ISOCM Conferences

The Fourth International conference on Orthodox Church Music
“Unity and Variety in Orthodox Music: Theory and Practice”
Joensuu, Finland / 6 - 12 June 2011

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The Third International conference on Orthodox Church Music
“Church, State and Nation in Orthodox Church Music”
Joensuu, Finland / 8 - 14 June 2009

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The Second International Conference on Orthodox Church Music
“Composing and Chanting in the Orthodox Church”
Joensuu, Finland / 4-10 June 2007

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The First International Conference on Orthodox Church Music
“The Traditions of Orthodox Music”
Joensuu, Finland / 13-19 June 2005

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Non-ISOCM Conferences

6th Conference “The theory and history of monody”
organized by the Austrian Byzantine Society
30th September – 2nd October 2010
Wien

Topics: questions of the musical language, melodics, notational systems, research on sources, musical tractates, typology of books, church monody.

The conference is particularly aimed at young scholars.

Time for presentation: 15 minutes (+ 10 minutes discussion).  Languages of the conference will be German and Russian.  For presentations in English, a summary in German and Russian should be provided.

Initial sign-up by 1st April 2010.  Call for papers ends on 1st June 2010.  Summaries should be sent in two languages: German and Russian.  Accommodation 88e (four nights).

A pdf version of the letter announcing the conference is available in Russian and German.

Contact: Maria Pischloeger
maria.pischloeger@gmail.com

10th International Music Theory Conference
PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING: SACRED MUSIC
20-22 October 2010, Vilnius, Lithuania

Presented by the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

The purpose of the conference is to give new impulses to the development of musicological thought, which could serve to compositional practice and teaching process. The nine preceding conferences took place in Vilnius 1999-2009.

This year the conference will celebrate its 10th anniversary. For this occasion the special program and events are planed.

Sub-themes:

1. The conception of sacral music as a composing object (etymology, criteria, theoretical conceptions, attitudes of church authorities, pronouncements etc.)
2. Composing technique as a sign of music sacrality and secularity (historical-theoretical outlook).
3. Features of sacral music composing (liturgy, relation between text and music, the interaction between vocal and instrumental principles etc.).
4. Characteristics of Western and Eastern sacral monody. Gregorian chant (genesis, performing, notation and restoration, compositional structures, types etc.). The influence of Gregorian chant on the European music composing practices.
5. Genres, forms and composing principles of sacral music during the peak of Christian era (Missae ordinarium, Requiem, Psalmus, Magnificat, Antiphona, Responsorium, Hymnus etc.).
6. Sacral music in liturgy and beyond – the universalising of cult and concert composing practices.
7. Acoustic expanses of sacral music composing, performing and psychological suggestibility.
8. Current issues of composing Church liturgy repertoire in Lithuania and other countries.
9. Sacred music in the scope of contemporary music composition theory and practice.

Paper proposals (abstract together with a short biography) should be sent to Mr. Marius Baranauskas: pmc@lmta.lt

The abstract must not exceed 500 words. The duration of papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Please indicate whether your proposal belongs to one or more of the conference sub themes.

The deadline for proposal submissions is June 6, 2010. The proposals will be reviewed by members of the organizing committee and all applicants will be notified of the outcome until the end of June 2010.

The main language of the conference is English.

The material of the conference – abstracts and papers will be published.

Coordinator of the conference Marius Baranauskas: pmc@lmta.lt

For more information, visit: http://pmc.lmta.lt

46th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University - May 12-15, 2011

Call for Papers: Musicology at Kalamazoo

The program committee for Musicology at Kalamazoo (Cathy Ann Elias, Mary Wolinski, and Linda Cummins) is pleased to announce the following sessions for the:

I. Modern Reception of Medieval Music;
II. Music Education and Pedagogy;
III. Music and Saints;
IV. Performances: Images and Sounds;
V. Source Studies;
VI. Chant and Liturgy;
VII. Motets and the Like;
VIII. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Medieval Music;
IX. Centers and Peripheries of Musical Culture

We hope many if not all of these sessions can foster some real dialogue between musicologists and scholars in other areas, so we encourage specialists in fields other than Music to submit proposals. Please keep in mind as well that we intend these session titles mostly as "hooks," rather than limitations, on which a multitude of proposals can be placed, so send us your best work (as the editors of JAMS are fond of saying). Even if it doesn't precisely seem to fit one of these topics--we may be able to make it work anyway, and we'll try to find a place for as many good proposals as we can.

Abstracts should be sent by 15 September to Cathy Ann Elias, program committee chair, at the address below. Electronic submissions are encouraged. Please write in the subject part of the e-mail the
following: KZOO 2011 (Please send submissions to musicology.kzoo@gmail.com)

If you have to do it by US mail send material to Cathy Ann Elias
5429 S. Hyde Park Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60615

You'll also need to complete and submit the “Participant Information Form” from the conference website, available at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF .
This is very important, not only because it is your only chance to make A-V requests, but because it is required by the Medieval Institute. It is available as either a Word or PDF document. The Word document is preferred. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat (the writer, not just the reader) on your computer, you cannot save a completed form of the PDF, so you'll have to print it and send it via snail-mail or fax.

If you have any questions, please contact Cathy Ann Elias.

We look forward to seeing you in Kalamazoo next May.

Cathy Ann Elias (DePaul University)
Linda Cummins (University of Alabama)
Mary Wolinski (Western Kentucky University)