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Volume 9, Number 3, August 2003
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Call for Papers: Berio's Sequenza Series

Call for Papers: Berio's Sequenza Series

Between 1958 and 2002, Luciano Berio wrote fourteen pieces entitled Sequenza, along with several versions of the same work for different instruments, revisions of the original pieces and also the parallel Chemins series, where one of the Sequenzas is used as the basis for a new composition on a larger scale. The Sequenza series is one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century, a collection of virtuoso pieces that explores the capabilities of an unaccompanied instrument and its player, making extreme technical demands and developing the musical language of the instrument in compositions so assured and so distinctive that each piece effectively both initiates and exhausts a repertoire for that instrument.

Proposals are invited for contributions to a volume of essays dedicated to the series and its companion compositions. Essays may address any aspect of the compositions and their performance, and may look at single Sequenzas, groups of pieces or the series as a whole. Topics contributors might consider addressing include:

Performance practice
Instrumental technique
Extended techniques
Berio's compositional technique
Notation
The revisions
Analysis
Aesthetics
Gesture
Expression
Recordings
The commissioning performers
Sanguineti's epigraphs
The Chemins Series

If you are interested in contributing, please send an abstract of 250-500 words plus a short biography (including your current status/position and a list of publications) by 31 October 2003. Proposals should be sent both in e-mail and as attachments (Microsoft Word or RTF), or may be sent as hard copy to:

Dr Janet K Halfyard
Birmingham Conservatoire
Paradise Place
Birmingham
B3 3HG
United Kingdom
Fax: 0121 331 5906
Email: steve.halfyard@uce.ac.uk

Contributors will be notified regarding acceptance by January 31st 2004; we expect that the deadline for completed papers will be 30 September 2004. Queries are welcome at the above e-mail or address.

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Call for Papers: The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

Call for Proposals
The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic
Second Annual Meeting

Temple University Esther Boyer College of Music
SPRING, 2004

Postmark deadline: December 6, 2003

The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic invites the submission of program proposals for its second annual meeting, which will be held at Temple University, Spring, 2004. Proposals may be for presentations, papers and panel discussions on any aspect of music theory, including, but not limited to, music theory pedagogy, analysis, the relationship between music theory and performance, history of music theory, music theory research, analysis of contemporary music, interdisciplinary topics with music theory, analysis presentations using live performance, and the use of technology with music theory. Also possible are special presentations in music theory that utilize Temple University music students. Analysis presentations suitable for use in undergraduate or graduate teaching and articulation with high school teachers of music theory are especially welcome.

All sessions will generally be thirty minutes in length. Presentations and papers are limited to twenty minutes in order to allow ten minutes for discussion. Panel discussions are limited to three or four participants who will present formal remarks of no more than five minutes each, allowing time for discussion amongst the panelists and those attending.

Please include the following information in your submission.

1) Seven copies of your Proposal, which shall have no more than 500 words and be double-spaced using 12- or 14-point type face on no more than two pages total (stapled, not loose). Because all submissions will be read blind, neither the author's name nor the author's institution shall be identified in the Proposal.

2) Cover Letter, which shall include the following information.
a) Proposal Title
b) Author's name
c) Institutional affiliation or city of residence
d) Telephone number(s)
e) Email address
f) Complete postal address
g) Any equipment needs or other special arrangements
h) Indication of student status, if applicable

In the case of panelists, include the names and institutional affiliation or city of residence for each panelist, but complete contact information (a-h above) for only one panelist.

3) One copy of a 200-250 word Abstract suitable for distribution at the meeting. If your proposal is selected you will be required to submit an electronic version as an email attachment in MS Word format. Abstracts may be revised and will also be published on the MTSMA website. Subsequent to presentation, at the discretion of the author, the text of the entire paper will be made available on the web site as well in Adobe (.pdf) format.

4) A self-addressed stamped post card to be used to notify you that your proposal was received.

5) Students who wish to be considered for the Dorothy Payne Award for best student paper must send one copy of the complete paper in addition to the 200-250 word abstract, cover letter and post card described above to the address given below.

6) Proposals postmarked after December 6, 2003 or that do not conform to the above guidelines will not be considered.

When the list of selected proposals is finalized, the names of those authors whose proposals have been selected will be revealed to the committee. The names of those authors whose proposals have not been selected will not be revealed to the committee.

Send proposals to:

Professor Joel Phillips, Chair
MTSMA Program Committee
Westminster Choir College of Rider University
101 Walnut Lane
Princeton, NJ 08540-3899

Members of the Program Committee include Ingrid Arauco (Haverford College), Micahael Arenson (University of Delaware), Kenneth Carter (Rutgers University), Charles Frantz (Westminster Choir College of Rider University), Shellie Gregorich (Mansfield University), Cristle Collins Judd (University of Pennsylvania), Ted Latham (Temple University), and Nancy Rao (Rutgers University).

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Call for Papers: Columbia University Graduate Student Conference in Music Scholarship

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The 2004 Columbia University Graduate Student Conference in Music Scholarship will be held January 30-31, 2004.

The event will commence on Friday, January 30, with a welcome address by Professor Walter Frisch and an evening concert of music performed by Columbia University’s Collegium Musicum and directed by Ryan Dohoney. The following day, student speakers will present their papers, and a keynote address will given by Professor Scott Burnham (Princeton University). Student papers will be eligible for possible publication in the Columbia University journal Current Musicology.

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:

We invite graduate students to submit papers on any musical topic, and especially encourage papers dealing with music since 1945 (including both “popular” and “art” music).

Presentations will be scheduled for 20 minutes each, plus a 10- minute question and answer period. Eligible submissions must include an 800-word proposal, a 200-word abstract suitable for publication, and a 100-word biography. The proposal should note specific audiovisual equipment requests.

We will accept submissions via e-mail (MusicConference@hotmail.com) and via “snail mail” (Christopher Doll, c/o Department of Music, Mail Code 1813, 621 Dodge Hall, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027); e-mail is preferred. Please include your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number. “Snail mail” submitters must send four copies of both the abstract and proposal— author information must not appear on these documents, as a graduate student review board will read all submissions anonymously. The receipt deadline for submissions is October 15, 2003.

This conference is directed by Joshua Walden, Karen Hiles, and Christopher Doll, and is sponsored by the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Music. This event is free and open to the public. For registration information, visit http://music.columbia.edu/gsc2004/index.html.

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Call for Papers: Pacific Northwest Music Graduate Students Conference

*** Call for Papers ***

14th Annual Pacific Northwest Music Graduate Students Conference October 3-4, 2003 University of Washington Seattle, Washington

Graduate students from across the United States and Canada are invited to submit proposals for this annual conference, hosted alternately by the University of Washington, University of British Columbia and University of Victoria. All music-related topics are welcome (including, but not limited to: musicology, theory and analysis, ethnomusicology and sociology, composition, philosophy and aesthetics, musical cognition and perception, music education, etc.). Proposals for lecture-recitals and works-in-progress will be considered. Presentation length should be 20-25 minutes for papers, 40-45 minutes for lecture-recitals, followed by a brief question and discussion period.

Please submit proposals of no more than 250 words by July 31, 2003 (with notification of acceptance by August 15, 2003) to:

Benjamin Albritton
Graduate Student, Music History
University of Washington
Box 353450
Seattle, WA 98195
206-543-1215
bla2@u.washington.edu

Email submissions are preferable and can be in the body of a message or as an attached Word document. Please include all relevant contact information. Requests for further information may also be directed to the above address.

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Call for Papers: ‘Picturing’ Women: A Cross-Disciplinary Symposium

Call For Papers
‘Picturing’ Women : A Cross-Disciplinary Symposium
March 19-20, 2004
Bryn Mawr College

In conjunction with the multi-venue, collaborative exhibition ‘Picturing’ Women: Historical Works and Contemporary Responses at Philadelphia-Area Institutions to be held at Bryn Mawr College, The Library Company of Philadelphia, and The Rosenbach Museum and Library from January through May 2004, the Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College and The William Penn Foundation will sponsor a one-and-a-half-day symposium exploring the intersections of representation and identity across a wide range of disciplines to question and rethink what a portrait can be – what women were historically and are today “pictured” to be -- in the vocabulary and imagery of various fields.

The exhibition will juxtapose historical works with 20th- and 21st-century art, presenting photographic, printed, and painted portraits along with such diverse cultural artifacts as conduct manuals, historical dress, literary portrait sketches, advertising images, caricatures, silhouettes, contemporary installation pieces, and performance art as a means of exploring the historical and contemporary representations and self-representations of women – how they are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and described in words and pictorial narrative.

Those interested in submitting abstracts for consideration are encouraged to explore these themes within the parameters of their own fields, and to contemplate one or more of the following fundamental questions in ways that foster cross-disciplinary connections:

We are particularly interested in talks that explore the intersections of race, gender, and class, and encourage submissions that range widely and inventively into diverse areas of scholarship and investigation. These might include such areas as the construction of trans-gender identity, theological constructions of identity and femaleness, exploration of the female body and the allegorical figure of the female in medical and scientific disciplines, and the construction of identity through instrumental music or song, among others.

To submit a proposal:
Please email a detailed proposal for your talk, a letter outlining your interest and expertise in the subject, and a resume, to Susan Shifrin, Project Curator, at picturingwomen@earthlink.net, by September 30, 2003. Presenters will be selected by early December. An honorarium will be provided. Several of the papers may be included in the companion book for the project, to be published by Penn State Press.

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Call for Papers: International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition

Call for Papers
8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition

We are pleased to announce that the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC8) will be held at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA, August 3-7, 2004. The biennialI CMPC is the world conference on music psychology and related disciplines. The 2003 ICMPC conference follows meetings of the music perception and cognition research community in Kyoto, Japan (1989), Los Angeles, U.S.A. (1992), Liege, Belgium (1994), Montreal, Canada (1996), Seoul, South Korea (1998), Keele, U.K. (2000), and Sydney, Australia (2002). ICMPC8 will be sponsored by the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC). Other participating societies include: the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (APSCOM), Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS), the Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition (JSMPC), the Korean Society for Music Perception and Cognition (KSMPC), and the Argentine Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (SACCOM). ICMPC8 will be hosted by the Northwestern University School of Music, with faculty affiliated with NU’s Music Cognition, Music Education, and Music Technology programs serving as members of the conference organizing committee. The venue for ICMPC8 is the School of Music at Northwestern University (music.northwestern.edu). In view from the conference site are the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline and downtown Chicago, with its vibrant cultural life and many musical opportunities.

CONFERENCE STREAMS
The focus of ICMPC8 is interdisciplinary discussion and dissemination of new, unpublished research relating to the field of music perception and cognition. The conference will have relevance for university and industry researchers and graduate students working in psychology, music theory and composition, psychophysics, music performance and education, music therapy and music medicine, neurophysiology, ethnomusicology, developmental psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and computer technology.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Submissions are invited for: (1) spoken papers, (2) poster presentations, (3) demonstration papers, and (4) symposia. The deadline for submissions to ICMPC8 is December 1, 2003. Spoken papers, posters, conference proceedings, and publications will be in English. Details of submission format, procedure, and deadlines can be found on the conference web site (www.northwestern.edu/icmpc/).

LOCATION
Northwestern University is located on the west coast of Lake Michigan. The beautiful township of Evanston is the first suburb north of the Chicago city limits, just twelve miles north of downtown. The Chicagoland area is served by two major airports (O’Hare and Midway), making travel to and from the conference convenient and easy. The conference venue and local lodging sites are conveniently located, with public transportation in and out of Chicago and surrounding areas readily available using the “El” (elevated train system).

FURTHER INFORMATION
Visit the ICMPC8 web site or contact the conference chair, Dr. Scott D. Lipscomb, by email at lipscomb@northwestern.edu. We look forward to welcoming you to Evanston in August 2004!

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Call for Papers: International Machaut Society at Kalamazoo Thirty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Machaut Society at Kalamazoo Thirty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6-9, 2004

Proposal deadline: 15 September 2003

The International Machaut Society will be organizing two sessions at the 39th International Conference on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in 2004. As always, the members of the society seek in these sessions to bring together scholars of literature, music, art history, and codicology. We feel that the two Machaut sessions we propose present an opportunity for scholars to engage in cross-disciplinary discussion. Both sessions focus on a question of genre, and both allow for comparative work. The first, Machaut and the Fourteenth-Century Mass, lends itself to consideration of Machaut's relationship to his mostly anonymous contemporaries, as well as considerations of liturgical use and function in the polyphonic Mass Ordinary, a genre that was new in Machaut's time. The second, Machaut and the Medieval Lyric, can include studies of Machaut's place within a more long-standing lyric tradition, e.g., discussion of the formes fixes, sources and adaptations, text-music relations, and aspects of the multi-texted motets, which have recently sparked exciting interdisciplinary work.

Proposals should be sent to the Machaut Society (contact information below) by the Congress's September 15 deadline. For more information about the Congress itself, see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/. For more information about the sessions, or the Machaut Society, you can consult our webpage at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/%7Ecyrus/machaut/imshome.htm or contact our current president, Nicole Lassahn at nelassah@uchicago.edu OR, by snail mail or phone at

Nicole Lassahn
Assistant Director
University of Chicago Writing Program
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-2658

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Call for Papers: Fifth Congress of the Latin American Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Call for Papers

Fifth Congress of the Latin American Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, IASPM-LA

With the goal of fostering the meeting of researchers who, from different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, study the popular musics of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Fifth Congress of IASPM-LA will convene in Rio de Janeiro from June 21st to 25th, 2004, hosted by the University of Rio de Janeiro, UNI-RIO and Cándido Mendes University, UCAM.

IASPM (http://www.iaspm.com) is an interdisciplinary association founded in 1980, which brings together researchers of the popular musics of the world, organizing world and regional congresses, publishing proceedings, and generating an international network of researchers. The Latin American Branch of IASPM (http://www.hist.puc.cl/historia/iaspmla.html), founded in 2000, has 180 members dedicated to studying music from throughout Latin America.

The opening conference of the Fifth Congress of IASPM-LA will be held by one of the founders of IASPM, Professor Philip Tagg of the University of Montreal (http://www.the blackbook.net/acad/tagg), whose work has been most influential in the development of appropriate methodologies for the study of urban popular music.

The four thematic areas proposed for the Fifth Congress of IASPM-LA are:

1. Popular music and (de)territorialization: city, place, globalization.
2. Popular music and violence: subjects and objects, limits, conditions and meanings.
3. Popular music genres: tango, choro, son, bolero, new song, rock, rap, etc.
4. Listeners' perceptions: foci and methods for studying popular music.

Those interested in participating in the Fifth Congress of IASPM-LA should send the following before October 31st of 2003:

1. Title, thematic area and 200 word summary of the presentation in Spanish or Portuguese.
2. Author's name, institution, profession, mailing and electronic address, and 200 word CV.

Texts in Spanish should be sent to Juan Pablo González, jgonzaro@puc.cl.

Texts in Portuguese should be sent to Martha Ulhôa, mulhoa@unirio.br.

The Reading Committee will select and assign presentations to Workshops and Plenary Sessions, and will send out acceptances from December 15th, 2003 onward. This committee is made up of:

Elizabeth Travassos, University of Rio de Janeiro
Alberto Ikeda, University of the State of São Paulo
Ernesto Donas, City University of New York, Graduate Center
José Juan Olvera, Regiomontana University, Monterrey

The Fifth Congress of IASPM-LA will be coordinated by Martha Ulhôa (University of Rio de Janeiro), Elizabeth Travassos (University of Rio de Janeiro) and Santuza Cambraia Naves (Cândido Mendes University).

Conference Announcements

Conference Announcement: International Conference on IN(TER)DISCIPLINE. NEW LANGUAGES FOR CRITICISM

Call for Registration
International Conference on IN(TER)DISCIPLINE. NEW LANGUAGES FOR CRITICISM, Cambridge University, 19-21 September 2003

This two-day international conference will be hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). It aims to stimulate discussion about the kinds of critical languages used within the scholarly as well as the public sphere, and the linguistic challenge that represents an increasingly interdisciplinary research culture within the modern Humanities. Many of our invited speakers have made powerful statements in this respect through the very nature of their work. IN(TER)DISCIPLINE offers an exceptional opportunity to debate these and other approaches, and to examine the significance of language in criticism.

Convenors:
Malcolm Bowie
Gillian Beer
Beate Perrey

Programme:

Friday 19 September 2003

Opening Lecture by
Mieke BAL:"'Close Reading' and the Language of Affect"
Respondent: Malcolm BOWIE

Saturday 20 September 2003

Session I:
Adam PHILLIPS: "Nuisance-Value"
Beate PERREY: "Borges' Blindness and Giacometti's Eyes"
Respondent: Ludmilla JORDANOVA

Session II:
Laurence KRAMER: "Wittgenstein's Chopin: Interdiscipline and 'The Music Itself'"
Elisabeth BRONFEN: "Describing the Visual: Cross-mapping Psychoanalytic and Aesthetic Tropes"

Session III:
Catherine LORD: "Set Adrift in Style: The Scholar as Artist in Jacob's Room"
Joanne LEE: "Curiosity and Enchantment: Languages for Learning to Delight in Art"
Stephen THOMSON: "Does Amina Sing in her Sleep? Consciousness and Community in Bellini's La sonnambula"
Catherine TOAL: "Structures of Feeling: Criticism and the Language of 'Affect'"

Session IV:
Gabriele BRANDSTETTER: "Performance and notation - Questions of (Re)Production and the Discourse of Performance-Analysis"
Peter SZENDY: "Orfeo's Indiscipline: Echoing the 'Mortal Ear'"

8.00pm

Evening: JOHN BERGER and SIMON MCBURNEY on "Other Ways of Seeing"

Sunday 21 September 2003:

Session V:
Malcolm BOWIE: "Is Music Criticism Criticism?"
Scott BURNHAM: "Musical Writing"

Session VI:
Friedrich KITTLER: "Ulysses' Bow: Poetics of Life and Death: (Od. XXI, 404-411)"
Gillian BEER: "Island Encounters"

Session VII:
Ingo BERENSMEYER: "Literary Knowledge and the Reading Experience"
Anthony GRITTEN: "Music Performance and the Loopholes of Music Criticism"
Daniel ROSENBERG: "We have never been interdisciplinary: Encyclopedism and Etymology in the Eighteenth Century and Since"
Victoria BEST: "Yves Bonnefoy's Recits en reve: Analysis as Poetry"

Closing Lectures and general discussion:
JOHN TUSA
EDWARD SAID (TBC)

Please note: A full list of distinguished respondents will be available in August.

More details are available on the conference web site:

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/events2003/newlangsconf.html

Registration fee is GBP30 (GBP15 students). A booking form may be downloaded from the conference web site. Alternatively, please contact Mary-Rose Cheadle at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, Old Press Site, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK, phone +44 (0) 1223-765279, e-mail kmrc2@cam.ac.uk.

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Conference Announcement: Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN MUSIC THEORY
Mannes College of Music, New York, New York USA
Wayne Alpern, Director

The Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory convened its third annual gathering from June 21-24, 2003 at Mannes College of Music in New York City on the topic of Transformational Theory and Analysis. 45 distinguished scholars from 23 states and 8 countries came together in an informal setting to explore and debate the concepts, techniques, evolution, significance, and future of one of the most important developments in our field in the past quarter century.

The Institute is a privately supported musical think-tank dedicated to communal investigation at the highest level of scholarship. It offers outstanding theorists and musicologists around the world a unique opportunity to gather outside of the conventional conference format and interact with each other in a sustained and collegial way. An intensive series of participatory workshops, plenary sessions, and roundtable discussions focuses on a different topic each year under the guidance of experts drawn from the international music community.

The Institute conducted six intensive workshops this past month: Neo-Riemannian Transformations in Parsifal with Richard Cohn of the University of Chicago, Three Topics in Transformational Theory with Robert Morris of the Eastman School of Music, Voice Leading and Transformation with Joseph Straus of the City University of New York, Transformational Pathways into (Post-)Tonal Frontiers with Edward Gollin of Harvard University, K-net Technology and Intuition with Henry Klumpenhouwer of the University of Alberta, and Transformational Approaches to Contemporary Music with John Roeder of the University of British Columbia. In addition, roundtable plenary sessions were held on The Evolution and Context of Transformational Theory and The Scope and Limitations of Transformational Theory. These proceedings were supplemented by a complimentary reception and banquet.

The highlight of the Institute was a memorial session paying tribute to David Lewin, where members of the Institute shared their thoughts and memories of the pioneer of transformational theory as a scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend. Milton Babbitt, as well as David's wife June and their son Alex, attended as honorary guests. Edward Rothstein reported on the Institute's proceedings and its Lewin tribute in the New York Times on June 28, 2003.

Next year, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory will convene an Institute on Musical Form from June 24-27, 2004 at Mannes College, led by another distinguished faculty of William Caplin of McGill University, Janet Schmalfeldt of Tufts University, Jonathan Bernard of the University of Washington, Scott Burnham of Princeton University, Warren Darcy of Oberlin College, James Hepokoski of Yale University, and Robert Morgan of Yale University, with special guest Charles Rosen. The subject of the 2005 Institute is Rhythm and Temporality, led by an equally distinguished faculty of Christopher Hasty of Harvard University, Justin London of Carleton College, Kofi Agawu of Princeton University, and other leading experts in this field, with special guest composer Steve Reich.

Details of the 2004 Institute on Musical Form will be posted later this fall on the Institute's website at www.mannes.edu/mi, announced over the SMT and AMS lists, and distributed at the national conferences in November. Applications will be accepted via the website commencing January 1. A description of the Institute’s unique mission, methodology, policies, and procedures are located on its website. Please direct all inquires to Wayne Alpern, Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, mannesinstitute@aol.com.

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Journal-Related Announcements

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Dear Colleagues,

I am guest-editing a special cluster of papers on Computation in Music for the INFORMS Journal on Computing.

Core operations-research techniques such as Markov chains, network models and dynamic programming have long been used in computer analysis of music. The goal of the cluster is to highlight the use of computational operations-research techniques (defined in the call) in the analysis and generating of music. The papers should not only feature the contributions of the author(s) to the domain but also provide a clear and expository review of key advances in the specialty area and identify or define some concrete and open problems.

The full details can be accessed at

INFORMS Journal on Computing Special Cluster on Computation in Music
http://joc.pubs.informs.org/CallClusterCompInMusic.html

Please post and distribute freely as you see fit.

Sincerely,

Elaine Chew

Assistant Professor, University of Southern California School of Engineering, Integrated Media Systems Center
D.J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~echew

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Popular Music History

Equinox Publishing Ltd., a new academic publishing venture based in London, is launching Popular Music History, a new, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal to be published three times a year. The journal is keen to publish original historical and historiographical articles that challenge established orthodoxies in popular histories of genres, explore lesser-studied forms, or engage in archaeologies of popular music history. The journal will carry reviews and have a resources section, which will republish articles of historical importance, report on archives and scholarly collections and serve as a forum for the discussion of issues of importance in popular music history.

Articles of up to 6000 words should be submitted to Robert Strachen by Oct 1, 2003 for the first issue (April 2004): Robert Strachen, Institute of Popular Music, Roxby Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L693BX UK
email: bigmice@liverpool.ac.uk

www.equinoxpub.com (in development)
 
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Perspectives of New Music 41/1

Perspectives of New Music is pleased to announce the publication of PNM Volume 41, number 1. The contents are:

IN MEMORIAM IANNIS XENAKIS (Part Three)

- Roger Reynolds, "Xenakis Tireless Renewal at Every Instant, at Every Death"

- Robert W. Peck, "Toward an Interpretation of Xenakis's Nomos alpha"

- Ronald Squibbs, "Xenakis in Miniature: Style and Structure in r. (Hommage Ravel) for Piano (1987)"

- Sharon Kanach, "The Writings of Iannis Xenakis (Starting with Formalized Music)"

- Jan Christiaens, "'Absolute Purity Projected Into Sound': Goeyvaerts, Heidegger, and Early Serialism"

- Paul Nauert, "Field Notes: A Study of Fixed-Pitch Formations"

Please visit our website: http://www.perspectivesofnewmusic.org

Subscriptions can now be ordered online there.

Perspectives of New Music, edited by Benjamin Boretz, Robert Morris, and John Rahn, presents the best thinking on new art music and related issues. It is published twice annually. Comments and questions are welcome: pnm@u.washington.edu

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Musurgia IX/3-4

Musurgia is pleased to announce the publication of vol. IX/3-4 (2002). The contents are:

Abstracts of the articles can be found on the journal's web site, http://musurgia.free.fr

Musurgia is published by Editions Eska,
12 rue du Quatre-Septembre, 75002 Paris
Tel. +33 1 42 86 55 73 -- Fax +33 1 42 60 45 35
http://www.eska.fr

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Other Announcements

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology

Dear Subscribers: I am pleased to announce that the mid-summer update of DDM-Online is now complete and available for your use at http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm.This update is rather more substantial than our usual periodic updates three or four times a year. It includes not only more than 100 new and updated current records, submitted as of 31 July, but also updates and corrections to more than 500 of the records taken from the earlier 1984 and 1996 printed editions. In many cases, these include dates of completion, pagination, references to Dissertation Abstracts, RILM index numbers, and UMI numbers, as well as corrections in titles, additional data pertaining to publication (where available), and other miscellaneous corrections. The entire database now includes 11,958 records. We continue to constantly update and correct the DDM records, and we hope eventually to confirm or correct all the records derived from the 1984 and 1996 print editions. To that end, may I once again invite you to check your record (especially if it was published in either of those print editions) and, if it is incomplete (as, for example, in the case of a dissertation that was originally registered as in-progress and has since been completed), to re-register it with us as a completed dissertation. Re-registering can be done either through the online registration form (a link to which appears on the DDM-Online home page) or through our conventional registration postcard, copies of which we will be glad to supply upon request. Re-registration will always automatically replace the existingr ecord, so there is no need to be concerned about duplication. Likewise, if you can supply us with additional data (such as UMI number, RILM index number, and so on) currently lacking in an otherwise-complete record, we shall be glad to hear from you about that, too. As you know, DDM-Online relies very heavily on individual authors communicating directly with us; records of dissertations--completed and in-progress--are not automatically sent to us. So, please keep those communications coming. They're always most welcome!

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Cecilia

Press Release

Cecilia - mapping the music resource of the UK and Ireland

The Cecilia online database, launched on July 1st, contains information on collections of music materials of all kinds held in libraries, archives, museums and other repositories in the UK and Ireland.

"This is a first for IAML UK and Ireland", said Susi Woodhouse, Branch President and Cecilia's Project Director. "There is such a wealth of music related materials distributed among a wide variety of institutions, and Cecilia's chief aim is to make this wonderful resource known - to provide a way which information about these materials can be found quickly and easily, and to provide contributors with a quick and simple way to make their resources more widely known. I'm delighted to report that already the database currently lists over 1500 collections from over 500 institutions, and this is just the tip of the iceberg". Those who can benefit from the database include everyone interested in music of any kind: students, researchers, school children, music lovers in general.

Cecilia is contributing to national initiatives in resource discovery and the project demonstrates the benefits of a cross-sectoral approach to information provision in music. The Cecilia project is administered by the UK and Ireland Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, and funded by The British Library Co-operation and Partnership Programme, The Research Support Libraries Programme, Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, and The Music Libraries Trust To find out more about Cecilia, visit the website at www.cecilia-uk.org or contact Katharine Hogg, the project manager, at cecilia-uk@britishlibrary.net

Or write to:
Cecilia: Mapping the Music Resource of the UK and Ireland
10 Byron Road
Reading RG6 1EP, UK
Tel: +44-(0)118-935-2318

Notes to editors
Founded in 1953, IAML (UK & Irl) exists to promote the activities of music libraries, archives and documentation centres; to strengthen cooperation among institutions and individuals working in these fields; to ensure a better understanding of the cultural, educational and economic importance of music libraries, archives and documentation centres; to provide professional education and training and to act as advocate on behalf of the sector. Further information on the Branch may be found at www.iaml-uk-irl.org/

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Kunitachi Gakki Music Institute

COMMUNITY MUSIC IN JAPAN

Contemporary Japan is a hotbed of community music activity, ranging from indigenous traditions to the latest in international popular music and avant garde styles. In fact, Tokyo hosts more concerts than any other city in the world. However, the field of community music has been largely neglected as a subject of scholarly inquiry here, where research within each academic division (music education, music theory, and musicology) emphasizes historical methods.

In early 2003, Kunitachi Gakki founded a Music Institute to support research on community music activity in the Tokyo area, particularly in terms of the roles of government and private sector organizations in the support of festivals, school partnerships, and lifelong music learning. Kunitachi Gakki is the community music center affiliated with Japan's largest private conservatory, Kunitachi College of Music.

The Kunitachi Gakki Music Institute has now established an extensive network of relevant contacts: government institutes, academic societies, policy think tanks, arts foundations, music industry executives, music teachers and performers. The Institute has been collecting information concerning CM activities throughout the world, and is preparing reports in both English and Japanese language that situate the Japanese case in an international-comparative perspective. The Institute is also in a strong position to obtain grant support for international studies of community music in urban centers, with comparative research on Moscow and London now in the planning stages.

A number of historic changes in Japanese government policy are enabling new possibilities in this field: approval of tax benefits for arts/education NPOs, introduction of a Japanese traditional music requirement and a "general/ integrated education period" into the national grade school curriculum, decentralization/semi-privatization of the infamously ineffective national university system, and increased funding to lifelong education projects in community centers (particularly for the booming elderly population).

We hope to serve as an international resource in this field, so please feel free to contact the Kunitachi Gakki Music Institute for any serious inquiries regarding community music activities in Japan. Homepage: http://www.kunitachi-gakki.co.jp Email: dghebert100@hotmail.com

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SMT Diversity Travel Grants

Minority Travel Grants and International Travel Grants:

The SMT Committee on Diversity is now accepting applications for Travel Grants to attend the upcoming SMT conference in Madison, WI. Grants are available for theorists belonging to an ethnic minority (defined here on the basis of the majority of current SMT members) and for theorists who reside outside the United States and Canada. Theorists at all stages of their careers, including graduate students, are encouraged to apply.

Applications are due September 15, 2003.

Please let your colleagues and students know about this opportunity.

Complete application guidelines and instructions are posted on the committee's website (part of the SMT site): http://www.societymusictheory.org/index.php?pid=90

A summary of the guidelines and application instructions is included below.

All questions and application materials should be emailed to Nancy Rao, chair, committee on diversity, at nyrao@ureach.com.

Travel Grants

Application Deadline: September 15, 2003

The Committee on Diversity offers two grant programs for theorists attending the SMT Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. Theorists belonging to an ethnic minority (defined here on the basis of the majority of current SMT members) are invited to apply for Minority Travel Grants. Theorists who reside outside the United States and Canada are invited to apply for International Travel Grants. Theorists at all stages of their careers, including graduate students, are encouraged to apply.

Minority Travel Grants:

Applicants need not be SMT members; a one-year membership fee will be covered as part of the grant. Preference will be given to junior faculty and graduate students; financial need and statement of research interests within the field of music theory will be used to evaluate the applications. Up to 5 grants will be awarded by the committee.

1) Individuals belonging to a non-Caucasion ethnic group (minority ethnic groups have been defined here on the basis that the majority of current SMT members are of Caucasian ethnic origin.)

2) Applicants shall submit a letter of application containing the following:

a) name, address, telephone, e-mail, and academic affiliation;

b) financial need (please outline additional support or lack of support from your institution);

c) anticipated expenses for travel to Madison and lodging during the conference (demonstrating responsible approaches to minimizing costs);

d) a clear statement of research interests and their relation both to conference participation and the field of music theory in general;

e) a statement that identifies your ethnicity and confirms that you meet the eligibility requirements for this grant.

3) Include your curriculum vitae.

4) Graduate students must also submit a letter of support from one of their major professors. The professor should email the letter of support directly to Nancy Rao, nyrao@ureach.com.

EMAIL YOUR APPLICATION TO:

Nancy Rao, Chair, SMT Committee on Diversity, nyrao@ureach.com.

For comments and inquiries, please email Nancy Rao at: nyrao@ureach.com. Note: the Committee on Diversity requests that all applicants submit their materials by email this year; attachments should be in a standard file format (Microsoft Word docs).

DEADLINE: Complete application materials must be received by September 15, 2003.

International Travel Grants:

Applicants need not be SMT members; a one-year membership fee will be covered as part of the grant. Preference will be given to junior faculty and graduate students; financial need and statement of research interests within the field of music theory will be used to evaluate the applications. Up to 3 grants will be awarded by the committee.

1) Individuals who reside outside the United States and Canada are eligible to apply.

2) Applicants shall submit a letter of application containing the following:

a) name, address, telephone, e-mail, and academic affiliation;

b) financial need (please outline additional support or lack of support from your institution);

c) anticipated expenses for travel to Madison and lodging during the conference (demonstrating responsible approaches to minimizing costs);

d) a clear statement of research interests and their relation both to conference participation and the field of music theory in general;

e) a statement that you meet the eligibility requirements for this grant.

3) Include your curriculum vitae.

4) Graduate students must also submit a letter of support from one of their major professors. The professor should email the letter of support directly to Nancy Rao, nyrao@ureach.com.

EMAIL YOUR APPLICATION TO:

Nancy Rao, Chair, SMT Committee on Diversity, nyrao@ureach.com.

For comments and inquiries, please email Nancy Rao at: nyrao@ureach.com. Note: the Committee on Diversity requests that all applicants submit their materials by email this year; attachments should be in a standard file format (Microsoft Word docs).

DEADLINE: Complete application materials must be received by September 15, 2003.

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Memorial Service for David Lewin

Memorial Gathering
Join us in words and music celebrating David Lewin (1933-2003)

Saturday, September 20, 2003 at 4:00 pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University

If you wish to include a remembrance in the memorial book, please send it to Nancy Shafman, Music Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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