<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div><br></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1; text-align: center;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="http://perfanalysis2016.weebly.com/" style="font-size: 18px;">http://perfanalysis2016.weebly.com/</a></b></p><div><br></div><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1; text-align: center;"><img src="cid:AA2120C0-80AF-4711-B7E2-03C6C9686B64" type="image/png"></p><a href="http://perfanalysis2016.weebly.com/"></a><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;"><b style="font-size: 16px;">Performance analysis: A bridge between theory and interpretation</b><a href="http://perfanalysis2016.weebly.com/"></a></p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;"><b style="font-size: 16px;">4-6 October 2016</b></p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;"><b style="font-size: 16px;">Porto-Portugal</b></p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;"><strong style="color: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.625;"><br></strong></p></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span><a href="http://perfanalysis2016.weebly.com/"></a><div style="font-size: 14px;"><strong style="color: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; widows: 1; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.625;">CALL FOR PAPERS 25th April - <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">4th July</span></strong><a href="http://perfanalysis2016.weebly.com/"></a></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 14px;"><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">Interpretation can be found everywhere whenever associated with a sign or a group of signs may that be a sacred, philosophical, literary, musical, pictorial or any other kind of text. The assignment of an interpretation always presents itself, to the recipient of the sign, under the form of an interpretative decision. Hermeneutics is the discipline which studies the meanings transmitted by signs, especially in the case of works of art. There are in fact contents which are more immediately evident, in contrast with others which demand a more meaningful interpretation. For example, concerning the works of the past, <span class="s1" style="color: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.625;">only a hermeneutic activity comprising very </span>different skills, so much so that it is impossible to delineate them, may deepen the signs, allowing the appropriation of the cultural content of tradition, so that the work remains alive in the present and, potentially, in the future.</p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">That is just the case of music that, from the very moment it embraces an essentially interpretative moment - through which we may have access to the musical message- faces complex interpretative problems. Hermeneutics doesn’t refer just to the performance itself, which includes a virtually infinite spectre of readings of the same text, but coexists with that same text. Hermeneutics in music plays its role on three different plans: theory, composition and performance. Music theory - that is the set of information sedimented, structured and shared by a community at a certain moment - is the only way to have access to history and to question the past. But theory must be also constantly questioned and put into perspective in order to keep its functionality; composition is precisely an attempt to give an adequate answer to the technical-expressive questions mentioned by the theory, to formulate a musical thought that is simultaneously a synthesis of the past and a projection into the future. Performance is ultimately the transmission of the musical meaning embodied in that thought.</p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">So, this conference has a double goal: to promote a critical discussion founded in philosophical assertions and facing strictly theoretical problems and further on to enlarge the discussion to the problems concerning music theory, composition, performance and critic and all that from the point of view of their relationship with semiotic universes – stratification of languages, forms, performance styles, criteria of judgement, listening habits - which are more and more diversified and complex.</p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">Our purpose is to explore what the concept of performance means today – performance in theory and in praxis. This discussion will allow us, on the one hand, to evaluate the pertinence of this notion in the traditional hermeneutical performative field and on the other hand to reflect on the essence and the limits of this field in the musical landscape of the XXI century. Together with these questions there will be 2 concerts inspired by these present perspectives of performing.</p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">The conference will take place at Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida in Porto-Portugal and it is organized by CESEM / IPP. All interested parties are invited to submit a proposal until the 4th of July, 2016 to <strong style="color: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.625;"><a href="mailto:performanceanalysis2016@gmail.com">performanceanalysis2016@gmail.com</a></strong> with the subject "Performance Analysis_(title of the paper)". Please submit an abstract in English of no more than 500 words, clear title, 3 keyword, 3 references and a short biography (up to 100 words). The abstract should be submitted in PDF, doc, docx tx formats. With your proposal please include your name, contact details (postal address, e-mail and telephone number) and (if applicable) your affiliation. The committee will make its final decision on the abstracts at July 20, 2016 and contributors will be informed immediately thereafter. Further information about the programme, registration, travel and accommodation will be announced after that date.</p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">ORGANIZING COMMITTE:</p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">Madalena Soveral, ESMAE, CESEM. Sara Zurletti, Conservatório Reggio Calábria.</p><p class="p3" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">EXECUTIVE COMMITTE:</p><p class="p2" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">Cristiana Vicente, CESEM (Administrative Support). Vera Inácio Cordeniz, CESEM Administrative Support)</p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">SCIENTIFIC COMMITTE:</p><p class="p1" data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; widows: 1;">Ana Maria Liberal (ESMAE, CESEM), Andrea Calabresa (Conservatório Reggio Calabria), António Chagas Rosa (Universidade de Aveiro, INETMD), Daniela Coimbra (ESMAE, NIMAE), Enrico Fubini (Universidade Turim), Franco Romano (Conservatório Reggio Calabria), Isabel Soveral (Universidade de Aveiro, INET-MD), Letizia Michelion (Universidade de Pádua, Conservatório G. Tartini, Trieste), Manuel Pedro Ferreira (FCSH/UNL, CESEM), Paulo Assis (Orpheus Institut, Gent), Paulo Ferreira de Castro (FCSH/UNL, CESEM) and Sharon Kanach (Centre Iannis Xenakis, Paris).</p></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><i style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);"><b><br></b></i></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><img src="cid:32115AF7-7423-4DFF-BFE1-304FE2C40DF3" type="image/png"></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><i style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);"><b><br></b></i></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><i style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);"><b><br></b></i></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><i style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);"><b><br></b></i></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><i style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);"><b><br></b></i></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><i style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);"><b><br></b></i></div><div><i style="font-family: Calibri; 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