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SECM 2010 in Brooklyn
Fourth Biennial Conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music
Dates: 8–11 April 2010
Location: St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York
Located in historic Brooklyn Heights, St. Francis College lies a short walk from the Promenade, an esplanade offering dramatic views of the 2010 Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and the Manhattan skyline across the East River. The area is easily accessible to Midtown Manhattan and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Featured events include a concert on period instruments at the Morris-Jumel Mansion; a concert by Brooklyn College musicians; a tour of downtown Manhattan with stops at the eighteenth-century Fraunces Tavern and other sites; and a visit to the Morgan Library.
We seek to incorporate a wide variety of presentation types, including papers, lecture recitals, panels, considerations of a specific work from different points of view by several speakers, and reports on ongoing projects. Proposals for papers or other activities on any topic relating to music of the eighteenth century are welcome. The SECM Student Paper Award will be given to a student member for the outstanding paper at the conference. Student members of the society who have not received the doctorate before the date of the conference are eligible for the award.
The conference will include a special “dissertations in progress” session for students working on dissertations on eighteenth-century topics who would like to receive feedback from members of the society. Students wishing to participate in this portion of the conference should submit the following items:
a 250 word dissertation abstract that clarifies the thesis, nature of source material, format, methodology and scope of the project. The abstract must also include a specific statement of one particular aspect/problem/challenge the author is currently confronting as a focus for feedback.
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Abstracts of 250 words for all other proposals must be submitted by 15 October 2009 to Margaret Butler, Program Committee Chair, by email at: butlermr@ufl.edu. This date supersedes others previously announced. Only one submission per author will be considered, with preference given to authors who did not present at the 2008 conference in Claremont. Please provide a cover sheet and proposal in separate documents, in MS Word format. The cover sheet should include your name, address, email address, phone number, and proposal title. The proposal should include only the title, abstract, and audio-visual needs. Membership in SECM is encouraged of all participants.
Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
International Conference on the occasion of the 9th edition of the Festival Paganiniano of Carro, organized by the Società dei Concerti, La Spezia; Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca
Dates: 15–17 July 2010
Location: La Spezia (Italy), CAMeC (Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art)
Call for papers
The Società dei Concerti of La Spezia, Italy and the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca, in association with Musicalwords.it, on the occasion of the 9th edition of the Festival Paganiniano of Carro are pleased to invite submissions from scholars of proposals for the symposium on “Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century,” to be held in La Spezia, CAMeC, from Thursday 15 to Saturday 17 July 2010. The Symposium aims to investigate musical improvisation in the 18th and 19th centuries. The program committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are welcome:
* Musical improvisation in contemporaneous treatises and philosophy
* New perspectives on improvisation in classical music
* Improvisation and popular music in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
* Improvisation in different musical genres and languages
* The relationship of improvisation to composition
* Musical improvisation and related arts
* Improvisation in the music of Nicolò Paganini
Program Committee:
Andrea Barizza, Lorenzo Frassà, Roberto Illiano, Fulvia Morabito, Luca Sala, and Massimiliano Sala
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Vincenzo Caporaletti (University of Macerata) Prof. Rudolf Rasch (Utrecht University)
The official languages of the conference are English and Italian. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings. Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and one page of biography. All proposals should be submitted by email no later than Sunday 28 February 2010 to Dr. Lorenzo Frassà. Please include with your proposal your name, contact details (postal address, e-mail and telephone) and (if applicable) your affiliation.
The committee will make its final decision on the abstracts by the end of March 2010, and contributors will be informed immediately thereafter.
Further information about the programme, registration, travel and accommodation will be announced by the 15th of April 2010. For additional information about the conference, see here.
For further question, please contact:
Dr. Lorenzo Frassà
Via delle Ville, trav. II/73
San Marco contr.
I-55100 Lucca
tel: +39/339.2967826