[ANPPOM-L] CFP: 4th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology - Musical Structure

[carlos palombini]

Fourth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology - CIM 2008

Theme: Musical Structure
Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, 2-6 July 2008

The Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology is a forum for constructive interaction among all
musically and musicologically relevant disciplines, including acoustics, anthropology, theory/analysis,
composition, computing, cultural studies, education, ethnology, history, linguistics, performance,
physiology, medicine, psychology, therapy, philosophy, aesthetics and sociology. CIM especially
promotes collaborations between sciences and humanities, between theory and practice, as well as
interdisciplinary combinations that are new, unusual, creative, or otherwise especially promising.
The fourth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM08) will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece
from 2-6 July 2008. The theme of CIM08 is musical structure from the viewpoint of all musically and
musicologically relevant disciplines. The conference aims to bring together representatives of the
humanities, the sciences, and musical practice who are involved in research on musical structure.
Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to contribute theoretical, empirical and
computational studies.

CIM08 will be hosted by the Department of Musical Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and
presented in collaboration with the European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), the
International Musicological Society (IMS), and the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM).
Making sense of music means, among other things, being able to break it down to simpler
components and to make associations between them. In other words, it involves understanding
musical structure. Musical structure plays a central role in all levels of engagement with music:
listening, performing, improvising and composing. In recent years, an increasing number of music
researchers have begun to adopt or promote an explicitly interdisciplinary approach to understanding
musical structure.

All papers at CIM08 will involve interactions between contrasting disciplinary approaches to musical
structure, such as:
· music-theoretic and music-analytical
· practical (compositional, performative...)
· humanities (social, historical, ethnological, anthropological, philosophical, linguistic...)
· cultural (semiotic, hermeneutic, aesthetic, critical-theoretic...)
· empirical (psychological, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, expressive, sociological...)
· scientific (computational, mathematical, acoustic...)
· educational

Specific aspects of musical structure that may be addressed in relation to the above topics include:
· rhythmic structure (beat/tempo/metre induction, grouping...)
· melodic structure (segmentation/grouping, voice separation...)
· harmonic structure (tonality induction, key finding, chord analysis...)
· motivic/thematic structure (musical categories, similarity measures...)
· musical reduction (musical salience, accentuation structure...)
· musical prolongation (musical expectation, tension/relaxation...)
· timbre analysis (stream segregation, score extraction...)

Papers may also address specific repertoires, genres, styles or performance media (such as acoustic
versus electroacoustic music).
Each submission must have at least two authors who represent different disciplines. These disciplines
should preferably, but not necessarily, be selected from those listed in the first paragraph of this call
(e.g., psychology and acoustics, history and performance). Extended abstracts should be structured in
the following seven headlines:

1. Background in the first discipline
2. Background in the second discipline
3. Aims
4. Main Contribution
5. Implications for musical practice
6. Implications for musicological interdisciplinarity
7. References

In empirical and computational contributions, the *main contribution* should include a summary of
method and results.

Each submitted abstract should be followed by a short biography (CV) of the (first) two authors. The
whole file should not exceed 1000 words, including all headings, names of authors, their affiliations,
email addresses and biographies. The preferred format of the presentation (talk or poster) should also
be indicated. All submissions must address the conference theme. Abstracts should be submitted in
English either as plain text or in an attached document (MS Word). They will be reviewed
anonymously by a panel of international experts.

Abstract submission deadline is 31 November 2007.

CIM08 is co-directed by:
Emilios Cambouropoulos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computational Musicology,
Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Email: emilios at mus.auth.gr

Costas Tsougras, Ph.D.
Lecturer of Musical Theory/Analysis; Composer,
Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Email: tsougras at mus.auth.gr

Makis Solomos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Contemporary Music (Maître de conférences HDR)
Département de Musique, Université Montpellier 3, France
Email: Makis.Solomos at univ-montp3.fr

Richard Parncutt, Ph.D. (chair of CIM council)
Professor of Systematic Musicology,
Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Graz, Austria
Email: parncutt at uni-graz.at