Submission deadline: 31st March.

Summer School starts: 11th Aug

An opportunity is open to students who have just finished their master's degree studies and have started or are planning to start a doctoral programme in music research:

General Description
The International Summer School in Systematic Musicology (ISSSM2010) will take place in Jyväskylä, starting on the 11th of August, 2010. The theme of the Summer School is ‘Beauty in Music - Musical Aesthetics Revisited’ and it focuses on the most advanced and up-to-date topics of musicology through an interactive and cooperative learning approach. Topics include empirical methodology, musical aesthetics, contextual and cultural issues in music research, music information retrieval, music
and interactive media, music and emotion, embodied music cognition, as well as gesture research and interactive media.

The scientific program consists of lectures and workshops, new experiments, and student poster presentations. Students will have the opportunity to participate in all stages of empirical research, learn about the most advanced and current topics and methods in the field of systematic musicology, and discuss their research proposals/project with an international body of teachers.
 
Applications
A maximum of 30 students will be admitted to the course. The main target audience are students in musicology, but students of music research from other fields (computer science, psychology, information science, mathematics, physics, etc.) are also encouraged to attend. Direct beneficiaries are students who have just finished their master's degree studies and have started / are planning to start a doctoral programme in music research. Teachers of the course will evaluate all applications.
Applications should include the following documents in pdf format:
 
Curriculum vitae (CV), max. 1 page, in English
Certified copy of academic degree
Summary of the (PhD) research proposal, max. 2 pages
 
Application deadline is 31st of March, 2010. Applications are to be
sent via e-mail to the Summer School Assistant:
kaisa.m.johansson@jyu.fi
 
Notification of acceptance will be given by the 21st of May, 2010.
 
More Information
https://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/musiikki/en/summerschool
 
Summer School Assistant Kaisa Johansson
e-mail: kaisa.m.johansson@jyu.fi
mobile: +358 40 247426

Call for Papers – Singing: Interdisciplinary perspectives on a natural human expressive outlet

Submission deadline: 1st March 2010

UNESCO Observatory, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning,
The University of Melbourne

Guest Editor: Larry O'Farrell

This issue will focus on the origins and implications of singing, a natural, human expressive outlet.  Linked to social, cultural, and biological development, singing draws on many disciplines and submits to many forms of analysis and specific explorations.  Submissions are invited reflecting multidisciplinary knowledge about singing from the perspectives of psychology, music, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, education, and other disciplines.  Submissions may relate to one of the three themes around which the issue will, provisionally, be organized although other perspectives are welcome.

Theme 1: Development of Singing

• Acquisition of Singing – Determining universal, culture specific and idiosyncratic aspects of the development of singing.
• Singing and Speaking Comparisons – Defining the features that distinguish singing and speech acquisition.

Theme 2: Education

• Teaching Singing and Education through Singing Assessing and improving instructional methods for teaching singing and learning songs, and by using singing to teaching and learn the curricula of other disciplines.

Theme 3: Singing and Well-being

• Cultural Understanding through singing – examining the role of teaching songs of foreign cultures to children to promote lifelong cultural understanding of others and themselves.

• Intergenerational Singing – Determining how singing increases individual physical and psychological well-being and community well- being, with a special focus on intergenerational singing where elder members of a society teach children songs of their culture.

• Singing and Health:  Specific health benefits of singing as in breathing exercise compliance in lung disease through singing.

Text: Annabel J. Cohen Ph.D., AIRS Project Director, University of Prince Edward Island.  Used with permission.

The International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition is an interdisciplinary conference devoted to the dissemination of new, unpublished research relating to the field of music perception and cognition.

The conference is relevant for university and industry researchers and graduate students working in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, music theory and composition, psychophysics, music performance, music education, music therapy and music medicine, neurophysiology, ethnomusicology, developmental psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer technology, and other related fields of inquiry.

The 11th biennial meeting of the conference will be held in Seattle, Washington on the campus of the University of Washington.

Submissions are invited for: spoken papers poster presentations symposia and workshops All submissions should relate to the cognitive sciences of music.

Authors are kindly requested to submit their abstract by filling in the appropriate online form available at: http://depts.washington.edu/icmpc11/index.html.

The maximum abstract length is 400 words.

The submission deadline is December 15, 2009.

The conference Mediality of Music Cognition and Aisthesis (MeMCA) intends to bring together researchers interested in intradisciplinary studies of music, media, cognition, and aesthetics and in the convergence of the humanities, philosophy, cognitive science, anthropology and the neurosciences.

Mediality, a term borrowed from media theory, serves as a generic concept to place emphasis on the idea that media, whether technological or symbolic, are essential to bringing about musical information, meaning, concepts, or intentions in the processes of music cognition and aesthetic perception of music, i.e. music aisthesis.

Organisation:

Dr. Jin Hyun Kim (jinhyun.kim@uni-koeln.de)

Prof. Dr. Uwe Seifert (u.seifert@uni-koeln.de) Systematic Musicology University of Cologne;

Albertus-Magnus-Platz. 50923 Cologne (Köln) Germany