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Event Name: Committee on the Status of Women: Special Session at SMT 2009

Event Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Event Date(s): October 29-November 1, 2009

Deadline for Proposals: April 1, 2009

Event Description and Information:

2009 Call for Proposals

Form as Process: Celebrating the Work of Janet Schmalfeldt

For the 2009 SMT Annual Meeting in Montreal (October 28 - November 2) the Committee on the Status of Women is planning a session that honours a senior female music theorist by focusing on her research. Janet Schmalfeldt's influential work in the field of tonal form will be explored in a session that includes presentations by invited scholars William Caplin and James Hepokoski on the "Tempest" sonata, as well as two 20-minute papers selected through this call for proposals. Schmalfeldt will play a central role, through responses to the papers, with performance demonstrations, and with new materials from her forthcoming book on formal processes in early nineteenth-century music. Graduate students and junior scholars in particular are encouraged to submit proposals.

All submissions must address Schmalfeldt's work explicitly. Her first article on the topic of form as process appeared in Beethoven Forum 4 (1995): 37-71 (on the Beethoven-Hegelian Tradition and the "Tempest" Sonata). Subsequent articles may be found in Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie [Dutch Journal of Music Theory] 9/3 (2004): 171-95 (on Schubert), and in Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 5 (on Robert and Clara Schumann), with additional essays on Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Chopin forthcoming. Her Form as the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music will be published by Oxford University Press.

Proposal Instructions / Guidelines:

All proposals should be maximum 3-4 double-spaced pages of text including examples and diagrams, and must include the title of the paper but exclude the author's name and any other identifying information. Electronic submission is encouraged (PDF preferred).

Please include as well:

1. a 200-word abstract, suitable for publication in the conference program.
2. a cover letter listing the title of the paper and the name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number of the author, as well as the author�s rank and institutional affiliation, if any.
3. a listing, on a separate page, of all required equipment (such as piano, overhead projector, CD player, etc.). SMT cannot provide computers or internet access for presentations, but LCD screens and cables can be made available if requested in advance.

All proposals sent by email should be sent to: csw.smt@gmail.com. Please contact the CSW [via this gmail address] if you wish to send a paper submission

Contact:

csw.smt@gmail.com

http://societymusictheory.org/index.php?pid=215

Date Listed: 01/19/2009

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