CFP: Music and the Written Word (University of California, Santa Barbara)

MUSIC AND THE WRITTEN WORD - A GRADUATE CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

16 - 17 JANUARY 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The UCSB Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is seeking submissions for the 2010 “Music and the Written Word” Graduate Conference to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on 16-17 January 2010. Run by and geared towards graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on music, the written word, and their convergence. We welcome submissions covering the full spectrum of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and all genres of music.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

--Relationship between music and text
--Text setting
--Musical criticism
--Representations of music in literature and poetry
--Notation and transcription
--Music inspired by literature or poetry
--Music in print media
--Musical poetics
--Music as language/language as music
--Rhetoric and musical practice
--Musical analogy
--Music and grammar
--Music and worship/liturgy
--Language in performance practice
--Concrete words, “ineffable” music
--Music and political speech
--Music and code (C Sound, etc.)

Please send a 200-300-word abstract of your paper to no later than 9 October 2010. Include the abstract as both a file attachment and in the email text. Paper presentations will be allotted twenty minutes, with ten additional minutes for questions and answers.

Details regarding travel, accommodations, and the keynote address will be forthcoming. Updated information will be posted on our website:

http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicwrittenword/

For questions, suggestions, or other communication, please write to: musicandthewrittenword at gmail.com.

CFP: Music and the Written Word (UCal, Santa Barbara)

MUSIC AND THE WRITTEN WORD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
16 - 17 JANUARY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The UCSB Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is seeking submissions for the 2010 “Music and the Written Word” Graduate Conference to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on 16-17 January 2010. Run by and geared towards graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on music, the written word, and their convergence. We welcome submissions covering the full spectrum of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and all genres of music.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:
Relationship between music and text
Text setting
Musical criticism
Representations of music in literature and poetry
Notation and transcription
Music inspired by literature or poetry
Music in print media
Musical poetics
Music as language/language as music
Rhetoric and musical practice
Musical analogy
Music and grammar
Music and worship/liturgy
Language in performance practice
Concrete words, “ineffable” music
Music and political speech
Music and code (C Sound, etc.)

Please send a 200-300-word abstract of your paper to musicandthewrittenword at gmail.com no later than 9 October 2010. Include the abstract as both a file attachment and in the email text. Paper presentations will be allotted twenty minutes, with ten additional minutes for questions and answers.

Details regarding travel, accommodations, and the keynote address will be forthcoming. Updated information will be posted on our website:

http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicwrittenword/

For questions, suggestions, or other communication, please write to: musicandthewrittenword at gmail.com

Off to IAML/IMS Conference

I'm attending the 2009 International Association of Music Libraries/International Musicological Society Joint Conference in Amsterdam. The conference theme is on Music and Notation. I'm delivering a paper called 'Musical Darwinism: the evolutionary implications of Indeterminate Notation and its intersection with a Library 2.0 world.' I hope to get slides up eventually and the paper if it turns out alright! After which I'll be travelling throughout Europe and updating the blog only periodically. I hope to be back to regular schedule in August. I hope you're all having a good summer.

CFP: Journal of the Alamire Foundation

JOURNAL OF THE ALAMIRE FOUNDATION

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Alamire Foundation is proud to announce the launch of a new journal, the Journal of the Alamire Foundation. The Journal aims to provide a critical forum for the most recent and outstanding research on music in or related to the Low Countries up to the end of the Ancien Régime. It will appear twice a year, as well as in electronic form. The first volume is scheduled for October 2009. The journal will be published by Brepols.

Contributions are invited in any area of musicological research, including analysis, music theory, palaeography and notation, source studies, archival research, music and institutions, and aesthetics. Interdisciplinary research, in fields such as music and iconography, literature, theology, politics, art history, emblematics, or philosophy is also particularly welcomed. The standard article length is around 5000 words, including footnotes and other supplementary materials, although both longer and shorter contributions will be considered.

In fulfilment of the Foundation’s mission to promote dialogue between the worlds of performance and scholarship, a section of each issue will be devoted to scholarly discussion of a recent performance event, production (such as a CD, DVD, concert, or festival), edition, book, or current burning issue. Proposals and contributions (of around 2500 words) to this section are also warmly invited.

The principal language of the Journal is English, but contributions are also possible in any commonly understood scholarly language. Articles may be submitted at any time, via email, at: jaf at alamirefoundation.be. Questions may also be sent to the same address. Further information, including the Journal’s style-sheet, will become available shortly at:http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire/.

General editors:

David Burn – Katelijne Schiltz

Editorial board:

Barbara Haggh – Christian Leitmeir – Pedro Memelsdorff – Klaus Pietschmann – Dorit Tanay – Giovanni Zanovello

Advisory board:

Bonnie J. Blackburn – Jennifer Bloxam – Anna Maria Busse-Berger – Sean Gallagher – David Hiley – Andrew Kirkman – Karl Kügle – John Milsom – Emilio Ros-Fabregas – Rudolf Rasch – Thomas Schmidt-Beste – Eugeen Schreurs – Reinhard Strohm – Philippe Vendrix – Rob Wegman