CFP: After the Magic Flute (UCAL, Berkeley)

AFTER THE MAGIC FLUTE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
5 - 6 MARCH 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers (abstract deadline: September 1, 2009)

As Tamino stands before the three temple doors in Act I of The Magic Flute, he is about to embark on a humbling complication of the good-evil alignments he (and we) had previously assigned to the Queen of the Night and Sarastro. Interpretive work on Mozart’s enduringly perplexing Singspiel is currently at a similar threshold. Recent scholarship has shifted away from the Masonic and Enlightenment-allegory readings of past decades in favor of increasingly decentralized readings that consider the work’s implications with respect to race, gender, voice, and agency. In addition, new historical information has emerged regarding the immediate context of The Magic Flute within the Viennese theatrical tradition; a new edition of the autograph score is about to be published; and adventurous (often activist) productions set everywhere from South Africa, to a Berlin subway station, to the trenches of World War I have attracted the collaboration of artists as varied as William Kentridge, Julie Taymor, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, and Kenneth Branagh.

The goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to take the measure of these new developments in the history and historiography of The Magic Flute, with the “after” of the conference’s title referring not exclusively to inquiries regarding adaptation or reception, but rather signaling a critical reevaluation of the persistent urge to “unlock” The Magic Flute with a single, symbolic key. The conference committee welcomes proposals from scholars interested in examining The Magic Flute from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, film and media studies, performance studies, cultural and social history, literary and art history, and reception studies. Featured speakers will include Wye J. Allanbrook (Emerita, Musicology, University of California, Berkeley) and Jane Brown (Germanics and Comparative Literature, University of Washington).

Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by September 1, 2009 to conference organizer Adeline Mueller (aomueller at berkeley.edu). Notification of acceptance will be sent via email on October 1.

Adeline Mueller
Department of Music
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1200
aomueller at berkeley.edu

Job Posting: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Jazz Theory/Composition (NZ School of Music)

JOB POSTING: LECTURER/SNR LECTURER IN JAZZ THEORY/COMPOSITION

NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC, KELBURN CAMPUS

DEADLINE: 3 JULY 2009

The New Zealand School of Music invites applications for a full time position at the rank of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Music beginning January 2010 if possible. The successful candidate will be a scholar and/or performer with expertise in jazz composition and arranging.

Responsibilities will include maintaining an international profile in jazz composition/arranging; undergraduate and graduate teaching in Jazz Composition and Jazz Arranging and Jazz Theory; and other duties as assigned. Doctorate in music preferred, master's degree or equivalent professional experience required.

The New Zealand School of Music is a joint initiative of Massey and Victoria Universities; the holder of this position will be an employee of Victoria University. The appointee to this position will be based in Wellington, the political and cultural capital of New Zealand.

Please send a letter expressing your interest and qualifications for this position, together with a curriculum vitae, and four sample compositions accompanied by CD recordings of each, to Ms Kushla Beacon: kushla.beacon at vuw.ac.nz. In addition, please arrange for three letters of reference to be sent/e-mailed under separate cover to Ms Kushla Beacon, to arrive by 30 June 2009.

Further information please contact the search committee chair, Nick Tipping nick.tipping at nzsm.ac.nz..

Reference A130-09Z

Applications close 3 July 2009 

For further information and to apply online visit http://vacancies.vuw.ac.nz

CFP: Second Viennese School and Early Music: International Symposium (Vienna)

SECOND VIENNESE SCHOOL AND EARLY MUSIC: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG CENTRE, VIENNA
8 - 10 OCTOBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

If “early music revival” and “Second Viennese School” have any relation to each other at all, it seems to be a marginal one that will just scarcely come to mind. Yet there are several interrelations, which up to now have been examined sketchily at best. Examples include the contacts between Schönberg’s circle and Viennese Musicology as represented by Guido Adler and the well-known key-position of Bach’s music in the Second Viennese School’s theory and practice. It is thus the aim of this symposium to take a first step towards a systematic evaluation and contextualization of the role, music from up to Haydn’s time played within the Second Viennese School.

Thereby some general questions arise in the first place:

Did the Viennese School adhere to a (speficic) concept of “early music?” - Who were the protagonists involved in the rediscovery of “early music“, for what reasons, motives and in which guises? Did the approach to “early music” differ from that to music seen as part of the traditional canon? – What is the difference between the Viennese School and other groups/movements in terms of their involvement with “early music”?

Papers submitted to this symposium should not ignore the broader contexts to enable an approach as fundamental as possible even when dealing with case studies or specialized topics.

Aspects which could be taken under consideration are :

--the notion of history in the “Second Viennese School”
--elements of early music in compositional thought and practice
--the Viennese School and contemporary early music-activities
--the Viennese School and Viennese Musicology
--“the case of Bach”
--the Viennese School and traditional/popular music (insofar as this was considered equivalent to “early music”)
--early music in theory and practice of composition
--early music as a (special) part of theory and practice of musical performance

Please send your submission (title and abstract) no later than April 30, 2009 to: grassl at mdw.ac.at or szabo-knotik at mdw.ac.at

The conference is organized in cooperation with the International Arnold Schoenberg Centre Vienna by:
Markus Grassl, Reinhard Kapp, Cornelia Szabó-Knotik
Institut für Analyse, Theorie und Geschichte der Musik
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
1030 Wien, Anton-von-Webern Platz 1

CFP: Alfred Schnittke: Between Two Worlds (Goldsmiths, London)

ALFRED SCHNITTKE: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
21 - 22 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

International Symposium presented by the Centre for Russian Music, the Alfred Schnittke Archive ( Goldsmiths, University of London) , in association with London Philharmonic Orchestra and Southbank Centre, London.

Saturday 21 November 2009 – Deptford Town Hall, London
Sunday 22 November 2009 - Purcell Room, Southbank Centre , London

Proposals are invited for papers (20 minutes) on any topic related to Schnittke and his work in its broadest context.

Suggested themed sessions:

--Schnittke, Soviet and Post-Soviet culture/Politics
--Shostakovich and Schnittke
--Schnittke and German culture
--Schnittke and Western post-modernism
--Schnittke , film industry and pop music
--Schnittke and music theory and analysis

Abstracts of up to 250 words for papers in English should be sent to Alexander Ivashkin (a.ivashkin@gold.ac.uk) The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 10 April, 2009. Abstracts may be sent as attachments (in Word documents in or in Rich Text Format) but please back up the attachment with a plain-text version in the main e-mail. They should be accompanied by information about the author under the following headings:

Name
Institution
Address of Institution
Position
100-word CV
Postal Address
Phone, Fax, E-Mail

The final decision on abstracts will be made by 11 May, 2009, and contributors will be informed very soon thereafter.

Selected papers will be published.

CFP: Music Research Forum (journal)

MUSIC RESEARCH FORUM VOLUME 24
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
CALL FOR PAPERS

Music Research Forum is currently accepting submissions from outstanding graduate students and young professionals. The postmark deadline for submissions for Volume 24 (Summer 2009) is 16 January 2009.

Music Research Forum is a peer-reviewed journal published annually by the Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Articles will be considered in any area of music scholarship, including musicology, theory, performance practice, ethnomusicology, music and culture, and criticism. Faculty are encouraged to pass this information along to their students and recent graduates.

Authors must submit three hard copies of each article to:

Brad Smith, Editor
Music Research Forum
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
P.O. Box 210003
Cincinnati OH 45221-0003

A cover sheet listing the author's name, address, telephone number, email address, and academic affiliation (if applicable) must precede articles. Articles should be between twelve and thirty pages, word-processed on 8.5x11-inch paper. All materials, including example captions, should be double-spaced and conform to the footnote guidelines found in The Chicago Manual of Style.

For additional information: Visit us online at http://www.ccm.uc.edu/comp_theory_hist/mrf

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

Music Analysis Summer School (Durham)

MUSIC ANALYSIS SUMMER SCHOOL 2009
DURHAM UNIVERSITY, UK
13 - 15 JULY 2009

Building on the success of their jointly sponsored Research Training Roadshows, the SMA, in collaboration with the IMR and the publishers of Music Analysis, Wiley-Blackwell, will inaugurate a biennial summer school in music analysis at the University of Durham, 13-15 July 2009. The residential course will be open to international applicants and will provide a unique
forum for advanced study in theory and analysis in the UK.

Designed as an intensive programme run in small seminar groups, the summer school will feature three UK tutors from different institutions (William Drabkin, Julian Horton and Michael Spitzer) and a Wiley-Blackwell Fellow from the United States, the eminent theorist Richard Cohn (Yale University). Seminars will be given on Neo-Riemannian harmony, Schenker, the new
Formenlehre and semiotics. The Editorial Board of Music Analysis has provided a subvention that will offer up to twenty-five postgraduate students in music free accommodation and meals: participants need only cover the cost of their travel to Durham.

More details about the summer school, including a full programme and registration form, may be found at the website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/analysis.school/

The summer school is supported by the Society for Music Analysis, Durham University, Wiley-Blackwell, the Society for Music Theory and the Institute of Musical Research.

CFP/CFC: Music and Memory (Univ Texas at Austin)

MUSIC AND MEMORY
9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
7 MARCH 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS/CALL FOR COMPOSITIONS/SCORES

GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at UT, announces its ninth annual conference, “Music and Memory,” to be held on Saturday, March 7th, 2009 at The University of Texas at Austin. Graduate students from the areas of music theory, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance will meet to share their research and composers will present their works in a concert to be held that evening.

This year’s keynote speaker is Aaron Fox. Dr. Fox is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the Department of Music. His publications include the 2004 book Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture (Duke University Press) as well as articles on country music, music/language relationships, and working-class culture. Dr. Fox is currently working on a musical heritage repatriation project of field recordings with the Iñupiat community of Barrow, Alaska.

For more information, please visit our website at http://gammaut.music.utexas.edu.

Call for Papers

GAMMA-UT is soliciting student papers in the areas of music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Papers may deal with any aspect of music research and analysis, particularly those topics that relate to the theme of “Music and Memory.” Prospective presenters should submit an abstract of 250 words or less to gammaut@mail.music.utexas.edu by Thursday, January 1st, 2009. Please include your name, email address, mailing address, institutional affiliation and student status. Papers are to be approximately twenty minutes in length and will be followed by a ten-minute question session. Applicants will be notified of the program committee’s decision via e-mail by Sunday, February 1st, 2009.

Questions can be directed to the conference chair Kim Kattari via email: gammaut@mail.music.utexas.edu

CFP: Conversations in Music (Michigan)

CONVERSATIONS IN MUSIC
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
13 -1 4 FEBRUARY 2009
CAMM FOR PAPERS

The Michigan Interdisciplinary Music Society is proud to host its third annual Conversations in Music conference, to be held February 13-14, 2009, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The conference will feature a keynote address by Prof. Berthold Hoeckner (University of Chicago), as well as a graduate-student workshop led by a professor at the University of Michigan.

Paper topics in music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, and related fields are welcome. Interdisciplinary work is especially encouraged. Presentations will last approximately 20 minutes, followed by a ten-minute discussion period. Complete proposal submissions will include:

1. An abstract of no more than 500 words. The abstract should not contain the author's name or affiliation. Supplementary materials, such as musical examples, diagrams, and bibliography, may accompany the abstract, but should not exceed two additional pages.

2. A cover letter that lists the author's name and email address, the paper title, and any equipment required for presentation (a piano, CD player, overhead projector, and so on).

Electronic submissions must be received by Friday, December 12, 2008. Include the cover letter in the body of the email, and attach the abstract and supplementary material to the message (.doc preferred, .pdf also acceptable). Be certain that the attached files will display and print clearly, and that they are free of any indication of authorship. Send electronic submissions to: conversations2009 at umich.edu

Paper submissions must be received by Friday, December 12, 2008. Please send one copy of the cover letter, the abstract, and any supplementary material to:

University of Michigan
School of Music, Theater, and Dance
c/o Nathan Platte, MMTS
Earl V. Moore Building
1100 Baits Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085

We will notify you upon receipt of your submission. Notification of acceptance will be made via email in mid-January, at which time selected authors will be asked to submit a condensed abstract suitable for publication in the program booklet.

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