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“On February 19-21, 2010, the First International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM) convened on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. There, scholars from five continents representing the disciplines of music theory, ethnomusicology, musicology, cognitive psychology, computer science, and mathematics, as well as performers from a diverse array of musical cultures and traditions, came together with a common desire to engage in a unique cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogue, and in so doing, to promote and further enhance our collective understanding of the vast body of music we in the west commonly refer to as "world" music. What resulted was a compelling discourse that exceeded the expectations of all involved, and forcefully prompted the organizers to make the AAWM conference a biennial event. Indeed, plans are currently underway for the conference's second installment, which will occur at The University of British Columbia in May of 2012.

The creation of the online journal Analytical Approaches to World Music represents an attempt to capture, sustain, and further extend this remarkable dialogue in a written format that is easily accessible to the widest possible audience. Within its pages, we aim to deliver the same broad spectrum of approaches, repertories, and musical issues in the form of articles, book reviews, letters to the editors, critical forums, and the like. In addition, the journal website will also host online discussion boards, with which we seek to provide a valuable forum for more informal discourse that fosters a stimulating exchange of ideas amongst scholars and musicians from across the globe.“

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“Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär is a conference group dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary work on the culture, politics, and society of German-speaking Central Europe during the early modern period. The group sponsors a triennial conference organized around a theme intended to explore and integrate current research interests in the disciplines of literature, history, the history of science and medicine, music, art history, and historical theology and the history of religion.”

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• Ranked consistently in the top 5 English departments in British Universities (see University Guide 2011)
• An internationally diverse and vibrant cohort of expert staff
• Ranked third in The Guardian's teaching quality table in 2011
• A major base for research into comparative literary studies and offers distinctive and imaginative programmes of study at both undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Scored a 100% at 4* (highest possible) rating for the department's 'Environment and Esteem' in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
• Established strengths in comparative European literatures, medieval and early modern studies, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, Romanticism, literature and gender, and literary and cultural theory
• More recent areas of focus include colonial and postcolonial studies, world literature, drama and performance, and contemporary writing
• Home to the Warwick Writing Programme, the largest and most comprehensive of its type in Europe

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“The Music Library Association is the professional association for music libraries and librarianship in the United States. Founded in 1931, it has an international membership of librarians, musicians, scholars, educators, and members of the book and music trades. Complementing the Association’s national and international activities are eleven regional chapters that carry out its programs on the local level.

MLA publishes the journal Notes, the world’s leading journal in its field.

MLA’s development program attracts individual and corporate donors whose financial support further the purposes of the Association —

• to promote the establishment, growth, and use of music libraries
• to encourage the collection of music and music literature in libraries
• to increase efficiency in music library service and administration
• to promote the profession of music librarianship“

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“The Gregorian Institute of Canada (GIC) undertakes research and education to promote the study and performance of Gregorian and other western chant repertoires in Canada.

Education:

• works with local churches of various denominations, with musicians and cantors, and with historians interested in medieval society.
• provides workshops, performances, and special study days encompassing the whole range of the Gregorian and other Western chant repertoire to develop the knowledge and teach the skills necessary to perform and critically appreciate monastic and secular chant in the western cultural tradition.
• organizes and runs ‘field-trips’ to parishes and monastic communities with living traditions of chant performance.

• supports and publishes research into the performance of various chant traditions, with a particular emphasis on current performance.

The Gregorian Institute of Canada is a not-for-profit corporation, licensed and authorized to provide official tax receipts for donations in support of its mission. Founded in 2004, GIC is a non-denominational association. GIC is affiliated with The School of the Arts, McMaster University.”

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“Located in a hilltop medieval village in southern Tuscany, the Piccola Accademia di Montisi has been founded to provide a center of inspiration for musicians worldwide who have an interest in the harpsichord, its repertoire and its history.

The staff and trustees of the Piccola Accademia bring together significant experience in music, the broader arts, government, charitable foundation governance and business.  We see our role as providing a platform from which teachers, students, performers and audiences can build an academy in Plato’s sense of that word, meaning a place for developing and exchanging an advanced philosophy—which in our case is the philosophy of historic musical performance.  We will ensure that resources are gathered and managed appropriately, balancing the economic health and stewardship of the Piccola Accademia with providing access to the broader musical and local community.“

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French association promoting the “ Orpheon Project”, France-Orpheon seeks concert locations, expositions, financing and a location to establish the permanent residence of the Orpheon Foundation collection of historical string instruments in France.

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Added on: Apr 19, 2011 | Hits: 390

“Brepols Publishers is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities.

The focus of its publications lies in "source-works" from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. By this is meant critical editions of original texts and documents in their original language, reference works such as encyclopaedias, handbooks and bibliographies, as well as monograph studies and cutting-edge research.

Brepols Publishers' mission is to publish works with an outstanding academic reputation in the field of Europe’s cultural roots and sphere of influence. Such publications fall mainly within the disciplines of history and archaeology, language and literature, music, art and architectural history.“

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Headquartered in Geneva, the foundation "La Ménestrandie" is born of the last wishes of Helen Teysseire-Vuilleumier who wanted an institution bearing the name inherited from her collection of historical musical instruments, its library and its wealth so that her commitment to early music throughout her life is to be pursued through this institution.

Officials of the foundation are now trying to continue the work of Helen Teysseire, acquiring new instruments, restoring others and holding, each spring, concerts of early music in which several instruments from the collection are highlighted.

"La Ménestrandie" is a member of GEFAM (Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente, Zurich) www.gefam.ch.

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Musicologist in early music. Giulia Giovani holds a PhD is on Italian printed cantatas from 1620 to 1738. Main research topics: italian cantatas; history of printing and publishing in music.

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“Welcome  to my pages with recorder fingerings! The largest page worldwide for recorder fingerings. - More than 523 charts on-line. ..”

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“The Foundation aims are of the preservation and knowledge of ancient musical instruments and the coordination of events related to ancient music. ”

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“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.

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. ..“

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“Welcome to the Internet site of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, an independent academic and artistic organization which investigates and promotes the myriad of interactions between text and music. Lyrica was founded by Dr. Louis Auld, Professor of French Literature at Central Connecticut State University in 1981. Since then, it has grown to include nearly 500 members in North America, Europe, Turkey and Japan. After serving as Editor of our peer-reviewed journal, Ars Lyrica, and as Secretary-Treasurer for seventeen years, Professor Auld retired from those posts, but remains active as an advisor to the Society's Executive Board. Lyrica welcomes literary, musicological and performance-practice research into word-music issues crossing all historical periods, and enveloping all musical and literary genres and cultural frameworks. Chronologically through the academic calendar, the Society is present at the annual conventions of the American Musicological Society, the Modern Language Association, the National Association of Teachers for Singing, and the National Opera Association (alternating biennially), the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Comparative Literature Association, where our seminar explores a special topic each year.

Our annual Lyrica Dialogues at Harvard are held each spring. ..“

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“IBMP is a non-profit organization to which anyone can join after payment of the annual social. With the support of the Culture of Regione Piemonte, Fondazione CRT and Compagnia di San Paolo performs work of promoting studies, research and documentation, publications and recordings related to culture and the musical culture of Piedmont. Organizes exhibitions, conferences, conventions, concerts. It also proposes to undertake an inventory, indexing and cataloging of bibliographic music of the Piedmont Region understanding both in the geographical sense and in its current broader sense of history.“ (Google Translate)

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“Since 1954, the Renaissance Society of America has been the leading organization in the Americas for the interdisciplinary study of the period 1300-1650 in Western history. The RSA brings together members from many backgrounds who are interested in a wide variety of disciplines related to this period.

The RSA actively encourages the continued spread of learning about the Renaissance. The Society organizes an annual meeting every year, which features the most distinguished Renaissance scholars in North America and beyond. The Society further encourages scholarship by offering prizes and research grants of up to $3,000 in three categories (pre-doctoral scholars, junior scholars, and senior scholars).

The RSA sponsors many publications. The Society publishes the journal Renaissance Quarterly, its electronic counterpart, the online edition of Renaissance Quarterly, and the newsletter Renaissance News & Notes. The RSA also sponsors its own text, bibliography, and special purpose series (RTS), a reprint series (RSARTS), and the program of the annual meeting with abstracts of all the papers, and subsidizes editions, translations, and research tools published outside the RSA series. The RSA's Directory of members is available on this website. Finally, through its partnership with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the RSA helps to make access to information about Renaissance scholarship broadly accessible.“

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“The Royal Dutch Society for Music (KVNM) is the national professional association for musicology. The KVNM existed since 1868 and is the oldest organization in the musicological world. The Association organizes seminars and publishes scientific works in the field of Dutch music. The biannual journal (TVNM) is authoritative and internationally.

This website provides information on activities, publications and history of the Association. You can also contact us, sign up as member and order publications.“ (Google Translate)

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“Karin Paulsmeier was born 1943 in Hamburg, Germany. She began her music studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB), receiving her diploma in 1968, and continuing her formation in musicology at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

From 1970 to 2003 she taught „Notationskunde", the study of musical notation dating from the 12th to 18th centuries, at the SCB. Over the years she has gained international recognition as one of the most knowledgeable professionals in her field. Karin Paulsmeier's particular interest lies in the relationship between notation and musical style as they evolve over time, presenting a history of music through original sources. She frequently advises musicians on the interpretation and performance of music read directly from the original notation. ..“

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“Godoy Music offers  recorder lessons,  Baroque and Renaissance ensembles,  and Alexander Technique lessons  in a warm, nurturing environment. We work with students of all levels to provide a course of study that matches their individual goals and needs. All lessons at Godoy Music are taught by Héloïse and Justin, professional musicians, and husband and wife with 10 years teaching experience between them. Teachers: Héloïse Degrugillier & Justin Godoy.“

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“Founded in 1971, the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) aims to promote, support and disseminate research on the eighteenth century. The Society is a bilingual and multidisciplinary organization interested in the overall cultural heritage of an era that has played a decisive role in constituting our modernity.

Each year, CSECS hosts a conference in one of Canada's various regions and publishes an issue of the scholarly journal Lumen. It awards a prize to the best graduate paper read at the conference (the Mark Madoff Award) and offers an annual fellowship (the D.W. Smith Research Fellowship).

CSECS fosters a particularly rich and invigorating scholarly sociability through its annual conference and its links with the international eighteenth-century studies community. It has, notably, delegates to the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Pascal Bastien), the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Don Nichol), and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (April London).“

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“The purpose of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is to promote the study and performance of music of the eighteenth century. The Society provides a forum where scholars and performers can further their knowledge of music, history and interrelated arts of the period and serves as a resource to facilitate and encourage collaboration.“

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Departement de Musique Ancienne (Conservatoire de Bruxelle)

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“The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is a scholarly society that is interested in the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1660). Our geographical scope is as worldwide as our membership. The society welcomes scholars from all disciplines who have an interest in early modern studies. SCSC holds one annual meeting a year with approximately 140 sessions for papers. The annual meeting preferably and traditionally takes place on the last full weekend of October. ..“

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“The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women is a network of scholars who meet annually, sponsor sessions at conferences, maintain a listserv and website, give awards for outstanding scholarship, and support one another's work in the field.

EMW welcomes scholars and teachers from any discipline who study women and their contributions to the cultural, political, economic, or social spheres of the early modern period and whose interest in it includes attention to gender and representations of women.“

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“The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

The activities of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, which was established in 2001
on the basis of an act of the Polish Parliament, cover the following areas:

• research and popularization of knowledge about Chopin’s life and work,
• publications,
• organization of concerts, conferences, courses,
• cooperation with institutions and organizations dealing in the protection of the Chopin heritage,
• gathering of Chopin-related archive materials and museum objects,
• monitoring of whether Chopin’s image and name are not used for commercial purposes,
• running a Chopin Information Centre (Internet site)“

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