IAML
CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) will hold its annual conference 5-10 July 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This will be a joint meeting with the International Musicological Society (IMS). While IAML conferences do not have themes, the focus of the IMS Symposium will be “Music: Notation and Sound”.

The IAML Programme Committee invites proposals of papers for this meeting which concern music, collections, and/or library issues that focus on Dutch libraries, music, and publishers, although presentations of a general nature are also welcome.

We strongly encourage the submission of papers that focus on popular or traditional music of all genres and periods and their impact on libraries.

The online submission form for proposals may be found at the following link: IAML Call for Papers.

Deadline expired.

 

Jim Cassaro Chair, IAML Programme Committee

 

  IMS
CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

The theme for the IMS intercongressional Symposium will be “Music: Notation and Sound”.

 

Although music can exist as an oral tradition, in many cultures – Western and non-Western – music has been codified in notated form and recorded by means of audio technology. When we study music, we usually study it with reference to a score or a sound carrier. The existence of music libraries is in fact predicated on this ability to codify or ‘fix’ music in a permanent state, either on paper or via the process of sound recording.

Electronic media have also provided new ways to store and to propagate music that were impossible in earlier times. But at the same time the act of notating or recording music creates many problems. How are notational practices formed and interpreted over time? To what extent can a score or recording represent the music as it was intended by the creator and/or performer? How much is lost? How effectively can music be recreated from its notated form?

For this IMS Symposium papers will be accepted that deal in one way or another with problems associated with musical notation, sound recordings and electronic formats (including editing, encoding, transmission, etc.), in relation to all musical repertoires that exist in western and non-western music.

 

The time limit for each paper is 20 minutes, allowing 10 minutes questions and discussion. Papers can be given in any of the five official languages of the IMS (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish), but one must be aware of the fact that the largest audience is reached with a paper in English.

 

Round Tables and Panels on specific topics are equally welcome. A Round Table or Panel should fit in a 90-minute time slot.

 

The floor is open for both IMS and non-IMS members, but if you intend to propose a paper and you are not yet a member of the IMS, you are strongly encouraged to join. The Application for Membership is available online.