CALL FOR PAPERS: Perfect Beat Special ‘Riffs’ Issue: COVID-19, Music and the Asia-Pacific

Perfect Beat journal invites contributions to a special edition of short-form ‘Riff’ articles, typically 2000 words, to document the state of music research in the Asia-Pacific region during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Riff is a blind peer-reviewed article…[Read more]

Registration is now open for the Musicological Society of Australia, Western Australia Chapter Conference that will be held on Saturday Nov. 21st at UWA. The draft programme for the day—including a highly diverse range of papers, a roundtable discussion and a keynote presentation—is attached below!  Registration is essential. Please regist…[Read more]

Call for Papers

2021 McGill Music Graduate Virtual Symposium

Schulich School of Music, McGill University

Montréal, Canada, March 12-14, 2021

Submission Deadline: January 1, 2021

The McGill Music Graduate Students’ Society (MGSS) at the Schulich School of Music in Montréal, Canada is pleased to announce its 34rd annual Symposium, which will b…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of International Musicological Society Immediate Past President, Dinko Fabris, the IMS would like to bring the following information to your kind attention:

The IMS Study Group “Mediterranean Music Studies” will hold its fourth meeting in Beirut (Lebanon) on November 3, 2020, at 4:00 pm CET, during the int…[Read more]

Dear Forum members:

A call for papers: “Music in the Pacific World: Change and Exchange Through Sound and Memory”: First Conference of the IMS Study Group, “Global History of Music”

Organisers: Jen-yen Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) and David R. M. Irving (ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats–CSIC, Spain)…[Read more]

Don & Joan Squire Award for Voluntary Services to Musicology in Australia, 2020

Dear MSA Forum members

All members of MSA are warmly invited to consider the eligibility of friends or colleagues for this award, however, formal nominations should be made by appropriate Chapters. Please see below.

The Award

Established in 2008, the Don & Joan…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

As you will know, Monash University plans to disestablish its ethnomusicology and musicology course specialisms in the faculty of arts. In case you haven’t seen this petition already, please consider signing it to help save the department from…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members, a conference announcement:

ZELENKA CONFERENCE PRAGUE 2020: ZELENKA AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

Place: Library of the Department of Musicology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Puškinovo náměstí 447/9, Praha 6.

Date: FRIDAY 16.10.2020

Time: 09.00–17.00 Central European Time

We cordially invite you to the Seventh Zelenka Confe…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members

The IMS Regional Association for the Study of the Music of the Balkans, has announced the release of the first issue of Series Musicologica Balcanica (SMB).

The journal is an open access publication and can be found at ejournals.lib.auth.gr/smb.

All best,

Fred Kiernan.

Dear MSA Forum members,

The MSA was deeply saddened to learn of the decision to disestablish musicology and ethnomusicology at Monash University. For the MSA’s letter of response to the university, sent to Professor Margaret Gardner today (21 Sept.), please see the attached PDF.

All best,

Fred Kiernan, MSA Secretary.

Dear MSA Forum members,

A message from the International Musicological Society:

In August 2022 Philip V. Bohlman and Federico Celestini will complete their terms as editors of our peer-reviewed journal, Acta Musicologica. The IMS therefore seeks applications for a new editorial team for a five-year term, with a possible extension of a further…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

I’m pleased to announce that a new book based on the theme of the 2017 MSA/NZMS conference “Performing History” has just been published:

Nancy November, ed., Performing History: Approaches to History Across Musicology (Boston, U.S.A.: Academic Studies Press, 2020), https://www.academicstudiespress.com/out-of-series/perform…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

In December 2020, James Wierzbicki will complete his term as Editor of the biannually published, peer-review journal of the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), Musicology Australia. The MSA is seeking applications for a new Editor to be appointed for a three-year term with a possible extension of a further three…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

The International Musicological Society is pleased to announce the inauguration of the IMS Study Group “Musical Diagrams”, chaired by Daniel Muzzulini (CH) and Susan F. Weiss (US). The study group has the following mission statement: “The aims of the study group are: to foster the exchange of music theoretical diagr…[Read more]

Hi all, the following may be of interest to members:

• The Royal Musical Association (RMA) annual conference is running online this week Sept. 8-10, and registration is free. There are some excellent presentations on the programme, including the Le Huray Lecture presented by Marie Thompson, and the Dent Medal Lecture presented by Gundula Kreuzer.…

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Hi all, here’s the latest newsletter from the WA Chapter. Feel free to have a look at what we’re up to!

Dear all,

on behalf of Antonio Baldassarre, IMS Directorium Member and RIdIM President, the IMS would like to bring to your kind attention the following message:

The 20th International Conference of Association RIdIM, “Visualising the Unseen: Music in Visual Culture,” was moved to July 22 to 24, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We invite pro…[Read more]

Dear all,

The deadline for proposals for the 19th Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance (2020) and 4th Annual Symposium on Indigenous Arts in the Academy has been extended to 28 August.

For further details and instructions on how to submit a proposal, visit the MSA website here.

Cheers,

Fred Kiernan.