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4-8
septembre 2012, Göttingen
Music | Musics. Structures and Processes
Call for Proposals
The University of Goettingen will host the 15th International
Conference of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung.
Scholars from all fields are invited to participate
in and contribute to the conference.
The general topic of the conference is
and aims to generate discussions regarding the plurality
of concepts of music as used in current academic discourses.
Thus, the conference will also be about the plurality
of musicology itself.
The conference will take place from 4th to 8th September
2012 at the University of Goettingen; the university
will celebrate the 275th anniversary of its foundation
the same year.
Working languages are German and English. Part of
the conference is the Conference on Interdisciplinary
Musicology »CIM12«, that will take place
on 4th and 5th September 2012 under the general heading
»History«.
Welcome to Goettingen!
http://gfm2012.uni-goettingen.de/GfM2012/Home.html
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13-15 septembre
2011, Leipzig
The Heroic
in Music : Diverse Meaning and Musical Analysis
International
conference
Closing date for proposals: 31.12.2011
Throughout
European art music history, the ‘heroic’ has been established
as a central concept to describe and interpret musical
phenomena. Associations with heroic characteristics,
emotions and actions stimulated to attribute the property
of the heroic to the compositional style of Beethoven’s
middle period, the voice type 'heldentenor’ and Baroque
types of operas and cantatas (opere and cantate eroiche).
Recent research on master performers has elucidated
the intertwinement of virtuosity and heroicization.
The significance
that the heroic possesses for musical discourse contrasts
sharply to the vagueness with which the term has been
applied to heterogeneous musical phenomena, works and
styles. Usually, if musicologists have availed themselves
of the term ‘heroic’ in order to characterize music,
the term’s concrete denotations and connotations have
not been explicitly defined. Consequently, the ‘heroic’
as a category to describe musical means and styles is
plausible only at first glance.
In this
light several questions arise: which compositional and/or
performance-related means have evoked associations with
heroic ideas and attributes (in the past and the present)?
What types of discourse on the heroic or the hero, as
the basis of these associations, is prevalent during
a specific time period? Moreover, which concepts of
the hero have dominated music historiography and to
what degree did they influence the understanding and
the evaluation of music? And – a question for the final
discussion of the conference – has the concept of heroism
and the characteristics of the music related to it always
been the same or has it changed over time? In other
words, does the ‘heroic’, despite cultural historical
revolts and changes, possess conceptual constants that
can also be proven in the music, or does the term’s
continuity manifest itself in little more than family
resemblances (in the sense of Wittgenstein)?
The conference
aims to provide insights in the fields of both musicology
and cultural history. On the one hand, its goal is the
systematic understanding of the heroic in music i.e.
its manifestation in diverse musical means from antiquity
to the presence. On the other, the exploration of musical
phenomena is expected to broaden the horizon of knowledge
on the heroic, heroicization and narratives of the hero
in cultural, social and political history; in this way,
it aims to contribute to deeper understanding about
the various concepts of the heroic throughout history.
Proposals
to be submitted until 31 December might address these
and similar subjects (in alphabetical order):
- anti-heros
- heroic operas
and cantatas
- heroism and gender
- heroism and genius
- heroism and greatness
- heroism and militarism
- heroism and nationalism
and/or folklore
- heroism and pleasure
culture
- heroism and religion
- heroism and the
good and/or bad
- heroism and triumph
and/or victory
- heroism and violence
- heroism and virtuosity
- heroism and voice
- heroism in 20th-century
music
- heroism in non-European
music
- heroism in totalitarian
systems
- rhetoric of the
heroic in music
- the discourse
on the heroic in musicology
- the heroic and
the pastoral
- the heroic style
of Beethoven
Conference
languages will be German and English. Preference will
be given to those proposals that promise new insights
in both cultural history and musical analysis. The number
of words should be limited to 250. Proposals are to
be sent to :
beate.kutschke@arcor.de
rainer.bayreuther@muwi.uni-freiburg.de
Organisation
und direction :
Dr. Beate Kutschke
Institut für
Musikwissenschaft
Universität Leipzig
Goldschmidtstraße
12
04103 Leipzig
PD Dr.
Rainer Bayreuther
Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar
der Universität Freiburg
Platz der Universität
3
79095 Freiburg i.Br.
Tel. 0761/203-309
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20-22 septembre Lyon
Colloque international
Recherches en musicologie : nouvelles
perspectives
Deuxième édition, Lyon 2012
Organisé par la Société française de musicologie, l’École Normale Supérieure
de Lyon et l’université Jean-Monnet de Saint-Étienne Ce colloque international propose aux doctorants et aux jeunes docteurs en musique et
musicologie de présenter leurs recherches, leurs méthodes et leurs objets dans le cadre de trois journées de rencontres encadrées
par des conférences de figures étrangères marquantes pour la discipline. Les communications attendues s’étendront de l’Antiquité
à nos jours, sans limitation dans le choix des sujets.
Ce colloque se déroulera à École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Site Descartes. 15,
parvis René-Descartes, 69009 Lyon, les 20-22 septembre 2012 (frais de voyages et de séjour : le trajet, l’hébergement et les repas
des participants seront pris en charge par les organisateurs, à condition d’assister à l’ensemble des journées ducolloque.).
Langue de communication : français
Dossier de présentation : la fiche de soumission est à renvoyer pour
le 15 novembre 2011 au plus tard, aux formats Word et PDF, à Thomas Soury (sfmusico@club-internet.fr). Les dossiers seront examinés
anonymement par les experts du comité scientifique et du comité d’organisation du colloque. Les résultats de l’appel seront connus
le 15 mars 2012.
Une Publication des actes : une publication des actes de ce colloque est prévue.
Comité scientifique : Philippe ALBERA (Suisse, professeur aux conservatoires de Lausanne et de Genève)
; Mark EVERIST (Royaume-Uni, professeur à l’université de Southampton) ; Davitt MORONEY (États-Unis, professeur à l’université
de Californie à Berkeley) ; Jann PASLER (États-Unis, professeur à l’université de Californie à San Diego) ; Massimo
PRIVITERA (Italie, professeur à l’université de Palerme).
Comité d’organisation : Yves BALMER (maître de conférences à l’ENS de Lyon et professeur
au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris) ; Laurence DECOBERT (conservateur au département de la Musique, BnF)
; Guy GOSSELIN (professeur à l’université de Tours) ; Denis HERLIN (directeur de recherche au CNRS/IRPMF) ; Béatrice RAMAUT-CHEVASSUS
(professeur à l’université de Saint-Étienne) ; Alice TACAILLE (maître de conférences à l’université de
Paris-Sorbonne).
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21-23 septembre 2012, Sint-Truiden
(Belgique)
Chant from the Rhine and Mosan Lands
Call for Concert Proposals
In 2012, the first CANTO APERTO Plainchant Festival will
be organized in the city of Sint-Truiden, Belgium. This new, bi-annual festival
aims at exploring the rich history of plainchant and its performance practices
from the 7th century until today. The 2012 edition focuses on the chant traditions
and repertory of the Mosan Area and the Rhineland in the 12th and 13th centuries.
We invite ensembles of young (semi)professionals to contact
us with (general) concert program concepts or (specific) proposals related to
the theme of the 2012 edition. Ensembles interested in collaboration with the
festival but with no previous experience related to the Rhine-Meuse repertory
are also invited to express their interest and to send their applications. Musicological
advice and guidance towards relevant sources can be provided by CANTO APERTO.
Similarly, musicologists and other scholars studying the Mosan and Rhineland
of the 12th and 13th centuries are invited to collaborate with the festival
as well.
Program proposals may relate to one or more of the five strands
outlined below. Applications should include a curriculum of the ensemble, at
least one letter of recommendation, and one recent recording. Proposals and
applications (by preference in English, but proposals in other languages are
also accepted) should be sent to Bart De Vos bart.devos@musica.be before May
31, 2010.
Please contact Pieter Mannaerts : pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be,
with musicological questions.
Proposed strands:
- A Network of Cities (Aachen, Cologne, Liège, Tongeren, Maastricht)
- Rhine and Meuse: transport and transmission
- Keepers of the Carolingian Heritage
- A Promised Land for Orders and Communities
- A Land of Saints
More details on these strands and a longer concept text on
CANTO APERTO can be found on the websites of Musica http://www.musica.be,
Resonant http://www.muzikaalerfgoed.be,
and the Alamire Foundation http://www.arts.kuleuven.be
The festival themes of the next editions will be Chant in
the Romantic Era (2014), Chant in the Baroque Period (2016), Carolingian Chant
(2018), and Chant of the Renaissance (2020).
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27
septembre - 27 octobre 2012
Call for
Participation: International Symposium
Conlon
Nancarrow: Life and Music
Online,
September 27 - October 27 2012
The Symposium,
held in honor of the centennial of Nancarrow's birth,
will include three main types of material: academic
papers, performances and media, and biographical material
such as interviews, reviews, and photographs.
The Symposium
will be an online gathering, harnessing network resources
to bring Nancarrow enthusiasts from a wide range of
geographical areas and time zones into communication
with one another. We hope that the three types of materials
listed above will stimulate a vibrant online exchange.
Material from the Symposium will remain online for research
and public information purposes, and may be submitted
as part of a special issue to Music Theory Online. Some
of the possible technologies of the MTO site include
sound files, color graphics, animation, video, non-linear
presentations, interactive elements, and the use of
live hyperlinks to reference online sources.
Keynote
Presentations:
Kyle Gann,
author of The Music of Conlon Nancarrow
The Bugallo-Williams
Piano Duo
Important
Dates :
Submission of proposals: January 15, 2012
Notification:
March 15, 2012
Final versions: August 1, 2012
Please
visit http://conlonnancarrow.org/announcement.htm for
more information. Email questions to conlonnancarrow
at gmail.com
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