Music & Language Studies

Music and Language II:
A conference in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Lerdahl and
Jackendoff’s “A Generative Theory of Tonal Music”
July 10-13, 2008
Tufts University Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center
Boston, Massachusetts

This conference follows the successful conference on Music and Language
held at Cambridge University in summer 2007. The conference will be
hosted by Provost Jamshed Bharucha and the Office of the Provost,
Professor Joseph Auner and the Department of Music, and Professor
Robert Cook and the Department of Psychology. We invite participants
and presenters from all fields (music, psychology, linguistics,
cognitive science, anthropology, etc.)

Paper and poster submissions will be due by December 1, 2007. Further
details about the conference and the paper/poster submission form are
available on our website at: http://musicandlanguage.tufts.edu/

We will also be honoring Ray Jackendoff, Seth Merrin Professor of
Philosophy at Tufts, and Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Music
at Columbia University. This year marks the 25th Anniversary of their
seminal work, “A Generative Theory of Tonal Music.”

Program Committee:

Eric Clarke, Oxford University
Lola Cuddy, Queen’s University
Peter Culicover, Ohio State University
Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
Fred Lerdahl, Columbia University
Betsy Marvin, Eastman School of Music
Lawrence Parsons, University of Sheffield
Aniruddh Patel, Neurosciences Institute
Isabelle Peretz, University of Montreal

Advisory Committee:

Jamshed Bharucha, Tufts University
Gottfried Schlaug, Harvard University /Beth Israel Hospital
Mark Hauser, Harvard University
Ellen Winner, Boston College
Tod Machover, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Tramo, Harvard University

If you have any questions, please contact the Office of the Provost at
(617) 627-3931.

Speech Prosody 2008, in Campinas, Brazil has announced the call for papers.

Evolution of Emotional Communication: From Sounds in Nonhuman Mammals to Speech and Music in Man

Aims of the symposium: A fundamental trait of the communication system of all mammals is to convey emotions. Emotions are transmitted by non-verbal acoustic communication in all mammals. In addition, humans can make use of speech and music to transmit emotions. A central and as yet unresolved question is whether there exists an underlying set of rules holding across species, governing production and perception of acoustically conveyed emotions.

This interdisciplinary symposium provides a framework for discussing ongoing research in the field of behavioral, cognitive and evolutionary neurosciences. It aims at deepening our understanding of shared and unique principles important to reconstruct evolutionary pathways for emotional communication in the acoustic domain.

Organisers of the symposium: Prof. Elke Zimmermann and Dr Sabine Schmidt, both at the Hanover Veterinary University, and Prof. Eckart Altenmüller (Hanover University for Music and Drama.

Abstracts and Registration: Abstract submission deadline is May 31, 2007. For details regarding registration and the scientific programme, please see our webpage at http://www.eec2007.de

Call For Papers

Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship
When: July 27-29, 2007
Where: Brevard, North Carolina

Panel: “Disciplining Entrepreneurship in Music Higher Education”

America’s music schools are adopting entrepreneurship education at a steady rate. However, the lack of an accepted definition or conception of “entrepreneurship” has spawned a diverse range of curricular structuring. Concurrently, a lack of scholarship concerning these efforts has buttressed perceptions of “entrepreneurship education in music” as “business education for music students.”

With new and progressive literature on entrepreneurship emerging from the economic, cognitive and social sciences, many Music Entrepreneurship programs (and students) have yet to reap the rewards of this scholarship. As this field emerges, developing a solid intellectual foundation is critical to the success and sustainability of these efforts.

The Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship invites papers that address Entrepreneurship education in American music training. We are particularly interested in papers that explore:

1) Theoretical or philosophical structuring
2) Curricular and program design
3) New approaches to pedagogy
4) Interdisciplinary connections
5) Conceptualizations of “Entrepreneurship” in the context of Music training
6) Continuities and discontinuities of entrepreneurship education in business and arts curricula

Please send a 250 word abstract by email to archlute@mail.utexas.edu.
Deadline for abstracts is May 1, 2007. Papers will be limited to 10 minutes (approximately) 8 pages, double spaced. Inquiries concerning submissions are encouraged.