The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

2018 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers

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The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music will hold its Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference from Thursday through Sunday, 19–22 April 2018, in Boulder, CO, hosted by the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder. Proposals on all aspects of seventeenth-century music and its cultural contexts are welcome. Presentations may take a variety of formats, including individual papers 20 minutes in length, lecture-recitals (45 minutes), workshops involving group participation, roundtable discussions, and panel sessions.

All presenters must be members in good standing of the Society. A presenter cannot give an individual paper at two consecutive meetings, nor make more than one presentation at a single meeting. For individual papers, abstracts not exceeding 350 words should clearly represent the title, subject and argument, and should indicate the significance of the findings. Proposals for presentations in other formats should be of a similar length; they should clearly state and justify the intended format, and should indicate the originality and significance of the material to be delivered. Those for lecture-recitals must include online links to recordings of the proposed performer(s) playing examples of the same repertory if not the exact proposed work(s), as well as short biographies. Those for panel sessions or roundtable discussions must include the names of any intended participants on the platform and some indication of their contribution. In such “other format” cases, the Program Committee reserves the right to request further information should it wish to do so.

Proposals should be sent by e-mail (deadline: midnight, EST, 1 October 2017) to the Program Committee at swilliams@mozart.sc.edu with the subject header “SSCM Proposal.” The e-mail should carry two .pdf attachments. The first (labeled with title alone) should include only title and abstract; the second (labeled with name and short title) should contain name, address, telephone, fax, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation or city, along with contact information and a statement of audio-visual needs. The content of this second attachment (with name, address, etc.) should also be pasted into the body of the e-mail in case of transmission problems.

The Irene Alm Memorial Prize will be awarded for the best scholarly presentation given by a graduate student. Those wishing to be considered for the Prize should identify their proposals as such in both copies.

Program Committee: Sarah Williams (chair), Michele Cabrini, Virginia Lamothe, and Paul Schleuse