Events Associated with the SMI

Forthcoming Events

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Study Day

RISM Ireland is holding a study day in association with Society for Musicology in Ireland at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama on 24 April 2010. This will offer an opportunity for researchers to outline their work or plans to work on collections of manuscript or printed material held in repositories throughout Ireland. We hope that this will act as a stimulus for future research.

Dr John B. Howard (University Librarian UCD) will present a keynote address and we hope to provide RISM cataloguing training for any interested parties.

The RISM committee invites proposals for individual papers or reports of 20 minutes duration relating to any area of musicological archival research especially (but not exclusively) in the period prior to 1830. Suggestions for themed sessions are also welcome. Proposals should be in the form of an abstract of no more than 250 words, outlining the paper's main objectives and research findings.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to Kerry Houston, kerry.houston@dit.ie by Friday 19 March 2010 and notification of a decision on the submissions will be issued the following week. The study day programme and information on accommodation and registration will be posted on the SMI website shortly afterwards.

RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) is the 'International Inventory of Musical Resources' —an international non-profit joint venture, established in 1952, which aims at comprehensive documentation of existing musical sources worldwide. RISM Ireland is undertaking the systematic cataloguing of musical sources in Ireland, both north and south. Our remit includes manuscript (handwritten) music to c.1830, printed music to c.1800 and music librettos, treatises or books about music to c.1800. It is envisioned that the results of this project will be made available as a searchable online database. For further information on the project, please visit our webpage at www.musicologyireland.com/rism.


14th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music Queen's University Belfast, 30 June - 4 July 2010

www.qub.ac.uk/sites/BaroqueConference/

Since its inception in the 1980s, the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music has established itself as one of the largest and most important musicological meetings in the academic calendar. It attracts leading established scholars while fostering young and upcoming talent. Previously held in cities such as Dublin, Logroño, Manchester, Warsaw and Leeds, the event takes place for the first time in Northern Ireland.

Taking the symbolism of the number '14' as a starting point, we saw it fitting that the theme of the 14th conference should be BACH. At the same time, we wish to uphold the fundamental concept of the conference and welcome papers which explore any aspect of Baroque music. The conference will be held over five days and will include between 130-150 presentations in 3 or 4 parallel sessions, in the form of individual papers and round-table discussions.

Accompanying events include a "Delegates' Recital", a "Come and Sing" event for delegates, students and members of the public, and a concert of Irish traditional music which will showcase the unique collections of 18th-century musical materials held at Queen's University. Delegates will also have the opportunity to discover some of Northern Ireland's attractions.

Organising Committee
Yo Tomita (Chair)
Alison Dunlop, Tanja Kovacevic (Coordinators) Elise Crean (Secretary) Ian Mills (Artistic Director)

Scientific Committee
Yo Tomita, Chair (Queen's University Belfast) Peter Holman (University of Leeds) Berta Joncus (Goldsmiths, University of London) Jan Smaczny (Queen's University Belfast) Michael Talbot (Liverpool University)

Past Events

  • Interdisciplinary Symposium: Music without Walls? Source Studies in the 21st Century Queen's University Belfast, 16-17 December 2009.
  • 'Eduard Hanslick: Aesthetic, Critical, and Cultural Contexts', University College Dublin, 24–25 June 2009.
  • The 6th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 6-8 July 2009.
  • Fifteenth Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University College Dublin, 25-28 June 2008.
  • 'Understanding Bach's B-minor Mass', Queen's University Belfast, 2-4 November 2007.
  • 'Musical Journeys with the Flight of the Earls', Dublin Institute of Technology, 3 February 2007.
  • 'Music and Identity in Ireland', NUI, Maynooth, 1-2 December 2006.
  • 'Mendelssohn in the Long Nineteenth Century', Trinity College, Dublin, 14-17 July 2005.
  • Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis, University College Dublin, 23-25 June 2005.
  • 'Music and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Ireland', NUI, Maynooth, 2 April 2005.
  • 'Teaching the Unteachable: A Conference on Teaching Composition', Waterford Institute of Technology, 29 January 2005.
  • International Bach Week, Dublin Institute of Technology, 22-26 November 2004.