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Volume 5, Number 3  May, 1999
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Conference Announcement: Music Theory Midwest

Music Theory Midwest
Tenth Annual Conference
Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
14-15 May, 1999

Music Theory Midwest 1999 will be held on 14-15 May at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. Complete conference information, including the program and registration form, are available at the MTMW web site: http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/mtmw/mtmw99. A highlight of the conference will be the keynote address by Dr. Bruno Nettl, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, who will speak on "Theory as National Emblem: The Persian Radif in World Music." In addition to over 30 paper presentations, other special events include a reception following the keynote address Friday afternoon, an opportunity to hear the Indianapolis Opera production of Verdi's Macbeth on Friday evening, and a Saturday luncheon. Local arrangements coordinator is Jeff Gillespie. Please contact him for any further information not available on the web site:  

MTMW 99 Local Arrangements:
Jeff Gillespie
Assistant Professor of Music
Butler University
317-940-6416
jgillesp@butler.edu

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PERFORMANCE 2000

Call for Papers and Session Proposals: PERFORMANCE 2000

WHEN: April 26-29, 2000

University of Southampton, UK

Hosted by the University of Southampton on behalf of the Royal Musical Association, PERFORMANCE 2000 offers a conference platform to be shared by scholars and performing musicians.

The conference sessions will allow participants the opportunity to present work that offers new understanding of the relationship between scholarship and performance. It is anticipated that presentations exemplifying this relationship may take many forms. Thus, proposals for academic papers of the traditional kind (e.g. concerning the study of performance practice and theory, or the empirical study of live and/or recorded performance, or the performative aspects of scholarly discourse) will be considered on the same basis as proposals for performances that embody the fruits of scholarship and demonstrate a rationale for those performances, together with formats that lie in between (such as lecture recitals by individuals or groups).

Following normal practice, the programme committee expects to apply thematic groupings to those proposals eventually accepted, thereby scheduling sessions which mix live performance and academic presentation in unforeseen ways. Performances taking place within the conference programme will thus not be restricted to the traditional lunchtime and evening timeslots.

Proposals (no longer than 250 words) should include an abstract and/or scholarly rationale, together with precise details of any musical works to be performed live and the names of all performers in such cases. Please note that no fees will be payable by the conference to performers involved in these sessions.

The committee also seeks proposals for complete themed sessions involving a number of participants. Such proposals should include all appropriate detail for each individual component of the session (max. 250 words per component, as above), together with a rationale for the session as a whole (max. 500 words). Such proposals should be made in the name of all participants.  Each proposal, whether for a single presentation or a themed session, should indicate clearly the name, postal address, email address and daytime telephone number of the person who will act as the contact point for correspondence with the programme committee and other conference officials. Proposals should be sent to the chair of the programme committee at the address below (email submissions acceptable).

Closing Date for Receipt of Proposals--1 July 1999

Programme committee:
Eric Clarke, University of Sheffield
Mark Everist, University of Southampton (chair)
Colin Lawson, Goldsmiths, University of London
Anthony Pople, University of Nottingham

Preliminary enquiries may be made of the programme committee through the chair:
Mark Everist
Department of Music
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
M.Everist@soton.ac.uk

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New Electronic Discussion List: MUSIKEION

Dear friends of smt-list,

I would like to invite you to join MUSIKEION.

MUSIKEION, an e-mail based discussion list on musical meaning, is hosted by the Graduate Department in Communication and Semiotics, Catholic University of Sao Paulo, whose head is the semiotician Prof. Lucia Santaella. The name "musikeion" comes from a combination of two Greek words, "mousike"--music, and "semeion"--sign. It indicates, thus, the field of interest of this forum: all issues of meaning in music. Our interest in MUSIKEION is the discussion of all kinds of music and music related topics from the vantage point of musical semiotics.   Irrespective of the fact that my research approach is Peircean, MUSIKEION is open to all traditions of musical semiotics, which I think is our duty to consider and discuss. If you are interested in, or wondering about, questions of musical qualities, existence, forms, reference, representation, perception, cognition, performance, teaching, theorizing, critique, composition, improvisation, etc., which constitute our broad range of topics, you are welcome to sign up MUSIKEION.

The list, directed and managed by me, has been operating since June 1998 (at first as "musignif"). It is a multi-language list, and discussions have been held in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French. People subscribing to MUSIKEION come from several areas related to music and musical studies. Among the subscribers there are students, performing musicians, composers, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, music analysts and music semioticians of several traditions. 

If you want to subscribe to MUSIKEION list send a message to
majordomo@pucsp.br
with an empty subject, and write the following in the body of the message:
subscribe musikeion

If you want to get other information on the list commands send a:
help

If you want to see what has been posted, you may read messages at: http://www.pucsp.br/listas/musikeion

I am ready to answer any questions, as well as to assist with any technical problem you may have in subscribing, unsubscribing, sending messages, etc. That is my role as list manager. MUSIKEION is set as an open forum. Subscribers can post messages directly to the list, without the need of a previous approval. In case of need, however, I can interfere as a moderator in order to keep discussions pertinent to our subject matter. I also take part in discussions as an ordinary member of MUSIKEION, and in that case my position is equal to everyone on the list.

You are most welcome to sign up for MUSIKEION!

My best regards,
Jose Luiz Martinez
martinez@originet.com.br
martinez@pucsp.br

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New Discussion List: Academic Women in Music

"Academic Women in Music" is a public discussion list devoted to concerns and experiences of women who teach music at universities and colleges, either in performance, musicology, conducting, composition, theory, pedagogy, electronic music, music education, or any musical area or combination of areas.

One of the pages to examine for discussion material is Dr. Bernice Sandler's page, "Women in Academia," which materials are used with her permission. Designing this page came about because of a discussion on the IAWM list about the behavioral differences between men and women (academics) with respect to their levels of assertiveness. The essays include:

1. Women Faculty at Work in the Classroom, or, Why It Still Hurts to be a Woman in Labor
2. Handling Sexual Harassment
3. Ways in Which Men and Women May Be Treated Differently
4. Intervening When Male Students Engage in Negative Behaviors Toward Women
5. A New Look at how even the best of teachers--women and men-- often treat male and female students differently, in ways that limit women's full participation in the classroom.

Academic Women in Music discussion list:
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/AcademicWomeninMusic

For further info, contact Connie Sunday cmsunday@door.net.

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Enlarging the Words: Schoeck's Operas Reflected Through Culture

Conference Announcement: Enlarging the Words: Schoeck's Operas Reflected Through Culture

The Othmar Schoeck-Society and the International Festival of Music Lucerne are organizing a symposium on the operas of the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) in Lucerne, Switzerland, on August 13 & 14, 1999, with the following title: Enlarging the Words Schoeck's Operas Reflected Through Culture Studies

If you are interested and would like more information, please check out the following web site:
http://www.musikw.unizh.ch/schoeck/veranstaltung.html

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Conference Announcement: Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts

EVENT: Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts

HOST: 11th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics, and Cybernetics

DATE: August 2-7, 1999

DESCRIPTION:
A symposium for systems research in the arts will be held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics, and Cybernetics August 2-7 in Baden-Baden Germany. Papers related to music are invited. For further information, please visit http://www.iias.edu, with particular interest to the link Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Please see the IIAS Web site.

PAPER/PROPOSAL DEADLINE: May 20, 1999 (abstract)

COST AND PAYMENT OPTIONS:
Please see the IIAS Web site.

TRAVEL AND HOTEL INFORMATION:
Please see the IIAS Web site.

CONTACT:
Jim Rhodes
Box 2076, Shorter College
Rome, GA 30165
USA
Office: 706-233-7272
Fax: 706-236-1515
Email: jrhodes@shorter.edu

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TORONTO 2000: MUSICAL INTERSECTIONS

Call for Joint Session Proposals: Toronto 2000
Open Call for Proposals for Joint Sessions
(*Proposal deadline: June 1, 1999*)

The Society for Music Theory will hold its annual meeting November 1-5, 2000 in Toronto, Canada, together with fourteen sister societies engaged in music research and the teaching of music in U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. Entitled *Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections*, the conference will bring together The American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS); the American Musicological Society (AMS); the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI); the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (CAML); the Canadian Society for Traditional Music (CSTM); The College Music Society (CMS); the Canadian University Music Society (CUMS); The Historic Brass Society (HBS); the Canadian and U.S. chapters of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM); the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relationships; the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM); the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC); and The Sonneck Society for American Music.

The Steering Committee for this joint meeting invites proposals from members of the participating societies for sessions that focus on interdisciplinary topics in the scholarly study, teaching, or creation of music (including performance), in an effective session format involving members from two or more of these societies. A proposal for a joint session may be coordinated with a separate evening concert. Presentations in these sessions may be given in English, French, and Spanish.

Proposals for joint sessions must describe the topic and state the purpose of the session in fewer than 1000 words, give contact information for the session coordinator (valid for all of 1999), and provide a one-page resume [accents aigues on both "e"s] for each committed participant. The Steering Committee encourages proposals that include participants from many disciplines; it is expected, however, that scholars in the field of music be members in good standing of at least one of the participating societies; membership should be indicated on the resume [accents aigues].   All participants must register for the conference.

Six copies of each proposal should be sent no later than June 1, 1999 to Dr. Leslie Hall, Department of Philosophy and Music, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto M5B 2K3, Canada. Proposals may also be sent before June 1, 1999 by electronic mail to Dr. Hall at lrhall@acs.ryerson.ca. Facsimile transmissions will not be accepted.

Joint sessions for the Toronto 2000 meeting will be selected by the fifteen-member Steering Committee by December 1, 1999, before the SMT deadline for regular proposals for the meeting.  Individuals participating in these special joint sessions may also appear on any one other session on the formal Toronto program.

For further information, feel free to contact me at the following e-mail address jschmalf@emerald.tufts.edu.

Janet Schmalfeldt
SMT President
Tufts University
home: 3 Cliff Street
Arlington, MA 02476 (new zip)
(781) 641-3317

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Call for Papers: Music Theory Society of New York State

Music Theory Society of New York State
Annual Meeting

New York University
8-9 April 2000

The program committee for the year 2000 meeting of MTSNYS invites proposals for short presentations (15 minutes) or long presentations (30 minutes) concerning any aspect of music theory or analysis. Areas of particular interest include:

Music and Cinema
Analysis Symposium on Haydn's String Quartets, op. 76
Analysis of the Music of "Downtown" NYC Composers, from Cowell to Bang on the Can
Music and Metaphor

Papers given at national conferences or previously published will not be considered. Any number of proposals may be submitted by an individual, but no more than one will be accepted. Most papers will be placed in 45-minute slots, with about 30 minutes for reading and 15 minutes for possible response or discussion.

Paper submission should include:
1. Six copies of a proposal of at least three but no more than five double-spaced pages of text. Each copy should include the title of the paper and its duration as read aloud, but not the author's name.
2. An abstract of 200-250 words, suitable for publication.
3. A cover letter listing the title of the paper and the name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address (if applicable) of the author.
Proposals should be sent to:

Poundie Burstein, MTSNYS Program Chair
Music Department
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

**** POSTMARK DEADLINE IS 1 OCTOBER 1999 ****

Members OF MTSNYS 2000 Program Committee are Poundie Burstein, Chair (Hunter College, CUNY); Craig Cummings (Ithaca College), Donna Doyle (Manhattan School of Music), Matthew Santa (The Graduate School and University Center of CUNY), Klaus Sinfelt (New York University), and Kristin Taavola (Sarah Lawrence College).

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Change of Editorship: Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

J. Kent Williams, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been appointed editor of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy for 1999. Submissions are now being reviewed for the 1999 issue. Cover letters and 5 blind copies of each article may be mailed to:

JMTP
School of Music
University of Oklahoma
Norman OK 73019

For information regarding 1997 and 1998 issues, contact
Mary Wennerstrom
School of Music
Indiana University
Bloomington IN 47405

We anticipate publication of 1997, 1998, and 1999 issues before the end of this calendar year.

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Prepared by
Michael Toler, Editorial Assistant, 31 May 1999
Updated 14 November 2002