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Event Name: Second International Conference on Music and Gesture

Event Location: Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (UK)

Event Date(s): July 20-23, 2006

Deadline for Proposals: January 31, 2006

Event Description and Information:

The study of music and gesture has matured over the past few decades: our understanding of the ways in which gestures function in and in relation to our musical lives has developed, and our awareness of different types of gestures (including physical, cognitive, psychological, expressive, emotional and analytical) has increased.

Following the success of the First International Conference on Music and Gesture in August 2003, the time is ripe for extended inquiry. This conference seeks to explore further the relationships between music and gesture in performance, listening, composition and other activities.

Keynote addresses will be given by Stephanie Jordan (UK), Elisabeth LeGuin (US), John Rink (UK), Colwyn Trevarthen (UK) and Luke Windsor (UK). The programme will also include a special workshop with Robert Hatten (US).

The programme of events for the Second International Conference on Music and Gesture, to be held at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (UK), 20-23 July 2006, is available for download from the RNCM website (under 'Research Events'). The booking form for registration and accommodation will be placed on the website for download in due course.

Proposal Instructions / Guidelines:

The programme committee invites proposals for papers of 20 minutes duration in all areas, including the following:

General Thematic Areas

- Performance Practice
- Chamber Music
- Conducting
- Theory & Analysis
- Psychology of Music
- Popular Music & Film
- Emotion
- Rhetoric
- Music and Dance
- 20th Century Music
- Semiotics

Special Thematic Areas
- Models and Modelling: examining the role of models and modelling in practice and theory, from compositional parody, pastiche and quotation to computer-aided models of performing and perception
- Gesture and Intention: addressing, in various ways, the question of whether gestures can be understood without concepts like consciousness, subjectivity, causality, action, and intention
- Gesture and Musical Development: exploring gestures in musical development from infanthood to adulthood, including issues of pedagogy, educational practice and physiology
- Mozart's Gestures: studying music by Mozart, especially the piano concertos and string quartets, in his anniversary year
- Stravinsky's Gestures: examining music by Stravinsky in the light of issues such as discontinuity, collage, and fragmentation

Workshop
Papers devoted to close study of Robert Hatten's book Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Indiana UP, 2004). The author will respond to papers on his text.

Postgraduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. Proposals for poster sessions and roundtables are welcome (roundtable proposals must include topics and participants). Abstracts of 500 words (max.) should be sent (preferably by email) to Anthony Gritten, Head of Postgraduate Studies and Research, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester M13 9RD, UK [email: anthony.gritten@rncm.ac.uk].

Deadline for receipt of proposals: 31 January 2006. Programme and booking information announced: March 2006. The proceedings will be available at the conference on a CD-ROM. All information is available on the research events pages of the RNCM website.

Contact:

Conference Organisers: Anthony Gritten (RNCM), Elaine King (Hull).
Programme Committee: Jane Ginsborg (RNCM), Anthony Gritten, Elaine King, Nicholas Reyland (Keele).

Date Listed: 03/23/2006

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