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Volume 5, Number 1 January, 1999
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SMT Address Updates

Members of the Society for Music Theory are reminded that they can update their address listings online through the SMT web site:

http://societymusictheory.org/smt-list/homepage/membership.html

Or at the University of California Press:

http://www.ucpress.edu/journals/subinfo.html

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Florida State University Theory Forum: Call For Papers

The 1999 Florida State University Theory Forum will take place on Saturday, April 10 at Florida State University.

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Robert Morgan, Yale University

Proposals are solicited on any theory-related topic, and are welcome from all parts of the country. Papers should be approximately 30
minutes in length. 

Submissions must include:

1. Six copies of a proposal approximately 3-4 pages in length, with the author's name omitted;

2. An abstract of approximately 250-300 words, suitable for publication, with the author's name omitted;

3. A cover letter giving the title of the proposal, the author's name, address (including e-mail address, if available), telephone number, and specification of technical requirements.

Submissions should be sent to:

Bryan Richards, Co-chair
FSU Theory Forum
School of Music
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1180

DEADLINE FOR POSTMARK DATE: January 6, 1999

Sincerely,

Bryan Richards
Co-chair, FSU Theory Forum
Florida State University
blr8942@garnet.acns.fsu.edu

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Intersections: Medieval and Postmodern Forms, Theory and Semiotics

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2/1

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

5/28-28

PLENARY SPEAKER: BRUCE HOLSINGER, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

Papers are welcomed on texts and music, which bring together postmodern and medieval interpretations of narrative, theory, philosophy, gender and class.

Please send abstracts to

Anne Savage (savage@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca)
Leslie Ritchie (britchie@worldchat.com)
Michael Sinding (sindinm@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca)
Michael Happy (happyms@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca)

or by mail at The Department of English, McMaster University, 1280
Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4L9, Ontario, Canada.

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GAMUT 1999 Meeting and Call for Papers

The 1999 meeting of the Georgia Association of Music Theorists (GAMUT) will take place April 2-3 at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Proposals are solicited on any theory-related topic. These may include papers (approximately 30 minutes in length), panel discussions, or special interest sessions. Proposals for panel discussions should include a list of participants.

Submissions must include:

1. Four copies of a proposal approximately 3-4 pages in length, with the author's name omitted;

2. An abstract of approximately 250-300 words, suitable for publication, with the author's name omitted; and

3. A cover letter giving the title of the proposal, the author's name, address (including e-mail address, if available), telephone number, and specification of technical requirements.

Submissions should be sent to:

Ron Squibbs, Program Chair
GAMUT
School of Music
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4097
Atlanta, GA 30302-4097

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS: January 4, 1999

Please visit our website at http://www.emory.edu/MUSIC/gamut1.html (Note: it is necessary to put "MUSIC" in caps in order for the site to be found successfully.)

Best regards,

Ron Squibbs
Asst. Prof. of Music Theory
Georgia State University
<musrjs@panther.gsu.edu>

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WCCMTA/RMSMT--prize offered, deadline extended

This message announces two pieces of new information about the joint meeting of WCCMTA and RMSMT.

First, a prize (a complete set of back issues of MUSIC THEORY SPECTRUM), for the best student presentation at that conference, will be offered at the conclusion of the conference. Please encourage all interested students to submit proposals. Participants may come from other regions of the country.

Second, the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to January 18, 1999. Please note that this is *not a postmark deadline*, but the deadline by which the proposals *should be received*.

Thus, the call for papers is revised as follows:

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ANNOUNCING a Joint Meeting of The West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis (the 8th annual meeting of WCCMTA) and the Rocky
Mountain Society for Music Theory

16-18 April 1999
at Stanford University

The program committee invites proposals for posters, short talks (15 minutes), or long talks (30 minutes) concerning any aspect of music theory. Proposals should be between one and two pages long and should indicate whether they are for a poster, 15-minute, or 30-minute presentation. Since proposals are to be reviewed blind, please list your title, name, and contact information separately; do not reveal your identity within the proposal itself.

Because this meeting is sponsored by The Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH), The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and the Music Department of Stanford University, the Program Committee especially encourages proposals on the topic of computer applications.

Proposals should be mailed (and RECEIVED by 18 Jan 1999) to

WCCMTA-RMSMT 99
c/o Leigh VanHandel
CCARH
Braun Music Center
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-3076

emailed (on or before 18 Jan 1999) to
leigh@ccrma.stanford.edu

or faxed (by 18 Jan 1999, ATTN Leigh VanHandel) to (650) 725-9290

Program Committee
Jonathan Berger (Stanford University)
Jonathan Bernard (University of Washington)
Jack Boss (University of Oregon)
Lisa Derry (Albertson College of Idaho)
Steve Larson, chair (University of Oregon)
Steve Lindeman (Brigham Young University)

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Midwest Graduate Music Consortium
Third Annual Meeting

April 23-24, 1999

The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

The Midwest Graduate Music Consortium is a joint venture organized by graduate students from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Chicago that allows graduate students in various fields of music to come together and share ideas on a vast array of topics. The 1999 meeting will be held on the campus of the University of Chicago, and will include paper sessions, a concert of new music, and a keynote address.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The program committee invites all graduate students to submit proposals for papers related to music theory, analysis, ethnomusicology, history, or any other topic concerning the study and practice of music.

We ask that proposals are typed, double-spaced, and fall within a 3-5 page limit (from which diagrams and musical examples are excluded).  The presentation will have to fit into a thirty minute time slot; therefore, papers should be about twenty minutes in length, allowing time for a brief introduction and follow-up questions.

CALL FOR SCORES
The program committee invites all composers currently engaged in graduate study to submit compositions for consideration in the programming of a concert of new chamber music which will bring the conference to a close on Saturday, April 24, 1999.

Performances will be given by members of the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble, which includes players on all major instruments. No
restrictions are placed on instrumentation or duration; however, shorter works for smaller ensembles that do not call for exotic instruments are more likely to be programmed. Composers who are able to provide their own players should indicate this in their cover letters.

SUBMISSIONS
Please send five copies of your proposal or score (composers, please see below), omitting your name (or any other identifying marks), along with a cover letter providing your name, mailing address(es), telephone number(s), e-mail address(es), institutional affiliation, and title of the proposed paper or composition to:

Adrian P. Childs
MGMC Program Chair
Department of Music
1010 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

Proposals must be received with a postmark of no later than January 22, 1999.

Composers: Only one of your five copies needs to be a high-quality bound score. You may include a recording of the proposed composition, but this is not required. Material will be returned to you if you enclose a pre-paid return envelope.

If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Childs at the address above or via email at apchilds@midway.uchicago.edu. Feel free to copy
this document and distribute as appropriate.

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A Tale of Three Cities: Janacek's Brno Between Vienna and Prague

CALL FOR PAPERS

Friday 22 October 1999 - Sunday 24 October 1999
Senate House, London WC1

The current reputation of Leos Janacek (1854-1928) as the greatest of twentieth-century Czech composers was slow in arriving: for the first half of this century, the canonic succession was assumed to have been inherited from Smetana and Dvorak by Vitezslav Novak, J. B. Foerster and others. The change in his fortunes represents a change in the reception of his particular brand of regionalism: his self-consciousness in belonging to Moravia, and to its capital city, Brno, which are places that have often seemed to provide a guarantee of Czech cultural authenticity.

Yet, even after the pioneering work of John Tyrrell among others, the cultural self-consciousness of the Moravians is still too little understood. Using Janacek as a focus, this interdisciplinary conference will take the opportunity to reassess the self-image of Brno and of Moravia in the period roughly between 1880 and 1930, within the cultural contexts of Vienna and Prague, also taking into account wider international contexts and influences from West and East. It is hoped that papers will deal with the subject from a variety of disciplinary viewpoints: literature, political history, music, art history, architecture, among others; and it is expected that a published volume of essays will be produced as longer versions of some of the papers given at the conference. The conference hopes to consider, among others, the following areas of enquiry:

Papers should be 20 minutes long; please send abstracts (250 words) of proposals by 15 February 1999 (including details of audio-visual requirements) to:

Dr Geoffrey Chew Tel: +44-1784-443537
Department of Music Fax: +44-1784-439441
Royal Holloway College Email: chew@sun.rhbnc.ac.uk
(University of London)
Egham Hill
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
England

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Five College Women's Studies Research Center

The Five College Women's Studies Research Center, a joint project of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst invites applications for its Research Associate positions for 1999-2000 from scholars and teachers at all levels of the educational system, as well as from artists, community organizers and political activists, both local and international.

Associates are provided with office space, access to computer facilities, library privileges at the five institutions, and the collegiality of a diverse community of feminists. 

Research Associates, whether from the Five Colleges or elsewhere, apply to the Center for either semester or year-long residencies.

The deadline for receipt of applications is February 12, 1999.

The Five College Women's Studies Research Center supports projects in all disciplines. Affiliation with a women's studies program is not necessary although your project must be centrally focused on women.

For application materials, contact the Center at
Dickinson House
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075-6406

(413) 538-2022 or (413) 538-2275; FAX 413-538-2082

email: fcwsrc@persephone.hampshire.edu

All application materials are available on our website. Additionally, you may submit applications and related materials via the website or email.

website: http://demeter.hampshire.edu/~fcwsrc

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Historical Performance Online

CALL FOR PAPERS

Early Music America is delighted to announce plans to publish the first number of its online scholarly journal, Historical Performance Online, in May of 1999. This new format will allow supporting illustrations of many different sorts: pictures, facsimiles, tables, and musical examples both written and in real-time audio performance. Scholars are encouraged to submit articles by February 15, 1999, to EMA <info@earlymusic.org> or to Lucy Cross, Editor of HPO, at 210 Riverside Drive, Apt. 12B, New York, NY 10025 <EMAHPO@aol.com>.

MISSION STATEMENT: Historical Performance Online (HPO) is published by Early Music America to provide a refereed forum for scholarly studies of musical performance practice in a historical context. These may include studies of sources, archives or historical records, instruments, theory,
iconography, dance, and theatre, in any period. HPO also publishes critical reviews and listings of recent books, scores, recordings, and electronic media.

Editorial Board: Elizabeth Aubrey, David Fallows, Frederick K. Gable, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Robert L. Kendrick, Timothy J. McGee, Peter W. Urquhart.

For submission guidelines and other information, consult Early Music America's website at <http://www.earlymusic.org>.

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Musical Borrowing from the Middle Ages to the Present

The Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam
|The Ralph Wakefield Recital Hall, February 20-21, 1999

Conference Registration: Saturday, February 20, 8:30am

Session I: Quotation and Imitation (9:00am-12:00 noon) Chair: Rebecca Gerber

Session II: Stylistic Influences (1:30pm-5:00pm) Chair: Stephen Johnson

Session III: Social Contexts (Sunday, February 21, 9:00am-12:00 noon) Chair: Gary Busch  

OTHER ACTIVITIES DURING THE WEEKEND:

Travel and Accommodations

Suggested Accommodations

Clarkson Inn: downtown Potsdam, (one mile from campus) (800) 790-6970
Smallings Motel: Potsdam, Route 56 (two miles), (315) 265-4640
Wedgewood Inn: Potsdam, Route 56 (two miles), (315) 265-9100
Best Western University Inn: Route 11, in Canton (10 miles), (800) 528-1234
Comfort Inn: Route 11, in Canton (10 miles), (315) 386-1161

FOR FURTHER REGISTRATION INFORMATION, INFORMATION ON TICKET PRICES FOR THE CPS MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE CONCERT, AND TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION: CONTACT DR. STEPHEN S. JOHNSON, CRANE SCHOOL OF MUSIC, SUNY AT POTSDAM, NY 13676, OR CALL (315) 265-2427, OR E-MAIL JOHNSOSS@POTSDAM.EDU

You may notify us directly of your wish to attend by sending name, address, and phone number to the above address. Please let us know if you plan to attend the banquet buffet dinner. 

Conference: "Musical Borrowing from the Middle Ages to the Present"
Crane School of Music
State University College at Potsdam
Potsdam, NY 13676
Dr. Stephen S. Johnson
(315) 267-2427
johnsoss@potsdam.edu 

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ANALITICA - Italian Journal of Musicological Studies

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ITEMS

http://muspe1.cirfid.unibo.it/gatm/

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We are pleased to announce the birth of a new electronic jounal.

Analitica contains articles concerning analytical, theoretical and musicological studies with examples in traditional notation and MIDI format, and is published in two languages, Italian and English. The project has been realized by Giuliano Goldwurm, Egidio Pozzi and Marco Renoldi, sponsored by G.A.T.M. (Group for Analysis and Theory of Music). The project is supported by Musical Department of the State University of Bologna.

The aim of the project is:

1. to set-up an institutional reference point for anyone who uses music analysis in the fields of history, musicology, composition, interpretation and education and believes this to be a valid instrument for the understanding of musical languages;

2. to create a permanent forum for discussion about analytical and musicology issues;

3. to get stable and easier contacts with the other international academic establishments and music analysis societies and to provide a continuing flow of information on their activities. As far as this point, we decided to give to any societies that ask for it, a section arranged by the societies themselves containing all these sorts of announcements.

The first issue of the journal (number zero) is a presentation of the goals of the project and includes:

1. leading article of the editors with the description of the content of the journal

2. a forum concerning the role of music analysis in the work of the historian, the musicologist, the composer, the teacher and the performer. It is a collection of small reports made by experts in the different fields.

3. technical information about how to send articles, announcements and how to take part in the permanent forum of discussion.

The next issues will contain: the main article, announcements, new dissertations listing, reviews, the society's and academic institution's section, the forum of discussion. It will consent the diffusion of the journal even in the institutes that are not connected with the Internet (libraries, music schools, and scholars), publishing the main articles on Bollettino del GATM, the traditional journal of G.A.T.M. on paper.

Considering how effective is the possibility to give information rapidly, we insist on the opportunity for the Societies of Musical Analysis to arrange their own section within the journal. Together with this service and possibly from the beginning, it is important for us to have an official corresponding from each of the Societies and Academic Institutions. The correspondents will appear in the journal together with the pages dedicated to each Society, and also they could take part in the forum.

For more information and guidelines for contributors visit the Journal's site.

http://muspe1.cirfid.unibo.it/gatm/

The Editors may be reached at:

gatmail@muspe1.cirfid.unibo.it

or write to:

marco.renoldi@login.it

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Music Theory and Analysis 1450-1650

Call for Papers

23-25 September 1999
Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

An international conference on Music Theory and Analysis, 1450-1650, sponsored by the Societe belge d'Analyse musicale, the Conseil de la musique, and the Communaute francaise de Belgique, will take place from 23 to 25 September 1999 at the Universite catholique de Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Its purpose is to bring together musicologists interested in the theory and analysis of Western music between 1450 and 1650 and the interrelationship of the two disciplines.

Advisory committee:
Bonnie Blackburn (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Ignace Bossuyt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Yves Lenoir (Facultes universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix,
Universite catholique de Louvain, Bibliotheque royale Albert I)
Nicolas Meeus (Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne, Universite catholique de Louvain)
Brigitte Van Wymeersch (Universite catholique de Louvain)

Programme and local arrangements committee:
Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Paloma Otaola (Universite catholique de Louvain)

Invited speakers:

Margaret Bent (All Souls College, Oxford)
Jaap van Benthem (Universiteit Utrecht)
Bonnie Blackburn (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Ignace Bossuyt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Nicolas Meeus (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Paloma Otaola (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Rudolf Rasch (Universiteit Utrecht)
Brigitte Van Wymeersch (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Frans Wiering (Universiteit Utrecht)

Several slots remain for free papers, in French or English, treating any aspect of theory or musical analysis between 1450 and 1650. Papers should not exceed 20-30 minutes.  

Please send proposals of not longer than 250 words to the following address:

Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans
Unite de musicologie
College Erasme,
1, Place Blaise Pascal
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
tel. +32 10 47 26 68
fax. +32 10 47 48 70
e-mail: ceulemans@musi.ucl.ac.be

The deadline for receipt is 28 February 1999. Proposals should include a brief biographical note (5-10 lines) for publication in the programme.

Selection of the proposals will be made by members of the Advisory and Programme Committees. The proceedings of the conference will be published; the deadline for submission of completed articles is 30 October 1999.

The conference will be followed by a visit to the exhibition "The Treasures of Alamire: music and miniatures from the time of Charles the Fifth, 1500-1535" organized by the Alamire Foundation and the KULeuven at Louvain.

For further information, see the conference website at: <http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/ARKE/MUSI/entermusi.html>.

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The Society of Music Perception and Cognition

The Society of Music Perception and Cognition wishes to inform you of its next Conference, to be held August 14-17, 1999, at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

The objectives of the Society are to further the scientific and scholarly understanding of music from a broad range of disciplines, including music theory, psychology, psychophysics, linguistics, neurology, neurophysiology, ethology, ethnomusicology, artificial intelligence, computer technology, physics and engineering; to facilitate cooperation among scholars and scientists who are engaged in research in this interdisciplinary field; and to advance education
and public understanding of knowledge gained. The Conferences of the Society are a major means by which these aims are furthered.

Call for Abstracts and Proposals

The Society invites you to submit an abstract for unpublished papers in the following or related topic areas:
music theory
psychology
psychophysics
linguistics
neurology
neurophysiology
ethology
ethnomusicology
artificial intelligence
computer technology
physics
engineering

The Society also invites tutorial sessions on key topics.

Single page abstracts on any of the above or related topics for presentation and proposals for tutorials should be sent to:

Richard Ashley, Coordinator
SMPC99 Conference
School of Music
Northwestern University
711 Elgin Road
Evanston, IL 60208

email: smpc99@nwu.edu

Expected length of presentations is 20 minutes, including questions. Please submit your abstract in one of two forms:
1. (Preferably) by email,
or
2. In hard copy.
Include the following in your proposal:
The title of your paper
Your name
Your institutional affiliation
Your mailing address
Your telephone number
Your email address
A list of your audio-visual equipment needs.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: APRIL 1, 1999

For more information, contact SMPC at the address or email above, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.nwu.edu/musicschool/specialEvents/smpc/index.htm

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Feminist Theory and Music 5

The conference FEMINIST THEORY AND MUSIC 5 will take place Wednesday, July 7, 1999 through Saturday, July 10, 1999 at St. Mark's on Old Marylebone Road in the heart of London, England, in conjunction with the Eleventh International Congress on Women in Music sponsored by The International Alliance for Women In Music. The Program Committee of FTM 5 invites proposals for 20-minute presentations on any aspect of musical studies in relation to feminism, women's studies, or gender studies. Proposals should be about 200 words in length. Proposals must be received by March 15, 1999, and may be submitted as email messages sent to the address <f-t-m5@virginia.edu>. Though email submission is preferable, it is also possible to send a hard copy of the abstract to:

Fred Maus
Secretary, Program Committee, FTM5
Department of Music
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA 22903

(Do not submit proposals by FAX.)

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Prepared by
Eric Isaacson
4 February 1999