[ANPPOM-Lista] CFP: Music & Letters Centenary Prize Competition

[Carlos Palombini]

Music & Letters Centenary Prize Competition

Music & Letters was first published in January 1920, under the initiative
of its editor-in-chief, A. Fox Strangways. In his editorial for the opening
volume, Fox Strangways wrote that ‘music expresses, defines and
communicates emotions as language does thoughts’; the issue additionally
carried a pastel portrait of Elgar by William Rothenstein, and a 2-quatrain
poem, entitled ‘The Shyness of Beauty’, by Laurence Binyon. Ever since that
first issue, Music & Letters has been at the forefront of scholarly and
critically engaged writing about music, covering a wide and eclectic range
of topics, and with a particular emphasis on encouraging fruitful dialogue
between musicology and other disciplines. It is now an internationally
leading peer-reviewed journal of musical scholarship.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the journal’s first appearance, the
editors propose to run a prize competition to find the very best original
articles in musicology. Submissions will be assessed through double-blind
peer review, following which the prize-winning articles will be selected by
the Music & Letters Editorial Board. The successful entries will be
published in a special anniversary issue of the journal in 2020, and each
of the winning authors will additionally receive a prize of £500.

The rules of the competition are as follows:

1. Submission must be made via the journal’s online submission system,
ScholarOne Manuscripts, at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ml. Entries for
the prize competition must be submitted to the marked repository on this
website. Please note that retrospective entries will not be accepted.

2. In order to be eligible for consideration, articles need to be suitable
for publication in Music & Letters; there are no restrictions on the
individuals eligible to make submissions to the competition. The journal
publishes scholarly articles of outstanding quality on all aspects of
musicology, with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity and
engagement with the broader cultural contexts in which music is situated.
We do not impose a strict word limit on submissions, but published articles
generally range from c.8,000 to c.15,000 words. Illustrative material, such
as music examples, tables, plates, figures, and multimedia content, may be
included provided it serves a specific purpose within the argument of the
submission and can be accommodated within the presentation format of the
journal.

3. Entries must follow the Instructions to Authors published online here,
and must also follow the Music & Letters Style Guide for Authors, found
here.

4. Entries will undergo a full process of double-blind peer review, as is
usual for submission to the journal. Further details of the journal’s
reviewing processes are available here.

5. Entries judged not to be among the prize winners will be considered for
publication in the journal in the normal way.

6. Before submission, authors must ensure that the relevant copyright
permissions and licenses are obtainable; it is the author’s responsibility
to secure and pay for permission to reproduce any material in copyright,
and this must be done in a timely manner as soon as a submission is
accepted. Successful entries will be published only once these permissions
have been obtained.

7. The winning entries will be identified by a panel consisting of the
journal’s editors and other members of the Music & Letters Editorial Board,
taking into account the views of the external peer reviewers. The decision
of the award panel is final and no correspondence can be entered into about
the result.

8. No alternative prizes will be offered and OUP reserves the right to make
changes to the prize at any time and without advance notice. In the
unlikely event that, in the panel’s opinion, the material submitted is not
of a suitable standard or too few submissions are received, no prize will
be awarded.

9. The competition will open on 1 January 2018, and the deadline for
submission is 31 May 2018. Results will be announced in autumn 2018.
Publication will take place in 2020 (before the next REF deadline for
scholars based in UK HEIs).

https://academic.oup.com/ml/pages/centenary_anniversary_prize_competition