk