CFP: Nineteenth-Century Music, Univ. of Toronto, June 2014

18th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
University of Toronto, Canada, 18-21 June 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline: 15 October 2013, 5:00 p.m. EST

The programme committee welcomes proposals on any aspect of music during the long 19th Century, and also invites proposals that engage with any of the following themes:

- Research on composers with major anniversaries in the years surrounding the conference, including Foster, Meyerbeer, Nielsen, Strauss, Mahler-Werfel, Sibelius, Scriabin;
- Music and conflict from the Congress of Vienna to the onset of WWI;
- Movement, gesture, and dance in 19th-century music and musical discourses;
- Audiences, listening, and spectatorship in the 19th century;
- 19th-century music and ideas of nature;
- Analysis, hermeneutics, and 19th-century music;
- Riemannian and neo-Riemannian theory: historical, theoretical, analytical perspectives;
- History and practice of Schenkerian analysis;
- Music in North America and the idea of North America in 19th-century music.

Keynote lectures will be delivered by Thomas Christensen (University of Chicago) and Richard Kramer (CUNY Graduate Center).

Proposals are invited for the following:
- Individual Papers (20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion);
- Themed Sessions (three or four papers, each 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion);
- Roundtable Sessions (up to six people each giving a brief position paper, followed by a general discussion);
- Performances and Lecture Recitals.

Proposals should be prepared as follows:
- Individual papers: maximum 250 words;
- Themed Sessions: 250-word summary outlining the aims of the session, and a brief description of each paper;
- Roundtable Sessions: 250-word summary outlining the aims of the session, and a brief description of each paper;
- Lecture Recitals/ Performances: 250-word summary (plus supporting materials – e.g. CV/recording/programme details).

Proposals should be sent as an MS Word or PDF attachment to <nineteenthcentury.music at utoronto.ca>.

Successful applicants will be informed by mid-January 2014.

Programme Committee: James Deaville, Daniel Grimley, Sarah Hibberd, Sherry Lee, Ryan McClelland, Patrick McCreless, Mary Ann Smart, and Steven Vande Moortele.