Study Groups

Cantus Planus

Website Cantus Planus - Chair: Barbara Haggh-Huglo (Maryland), <haggh@umd.edu>
The 16th meeting of the Study Group will take place at the Kardinal-König-Haus in Vienna, Austria, from 21-27 August 2011. Its 17th meeting will be held in conjunction with the 19th International Congress of the IMS in Rome in 2012, and again this year, Study Group members will meet for two hours on Thursday evening at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological ... View File

Cavalli and Venetian Opera

Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera, especially Cavalli -Chair: Ellen Rosand (Yale)
The initial meeting of the new IMS Study Group took place on 13 July 2007 during the 18th International Congress of IMS in Zurich. The idea was proposed by Ellen Rosand, Alvaro Torrente and Dinko Fabris. View File

Italian and Ibero american Relationsships. The Musical Theatre

Relazioni Italo-Iberamericane (RIIA) - Chair: Annibale Cetrangolo (Padova)
For a report on activities 2002 - 2007 see Publications > IMS Communiqué 82 > page 17. For a report on activities August 2007 - July 2008.

Music and Cultural Studies / Musik und Kulturwissenschaft

Chair: Tatjana Markovic
The group was founded in October 2007. The first meeting on "Private music culture in the Austrain Empire" was held at the Palic Lake (Serbia).

Music and Media

Website MaM - Chair Emile Wennekes (Utrecht)
For latest updates on the next conference of MaM at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, 26-27 June, go to MaM .Helga de la Motte (Berlin) will be opening the meeting with a key note lecture on music and audiovisual cognition.

Music Research and E-Learning (MUREL)

Website MUREL - Chair: Martina Claus-Bachmann
A panel for music researchers and -educationalists in cultural studies. The mediation of applicable results with digital media is choosen as a contemporary flashpoint method of music research and -education within the field of cultural studies, but does not exclude the traditional way of distribution through print media.
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Musical Iconography in European Art

Website Study Group of Musical Iconography - Chair: Nicoletta Guidobaldi (Ravenna)
Established in June 2006 at the international conference Musical Iconography in the XXI Century in Ravenna to promote the scholarly exchange and expand research on Musical Iconography in European Art as part of Cultural, Historical and Anthropological Studies.

Musicology and Computers

Chair: Eleanor Selfridge Field (Stanford)
Anyone wishing to join the IMS Study Group on Musical Data and Computer Applications (in Musicology) should contact Frans Wiering <fransw@cs.uu.nl>  or Eleonor Selfridge Field <esfield@stanford.edu>.
The Study Group has a provisional plan to meet in conjunction with ISMIR (the International Society for Music Information Retrieval) in Utrecht next summer. Frans Wiering is the local host. Whether there will be sufficient interest and ...

Shostakovich and his Epoch: Contemporaries, Culture, and the State

New Study Group. Chair: Olga Digonskaya, Moscow;  Pauline Fairclough, Bristol.
Thanks to significant recent findings from the materials in the Shostakovich Family Archiv previously unknown facts have contributed to the understanding of the 'phenomenon of Shostakovic' and its evaluation in the context of his epoch.
The study group's preliminary meeting took place in Minsk on 4 September 2009.
Future meetings will be held in Petrozavodsk in September 2011 and in Rom in 2012. ...

Stravinsky between East and West

New Study Group. Chair: Natalia Braginskaja, St. Petersburg; Valérie Dufour, Brussels.

Among the goals of this study group are the reflection of Stravinsky's artistic individuality, and the mutual influence between eastern and western styles of composition of his time as well as to help to overcome informational, socio-cultural, and language related barriers still seperating colleagues from East and West.
The inaugural international meeting took place in the course of the IMS ...