Conferences in musicology

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List of forthcoming conferences

  1. Hearing Landscape Critically: Sense, Text, Ideology, Oxford, May 2012
  2. Interesting Times for Local Live Music, Leeds, May 2012
  3. SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM, London, May 2012
  4. The Matter of Musical Experimentation, York, May 2012
  5. On Collaboration, London, May 2012
  6. SysMus12 – Fifth International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology, Montréal, May 2012
  7. New Music in Britain, Canterbury, May 2012
  8. Music And Propaganda In The Short Twentieth Century, Pistoia, Italy, May 2012
  9. European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM), Rome, May 2012
  10. Love to Death: Transforming Opera (Incorporating the RMA 2012 Annual Conference), Cardiff, May–June 2012
  11. Seventeenth Biennial International Conference On Nineteenth-Century Music, Edinburgh, June 2012
  12. 10th Annual Society for Musicology in Ireland Conference, Dundalk, Ireland, June 2012
  13. 2nd International Meeting for New Chamber Music, Évora, Portugal, June 2012
  14. Sharing Practice, Kingston, June 2012
  15. 7th Nordic Music Therapy Congress, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2012
  16. Manchester International Beethoven Conference, Manchester, June 2012
  17. Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference 2012, Stockholm, June 2012
  18. International Call for Composers and Ensembles, Évora, Portugal, June 2012
  19. II International Meeting for Chamber Music, Évora, Portugal, June 2012
  20. Popular Music and Automobile Culture, Chester, June 2012
  21. Vancouver International Song Institute, Song Scholarship and Performance Program, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2012
  22. Perceptual Tensions, Sensory Resonance: An International Conference on Contemporary Opera and New Music Theatre, Toronto, June 2012
  23. Music and the Moving Image VII, New York, June 2012
  24. L’opéra-comique entre deux genres, Paris, June 2012
  25. Tribute to ANESTIS LOGOTHETIS: sound images/figurative sounds, Athens, June 2012
  26. Sound Images and Painted Sound – Tribute to Anestis Logothetis, Athens, June 2012
  27. North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2012, Derry/Londonderry, June–July 2012
  28. North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA) Fifth Biennial Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, July 2012
  29. Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel, Liverpool, July 2012
  30. South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) Sixth Annual Conference, Tshwane, South Africa, July 2012
  31. Second Annual Conference of the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group, London, July, 2012
  32. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Nottingham, July 2012
  33. The ‘Franco-Belgian Violin School’ From G.B. Viotti To E. Ysaÿe, La Spezia, Italy, July 2012
  34. 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) & 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Thessaloniki, Greece, July 2012
  35. Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 9), Lancaster, July 2012
  36. Music and Shape, London, July 2012
  37. MedRen conference, Nottingham, July 2012
  38. CIM12: Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Göttingen, Germany, September 2012
  39. The Heroic in Music – Diverse Meaning and Musical Analysis, Leipzig, September 2012
  40. Music That Changed Time: The Baltic Outburst of Creativity After 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2012
  41. SEMPRE 40th Anniversary Conference, London, September 2012
  42. BFE National Graduate Student Conference 2012: Music and Movement, London, September 2012
  43. RMA AGM and Dent Medal Study Day, London, September 2012
  44. Perspectives on Musical Improvisation – an international conference, Oxford, September 2012
  45. Rethinking Stravinsky: Sounds And Gestures Of Modernism, Fisciano-Salerno, Italy, September 2012
  46. Eisler und die Nachwelt (Eisler and Posterity), Berlin, September 2012
  47. Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Musicología 2012, Logroño, Spain, September 2012
  48. Music and Movement (BFE 2012 National Student Graduate Conference), London, September 2012
  49. The Journey of Music(s): Colonial Music Practice in the Age of Enlightenment, Göttingen, Germany, September 2012
  50. Conlon Nancarrow: Life and Music, Online, September–October 2012
  51. Franz Schreker and His Time, Strasbourg, October 2012
  52. Notations: composer/performer dialogue; INTIME 2012 Symposium, Coventry, October 2012
  53. Establishing New Musical ‘Topics’ in the Repertoire and Popular Culture, Edinburgh, October 2012
  54. Sound and Performance, Bayreuth, Germany, October 2012
  55. BASEES Study Group for Russian and Eastern European Music Annual Conference 2012: Minority Composers, Manchester, October 2012
  56. PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING: Links between Music and Visual Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania, October 2012
  57. World of Sound: Microtonal Innovations, St Petersburg, October 2012
  58. Music on Stage, Sidcup, October 2012
  59. FIMTE 11th Symposium on Spanish Keyboard Music “Diego Fernández”, Parador de Mojácar, Spain, October 2012
  60. VOICES, SPACES, SENSES – International Research Symposium on Kaija Saariaho’s Music, Helsinki, October 2012
  61. Gender, Musical Creativity and Age, Huddersfied, October 2012
  62. Consuming Music, Commodifying Sound, 1750-1850, New Haven, USA, October 2012
  63. Central European Musicians And The Birth Of French Piano Virtuosity, Rome, October 2012
  64. Images of Music Making and Cultural Exchange between the East and the West, Beijing, October 2012
  65. Interactive Keyboard Symposium, London, November 2012
  66. Soixante ans de musiques mixtes, Paris, November 2012
  67. Massenet And The Mediterranean World, Lucca, Italy, November–December 2012
  68. Spanish musics and their [Western] Others: Negotiating identity and exoticism, Melbourne, December 2012
  69. RMA Research Students’ Conference 2013, Southampton, January 2013
  70. Beyond Notation: An Earle Brown Symposium, Boston, USA, January 2013
  71. CMPCP Performance Studies Network Conference, Cambridge, April 2013
  72. Richard Wagner’s Impact on His World and Ours, Leeds, May–June 2013
  73. Benjamin Britten on Stage and Screen, Nottingham, July 2013
  74. RMA Annual Conference 2013, London, September 2013
  75. Beyond the East-West Divide: Rethinking Balkan Music’s Poles of Attraction, Belgrade, September 2013
  76. BASEES Study Group for Russian and Eastern European Music Annual Conference 2013: Scandals In Music History, Oxford, November 2013
  77. CMPCP Performance Studies Network Conference, Cambridge, July 2014

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