The 13th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music will be hosted by the
University of Leeds School of Music from Wednesday 2 July to Sunday 6
July 2008 inclusive.  Proposals are invited for:

1) Individual papers of 20 minutes duration (followed by questions
and discussion). Speakers will be grouped into sessions of three or
four papers in related areas.

2) Round-table sessions of one and a half hours, including discussion.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 14 January 2008. Proposals
in any area of Baroque music are welcome.

The organisers anticipate that individual papers (1) and some
sessions with multiple participants (2) will be presented in
simultaneous strands, grouped by subject areas. Those areas will be
determined by the nature of the proposals received.  Individuals may
submit one proposal in the form of an abstract of not more than 250
words (individual papers), or not more than 350 words (group
sessions).  Acceptance of a proposal will be at the discretion of the
organizers. The abstract should be preceded by information under the
following headings: NAME, INSTITUTION, POSTAL ADDRESS, PHONE, FAX,
EMAIL ADDRESS.

Abstracts may be
1. emailed to Bryan White (baroque at leeds.ac.uk) [please note: this
address will not be active until 19 October, 2007.  If you need to
contact me before that time, I can be reached at b.white at
leeds.ac.uk]. Attachments (in MS word file or .rtf format) are
preferred for the text of abstracts, but please back up the
attachment with a plain-text version in the main email.

2. posted to:
Dr Bryan White
13th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music
School of Music, University of Leeds
Leeds, West Yorkshire
UK LS2 9JT
Tel  +44 (0)113 34 38228
fax +44 (0)113 34 32586

A conference website is under construction (reached through the
University of Leeds School of Music homepage:
www.leeds.ac.uk/music).  In due course it will provide information on
the conference schedule, related events including concerts and the
conference dinner, accommodation, and booking information.

Music Research Forum is currently accepting submissions from
outstanding graduate students and young professionals. The postmark
deadline for submissions for Volume 23 (Summer 2008) is 14 January 2008.

Music Research Forum is a peer-reviewed journal published annually by
the Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music. Articles will be considered in any
area of music scholarship, including musicology, theory, performance
practice, ethnomusicology, music and culture, and criticism. Faculty
are encouraged to pass this information along to their students and
recent graduates.

Authors must submit three hard copies of each article to:
Nicole Morton, Editor
Music Research Forum
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
P.O. Box 210003
Cincinnati OH 45221-0003

A cover sheet listing the author's name, address, telephone number,
email address, and academic affiliation (if applicable) must precede
articles. Articles should be between twelve and thirty pages,
word-processed on 8.5x11-inch paper. All materials, including example
captions, should be double-spaced and conform to the footnote
guidelines found in The Chicago Manual of Style.

For additional information: Visit us online at
http://www.ccm.uc.edu/comp_theory_hist/mrf

The Department of Music at Kenyon College seeks to fill a one year visiting
position in music history starting fall 2008.  Area of specialization is open. 
For more information regarding this position and for application instructions
please visit: http://www.kenyon.edu/x38514.xml

Interviews will be conducted at the AMS annual meeting in Quebec City, Quebec in
November.  See the AMS-Quebec conference website for more details.  To schedule
an interview please visit: http://www.ams-net.org/quebec/2007-job-int-2.php

To ensure full consideration, application materials must be submitted by
December 18, 2007.

Kenyon College is an Equal Opportunity Employer

The Department of Art History and Music at Fordham University announces a
full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Music with a
specialty in Western music of the 17th and 18th centuries. A strong commitment
to undergraduate education, significant college teaching experience, and a
completed Ph.D. are required. The candidate will be expected to advise students
as well as teach the Introductory Music History course for non-majors and upper
level courses in the Music History sequence. Candidates with a secondary area of
research in Ethnomusicology, contemporary popular music or other areas that
complement the existing strengths of the faculty are especially sought.

Send cover letter, 3 letters of recommendation, and curriculum vitae by 15
October to Rev. Dr. James Boyce, O. Carm., Chair, Music History Search
Committee, Faculty Memorial Hall 417A, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458 or
jboyce at fordham.edu.

Interviews will be conducted at the AMS meeting in Quebec City, but the position
is not limited to those candidates.

Fordham University is an independent, Catholic University in the Jesuit
tradition that welcomes applications from men and women of all backgrounds. 
Fordham is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

The 3-volume, Encyclopedia of African American Music is scheduled to be
published by Greenwood Press in 2008. The editors and advisory board seek
writers for remaining unassigned entries.  For more detailed information and the
complete list of entries visit http://www.eoaam.org.

Deadline for submissions is 1/20/08. The deadline is firm, so please be
confident that you can complete assigned entries by that date.

Call for Papers: Arts Education -- to what end?

Artists, scholars, educators, and others who share a profound concern
for the present and future state of arts education are invited to
submit proposals for a conference that will consider the end of arts
education. This interdisciplinary conference presents an important
opportunity to reassess, rethink, and redefine the nature and future of
our field. It provokes the fundamental question: Arts education- to
what end?  The Arts Education conference will be held at New York
University’s Kimmel Center for University Life on March 7 and 8, 2008.

The abstract deadline has been extended to November 5.  Email abstracts
and the cover sheet to Daniel Bloch at: djb282 at nyu.edu

For more detailed information and to download the abstract cover sheet
please visit the conference website:

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/conference/artseducation/callforpapers

For questions about the conference please call (212) 992-9380.

Dear Colleagues and Friends:

I have the honor to announce the Lyrica Society's meeting and paper session on
Friday, November 2, 2007, at the annual meeting of the American Musicological
Society in Québec City, from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. The following papers will be
offered:

Marie-Louise Catsalis (Santa Clara University): "Beneath the Shady Beech:
Virgilian References in Alessandro Scarlatti's Serenatas"

Vanessa Rogers (University of Southern California): "The Audience as Poet:
Traditional Tunes and Contemporary Satire in Early
Eighteenth-Century Ballad Opera"

Bruce Alan Brown (University of Southern California): "'…so würde sie noch
besser auf den Text gemacht seyn' [...that way, it would
have fit the text even better]: Zonca, Raaff, and Mozart’s first aria for
/Idomeneo/"

Yours respectfully,

Mark DeVoto
Liaison Officer, Lyrica Society, to the AMS
Professor of Music, emeritus, Tufts University
mdevoto at granite.tufts.edu

Midwest Graduate Music Consortium - 12th Annual Conference
University of Wisconsin - Madison, February 22 and 23, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Suzanne Cusick, Professor of Music, New York University

CALL FOR PAPERS: The program committee invites graduate and advanced
undergraduate students to submit abstracts for papers related to musicology,
ethnomusicology, music theory, analysis, cognition, or any other topic
concerning the study and practice of music. Abstracts should not exceed 500
words.  Presenters will have twenty minutes to present their papers followed by
a brief period for questions.

CALL FOR SCORES: The program committee invites composers currently engaged in
graduate or advanced undergraduate studies to submit compositions for
consideration in the programming of a new music concert taking place on Friday,
February 22nd, 2008. The concert will be performed by musicians from the
University of Wisconsin community, which includes players on most major
instruments. No restrictions are placed on instrumentation or duration; however,
shorter works for smaller ensembles are more likely to be programmed.  Any
composer who is able to provide his/her own players, especially if the work
calls for specialized instrumentations, should indicate this in the cover
letter.

SUBMISSIONS: Abstracts may be sent by either email or regular mail. Composers
must submit one bound copy of the score by mail and may submit additional copies
either as unbound scores by regular mail or by email. Composers may include a
recording of the proposed composition, but this is not required. Bound scores
will be returned to you only if you enclose a pre-paid, self-addressed envelope.

Submissions via email: please email your abstract or score (Word documents and
PDF files only) to mgmc2008 at gmail.com. Be sure to include relevant
information (name, contact information, institutional affiliation, title of
paper or composition) in the email but not in the attachment to ensure anonymous
evaluations. Email proposals must be received no later than November 25, 2007.

Submissions via regular mail: please send three copies of your abstract or score
(composers, please see above) omitting your name and any other identifying
marks, along with a cover letter providing your relevant information to:
	 Scott A Carter
	 MGMC Program Chair
	 1711 Jefferson St. Apt. 4
	 Madison, WI  53711
Proposals must be received with a postmark of no later than November 20, 2007.

For more information about MGMC, see our web site:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/mgmc.

AMS-CCRI in Quebec- CV and Cover Letter Workshop

The Committee on Career-Related Issues invites students and junior
faculty to a CV and Cover Letter Workshop on Saturday, 3 November
2007, 8:00-11:00 at the national meeting in Quebec City.  Members of
the committee will be available to look at your materials and discuss
ways to improve your CV, cover letter, and other application
items.  For more information contact Jim Davis, davisj at fredonia.edu.

CFP: Contemporary Music and Spirituality

The revival of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the last twenty years
by so many composers (such as Adams, Andriessen, Birtwistle, Grisey,
Gubaydulina, Harvey, Henze, MacMillan, Messiaen, Pärt, Penderecki, Stockhausen
and Tavener) and many artists is a sign of a profound change in the arts and
their engagement with society.  This conference will seek to explore why and how
these composers and others have sought to convey religious or spiritual
expression through music.  How does this music engage with and transform the
traditional narratives of modernity, and how has this music created a vision for
the role of music in the twenty-first century?  How can contemporary music shape
our understanding of the divine in a so-called secular age, and what does this
say about the nature of music and spirituality?

This conference will take place at Southbank Centre, London in collaboration
with the Royal Musical Association from 1-3 February 2008.  Keynote speakers at
the conference include the composers Jonathan Harvey, James MacMillan and
Francis Pott.  It will dovetail with the opening of the Messiaen festival at
Southbank Centre.  As part of the conference, there will be a roundtable
discussion on Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du Temps on Sunday 3 February from
2.30 p.m, chaired by Robert Sholl with participants Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and
Jonathan Harvey.  This event will include live performances of extracts from the
Quartet performed by the Nash Ensemble, and will be followed at 6 p.m. by a
complete performance of the work.

Proposals for papers (of 20 minutes) on any subject related to the main
conference theme should be sent to robert.sholl at tvu.ac.uk by November 20. 
Proposals should be in English, and contain an abstract of 300 words maximum. 
They also should include your name, a short biographical note, and your contact
details.

MUSIC: Assistant Professor, full-time, non-tenure track position with
a three-year renewable contract to start Fall 2008. Duties include
teaching music history, major composers and upper-level courses for
the Interdisciplinary Arts major. In addition, candidates will advise
senior capstone projects, conduct the campus chorale, and administer
the music budget. Faculty are also actively involved in research and
university service. Preferred qualifications include a PhD (completed
by August 2008), evidence of teaching ability, and vocal ensemble or
musical conducting experience.  Send cover letter, vita, graduate
transcripts, and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Stephen
Schrum, Music Search Committee, University of Pittsburgh at
Greensburg, 150 Finoli Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601. Pitt-Greensburg
values candidates with experience in working with ethnically diverse
groups. Application deadline: December 15, 2007.  AA/EOE

CONCEPTS OF CREATIVITY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

Two-day International Interdisciplinary Symposium, 6–7 September 2008
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK

Invited speakers: Prof. James Winn, Boston
University (Keynote speaker); Prof. Andrew
Walkling, Binghamton University; Prof. Amanda
Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University

Creation: 'a making or forming of something, as it were, out of nothing'
Edward Phillips, A Nevv VVorld of VVords, Or a
General English Dictionary (London, 1678)

The early modern period witnessed the flowering
of what, today, we would call the creative arts
in England, and in recent years the social and
cultural significance of such activities has come
to be appreciated increasingly by scholars across
a broad range of disciplines. But what exactly
did it mean to form something, ‘as it were, out
of nothing’ in the seventeenth century? While our
modern understanding of creativity is firmly
based around ideas of imagination and
originality, it is far from clear that such
concepts were always relevant to the production
of visual art, music, plays, poetry and
literature in the seventeenth century; moreover,
basic tenets that we tend to take for
granted—such as the primacy of the author—have
been shown to be inappropriate in a number of
significant studies. The aim of this
interdisciplinary symposium is to explore ways in
which we can seek to understand what it meant to
be creative in the early modern period.

We welcome proposals for papers from an
interdisciplinary field, including cultural
historians, art historians, dance historians,
theatre historians, musicologists and literary
scholars. The deadline for receipt of abstracts
is 31 January 2008; full details of the call for papers can be found at:
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/music/research/musicalcreativity/c\
onference

The symposium forms part of a four-year research
project directed by Dr Rebecca Herissone; see
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/music/research/musicalcreativity/

Announcing the 18th Annual Pacific Northwest Music Graduate Students Conference
January 11-12, 2008
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Graduate students from around the country are invited to submit proposals for
this annual regional conference, hosted alternatively by the University of
Washington, University of Victoria, and University of British Columbia. We
welcome a wide array of interdisciplinary topics, including, but not limited to:
musicology, theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, composition, popular music,
performance, philosophy and aesthetics, music education, music cognition, music
criticism, etc. Non-traditional approaches, such as lecture-recitals or
cross-disciplinary studies from non-music specialists, are certainly encouraged.
Panel discussions will also be considered.

The conference will include a presentation by Cristle Collins Judd, noted music
theorist and musicologist, in conjunction with the University of Washington’s
Music Theory Colloquium Series.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by November 20, 2007. Accepted
presenters will be notified by December 10. Presentation length should be 20-25
minutes for papers, 40-45 minutes for lecture-recitals, followed by a brief
question and answer session.

Send submissions via email to jcohen2 at u.washington.edu

Mail submissions to:
Jacob A. Cohen
Graduate Student, Musicology
University of Washington
Box 353450
Seattle, WA 98195-3450

Email submissions are preferable and can be in the body of the message or as an
attached Word document. Please list any media needs such as VCR, DVD, laptop
set-up, CD, etc. Also include all relevant contact information, including full
name, institution, and email address. Please contact conference organizers for
further information at the above address.

More information at the conference website:
http://students.washington.edu/jcohen2/pacnw

The University of California, Davis seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor of
Composition commencing July 1, 2008. The position is a nine-month appointment in
the tenure track, with a competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and
previous experience. Candidates must possess a Ph.D. or D.M.A., with significant
compositional experience and marked potential for further development. 
Candidates who will have completed their doctoral degree by September 2008 will
be considered.

We seek a person who is either a promising or an accomplished composer capable
of teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate classes in their area of
expertise and related areas.  The successful candidate will be expected to teach
in the cycle of courses for majors in music, and offer other courses for general
students and seminars at the undergraduate major and graduate levels, accept
substantial committee, advising, recruitment, and development responsibilities
and produce research and/or creative work appropriate for advancement within the
University of California.

Review of applications will begin December 1, 2007; position open until filled.

The complete listing for this appointment is available on our website:
http://music.ucdavis.edu/General/position-comp-2007.htm.

The University of California is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer
with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its
faculty and staff.

Junior and Post-Doctoral Fellowships
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Emory University

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University is accepting
applications for three Junior and Post-Doctoral fellowships for an academic of
study, teaching, and residence in the Center.  The FCHI Fellows Program offers
research opportunities to those trained in the humanities as traditionally
defined and to others seriously interested in humanistic issues; research
projects must be humanistic, but fellows may hold the Ph.D. in any discipline. 
We especially seek applicants and projects that will benefit from and contribute
to the interdisciplinary nature of the group of Fellows and the work of the
FCHI.

Junior Fellows are scholars who, at the beginning of the fellowship year, will
be at least three years beyond receipt of the Ph.D., and normally no more than
ten (i.e., who received their Ph.D.s before Fall 2005).  Post-Doctoral Fellows,
who must have the Ph.D. in hand before submission of their applications, are
awarded to those who have held the Ph.D. for no more than three years before
application for the fellowships (the Ph.D. awarded between Fall 2005 and Fall
2007).

Besides being an active member of the Center's intellectual agenda through the
academic year, Fellows will be expected to offer an upper-level
interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar on a subject of their choice during the
spring of the fellowship year.  Stipends of $40,000 will be offered to Junior
and Post-Doctoral Fellows, along with a research budget of $2,000, shared office
space in the Center, and library access.  The deadline for submission of
completed applications is February 28, 2008; awards will be announced in
mid-April 2008.  Application forms and further information are available from
the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at 404-727-6424 or chi at emory.edu, on
the web at www.chi.emory.edu, or write to: FCHI, Emory University, 1715 North
Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA 30322.

University at Buffalo (SUNY), Music Department
Full-time, tenure-track position in Musicology at the rank of Assistant
Professor.

We are seeking a candidate who both shows exceptional promise as an
individually-minded scholar and is also in possession of a fluent pedagogical
style. Ph.D. should be in hand by 15 August 2008.

Departmental duties will include the teaching of two classes per semester, at
undergraduate and graduate levels, as appropriate; participation on doctoral
committees in the Historical Musicology, Music Theory and Music Composition
Ph.D. programs; student advisement; and other committee obligations. The
successful candidate will demonstrate an ongoing commitment to the development
of a body of scholarly work beyond the scope of their dissertation research.  No
single area of specialization is targeted, but the Department is especially
interested in scholars working in musical repertories of the late-nineteenth and
twentieth centuries including, but not limited to: the late twentieth-century
American or European avant- garde, opera, popular musics and media; those whose
approaches to any repertory are especially cognizant of musical representations
of race, class, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality; and candidates whose work will
likely complement the perspectives and specialties of cu
rrent faculty.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Review and screening
of applications will begin on 1 December 2007.

Applications must be submitted on-line, at the following address:
http://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu

Please arrange to have three (3) recommendation letters sent to:

Prof. Charles J. Smith, Chair
Department of Music
220 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4700

The University at Buffalo is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Recruiter, and has
committed itself to diversity hiring.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music announces
the following opening:

Assistant Professor - Ethnomusicology
Available:  8/16/08
Deadline:  11/15/07

For complete information, call 217-244-2676
or visit our website:  www.music.uiuc.edu

AA/EOE.

Confounding Expectations: Music and the Unexpected Outcome
2008 Graduate Student Conference: Call for Papers

The graduate students of the University of Calgary's Department of Music are
pleased to announce a call for papers for their 2008 Graduate Student
Conference. The conference will take place Friday and Saturday April 25th and
26th, 2008 at the renowned Rozsa Centre. The aim of the conference is to provide
a collegial environment in which graduate students can present their research
and form professional connections. We encourage submissions from all areas of
music research including education, ethnomusicology, composition, musicology,
and performance. Proposals for lecture recitals are also welcome. Papers should
be no longer than 20 minutes and lecture-recitals no longer than 40. A 10-minute
question period will follow each presentation. Abstracts should be around 350
words, must contain no information that could identify you or your institution,
and be accompanied by the provided form. Detailed submission information is
found on that form. Submissions must be received by 23:59 Th
ursday January 10th, 2008. All abstracts will be evaluated anonymously and
should be suitable for publication in the conference program. Presenters will be
notified on or before February 1st, 2008. Forms and other general information
(including information about local accommodations) can be found at our website:
http://ucmusicgradconference.info.

The Yale University Department of Music is pleased to announce the first Yale
Graduate Music Symposium, to be held March 22-23, 2008, in the Yale Institute of
Sacred Music's Great Hall. The symposium will close with a workshop led by
Professor James Hepokoski.

Graduate students engaged in any area of music scholarship are invited to submit
abstracts for papers in fields including, but not limited to, musicology, music
theory, and ethnomusicology. Papers should last no longer than 20 minutes; each
aper will be followed by a 10-minute period for questions and comments.

All proposals must be submitted electronically and will be reviewed anonymously.

Each submission must include:

1) An email sent to ygms at yale.edu with "YGMS Abstract Submission" in the
subject field, the author's name, email address, telephone number, and academic
affiliation, and a list of any audio-visual requirements.

2) A Word or PDF attachment that contains only the title of the paper and an
abstract of no more than 250 words, suitable for publication in the program.

All submissions must be received no later than December 1, 2007.

For further information, please contact Clare Eng at clare.eng at yale.edu or
visit http://www.yale.edu/yalemus/ygms/.

Performing Romantic Music: Theory and Practice
School of Music, Durham University, 10-13 July 2008

Theorizing the Boss: Critical Readings of the Songs of Bruce Springsteen

We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume of critical
theoretical essays on Bruce Springsteen's work.  We encourage a wide
range of approaches, particularly literary and cultural studies, but
chapters should be written in a style accessible to a non-academic
audience.  Chapters might use any number of theoretical approaches to
consider relevant themes in Springsteen's oeuvre.  Here are a few
possible themes:

Readings of genre, including the dramatic monologue
American voices: the American dream, Manifest Destiny, or American
Ideals versus American Reality
Prophecy and visionary voices
Narratives of the immigrant and oppressed
The nuclear family and conservatism
Considerations of violence
Springsteen as Catholic apologist/liturgist

We are especially eager for readings of Springsteen's work alongside
the work of those writers and musicians who have most influenced him,
including, but not limited to, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, John
Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan.

Please send a 500-word proposal and full vita to Roxanne Harde
(rharde at augustana.ca) and Irwin Streight (streight-i at rmc.ca) by
7 January 2008.  Upon acceptance, articles of around 8000 words will
be due 1 June 2008.  Please feel free to get in touch with any questions.

CONVERSATIONS: MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP IN DIALOGUE CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Michigan Music Theory Society, Music for the Americas Study Group, and
Musicology and Ethnomusicology League of Students are proud to host their second
annual Conversations in Music conference, to be held February 8-9, 2008, at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  The conference will feature a keynote
address by Prof. Fred Maus (University of Virginia), as well as a
graduate-student workshop led by Prof. Walter Everett  (University of Michigan).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Paper topics in music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, and related fields
are welcome.  Interdisciplinary work is especially encouraged. Presentations
will last approximately 20 minutes, followed by a ten-minute discussion period. 
Complete proposal submissions will include:

1. An abstract of no more than 500 words.  The abstract should not contain the
author’s name or affiliation.  Supplementary materials, such as musical
examples, diagrams, and bibliography, may accompany the abstract, but should not
exceed two additional pages.
2. A cover letter that lists the author’s name and email address, the paper
title, and any equipment required for presentation (a piano, CD player, overhead
projector, and so on).

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS (PREFERRED)

Electronic submissions must be received by Friday, December 14, 2007. Include
the cover letter in the body of the email, and attach the abstract and
supplementary material to the message (.doc preferred, .pdf also acceptable). 
Be certain that the attached files will display and print clearly, and that they
are free of any indication of authorship.  Send electronic submissions to:

conversations2008 at umich.edu

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Paper submissions must be received by Friday, December 14, 2007. Please send one
copy of the cover letter, the abstract, and any supplementary material to:

        University of Michigan
        School of Music, Theater, and Dance
        c/o Phil Duker, MMTS
        Earl V. Moore Building
        1100 Baits Dr.
        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085

We will notify you upon receipt of your submission.  Notification of acceptance
will be made via email by January 7, 2008, at which time selected authors will
be asked to submit a condensed abstract suitable for publication in the program
booklet.

Saturday afternoon 3 November 2007 : American Musical Instrument Society Study
Session at the AMS meeting. All welcome!

Location: Quebec City Convention Center, Room 208 AB

Stewart Carter (Wake Forest University), Chair

Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill University) and Susan Forscher Weiss (Peabody
Conservatory), "Iconographic Evidence of Kettledrums in Fourteenth-Century
Italy."

Janet K. Page (University of Memphis), "Organs in the Marketplace: Selling and
Buying in Vienna, ca. 1784."

William E. Hettrick (Hofstra University), "A Visit to the Piano Factory of
Joseph P. Hale: The Great Industrialist at Work."

Thanks to a generous contribution from Oxford University Press, the AMS OPUS
Capital Campaign is again offering a new copy of Richard Taruskin, The Oxford
History of Western Music (Oxford University Press, 2005; ISBN 9780195169799) to
the highest bidder.

In addition, we are auctioning the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, ed. Colin
Larkin, 4th edn., 10 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2005; ISBN 0195313739)!

Bids will be received via e-mail or in person at the AMS OPUS booth in the
Quebec City exhibit hall. Bidding closes Saturday 3 November 2007 at 5 p.m., and
the winner will be announced at the AMS Business Meeting and Awards Presentation
later that evening. The AMS will cover shipping costs.

Please consider bidding generously on these valuable volumes. Your gain is also
a boon for the AMS OPUS Campaign!

Further info and bid updates:

www.ams-net.org/quebec/oup-opus-auction.php

Place a bid: opus-giveaway @ ams-net.org

The Musicology graduate students of the University of Victoria invite scholars
to submit articles for the Spring 2008 volume of Musicological Explorations.

Musicological Explorations' mandate is to provide a forum for scholarly work in
musicology and related arts.  The Editorial Board encourages graduate students
and other scholars to submit previously unpublished articles on topics of
musicology, performance practice, ethnomusicology, music education, and
interdisciplinary studies.  Announcements of conferences, symposiums, and other
musicological activities in North America are also welcome.

Articles should be between 2000 and 6000 words.  Submissions should be typed,
double spaced, single-sided, and sent in triplicate on 8 ½ x 11" paper with
standard margins.  A cover letter should accompany the submission.  Submissions
are reviewed anonymously; therefore, the author's name should appear only in the
cover letter, which should also include the author's e-mail address. Musical
examples or other illustrations may appear in the body of the paper or may
follow as appendices.  They must be well labeled.  The Editorial Board reserves
the right to place these examples as publication layout requires, and to make
other editorial suggestions. Contributors are requested to refer to the Chicago
Manual of Style, 14th ed., or to Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term
Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., for general matters of style and
citation.  Titles and foreign terms should be italicized.  Papers are required
to possess both footnotes and a bibliography.

If accepted for publication, authors should submit their final draft in
electronic format, preferably in Microsoft Word.  Authors should also be
prepared to submit a short biography (50-80 words) and an abstract (250 words)
for inclusion in the journal.  Authors are responsible for obtaining permission
to reprint all copyrighted material.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, January 18, 2008.
Manuscripts should be addressed to:
Musicological Explorations, Managing Editor
School of Music, University of Victoria
PO Box 1700
Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 2Y2

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Faculty Position
Music Department
Faculty of Arts and Science

The Music Department at New York University invites applications for a
tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor or recently tenured
Associate Professor, to begin September 1, 2008, pending budgetary and
administrative approval.  We seek a creative, intellectually flexible colleague
who engages the music and/or aural cultures of the recent past, who is eager for
interdisciplinary conversation, and who can contribute to the diversity of the
department's offerings.  Except under unusual circumstances, applicants should
have a Ph.D. or expect to hold one by the starting date.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, and three letters
of recommendation to Michael Beckerman, Chair, Music Department, Arts and
Science, New York University, 24 Waverly Place, Room 268, New York NY 10003.

Review will begin December 15, 2007, and continue until the position is filled.

NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer