Aims

The Society for Musicology in Ireland was established in 2003 to promote and foster musical scholarship in all its forms throughout Ireland, north and south. It provides a forum for everyone interested in musicology, whether professional, academic, postgraduate or undergraduate student, or just with an interest in the study of music.

Constitution

  1. The Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI) has been established to promote and foster musical scholarship in all its forms. The Society seeks to provide a forum for the practice of musicology which reflects the gamut of musical research in Ireland, including ethnomusicology, historical musicology, analysis, performance practice, textual criticism, archival research, organology music technology, cultural and social history and critical discourse, to name some of the disciplines pursued by musicologists in this country.
  2. Membership of the society is open to anyone (in Ireland or abroad) with an interest in musical scholarship, whether professional or otherwise.
  3. The affairs of the society shall be determined by a council comprising a president, a secretary, a treasurer, a membership secretary and eight other members (to include an elected student representative), with power to co-opt four further members.
  4. The council shall be elected every three years prior to a general meeting of the society to be held in conjunction with its annual conference. The period of office for the council shall be three years. The council shall nominate the officers of the society. The president of the society may not hold office for more than two consecutive terms.
  5. Council shall be elected by ballot of the members, unless the number of nominations does not exceed places on council available. All members of the society at the time of an election are eligible to present themselves for election. Prospective members of the council must be nominated by current members of the society.
  6. The position of student representative on the council shall be held by a registered research student of musicology who is a member of the society and who shall be elected by the student membership of the society. The student representative shall be elected for the duration of the current council unless he/she completes his/her postgraduate studies or otherwise ceases to be a registered research student, in which case a successor shall be elected at the earliest appropriate opportunity.
  7. Conferences, publications and other activities of the SMI shall be under the regulation of the council. The council shall also be responsible for the maintenance of membership and the development of the society in Ireland and in relation to other musicological societies abroad.
  8. This constitution recognizes the SMI as an independent organization, notwithstanding formal or informal affiliations which the society may pursue in the interests of musicology in Ireland. In particular, the constitution of the society recognizes the Royal Musical Association in terms of affiliation and shared interests. The SMI reserves the right to pursue other affiliations from time to time as determined by the council in consultation with the membership of the society.
  9. The constitution of the society may only be changed at an annual general meeting of the society and subject to approval by a two-thirds majority of members present.
  10. The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held during the Society’s annual conference or on such other occasion as determined by the Council, members of the Society to be given at least three weeks’ prior notice of the date and time of the meeting and provided with an opportunity to submit items for the agenda.