Musica Scotica 14th Annual Conference Registration Opens

Musica Scotica 14th Annual Conference Friday 3 - Sunday 5 May 2019 Tolbooth, Stirling Registration for the Musica Scotica conference is now open. It is posted on Musica Scotica's Facebook page:- https://www.facebook.com/events/374235653379262/

Musica Scotica homepage: http://www.musicascotica.org.uk/

Thoughts about a Pile of Old Music - The Long Tail of Research

Read Karen's musings about a pile of old pop music that she found the other day!  The Long Tail of Research

Music and Gender in the 18th Century: a Call for Papers for a Musicology Conference in Germany:

Call for Papers

Enlightenment! Music and Gender in the 18th Century

Organizer: PD Dr. Katharina Hottmann and Cornelia Bartsch on behalf of the research unit Womens’ and Gender Studies of the German Society for Music Research

Place: Institute of Historical Musicology at the University of Hamburg

Date: 24.–27. May 2018

Deadline: 15 May 2017

Unveiling a new source of Digital Resources for Musicology

Do you teach or study any aspect of musicology?

If you're looking for digital resources for musicology - say, digitized Beethoven scores - then this new website looks really useful.  Do take a look to see if it has anything relevant to your area of study or teaching!

 

Digital Resources for Musicology http://drm.ccarh.org/

 Quoting from the website homepage,

This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists. With a burgeoning number of digital resources available, remembering titles of sites and pathways to them can be difficult. Digital Resources in Musicology (DRM) is organized topically and provides a rapid search tool for specialties within heterogeneous collections. Neither the links or their descriptions are exhaustive.

Older projects predating the development of the internet are listed at ADAM: Archive of Digital Applications in Musicology. Curated digital and hybrid editions are itemized at EVE: Electronic and Virtual Editions. Harvard's Online Resources for Music Scholars offer a somewhat different, largely complementary mix of projects.

Musical Life Outside London - Historically Speaking

CONFERENCE ALERT!

Musical Life Outside London, 1500-1800: Networks, Circulation, Sources

This is a last-minute reminder that you can still sign up to this one-day conference online - but be quick!  It takes place this Saturday.

Saturday 25 October 2014, 9.30 - 17.00
The Black Gate Learning Suite
Newcastle Castle, Newcastle upon Tyne

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.

Reblogged: Guest post by Katy Hamilton: "Music librarians, we salute you"

Our international professional association, IAML, has just posted a wonderful endorsement of music librarians.  Katie Hamilton highlights the benefits on both sides when music librarians collaborate with musicologists.

Read Katie's inspirational guest blogpost HERE.

• International Association of Music Libraries homepage

Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop

First call for papers:-

ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014

Funded AHRC Music Research Studentship - Fabulous Opportunity

We're sharing this information at the request of our music librarian colleagues in the British Library:-

"AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship: Music, print and culture in the 16th and early 17th centuries

"Applications are invited for an AHRC collaborative PhD studentship, held at Royal Holloway, University of London, and The British Library, on the theme of 'Music, print and culture in the 16th and early 17th centuries'. The studentship commences in autumn 2014. Full details are here: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/news/newsarticles/newcollaborativephdfundingscheme.aspx

"The deadline for receipt of applications (including two references) is Thursday 13th March 2014. Interviews will be held at the British Library on Friday 28th March and Wednesday 2nd April 2014.

"Informal enquiries to Stephen Rose (stephen.rose@rhul.ac.uk)."

That Funky Musicology (YouTube)

You really must play this!  Whittaker would turn in his grave, but our thanks to Dr Kieran Fenby-Hulse for tweeting this link.  

(If you find cute singing youngsters a bit saccharine-sweet, our apologies - Karen liked it!)

That Funky Musicology

Closer, Closer ... the Birth of a Book

Excitement is rising as publication date comes closer: 

Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era, by Music and Academic Services Librarian Dr Karen McAulay

Watch this space for further news of the book-launch on Friday 26th April at 4 pm.

Musicology today - news from the Royal Musical Association

Are you involved in music research?  A lot is going on in the Royal Musical Association - here's a summary, but do visit the website for more info, and why not consider joining (if you haven't already)?  There's a student rate, too.

CALLS FOR PAPERS 

Poulenc 

RMA-supported conference, "Rethinking Poulenc: 50 years on", 21-3 June 2013, Keele University. Deadline for proposals of 20-minute papers: 18 January 2013. Details.

Mediaeval text 

RMA-supported conference, "Performing medieval text - a tautology?", 10-11 May 2013, Merton College, Oxford. Deadline for proposals of 20-minute papers: 3 February 2013. Details.

Music and Philosophy 

RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group, 3rd Annual Conference, 19-20 July 2013, King's College London. Deadline for proposals of individual or collaborative papers, themed paper sessions, or lecture-recitals: 8 February 2013.  Details

19th Century British music 

RMA-supported Ninth Biennial Conference on Music in nineteenth-century Britain, 24-7 June 2013, Cardiff University. Deadline for proposals of 20-minute individual papers, 40-minute lecture-recitals, 50-minute round tables, and 120-minute panel sessions: 15 February 2013. Details.

British poets in music 

RMA Study Day, "20th-century British poets in music", 28 June 2013, University of Hull. Deadline for proposals of papers or compositions: 15 February 2013. Details.

MORE FORTHCOMING RMA ACTIVITIES 

Wagner 

RMA-supported conference, "Richard Wagner’s impact on his world and ours", 30 May - 2 June 2013, University of Leeds. Details.

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Visit http://www.rma.ac.uk/conferences/ for information on more RMA conferences from June 2013 onwards.

Golden Pages - conference listings for musicologists

Golden Pages (click here)

Whittaker would be failing in 'his' duty to budding musicologists if we didn't share this key resource for anyone interested in attending or organising a music conference.  So, here are the Golden Pages.

You first need to get a login to the Golden Pages WordPress blog.  If you experience any difficulty with this initial step, you'll find the webmaster's email link on the conference listing login page.

'Whittaker' recently posted details of the Musica Scotica for editorial approval - and here's the link.

• http://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk/

Why Whittaker Blogs

‘Whittaker’ had a few days of leave carried over from last year’s entitlement, so he’s taking a long weekend. But will ‘his’ readers survive without him? For anyone chancing upon this page, here are a few random but carefully-weighed comments.

So, why does Whittaker blog? To borrow Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s words, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”:-

• This blog is intended to inform staff and students of the performing arts.
• It aims to flag up useful and interesting websites, forthcoming events, new or rare library acquisitions, services offered by the library, and other sources of information, study, research or career support.
• Thus, this week it has offered readers details of a research symposium; old Scottish musicians and song collectors William Motherwell, William Tytler and Alexander Campbell; an arts and humanities streaming workshop; a Steve Reich 75th birthday competition; British Library Postgraduate Open Days; thoughts about a research query on the Lordship of the Isles; and the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. Nothing if not varied!
• Our staff and students are musicians, actors, community arts animateurs, stage designers, film and television directors, jazz improvisers and ballet dancers, to name but a few.
• ‘Whittaker’ keeps a weather eye for interesting trends coming up on the Twitter scene, but ‘he’ will not be found on Facebook, as ‘he’ doesn’t care to discuss his private life on social media websites.  This is a professional blog.
• Meanwhile, the combination of upcoming cultural and information trends, with intriguing historical facts pertaining to old Scottish song collections, can be attributed to Whittaker’s own dual-qualified background in library & information science and musicology. He does try to seek out drama, film/television and ballet snippets, but depends on his informants to feed him interesting titbits in these spheres.
• The author of Whittaker does also occasionally contribute to other blogs such as TheThesisWhisperer, lurks around Twitter’s #PhDchat on Wednesday evenings, and authors the Jobs.ac.uk Music blog in 'his' spare time, to keep in touch with the world of research and offer support to those following him along the doctoral path.

If you like what you read here, please do comment. Any suggestions are always considered with an open mind.

Musicologist Kenneth Elliott dies

One of Glasgow's greatest musicologists, Dr Kenneth J. Elliott, died in Gartnaval Hospital around 8 this morning, Friday 9th September 2011. 

His demise will be sadly mourned by his many friends and former colleagues from the University of Glasgow Music Department, where Kenneth was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow.

Kenneth, who was born in Dundee in 1929, was deeply involved in researching the history of Scottish music, and was latterly the General Editor of Musica Scotica, which publishes and organises events to promote the study and performance of early Scottish music.

The funeral will take place in St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral (Great Western Road, Glasgow) on Monday, 19 September. 

• Some of Kenneth Elliott's publications, listed in the Whittaker Library catalogue at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
• Read Lesley Duncan's interview with Kenneth, in The Herald, 25th May 1996, here.
• University of Glasgow lecturer David McGuinness blogged about the funeral on his Concerto Caledonia blog.  David's personal memories of a great man.

Golden pages - conference listings for musicologists

Golden pages - conference listings for musicologists

Anyone doing music research will be grateful for this website, if they haven't yet come across it:-

Conference listings in musicology and other links for musicologists

  

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