ICTM STUDY GROUP ON MULTIPART MUSIC
Minutes of the 2nd Business Meeting
July 14, 2011
Memorial University, School of Music, Room 2025.
St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
The meeting was called to order by Ardian Ahmedaja, chairperson, at 5:45 P.M.
Agenda Item #1: Introductory remarks, greetings and apologies for absence.
• This is the first General Assembly of the Study Group within an ICTM World Conference.
• Introductory remarks briefly reviewed the history of the Study Group, its acceptance by the ICTM Board in 2009, the first business meeting in Cagliari in 2010 and the current membership which stands at 115.
• Apologies for absence from SG Board members Ankica Petrović and Ignazio Macchiarella were noted.
Agenda Item #2: Minutes of the Study Group’s General Assembly in Cagliari, to
be approved.
• The Minutes of the Study Group’s General Assembly in Cagliari was sent to the SG members shortly after the symposium. They are also available on the Study Group website. There were not objections concerning the Minutes. The Minutes were approved without emendations.
Agenda Item #3: Report on Study Group activities.
• The publication of the proceedings of the Sardinia 2010 Symposium is in progress. Only selected papers will be published this time. The papers’ selection is a responsibility of the book’s editor Ignazio Macchiarella.
• The homepage of the Study Group was presented (www.multipartmusic.org). Ardian Ahmedaja appealed to the SG members to send him or Ignazio Macchiarella any news concerning investigations, publications and performances of traditional multipart music.
Agenda Item #4: Next Study Group symposium in Tiranë, Albania (April 22-29, 2012).
• The Second Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music will take place in Tiranë, Albania, April 22-29, 2012. The symposium has three main themes: (1) Multipart music practices as creative processes, (2) Multipart music in religious practices, and (3) Multipart music awarded. The description of the themes and further information are available on the Study Group’s
website.
• The local organizer of the Tiranë symposium Ardian Ahmedaja gave the basic information about the meeting. The symposium is organized be the “Ulysses Foundation” (Tiranë-Albania). The co-organiser is the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria). The symposium is planed to take place in the conference rooms of the “Hotel Rogner” in Tiranë. Musical evenings, a one day excursion outside of Tiranë as well as contacts with local singers and musicians, especially in the last two days in Southern Albania are also planed.
Agenda Item #5: Other matters.
• Velika Stojkova Serafimovska gave information about the 3rd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, which will take place in Berovo (Macedonia), 17-22 April, 2012. The themes of the conference are as following: (1) Terminology and theoretical approaches of southeastern European music and dance, (2) Crossing national boundaries/ intercultural communication. The call for paper will be sent to the members of the SG on Multipart Music. For them who would like to participate in both conferences (in Tiranë and in Berovo) it would be possible to organize transport from Berovo to Tiranë.
• The Secretary General of the ICTM Stephen Wild proposed to invite someone from the ICTM Board to the Tiranë symposium, because it is the first ICTM conference in Albania. The organizers will try to make this possible, since it will for sure help for a stronger public presence of the whole activity.
The Business Meeting ended at 6:45 P.M.
Žanna Pärtlas
Dear members of the ICTM StG on Multipart Music,
I want to thank again all participants of the First Symposium of our
Study Group for their presentations and films as well as the passionate
discussions during all activities. Thanks to the contribution of every
participant a remarkable start for the work of our Study Group has been
achieved.
What is more, this was the first symposium held in Sardinia by an ICTM
Study Group. All the more my very special gratitude goes to the local
organizers - Ignazio Macchiarella and his team - for the hospitality and
the symposium management and for giving us the possibility to experience
a great deal from the local musical practices during the evening
performances in Cagliari and the unforgettable days in Baronia
(Northeastern of the island).
Impressions and additional information about the Sardinia Symposium
will be published on the Study Group web-page
“www.multipartmusic.org”. In the column “News”,
information on activities and publications concerning the topic of our
Study Group will also be published. Therefore every member is invited to
send information to Ignazio Macchiarella (macchiarella@unica.it), who
will kindly continue to take care of the site.
With the very best wishes
Ardian Ahmedaja
Chair Person
ICTM STUDY GROUP ON MULTIPART MUSIC
Minutes of the 1st General Assembly (Business Meeting)
September 17, 2010
Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy)
The meeting was called to order by the board members Ardian Ahmedaja,
Chairperson, Ankica Petrović and Ignazio Macchiarella, Vice-Chairpersons and
Žanna Pärtlas, Secretary/Treasurer, at 17:00 P.M.
Agenda Item #1. Introduction.
• The Agenda of the General Assembly distributed before to all participants together with the symposium information was presented.
• Ardian Ahmedaja made some introductory remarks reviewing briefly the history of the establishment of the Study Group: the progressive increase of the international interest in collaboration between the specialists in the field of multipart music, the decision to start the negotiations for the establishing of the ICTM SG on Multipart Music made in 2008 at the conference “European Voices II” in Vienna, and the acceptance of the SG on Multipart Music by the
ICTM Board in 2009 after the ICTM World conference in Durban, South Africa.
• About the definition ‘multipart music’: In the process of establishing of the SG there were different opinions concerning the definition ‘multipart music’. At the ICTM Board meeting it was even remarked that in some sense “every kind of music can be multipart music”. Ardian Ahmedaja proposed to continue the debate of the first session of the symposium about the definition. The one used for the purposes of this Study Group is “Multipart music is a music only able to be performed if all parts are present.” This definition was approved without discussion, while it was stressed that the question will remain a subject for further discussions in the coming symposia.
Agenda Item #2. Report of activities.
The head of the Local Organization Committee Ignazio Macchiarella spoke about preparations made for the First Symposium of the Study Group on Multipart Music in Sardinia. He thanked the Dipartimento di Studi Storici Geografici e Artistici of the Università degli Studi di Cagliari and other institutions for the financial and organizational support. He also thanked other members of the Local Organization Committee Paolo Bravi, Marco Lutzu and Sebastiano Pilosu, his students and
especially the singing groups and musicians, which were ready to participate in the concerts and workshops without any compensation. Special thanks went to the local municipalities (Unione dei comuni della Valle del Cedrino) for the support with the organization of workshops and accommodation of the participants of the Symposium in Baronia.
Agenda Item #3. Operating Procedures.
The membership status of participants in Study Group meetings was clarified. The participants were reminded that the ICTM membership is required of all presenters, and while membership in the Study Group is not strictly enforced, it is strongly recommended.
Agenda Item #4. Study Group meeting at the ICTM World Conference in St. Johns, Canada, July 2011.
It was announced that the Study Group will hold a General Assembly at the ICTM World Conference in St. Johns, Canada, in July 2011.
Agenda Item #5. The forthcoming Study Group meeting.
The Study Group symposia are organized every two years, so the next one would be in 2012. The place has not been chosen yet. The discussion about the themes, time and place of the forthcoming meeting followed.
The suggestions concerning the themes of the next meeting:
• Multipart music in the religious practices (Ankica Petrović)
• Multipart music practices outside Europe (Joseph Jordania)
• How people learn polyphonic parts (Massimo Privitera)
• The transmission of multipart music (Ignazio Macchiarella)
There could be two or three topics at the next meeting (Ardian Ahmedaja). This suggestion was supported by the participants.
The suggestions concerning the place of the next symposia:
• Croatia (Ankica Petrović)
• Somewhere out of Europe to draw attention to the multipart music practices in non-European regions (Joseph Jordania)
• Ardian Ahmedaja remarked that every suggestion is welcome, anyhow the place will depend from the invitation we become. In any case we have one year to decide for the place of the next meeting.
In regard to the time of the meeting, it was asked if September is convenient time for the SG meetings. Žanna Pärtlas remarked that it is too close to the usual time of the ESEM conferences. Susanne Ziegler said that it also coincides with the Symposia on Traditional Polyphony in Georgia (the second part of September or the beginning of October in even years) and proposed to combine the meetings of the SG and the Georgian Symposia. Joseph Jordania responded that such a combining would be difficult because the Georgian Symposia on Traditional Polyphony never limit the topics of the papers and suggested to move the SG meetings to the odd years.
Ardian Ahmedaja asked the participants of the Symposium to write to him about their further suggestions concerning the themes and the place for next meeting of the SG before the ICTM World Conference in St. Johns (July 2011).
Agenda Item #6. Diversa.
• An election of the Board of the SG usually takes place every four years. So elections will be carried out during the forthcoming SG meeting in 2012.
• There was a discussion about the discipline and order of the symposium which has ended with the agreement that 20 minutes for paper presentations followed by 10 minutes for discussion is the international standard that can not be changed.
• Ignazio Macchiarella proposed to continue with the website of the SG, which was created by him and his students before the symposium, and addressed to the participants an appeal to send him news to be published on the website.
The kind of news he would be waiting for are new books and other publications, CDs, DVDs, dissertations (both Master’s and PhD), Radio and TV programs, grants related to research of multipart music, conferences, internet links etc. Ignazio Macchiarella proposed to change the homepage so that there would be two sections: News and Archives (excerpts of multipart music, photos, videos). This work would continue at first for two years, until the next Symposium.
Agenda Item #7. Publication of the proceedings of the Sardinia 2010 Symposium. It was announced that the proceedings of the Symposium will be published. The selected papers would be published in a book. It is also possible to put all papers on the website. It was suggested that the editor of the book would be the local organizer of the SG Symposium. This time it is Ignazio Macchiarella. The publication will be peer-reviewed. Ignazio Macchiarella suggested that sound and video examples could also be available in the Internet by means of the password given in the book, if the book with CD and/or DVD would be too expensive to publish.
In the course of the discussion, there were other suggestions concerning the form of publication: to publish all proceedings; to publish a CD-book with PDF files of the full papers and all kinds of examples (sound, video etc.) and print only the abstracts.
Finally the agreement was achieved that peer review is necessary. The detailed information about the publication would be send soon to the participants of the symposium by the editor.
The Assembly ended at 18:30 P.M.
Žanna Pärtlas
Dear Friends
you could find (and download) pieces of Sardinian traditional music in the wonderful Digital Library of Sardinia Autonomous Region:
There are both recordings of the 1950's - 60's and recent field recordings, plus videos, books and more.
There is also an "historical documentary" on the "Novena de Su Rimedio" of Orosei - where we were Monday (20th) night
http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/index.php?xsl=626&s=17&v=9&c=4460&i...
Don't miss this a Tenore dance-song:
http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/index.php?xsl=626&s=17&v=9&c=4462&i...
Have a good listening
Ignazio