[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Music Programme Notes

[Carlos Palombini]

Music Programme Notes
Society for Music Analysis Autumn Study Day

University of Sussex
Saturday 25 November 2006

Call for Papers

The performance of a new orchestral work by Richard Barrett recently
occasioned more controversy for the composer's "marxist" programme note than
for the music itself. Concert programme notes may be traced back to the
early 19th century and the development of attentive musical listening.
Although some of the earliest concert notes were devised to explain the
content of programmatic music (e.g., Berlioz's synopsis for the Symphonie
fantastique), the wider acceptance of programme notes was related to the
idea of music as an abstract art. Today, modes of musical production and
reception are changing so rapidly that it is a timely moment to take stock
of the situation and ask how programme notes and articles are responding to,
or anticipating, the changing climates of music.

This conference has four main aims:

- to ask what programme are notes for:  What function do they serve in 
modern
day musical life in the concert hall and theatre, or as disseminated
electronically? How responsive are contemporary programme notes and articles
to the expectations and needs of modern listeners?

- to ask how new technologies (e.g., the CD-ROM or DVD) enable different
methods of introducing contextual and analytical material for musical
appreciation

- to examine the relationship between current theories and practices of
academic analysis and the expectations of those who commission, write and
read programme notes

- to facilitate dialogue and understanding between the work of the academic
community and the professional worlds in relation to modern musical
scholarship

The conference panels will address four main areas:

Concert and Opera programme notes
Composer programme notes
CD notes
New electronic media

Papers should address any of the above questions or areas, and might do so
through discussion of historical or current examples, discussion of
practices outside the mainstream or western model, or through consideration
of the economic or cultural issues raised by the topic in general.

Proposals for papers of 20 minutes duration, in the form of an abstract of
200 words, should be sent to Nicholas Till, Department of Music, Arts B164,
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QN, or preferably by email to
n.till em sussex.ac.uk

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS: 26 May 2006

You will be notified of the outcome by 23 June 2006.

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>