Conferences in musicology

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List of forthcoming conferences

  1. RIdIM Conference 2013, Istanbul, June 2013
  2. Temporality in Performance and Performing Arts, Grožnjan, Croatia, June 2013
  3. New Elizabethans 1953-2013: Nation, Culture, and Modern Identity, June 2013
  4. Creative Arts and Creative Industries: Collaboration in Practice, Manchester, June 2013
  5. No Sir, I Won’t: Reconsidering the Legacy of Crass and Anarcho-punk, Oxford, June 2013
  6. Perspectives on the Reception of the work of Roberto Gerhard, Madrid, June 2013
  7. Musical Manuscripts and their Legacies: A Symposium in Honour of Jane Morlet Hardie, Sydney, June 2013
  8. 2013 Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Maynooth, June 2013
  9. Studying the ‘Tonal’ Avant-Garde: Methodologies of Twentieth-Century Music, 1900-1960 RMA Postgraduate Study Day, Keele, June 2013
  10. Wagner’s Reception in Western Culture, Madrid, June 2013
  11. Music and/as Process Symposium, Huddersfield, June 2013
  12. PERFORMA, a conference on performance studies, Porto Alegre, Brazil, May–June 2013
  13. The Practices Of Comedy, Lisbon, June 2013
  14. Instrumental Music in the Iberian World 1760-1820, Lisbon, June 2013
  15. Roots of American Musical Life, Williamsburg, VA, USA, June 2013
  16. International Conference Sacralization of the Profane and Profanation of the Sacred Music as a Means and an Object, Ljubljana, June 2013
  17. EMS13: Electroacoustic Music in the Context of Interactive approaches and network, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2013
  18. 3rd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, Amsterdam, June 2013
  19. Vancouver International Song Institute, 4th Annual Song Scholarship and Performance Program, Vancouver, June 2013
  20. Rethinking Poulenc: 50 Years On, Keele, June 2013
  21. Ninth Biennial International Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Cardiff, June 2012
  22. With Four Hands: Music for Two Pianists, London, June 2013
  23. RMA study day – 20th Century British Poets in Music, Hull, June 2013
  24. Translating Music: Launch event, Mapping Music, London, June 2013
  25. Mastering the Mix: A Student-led Symposium on Interdisciplinarity in Musicology and Compositional Practice, Oxford, June 2013
  26. Benjamin Britten on Stage and Screen, Nottingham, July 2013
  27. Med&Ren Music Conference 2013, Certaldo, Florence, Italy, July 2013
  28. Databases and digital resources: current issues, Paris, July 2013
  29. Performing Prejudice, Newcastle, July 2013
  30. Music | Digitisation | Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies, Oxford, July 2013
  31. Recital And Urban Setting In The Nineteenth Century, La Spezia, Italy, July 2013
  32. Musical Instruments – History, Science and Culture, Oxford, July 2013
  33. First International Conference of Dalcroze Studies, Coventry, July 2013
  34. Third North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Fort Worth, TX, USA, July 2013
  35. 2nd International Conference on Historical Keyboard Music, Edinburgh, July 2013
  36. International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music, Liverpool, July 2013
  37. Mechanical Musical Instruments, London, July 2013
  38. Music and Philosophy, London, July 2013
  39. Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference, Cuddesdon, Oxford, August 2013
  40. 2013 International Computer Music Conference, Perth, Australia, August 2013
  41. Chant and Culture, Vancouver, August 2013
  42. Silence, Absence and Ellipsis in Words and Music, London, August 2013
  43. RMA Annual Conference 2013, London, September 2013
  44. Staging Operatic Anniversaries, Oxford, September 2013
  45. The Staging of Verdi and Wagner Operas, Pistoia, Italy, September 2013
  46. Inaugural Music Therapy Plus Conference on Music and Communication, London, September 2013
  47. Third Biennial Mediterranean Music Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 2013
  48. Extended Durations symposium, Huddersfield, September 2013
  49. Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound,
    Stellenbosch, South Africa, September 2013
  50. Eighth Biennial International Conference on Music since 1900, Liverpool, September 2013
  51. Beyond the East-West Divide: Rethinking Balkan Music’s Poles of Attraction, Belgrade, September 2013
  52. Sociocultural crossings and borders: musical microhistories, Vilnius, September 2013
  53. Internationalism and the Arts: Imagining the Cosmopolis at the long fin de siècle, London, September 2013
  54. SysMus13, Genoa, Italy, September 2013
  55. Richard Wagner on stage: Crisis and creation, Sevilla, Spain, September 2013
  56. Training “Early” Musicians in the Age of Recordings, Tel Aviv, September 2013
  57. Tracking the Creative Process in Music, Montreal, October 2013
  58. Principles of Music Composing: the Phenomenon of Rhythm, Vilnius, Lithuania, October 2013
  59. Verdi’s Third Century: Italian Opera Today, New York, October 2013
  60. Twentieth Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Musicologia (SIdM), Foggia, Italy, October 2013
  61. INTIME 2013 – Adaptive and Assistive Technologies, Coventry, October 2013
  62. Notation in Contemporary Music: Composition, Performance, Improvisation, London, October 2013
  63. Rethinking Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Towards New Ethical Paradigms in Music and Health Research, London, October 2013
  64. “Beyond the Semitone”: a Symposium on Tuning, Scale Systems, and Microtonality in Historical and Contemporary Contexts, Aberdeen, October 2013
  65. International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association,
    Second Biennial Conference, Taipei, October 2013
  66. Fourth International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Long Beach, CA, USA, October 2013
  67. International conference: JĀZEPS VĪTOLS – IDENTITY, WORKS, CONTEXTS, Riga, October 2013
  68. Music around the Atlantic Rim, Cardiff, October 2013
  69. Benjamin Britten: A Century of Inspiration, Lubbock, Texas, USA, October 2013
  70. Wandering Minstrels: The History of Travelling Opera in Britain, London, October 2013
  71. Benjamin Britten at 100: An American Centenary Symposium, Normal, Illinois, USA, October 2013
  72. Britain and the British in World Culture. Celebrating Benjamin Britten’s Centenary
    International Conference, St Petersburg, October–November 2013
  73. MUSICS IN THE SHIFTING GLOBAL ORDER: International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association, Second Biennial Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2013
  74. Sources of Identity: Makers, Owners and Users of Music Sources Before 1600, Sheffield, October 2013
  75. BASEES Study Group for Russian and Eastern European Music Annual Conference 2013: Scandals In Music History, Oxford, November 2013
  76. Richard Wagner and the North, Helsinki, November 2013
  77. 10th conference in Music Theory and Analysis, Belgrade, November 2013
  78. ENIM 2103 – III National Conference of Music Research (Portugal), Beja, Portugal, November 2013
  79. ‘Con la Mente e con le Mani’: Improvisation from ‘cantare super librum’ to ‘partimento’, Venice, November 2013
  80. 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, November 2013
  81. Gesualdo 400th Anniversary Conference, York, November 2013
  82. Protest Music in the Twentieth Century, Lucca, Italy, November 2013
  83. RMA Study Day: Researching music as process: methods and approaches, Oxford, November 2013
  84. SEMPRE: ‘Music and Empathy’ Conference, Hull, November 2013
  85. The String Quartet from 1750 to 1870: From the Private to the Public Sphere, Lucca, Italy, November–December 2013
  86. Wagner and Us, Melbourne, December 2013
  87. Royal Musical Association Research Students Conference, Birmingham, January 2014
  88. ARCHAEOACOUSTICS: The Archaeology of Sound, Valletta, Malta, February 2014
  89. Annual Meeting, Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, Palos Heights, IL, USA, February 2014
  90. Composition in the 21st Century, Dublin, March 2014
  91. Conference at the Horniman Museum: Roots of Revival, London, March 2014
  92. The modernization of the musical life in the Spain of Isabel II: beyond Martín Sánchez Allú (1823-1858), Madrid, March 2014
  93. ‘Straight from the heart’: a conference on love and rock music, Montpellier, April 2014
  94. Musical Practices – Continuities and Transitions XII, Belgrade, April 2014
  95. American Bach Society, Biennial Meeting 2014, Gambier, OH, USA, May 2014
  96. Confronting the National in the Musical Past, Helsinki, May 2014
  97. 18th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Toronto, June 2014
  98. Opera’s second life: beyond the European context, Sydney, June 2014
  99. CMPCP Performance Studies Network Conference, Cambridge, July 2014
  100. 16th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Salzburg, July 2014
  101. Critical Perspectives on Music, Education, and Religion, Helsinki, August 2014
  102. Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Leeds, September 2014
  103. The Hofkapellmeister in Thuringia around 1700. Symposium in memory of Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714), Rudolstadt, Germany, 10-11 October 2014
  104. Emigration, Integration and Creative Productivity: Alfred Schnittke in Hamburg, 1990-1998, Hamburg, November 2014
  105. Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Birmingham, September 2015

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