CFP: Organologia: Instruments and Performance Practice (essays)

ORGANOLOGIA: INSTRUMENTS AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
PENDRAGON PRESS
CALL FOR ESSAYS

Pendragon Press is seeking submissions of monographs and collections of essays to be published a new series, Organologia: Instruments and Performance Practice (http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/booksinseries.php?SERIES_ID=47). The series is intended to present texts and studies of musical instruments and performance practice in all cultures and from all periods. Its terms are defined as inclusively as possible, embracing all kinds of music technologies and any type of performative act involving music.

See our Submissions Guidelines (http://www.pendragonpress.com/info/submissions.php) for specific requirements on submitting a manuscript for consideration. If you have any questions, contact Organologia's General Editor, Ardal Powell, at organologia[at] pendragonpress.com.

CFP: Choreographic Practices (journal)

CHOREOGRAPHIC PRACTICES
CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE: 1 SEPTEMBER 2009

Intellect are launching a new journal in 2010 called Choreographic Practices (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=170/).

Edited by Vida L. Midgelow (vida.midgelow [at] northampton.ac.uk ) and Jane M. Bacon (jane.bacon [at] northampton.ac.uk ), this international, peer-reviewed biannual journal will provide a platform for sharing choreographic practices, inquiry and debate.

Contributions are invited that articulate and explore choreographic practices from a diverse range of perspectives. The editors are especially interested in receiving critical/creative practice-led research that is interdisciplinary and experimental in nature.

Choreographic Practices will incorporate peer-reviewed materials, dialogues/interviews, and debate. Submissions in conventional and alternative modes of writing (including performative and visual essays) are encouraged.

Submission topics might include:
--Choreographic methodologies and practices
--Dance and interdisciplinarity
--Theatre, screen, sited or social movement practices
--Improvisation processes
--Dance and documentation
--Choreography as social, cultural and/or psychological concern

How to Submit to Choreographic Practices:

A 500-word proposal should be sent in the first instance to the editors. Receipt will be acknowledged and a timeline for developing your submission, if appropriate, will be negotiated.

Or, you may send a completed manuscript of up to 6,000 words (or equivalent in
other formats) ready for peer-reviewing.

Proposals or full-length articles should be sent electronically as an email attachment to both editors: vida.midgelow [at] northampton.ac.uk and jane.bacon [at]northampton.ac.uk. Please include a top sheet giving your full name, contact details and a short biography.

Deadlines: Proposals - Sept 1st 2009
Completed Papers, Jan 7th 2010

FORUM Essay Prize 2010: Music and Literature

FORUM ESSAY PRIZE 2010: MUSIC AND LITERATURE
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
DEADLINE: 31 JANUARY 2010

The General Editors of Forum are pleased to announce that, in memory of the distinguished musicologist and Forum editor Peter Branscombe, the 2010 Forum Prize is on the subject of music and literature. Articles of up to 6,000 words are invited for the competition: the winning article will be published in the journal and the author will receive the sum of £200. Reflective, polemical articles on music and literature are especially welcomed and may relate to any area and period of English, French, German, Iberian, Italian, Latin American and Russian literatures, languages and cultures. For the purposes of the Forum Prize, the subject of music and literature is defined in its broadest sense.

Professor Peter Branscombe (1929-2008) is best known for his work on Viennese musical theatre, and on Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Wagner. He was Professor of Austrian Studies at the University of St Andrews and was for many years a valued contributor to and editor of Forum.

Application: Articles should be submitted according to Forum style and to the General Editor (articles) by 31 January 2010, marked "For consideration for the Forum Prize". Entries may be submitted online via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fmls. Forum's normal peer review processes will pertain, and short-listed articles will also be judged by additional subject specialists. The prize article will be announced and published in the July 2010 issue. Forum may publish other very strong submissions in subsequent general issues. For further details about the Prize, see www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/formod/forum_prize.html

Prize/Competition: Philip Brett Award (AMS)

PHILIP BRETT AWARD

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY

DEADLINE 1 JULY 2009

The Philip Brett Award, sponsored by the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society, will honor each year exceptional musicological work in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual studies completed during the previous two academic years (ending June 30), in any country and in any language. By “work” is meant a published article, book, edition, annotated translation, a paper read at a conference, teaching materials (course descriptions and syllabi), and other scholarly work accepted by the award committee that best exemplifies the highest qualities of originality, interpretation, theory, and communication in this field of study.

The award consists of the sum of $500 and a certificate, and will be announced at the Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation of the Society and conferred at the annual meeting of the LGBTQ Study Group.The committee will entertain nominations from any individual, including eligible scholars who are encouraged to nominate their own work. Individuals may receive the award on more than one occasion.

Nominations should include the name of the scholar, a description of the work, and a statement to the effect that the work was completed during the previous two academic years. By “completion” is meant the publication or commitment to publish from an editor in the case of articles, books, editions, etc.; delivery at a conference or the like in the case of a paper. The committee will contact the nominee for additional material as needed. Self-nominations should include any unpublished material to be considered and a curriculum vitae. Nominations, with five sets of application materials, should be sent by July 1 to the chair of the Philip Brett Award Committee:

Judith Peraino
Department of Music
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

CFP: Faust - Call for Chapter Proposals

FAUST: CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Chapter proposals for an international collection of essays on the Faust theme in music are currently being considered. Submit a 500-word proposal and publication profile to lfitzsimmons@csudh.edu

Lorna Fitzsimmons’ publications include INTERNATIONAL FAUST STUDIES: ADAPTATION, RECEPTION, TRANSLATION (Continuum).


Lorna Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Humanities Program
California State University, Dominguez Hills
LCHA338
1000 East Victoria Street
Carson, CA 90747-0005
USA
310-243-3036