First Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music
September 15 - 20, 2010
Sardinia, Italy
Call for papers
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 31, 2010.
PLACE: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
LANGUAGE: English.
THEME: Multipart music as a specific mode of musical thinking,
expressive behaviour and sound.
Concepts and viewpoints on multipart music and its perception are often
questioned and redefined in the scholarly research. The manifold
worldviews of the resource persons, as holders and presenters of a
tradition with their specific musical and cultural aesthetics and
vocabularies as well as particularities of performance practices,
identity policies, the social and emotional dimensions as specific
bodies of knowledge embedded in power relations make the matter more
complex.
The aim of the meeting is to discuss and formulate recurrent features
of multipart music practices, with the emphasis on their specificity
towards other kinds of musical practices.
Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to announce the First Meeting of the new ICTM Study
Group on Multipart Music that will be hosted by the Facoltà di Lettere e
Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy.
We invite proposals for individual presentations, panels and round
tables. They are to be sent by email before January 31st, 2010.
The text should be pasted into the body of the email and also sent as a
Word.doc or Rich Text Format (RTF) attachment to assure access. If you
are unable to send your proposal by email, you may send a hard copy plus
computer diskette. Please label all communications clearly with your
full contact details.
Please note that participants are limited to a single presentation.
The Program Committee reserves the right to accept those proposals
that, in their opinion, fit best into the scheme of the symposium, and
that can be accommodated within the time frame of the symposium.
Please indicate clearly your preferred format. If members have any
questions about the program, or the suitability of a proposal, please
contact the Program Chair and ask for assistance. Colleagues are advised
to bring alternative modes of presentation delivery if using PowerPoint,
DVD, and so on in case of unexpected technical difficulties on the day
of presentation.
Research papers should be based on original research that addresses the
conference theme and should not have already been presented. Papers
should be designed and presented to take no more than 20 minutes,
including audio-visuals.
Students, who feel that they are not yet in the position to present a
full-length paper, are welcome to give short presentations (10 minutes)
of their project, in order to get feedback.
Individual Presentations
Presentations from individual members, if accepted, will be grouped by
the Program Committee into sessions of one and a half hours. Each
presentation will be allotted 20 minutes inclusive of all illustrations,
audio-visual media or movement examples, plus 10 minutes for questions
and discussion.
Please submit an abstract not extending 300 words outlining the
content, argument and conclusion, its relation to the symposium theme.
Please include the type of illustrations to be used in the presentation,
such as slides, DVD, video (including format), and so on.
Panels
We encourage presentations in the form of panels.
Proposals may be submitted for panels consisting of at least three
presenters. The structure is at the discretion of the coordinator. The
proposal must explain the overall purpose, the role of the individual
participants, and signal the commitment of all participants to attend
the conference. Each panel proposal will be accepted or rejected as a
whole.
Submit a short summary (not extending 300 words) of the panel overview,
and an individual paper proposal, as described under “Individual
Presentations” above, for each presenter. All of the proposals for a
panel should be sent together. Proposals should address one or more
aspects of the established theme of this meeting.
Roundtables
We also encourage presentations in the form of roundtables: sessions
that are entirely planned, coordinated, and prepared by a group of
people, one of whom is the responsible coordinator. The aim is to
generate discussion between members of the roundtable who present
questions, issues, and/or material for about 5 minutes on the
pre-selected unifying theme of the roundtable. The following discussion,
at the convener’s discretion, may open into more general discussion
with the audience.
The total length of a roundtable will be one and a half hours inclusive
of all discussions.
Proposals may be submitted for a roundtable consisting of up to 10
presenters, and the structure is at the discretion of the convener who
will chair the event. The proposal must explain the overall purpose, the
role of the individual participants, and signal the commitment of all
participants to attend the symposium. Each roundtable proposal will be
accepted or rejected as a whole.
MEMBERSHIP
Please note that the Program Committee will only consider proposals by
current members of the ICTM in good standing for 2010. Please contact
Ardian Ahmedaja (ahmedaja@mdw.ac.at) for membership in the Study Group.
Members may join and submit a proposal at the same time. Membership
applications are available at the ICTM website. For membership
questions, contact the ICTM Secretariat at
www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/info.php or write to ICTM Secretariat, School
of Music, Australian National University, Building 100, Canberra, ACT,
0200, Australia. (secretariat@ictmusic.org)
Where to send the proposals?
Ardian Ahmedaja
Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie
Anton von Weber Platz 1
1030 Wien
Tel: + 711 55-4284
Fax: + 711 55-4299
email: ahmedaja@mdw.ac.at
Program committee:
Ardian Ahmedaja (Austria)
Ignazio Macchiarella (Italy)
Zhanna Pärtlas (Estonia)
Ankica Petrović (Croatia)
The committee can not consider proposals received after the deadline of
January 31, 2010.
Notification for acceptance or rejection will be announced by March 31,
2010.
If you have a deadline for funding applications for travel,
accommodation, and so on, please notify the Program Committee of your
deadline date.
Local organizer: Ignazio Macchiarella (macchiarella@unica.it)
"Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia" and "Dipartimento di Studi Storici,
Geografici e Artistici",
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
Looking forward to seeing you in Sardinia