The following presentation lengths are available: lightning talk (5 minutes), paper (20 minutes), public lecture (40 minutes), panel (60 minutes, including three 15-minute presentations followed by moderated discussion with panel and audience).
Musicology and Music Analysis
We invite papers on topics including:
- Formal and structural analysis
- Historical, contextual, and reception studies
- Queer studies exploring how queer identities and relationships influenced the creation and reception of works
- Comparative studies across composers and genres, and studies that explore how these musical works intersect with queer histories
- Mapping and cataloguing studies
- Methodological innovations in research with limited existing resources, including a focus on sketch study, archival research, reconstructive analysis, analysis of compositions where component parts are missing, etc
- New interpretive frameworks and analytical lenses: in addition to feminist, decolonial, or intersectional studies, we invite the integration of queer theory and LGBTQ+ perspectives to deepen our knowledge of the music and its historical contexts
- Historically informed analysis tracing performance practices relevant to these works
- Source studies and editorial methodologies, with a focus on the creation of new, reliable editions for use in performance and scholarship.
Music Education
Topics of interest include:
- Curriculum development and pedagogical innovations
- Developing learning resources for under-represented repertoires, with a focus on creating and compiling teaching resources such as annotated scores, multimedia materials, listening guides, or primary source compilations for use from introductory courses to advanced seminars
- Developing learning resources for queer repertoires that address queer narratives in the music of 19th century women composers, and incorporate discussion of LGBTQ+ influences
- Collaborative curriculum design and resource sharing
- Open access and digital resource development
- Guidelines for archival research and resource compilation, with a focus on methodological approaches to sourcing, curating, and utilizing archival materials
- Case studies on resource integration.
Interdisciplinary Studies
We welcome proposals exploring:
- Contextual approaches to large-scale forms in relation to literary, artistic, graphic, and extra-musical adjuncts and associations
- Intersections of music with literary and artistic traditions across languages
- Interdisciplinary approaches linking music with other art forms of the long 19th century such as art history, dance studies, literary studies, film studies, gender studies
- Interdisciplinary approaches that explore intersections of music with queer literary and artistic traditions across languages, examining how these works converse with or challenge societal norms of the time
- Comparative and contextual studies examining parallel developments in large-scale forms with visual arts, literature, theatre, dance, or other disciplines
- Comparative and contextual studies considering music alongside other corresponding art works or artifacts such as (but not limited to) paintings, the novel, texts and scripts of plays, and librettos, with an aim to highlight the era’s artistic synergies
- Comparative and contextual studies considering queer narratives alongside the contributions of women composers to highlight shared struggles and artistic expressions across various art forms.
