Music As Intelligence (Ithaca College conference)
The music education department at Ithaca College announces the Music as Intelligence conference to be held September 20-21, 1996 at Ithaca College in Ithaca New York. This conference has two primary objectives: to provide a forum for leaders in the music education profession in which to examine recent developments in the contemporary view of intelligence and thereby to delineate music's role in the development of intelligence, and to contribute to the literature on music intelligence by compiling a sourcebook for music educators. Dr. Howard Gardner will present the keynote address. CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS: The conference invites papers and posters related to the topic of music as intelligence. The complete paper should be submitted Chicago Manual of style and should not exceed 25 pages. Each paper submitted will be considered for presentation and publication. Poster submissions should be abstracts containing 200-300 words describing the project. Those who submit a paper or poster abstract will be notified by screening committee by June 1, 1996. Deadline for paper submission is March 1, 1996.
Please send 4 copies of the paper or abstract to: Dr. Verna Brummett, Ithaca Conference '96 School of Music Ithaca College 208 Ford Hall Ithaca, NY 14850-7240 brummett@ithaca.edu For more information about this conference (schedule, fees, etc.) visit the WWW conference page at: http://www.ithaca.edu/music/music2/MusicedIC96.html
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International Musicological Society: Call for Papers
I am forwarding the call for papers; it is also available on the World
Wide Web in the following languages:
English: http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/IMS/calleng.htm
French: http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/IMS/callfr.htm
German: http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/IMS/callger.htm
Italian: http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/IMS/callit.htm
Spanish: http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/IMS/callsp.htm
Geoffrey Chew
Music Department, Royal Holloway College (University of London)
Internet: chew@sun.rhbnc.ac.uk
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International Musicological Society
16th International Congress
London, 14-20 August, 1997
Musicology and Sister Disciplines:
Past, Present and Future
Musicology almost always borders on other subjects (whether humanistic
studies or natural sciences). The main theme of the congress will be to
explore musicology as it relates to some of the sister disciplines. That
will be the topic of the Round Table sessions currently being arranged.
There will of course be much space for new developments in musicological
thought, but there will be a special emphasis on areas and interfaces not
always thought central to traditional musicology.
FREE PAPERS are limited to 20 minutes to allow for full discussion.
Offers of Free Papers should be on a single side of paper, with the
author's name and address at the top (where they can be concealed for
preliminary reading by the Committee).
Proposals for STUDY SESSIONS must include names and addresses of all
participants (these will not be evaluated anonymously), together with the
name of a Reporter, who will take responsibility for presenting the
summary for publication before 15 January 1998. They will normally last
three hours (with an interval) and include position statements of about 10
minutes, with up to six participants. Study Sessions could explore: some
aspect of the congress theme; a topic of special interest; the current
work of an existing study group; or perhaps a single recent publication.
Preference may be given to offers with an international panel of speakers,
where appropriate.
With the availability of many individual teaching rooms in the
conference venue, the Royal College of Music, proposals are also invited
for POSTER SESSIONS (see further details below). Each presentation can be
displayed for three hours, with presenters providing their own equipment
and materials. Proposals should be as for Free Papers.
In all areas the Committee is particularly interested in hearing from
members outside Western Europe and North America.
Please note that the subsequent volume of conference proceedings will
contain full reports of only the Round Tables, with a brief digest of the
Study Session materials and abstracts of Free Papers and Posters.
All proposals must be submitted before 1 April 1996 (in envelopes
marked 'IMS: Free Papers', 'IMS: Study Sessions' or 'IMS: Poster
Sessions') to the chairman of the Programme Committee:
David Fallows: IMS 1997
Department of Music
Denmark Road
University of Manchester
GB Manchester M15 6HY
NOTE ON POSTER SESSIONS
As currently practised, mainly in the sciences, poster sessions are
free-standing displays that present an experiment or analysis in a
diagrammatic form that allows delegates to examine them and then ask any
appropriate questions. While there will be room for these at the London
congress, the nature of the teaching rooms - along two corridors in the
Royal College of Music - seems ideally suited to sounding displays, most
particularly of technological applications (though the Programme Committee
will be pleased to entertain any resourceful use of the facilities).
Potential displayers must remember that the British electricity system,
240 volts with sockets of a kind not found elsewhere, will require
overseas delegates to bring adapters. There is likely to be only 30
minutes in which to set up equipment and again 30 minutes to vacate the
room afterwards.
GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC THEORISTS
SCHEDULE OF ANNUAL MEETING
and
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR GAMUT JOURNAL
The Georgia Association of Music Theorists (GAMUT) will hold its
annual meeting at the University of Georgia in Athens on April 26 -
April 27, 1996.
Friday Evening, April 26
6:30-7:00 Registration
7:00-9:00 Special Session: "Using Music Technology in the Classroom
Jolene Davis, moderator; panel participants from the UGA
music faculty
Saturday, April 27
8:30-9:30 Registration
Continental Breakfast
Business Meeting
9:30-12:00 Paper Session (Final papers TBA)
12:00-1:45 Lunch
2:00 Keynote Speaker: Severine Neff, "'This I Have Learned From
My Students': The Teachings of Arnold Schoenberg"
Hotel accomdations: Georgia Center Hotel (706) 542-6364 is 2 blocks
from the new Music Building at UGA. Rates range from $48-$58 a night.
Address inqueries for further details about the meeting to:
Leonard Ball, Program Chair
School of Music
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-2800
e-mail: lvball@uga.cc.uga.edu
Contact Kristin Wendland () for meeting registration
form.
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GAMUT JOURNAL, Volume 6, 1996 is available.
CONTENTS
Proceedings from the 1994 Meeting: Report from the Secretary, Kristin
Wendland
Teaching Approaches to Musical Analysis
I. Listening and Learning Creatively: Using Music Analysis to Teach
Fundamentals, Mauro Botelho
II. Going Into the Woods, Kristin Wendland
III. Aural Training: Listening to the Big Structure, John Nelson
IV. Old Questions, New Music, Susan Tepping
Generative Harmonic Structures in the Slow Movement of Elliott
Carter's Brass Quintet, Thomas Heuner
Schubert's Missing Note: An Analysis of "Doppelg�nger," Forrester
Notes on the Contributors
The GAMUT Journal welcomes articles dealing with all aspects of music
theory, including pedagogy, analysis, history, and book reviews.
Contributors should submit three copies anonymously with an
identifying cover letter and a short abstract of the article.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced with 1-inch margins. Documentation
must be complete. Musical examples, tables, and
diagrams should be camera-ready. Copyright privileges, if required
for publication, should be secured in advance.
The Editorial Committee for the Fall 1996 issue includes Joseph Auner,
David Bernstein, Severine Neff, Frank Samarotto, and Susan Tepping.
Deadline for submissions for the 1996 issue is May 31, 1996.
Send $10 for a copy of the recent issue of the Journal. Address
inquiries for subscriptions, and send manuscripts, proposals for
reviews, or any other
reponses and communications to the GAMUT editor:
Kristin Wendland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Music
Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA
e-mail: ir002842@interramp.com
phone: (404) 220-00245
fax: (404) 220-0261
The NIFF (Notation Interchange File Format) was completed in the fall of 1995. This is a standard digital format for the representation of standard musical notation. The format is very flexible, allowing for simple implementations with minimal graphical information, or much more elaborate descriptions including all aspects of page layout, associated midi data, custom symbols, etc. Sponsored by Passport Designs, Mark of the Unicorn, Temporal Acuity Products, Opcode Systems, and Twelve Tone Systems, the format was designed as a cooperative effort. The members of the NIFF team are listed below: Dave Abrahams, Mark of the Unicorn Gary Barber, Temporal Acuity Products Raymond Bily, Midisoft Corporation Mike Brockman, Temporal Acuity Products Mark Burton, Blue Ribbon Software Don Byrd, Advanced Music Notation Systems, Temporal Acuity Products Nicholas Carter, University of Surrey John Cerullo, Hal Leonard Corporation Daniel Dorff, Theodore Presser John Forbes, Boosey & Hawkes Tom Hall, A-R Editions Greg Hendershott, Twelve Tone Systems William Holab, G. Schirmer Wladek Homenda, Musitek Tom Johns, Hal Leonard Corporation Steve Keller, Passport Designs Dave Kusek, Passport Designs Lowell Levinger, Passport Designs Bill McCann, Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology Severo Ornstein, Woodside, California Mike Ost, Passport Designs Norman Reid, San Francisco, California Robert Schuneman, E. C. Schirmer Dave Scoggin, Opcode Systems Leland Smith, San Andreas Press Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities Phil Sours, Twelve Tone Systems Mark Walsen, Bellevue, Washington Don Williams, Opcode Systems Technical Coordinator: Cindy Grande, Grande Software Administrative Coordinator: Chris Newell, Musitek Special Advisor: Alan Belkin, University of Montreal Recently the NIFF SDK has been completed. It is a free, public domain, platform independent Software Developer's Kit for software developers implementing NIFF. It is a collection of software libraries and tools to support reading, writing, and navigating NIFF files. Documentation, sample code, and a simple NIFF file is included. The NIFF SDK makes it possible for a software developer to add NIFF reading and writing capabilities to an existing program without writing the housekeeping functions that would otherwise be required. The software is supplied in source code format in the C programming language. In the future, object libraries will also be provided. The current version of NIFF is 6a. Version 6b will be available soon; it will include some minor corrections and additions. The NIFF specification can be retrieved via anonymous ftp, from: ftp blackbox.cartah.washington.edu cd pub/NIFF For further information, contact: Cindy Grande, NIFF Technical Coordinator. President, Grande Software, Inc. 75300.3727@compuserve.com or Prof. Alan Belkin, NIFF Special Advisor. University of Montreal. belkina@ere.umontreal.ca
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