Thelen Prize 2010 (Dissertations in Wind Music Research)

THELEN PRIZE 2010

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE INVESTIGATION AND PROMOTION OF WIND MUSIC

DEADLINE: 23 OCTOBER 2009

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

IGEB (the International Society for the Investigation and Promotion of Wind Music) issues a call for nominations for the 2010 Thelen Prize for dissertations in the field of wind music research.

Established to commemorate Fritz Thelen (1906–1993), one of IGEB’s co-founders, the Thelen Prize is awarded to the writer of an outstanding dissertation in the field of wind music research.

In addition to a plaque, the winner will be invited to present a paper at the next meeting of the Society, to be held in Oberschützen, Austria,July 22-27, 2010. The dissertation will also be considered for publication in IGEB’s Reprints und Manuscripts or the Alta Musica series. The titles and abstracts of all submitted dissertations will be announced in the Mitteilungsblatt, the Society’s Newsletter.

Nominations, including self-nominations, are invited for dissertations completed between 2007 (the last Thelen Prize) and October 2009. Dissertations may be on any subject concerning wind music, in any language, from any country, worldwide.

Nominations should include the following:

one paper copy

digital file – .pdf file

curriculum vita

NOTE: deadline October 23, 2009

Send to: IGEB

c/o. Doris Schweinzer

Leonhardstraße 15

A-8010 Graz

Austria

For further information see: www.igeb.net/Thelen-Preis

Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award (Society for American Music)

2009 WILEY HOUSEWRIGHT DISSERTATION AWARD
SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN MUSIC
DEADLINE: 1 MAY 2009

The Society for American Music announces the 2009 competition for a dissertation on any topic relating to American music.

American music is interpreted in all its historical and contemporary styles and contexts, including, but not limited to art and popular musics, the musics of ethnic groups and minorities, and the full range of activities associated with music. "America" is understood here to embrace North America (Canada, The United States, and Mexico), including Central America and the Caribbean, and aspects of its cultures elsewhere in the world.

Eligibility
The dissertation must be in English, and must be for a degree awarded in calendar year 2008. Authors who entered the competition in a previous year may not enter again.

Application
Candidates should send the following:
The title page and abstract of your dissertation
The table of contents
Preface or Introduction
One sample chapter

All submission materials must be in PDF format, and submitted electronically. Please email materials to: Glenn Pillsbury, 2009 committee chair, at gpillsbury at pacific.edu

DMA and other terminal degree documents will be considered as long as the entire piece of scholarship is included in a written document (i.e., musical compositions or other materials will not be considered).

Applicants should include a full mailing address, phone number, and email address (where an acknowledgment will be sent), the title of the work, university, department, date of degree, and name primary advisor (or co-advisors). Please do not mail the complete dissertation at this time.

Entry Deadline: 11:59 PM (PDT) May 1, 2009

Updates to DDM-Online and Hofmeister XIX now available

DDM-ONLINE
The current update of DDM-Online has now been completed and is available for your use at http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/ . This update includes forty-four new or revised records (received as of 22 November 2008) and brings the total size of the database to 13,930 records.

As part of our ongoing revision of older records, this update also includes the addition of hundreds of new index numbers (for ProQuest/Dissertation Abstracts, ProQuest/UMI, RILM Abstracts, and British Library Document Supply) to the records for completed dissertations in the "General-Miscellaneous," "Antiquity," "Middle Ages," "Renaissance," and "Baroque" sections of DDM-Online. Similar numbers were added to the "Romantic" and the first half of the "Twentieth Century" sections in previous updates. In the next update, we will add the index numbers for the "Classical" and the second half of the "Twentieth Century" sections.

We continue to rely on each of you as individual authors to register your dissertation topics with us as you begin work and then to register the dissertations themselves anew as they are completed. Online registration is available through a link on the DDM-Online home page, but we are always glad to send our conventional registration postcard upon request.

Please check your record in DDM-Online, and if it needs updating from a topic to a completed dissertation (or if it is not present at all), please do register your work with us.

In addition, we always appreciate hearing from individuals who can supply information on musicologically related dissertations that have not been registered with DDM-Online for one reason or another.

Finally, we would be very grateful if dissertation advisors and Directors of Graduate Study would periodically review the in-progress sections of DDM-Online and notify us of any projects they know to have been abandoned (or completed). Quite naturally, authors sometimes neglect to notify us if they withdraw from a program, and in the absence of specific notice from an author or advisor, it is nearly impossible to identify an abandoned project, especially since some dissertations are indeed "in progress" for many years.


VERSION 1.0 OF HOFMEISTER XIX NOW AVAILABLE

Hofmeister XIX is the on-line, searchable version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte for the years 1829-1900. Containing some 330,000 records of music publications, it is the most extensive resource for establishing what was published where and when during that period. Records are linked to facsimile images of the Monatsberichte on the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) website.

The beta version of Hofmeister XIX was released in 2007. Version 1.0 incorporates corrections, many improvements, and additional facilities. Like the beta version it is accessible free of charge at www.hofmeister.rhul.ac.uk

Hofmeister XIX is a Royal Holloway project, funded by the AHRC and programmed by CCH (King's College, London), with project management by Elizabeth Robinson.

Nicholas Cook (project director)
Director, AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music Professorial Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London From April 2009: Professor of Music, University of Cambridge nicholas.cook at rhul.ac.uk