Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group – American Musicological Society

Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group

Mission Statement

The AMS Study Group in Skills and Resources for Early Musics aims to coordinate and energize the study of musical practices from before around 1600 by focusing on the skills necessary to teach and undertake research into musics of the distant past. The term “Early Musics” signals a desire to embrace diverse musical traditions from around the globe, including hybrid practices that emerged from trans-continental, socio-cultural, and commercial movements and routes. Research into early musics continues to be vital, vitally important, and importantly challenging for the future. Members of this group share not only an interest in studying and teaching these musical traditions, but a commitment to facilitating the specialist training and interdisciplinary collaboration upon which so much successful work depends.

By focusing on skills rather than output, the Study Group complements early music sessions at the national meeting of the AMS, creating space to discuss the “how” of early music research. Our goal is to facilitate knowledge of and access to extracurricular opportunities and to act as a central networking hub for scholars, teachers, students, and performers to develop further training opportunities.

Announcements

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Soliciting Nominations for SREM team 2025

SREM is currently soliciting nominations for several positions:

Co-chair: to replace Daniel DiCenso at term’s end. New co-chair’s term will run January 1, 2025-December 31, 2026 (two years)

Communications officer: to replace Suzanna Feldkamp at term’s end. New communications officer’s term will run January 1, 2025-December 31, 2025 (one year)

Session committee members: each year at AMS, a committee within the study group organizes a session. Members of the study group nominate and elect the members of this committee, and the committee meets independently to craft the call for papers, evaluate proposals, and submit the session proposal. The study group is currently calling for nominations (including self-nominations) of candidates: 3 faculty/unaffiliated scholars, one of whom will chair, and 2 graduate students.

The deadline for all nominations is December 1, 2024. Click here to reach the nomination Google Form. Nominations can also be emailed to profdiberjones@gmail.com or ddicenso@holycross.edu.

We are also requesting suggestions for the theme of the 2025 Roundtable. This year, the theme was Ethics in/of Early Music. The topic can be anything from a discussion, to a skills session on notation, indexes, etc. The session proposal deadline is normally in March, so please email any nominations of topics to Jeanette Jones at profdiberjones@gmail.com or the new co-chair (will update once voting has concluded) by the end of January 2025.

A congratulations to 2024 AMS Awardees

The study group congratulates early music specialists Emily Zazulia and Joseph Mason!

Emily Zazulia, Associate Professor (Musicology) at UC Berkeley, has received the Early Music Award for her book Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Joseph Mason is winner of the Roland Jackson Award for his article “Trouver et Partir: The Meaning of Structure in the Old French Jeu-Parti” (Early Music History 40, 2021). Mason is a Lecturer at New College, Oxford.

We extend our congratulations and gratitude to these two scholars for their excellent work in our field!

Minutes

…….for the Fall 2024 meeting of SREM at AMS Chicago are being formatted and will be available shortly

…….for the Fall 2023 meeting of SREM at AMS Denver can be found here!