[ANPPOM-L] Call for Abstracts: Music of Women Composers

[daniel quaranta]

*             CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR PROPOSED BOOK PUBLICATION *
 *                     Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers*
*                               Volume One: 1800 to the present*
*                      **Editors – Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft** *
We would like to invite submissions for a forthcoming collection of
analytical studies of music by women composers, devoted to repertoire from
1800 to the present.  Although a second volume addressing music composed
before 1800 is projected, the present call for abstracts is for the more
recent time period only.  The editors seek articles in English that use a
variety of analytical methodologies to explore and elucidate music by female
composers from diverse cultural backgrounds and musical styles.  While we
welcome studies from a wide variety of epistemological perspectives, a
strong component of technical music analysis is required.
 In recent decades, musicologists such as Marcia Citron, Karin Pendle,
Sophie Fuller, and Jill Halstead have drawn attention to the wealth of music
produced by women composers, while illuminating the challenges faced by
these creators in seeing their compositions performed and discussed in the
wider musical world.   Despite this groundbreaking work in musicology,
within the discipline of music theory few scholars have yet devoted serious
analytical attention to the work of these composers.   Although there have
been important contributions in recent books by Joseph N. Straus, Ellie
Hisama and Harald Krebs, music by female composers is still almost
completely absent from the major peer-reviewed music theory journals and
from music theory conference programs.
 The intended purpose of this publication is to create a critical mass of
analytic discourse about the works of these underrepresented composers, in
order to facilitate the entry of music by women into the mainstream of
professional music-theoretical and analytical dialogue.
It is envisaged that the volume, intended for an academic audience, will
comprise some twelve chapters, with essays being of between 7,000 and 10,000
words (including footnotes).  The editors welcome contributions from both
established and emerging scholars.  Among the confirmed contributors so far
are Harald Krebs, Judith Lochhead and Joseph N. Straus.
 *Timeline*
* *The goal is to release this publication in early 2010.  The following
schedule is proposed:
     Submission of 300-word paper abstracts by interested contributors:* 1
July 2008*
      Submission of initial book proposal by editors to publisher: *Fall
2008 *
      Submission of completed essays by contributors: *August 2009 *
      Edited manuscript to publisher: *December 2009*
* **Submissions*
Please submit an electronic copy of a 300-word abstract of your proposed
paper, together with a short biography. Your abstract should clearly
identify the work(s) you expect to discuss and the analytical methodology
you intend to use.
E-mail your submission as an attachment to one of the following addresses:
 Laurel Parsons: parsons em queensu.ca
 Brenda Ravenscroft: ravenscr em queensu.ca
*SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 JULY 2008*
*The editors:*
 Laurel Parsons is currently Assistant Professor of music theory at Queen's
University, Kingston (Canada).   Her 2003 dissertation was the first
analytical study of British composer Elisabeth Lutyens's 1967 opera, *The
Numbered*.  She has published analytical articles on the opera and on
Lutyens's Wittgenstein Motet in *Theory & Practice* and the *Canadian
University Music Review*, and is currently writing a book on Lutyens's
music.  She will also be contributing a chapter on Lutyens's music to the
forthcoming book *British Music and Modernism 1895-1960, *edited by Matthew
Riley and Paul Rodmell.
Brenda Ravenscroft is Associate Professor of music theory at Queen's
University and Associate Dean of Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
Her research is focused on the music of contemporary American composers, and
she has published in such journals as *Perspectives of New Music*, *Music
Analysis* and the* Journal of the American Musicological Society*. She is
currently working on the vocal music of Libby Larsen, and will be
contributing a chapter to a forthcoming book on the music of Elliott Carter,
edited by John Link and Marguerite Boland. She is also the current Chair of
the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women.


Laurel Parsons, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Music Theory
School of Music
Queen's University
39 Bader Lane
Kingston, ON
Canada K7L 3N6
Telephone: 613-533-6000 x. 77441
Fax: 613-533-6808

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