A Cerebration of Analysis
This year, _Music Analysis_ is thirty years old, and the Society for
Music Analysis turns twenty one. In honour of this double
anniversary, the SMA is holding a symposium titled 'A Cerebration of
Analysis' at London's Institute of Musical Research, September 21-22,
featuring some of the foremost names in British music analysis.
Topics will range from Schenker studies, through distributed
cognition, applied musicology, emotion theory, performance analysis,
metrical form, and the New Formenlehre. Speakers will include Julian
Horton, John Koslovsky, Elizabeth Eva Leach, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson,
Nicholas Marston, Danuta Mirka, Adam Ockelford, Nicholas Reyland,
Michael Spitzer, Edward Venn, and Arnold Whittall, and there will be
a special Schenker Documents Online session convened by Ian Bent and
William Drabkin. The SMA is delighted to welcome Richard Cohn and
Jonathan Dunsby as Special Keynote Speakers. To encourage student
participation, the SMA is offering 20 Student Bursaries (see
http://www.sma.ac.uk/event/a-cerebration-of-analysis/). Since seats
are limited, please book a place at the symposium by emailing: events
at
sma.ac.uk. For general enquiries, contact Michael Spitzer:
michael.spitzer at
liverpool.ac.uk.