Archive – Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group

For those who are planning to attend the AMS meeting in New Orleans, a reminder that the study group will sponsor two events:

–Business Meeting, Friday Nov 11, 8-9:30pm (location Steering)

–Archival Research in the 21^st Century roundtable, Saturday Nov 12, 8-10pm (location Compass)

Attached is the agenda for the business meeting. There will be an informal zoom option for the business meeting https://utexas.zoom.us/j/93295924352, barring technological difficulties. Members following the meeting on zoom will be able to ask questions through the chat option. A reminder also that we have compiled a list of “early music events” (broadly defined) below. We’re grateful to Jane Alden for the suggestion and for compiling much of this information. Please check details on the AMS program online. We look forward to seeing all who can attend in New Orleans!

AMS meeting in New Orleans list of Early Music events Thurs 10/Nov/22 – Sun 13/Nov/22. Please check details (subject to change) on the AMS program online (link here). Note that the study group will sponsor two events: Business Meeting, Friday Nov 11, 8-9:30pm (location Steering); Archival Research in the 21^st Century roundtable, Saturday Nov 12, 8-10pm (location Compass).

The AMS Study Group and SMT Interest Group for the History of Music Theory are happy to invite you to our pre-conference (Nov. 9-10, 2022) to the upcoming AMS/SEM/SMT meeting in New Orleans, held at Loyola University: Identity in Music Theory and History. Building on recent interrogations of the ways in which race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, dis/ability, and class have shaped disciplinary agendas; on histories that extend or decenter Europe and the global North; and on historicizations of music theory’s fundamental concepts, this conference will address the role(s) identity does, might, or ought to play in histories of music theory. The preliminary program and directions to Loyola University can be found here. Please register using this GoogleDoc. Additionally, on Saturday Nov. 12, we will host a joint session on The Problem of Translation in Global Histories of Music Theory (link here). For the translation panel, we will circulate materials in preparation through the listserv soon. Feel free to contact me or my co-chairs at historyofmusictheory -at- gmail.com.

AMS Skills and Resources for Early Musics announces Digital Repository initiative, seeks volunteers – deadline extended to Sept 1 – We are pleased to share the good news that earlier this year the study group received a $2,000 grant from the AMS Early Music Program Fund to create two online tools that will be linked to the study group website: a Database of Digital Resources, and a Repository of Pedagogical Resources to further the study of early musics worldwide. We now seek to recruit a webmaster and up to 3 graduate students with some experience in digital humanities to create and maintain these tools. Note that these are paid positions! Nominations, including self-nominations, and a brief biography of no more than 150 words.

AMS study group CFP – The Skills and Resources Study Group proposes to organize a roundtable discussion centered on Archival Research in the 21st Century: Skills and Resources. We encourage a broad array of perspectives on musical collections and on non-musical ones, equally important in providing information about musical practice and culture. We will consider both public and private archives, on-site and online, including a wide global reach. For complete details please see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s-avcVrjChpIIndzCuQL9GK4a8OwSwKQB1vPcko_g8A/edit?usp=sharing. Proposals are due Friday, 11 February 2022.

The Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group will hold a roundtable and a business meeting at the American Musicological Society’s 87th Annual Meeting, held online over 11-12 and 20-21 November 2021.