For the conference abstracts click here.

For the conference programme, registration, location and further details click here.

Mario Baroni, ‘Where is Musical Analysis Going?’ (PDF)

Please see http://www.sma.ac.uk/join/ for information on how to renew your SMA membership.

The programme committee has extended the call for papers deadline by one week. The closing date is now Monday 16th January.

Please send submissions to impconfsubmission@music.ox.ac.uk

For submission guidelines and more details on the conference, go to http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/research/cpccm/perspectives-on-musical-improvisation-conference.html

Michael Spitzer
SMA President

Their respective statements of candidature follow.

Michael Spitzer (President)

Nominated by William Drabkin and Kenneth Smith.

Statement of Candidature:

I would like to stand for a third 2-year term as SMA President. My time at the helm has seen the Society through quite a busy period of events: Music Analysis Roadshows; Summer Schools; a big conference on Music & Emotion; an expanded TAGS; and both CardiffMAC & LancMAC. There has been a re-boot of the SMA website; partnership with the IMR; and sponsorship of several external events, such as the King’s Tonality symposium, and next year’s Oxford improvisation conference, as well as a conference on contemporary British music at Canterbury. Plans are now in place for next September’s SMA/Music Analysis Anniversary Symposium at the IMR, with a stellar cast of speakers lined up. And, with the VP also at Liverpool, we are planning to hold the next MAC here, as well as a Summer School. None of this would have been possible without the support of the Executive Committee, and I have been extraordinarily lucky in having a succession of energetic and inspirational colleagues.

My term of service with the SMA has perhaps been unusual, since I have been simultaneously involved with the journal, both as Associate Editor and Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Music & Emotion (just out), based on selected proceedings from the conference. The mutual benefit of this association – a journal supporting a conference whose proceedings in turn support the journal – represents a healthy direction for the SMA, and one which I will continue to steer in the future.

Shay Loya (Information Officer)

Nominated by Shay Loya and Michael Spitzer.

Statement of Candidature:

I received my PhD at King’s College London in 2006. In 2007-8 I was a CETL Teaching Fellow at Durham University, and am currently dividing my time between teaching there and working as a freelance teacher and independent scholar. My research interests include Liszt, Hungarian-Gypsy music, transculturation and its application to music analysis, and other critical and aesthetic issues in music of the long nineteenth century. I have presented several papers in international conferences and my main publications include a recent book – Liszt’s Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition (Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2011) – and the article (2008) ‘Beyond the Stereotype: Harmonic and Structural Aspects of the Verbunkos Idiom’, Journal of Musicological Research, 27/ii, pp. 254-80. I have also been involved in music education since the late 1990s and in 2006-9 I directed the Kodály-based ‘Colourstrings Music School’ in Roehampton, London.

As stated in the recent SMA Newsletter editorial, I took on this role for two main purposes: “First, the SMA does a very good job at promoting what has effectively become an endangered discipline in the UK, and managing that without retreating into any kind of intellectual insularity or parochial self-regard. Secondly, this is probably one of the most student-friendly of musicological societies, investing much time and also money in nurturing future and emerging scholars.” These are the values I would like to continue to promote as part of the Executive Committee, and more specifically, in my editorship of the newsletter and website, as well as ongoing contact with the SMA’s members and associates.

Please visit our website – http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/research/cpccm/perspectives-on-musical-improvisation-conference.html – to get further details on the conference and how to submit proposals for papers, poster presentations and practical sessions. The website will go live in March 2012 for registration and programme details.

Contact Mark Doffman at mark.doffman@music.ox.ac.uk for any queries regarding the conference.

• President;
• Information Officer;
• Student Representative.

The elected candidates will work with the rest of the SMA Committee to represent and guide our activities over the next two years.

The President shall carry out the policies of the Executive Committee and shall chair all meetings of the Society and the Executive Committee. The President shall discharge such other duties as are customarily associated with the office, including attendance at meetings of the Editorial Board of the journal Music Analysis.

The Information Officer shall prepare the Society’s Newsletter and maintain the Society’s website; prepare publicity for the Society’s events; and take such additional steps as deemed necessary by the Executive Committee to publicise the Society’s work.

There are two SMA student representatives, and one of these posts is due for election. Student Representatives help the committee as a whole discover what sort of workshops, seminars, conferences etc. are of interest to the younger generation, and who might be able to take part in the way of organizing and/or making contributions to the programmes.

Members of the Executive Committee are expected to attend committee meetings, which take place two or three times a year, usually in conjunction with SMA events. There is also an Annual General Meeting of the Society, again timed to coincide with one of our events. Travel expenses to these meetings are reimbursed.

Terms of office are two years in the first instance, with the possibility for re-election. Interested candidates are welcome to contact the current SMA President, Michael Spitzer, for an informal chat (Michael.Spitzer@liverpool.ac.uk).

Please send all nominations and seconded nominations, along with a statement of candidature, to David Bretherton (treasurer@sma.ac.uk) by Friday, 2 December 2011. E-mail ballot papers for the election and statements of candidature will be issued immediately afterwards, and the result of the election will be announced in mid-December.

In the past, SMA members have enquired as to whether current office holders intend to stand for re-election, and so (without prejudice) we report that Michael Spitzer intends to stand for re-election as President and Shay Loya intends to stand for election as Information Officer. Michelle Phillips will shortly be completing her studies and therefore will not stand for re-election as a Student Representative.

The SMA Committee.