<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div id="yiv953269352"><div><div class="yiv953269352MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR
PAPERS: </span></u></b></div>
<div class="yiv953269352MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US"> </span></u></b></div>
<div class="yiv953269352MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">‘Composition in
the 21<sup>st</sup> Century’</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv953269352MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv953269352MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Music Composition Centre in association with the Department of
Music, Trinity College Dublin, invites Composers, Musicologists and
Practitioners to an International Conference entitled <i>Composition in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century </i>that will take place in
Dublin from 4 to 6 March 2014. The conference will offer a forum to discuss
aesthetic, technical, practical and economical issues affecting composers of
different musical genres today.</span></div>
<div class="yiv953269352MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv953269352MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Interested parties should email a proposal of 300 words (for a
paper or a performance of </span>20 minutes, followed
by 10 minutes of discussion<span lang="EN-US">) that addresses one of the following aspects
of composition:</span></div>
<div class="yiv953269352MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Contemporary Composition</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Contemporary Opera</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Experimental Music Theatre</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Improvisation</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Sound Art</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Mixed Media </span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Film Music</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Electronic Music</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Traditional Music</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Popular Music</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Writing for Amateurs</span></div>
<div><span style="">In addition, all
proposals should include:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span>The full title of
each paper</div>
<div><span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span>The full name,
contact details and institutional affiliation (if any). </div>
<div><span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size:7pt;">
</span></span>A short curriculum
vitae for all proposed speakers (maximum 150 words per speaker)</div>
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<div><span style="">For any further enquiries and for the submission
of proposals please email the Director of the Music Composition Centre, Evangelia
Rigaki, at <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rigakie@tcd.ie" target="_blank" href="mailto:rigakie@tcd.ie">rigakie@tcd.ie</a>.</span></div>
<div><span style="">Keynote speakers will be announced shortly.</span></div>
<div><b><span style="">Deadline for
the submission of proposals: </span></b><span style="">Friday, 17
May 2013 (the selected proposals will be announced within four weeks).</span><span style=""></span></div>
<div class="yiv953269352MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div></div>-- <br>Dr Aidan Thomson<div>Hon Secretary, Society for Musicology in Ireland</div><div>Reviews Editor, Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland</div><div>
School of Creative Arts</div><div>Queen's University Belfast</div><div>Belfast BT7 1NN</div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="">+44 (0)28 9097 5208</a></div><div><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:aidanjohnthomson@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:aidanjohnthomson@gmail.com">aidanjohnthomson@gmail.com</a></div>
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