Invitations to bid for an evaluation of the perceived significance of small research grants in the music education and music psychology research community

SEMPRE wishes to commission research into the benefits of small
research grants (i.e. , of awards of £10,000 or less) to the music
education and music psychology research community.
It seeks proposals from active researchers who would be willing to
undertake a detailed survey of UK-­‐based researchers in
music-­‐related topics to establish clearly documented evidence,
including case studies, of whether or not small grants offer
significant and lasting impact on research careers and research
outcomes.
The research should be completed within the calendar year 2011,
including a written interim report that will be considered by the
SEMPRE Committee at its mid-­‐year meeting in May 2011 and a final
report at its December meeting.
Up to £5,000 is available to cover salary costs (which could include
teaching replacement or buy-­‐out for full-­‐time academic staff) and
an additional £1000 is available for direct research costs.
Expressions of interest should contain: (i) a specification of how
the research would be carried out, including detail of the
constituencies to be approached (such as NAHMHE (National Association
of Heads of Music in Higher Education), RSM, Heads of Research in all
the Conservatoires and award holders [past/present] of small research
grants); (ii) a timetable (bearing in mind the reporting needs for May
and December); and (iii) a budget.
Such expressions should be sent to Professor Graham Welch (SEMPRE
Chair) by email at g.welch@ioe.ac.uk, no later than 31 January 2011.
In addition, applicants should indicate their experience and
qualifications for undertaking a project such as this by including an
overview cv.
It is expected that the outcomes will be announced in early February
2011 and that the research will commence later that month.

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SOCIETY FOR MUSIC PERCEPTION AND COGNITION CALL FOR PAPERS

Tenth Biennial Meeting
August 11-14, 2011
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY

Due date to submit an abstract for consideration: February 1, 2011

Submitted abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should
describe the motivation, methodology, results, and implications of
the research to the degree that this information is available at the
time of submission. For those submitting experimental work, the
description should describe the stimuli and participant groups used,
the experimental methodology, and data collected. For those
submitting theoretically based work, the description should give a
sense for the approach used and should make a case for why the
work is relevant to the field of music perception and cognition in its
aims, methods, and/or results.

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to: smpc2011submissions@gmail.com

Please type the abstract directly into the body of the e-mail, rather
than submitting as an attachment. In the body of your email, please
list all authors and affiliations, and please indicate preference for
presentation as a talk or poster.

Conference information is available at http://www.esm.rochester.edu/smpc2011/

Feel free to contact the chair of the Program Committee at the same
address if you have questions about your submission.

Program Committee: Peter Pfordresher (University at Buffalo, chair),
Erin E. Hannon (University of Nevada, Las Vegas),
Carol Krumhansl (Cornell University),
Justin London (Carleton College),
Elizabeth Margulis (University of Arkansas),
Peter Martens (Texas Tech University),
Devin McAuley (Michigan State University),
Frank Russo (Ryerson University),
Mike Schutz (McMaster University).

Conference Organizers: David Temperley and Elizabeth Marvin (Eastman School)
Conference questions should be directed to David Temperley:
dtemperley@esm.rochester.edu

Christmas concert

AN EVENING WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON CHAMBER CHOIR
friday 17th december 2010, 18:30
st george's church, bloomsbury, wcl
tickets available on the door (£9/£4)
www.ulchamberchoir.co.uk

Call for papers: Journal of Music, Technology & Education

Call for papers

Journal of Music, Technology & Education
We invite educators, researchers and practitioners to contribute to the Journal of Music, Technology & Education (JMTE), the only journal that is specifically dedicated to the pedagogical aspects of technology in music education. Peer-reviewed, with an international editorial board, JMTE aims to draw its contributions from a broad community of educators, researchers and practitioners who are working closely with new technologies in the field. We regard such education in its widest sense, with no bias towards any particular genre.

JMTE examines pedagogy at all levels and across genres such as composition, musicology, performance and music production.

We would like to invite contributions in any aspect of the field, such as:
 
·     Computer-mediated music composition in education

·     Music performance technologies

·     Audition & aural awareness training systems

·     Music, technology, education & industrial practice

·     Computational musicology in Further and Higher Education

·     Musical creativity and technology

·     Pedagogical aspects of electroacoustic composition

·     Classroom engagement with new technologies

·     Assessing student music technology practice

·     Children's musical learning with technology


Articles should not normally exceed 6-8,000 words in length (4,000 words for position papers), should include full references, bibliography and keywords, and should also include an abstract of no more than 150 words. Illustrated articles are welcome. Short reports may be submitted on related issues, as well as conference reports, book and pedagogically contextualized software/hardware reviews.

To submit to the journal, or for more information please contact the editor Andrew King at a.king@hull.ac.uk

For more information on the journal, please see the journal's webpage:

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=152/


Editor: Andrew King (University of Hull) a.king@hull.ac.uk


Associate Editors: Allan Hewitt (University of Strathclyde) allan.hewitt@strath.ac.uk

Evangelos Himonides (Institute of Education) e.himonides@ioe.ac.uk

Jonathan Savage (Manchester Metropolitan University) j.savage@mmu.ac.uk


Book Reviews Editor: Rowan Oliver (University of Hull) r.a.oliver@hull.ac.uk


ISSN: 1752-7066 | Online ISSN: 1752-7074 | 2010, Volume 4, 3 issues per year

      Institutional subscription: £210 / $330 | Online subscription: £177 / $265 | Individual subscription: £33 / $65

SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS IN SOCIETY

9-11 May 2011

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany

http://www.Arts-Conference.com/

The International Conference on the Arts in Society and the International Journal of the Arts in Society provide a scholarly platform for discussions of the arts and art practices, enabling an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. They are intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world - in studios and classrooms, in galleries and museums, on stage, on the streets and in communities.

As well as an impressive line-up of plenary speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in The International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication.

Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the Arts in Society YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details. Additionally, please join our online conversation by subscribing to our monthly email newsletter and subscribing to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at http://www.Arts-Conference.com/.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 21 December 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found on the conference website at http://www.Arts-Conference.com/.

ULCC concert

Autumn Concert
Friday 19th November 2010, 19.30, St George's Bloomsbury, London
http://www.ulchamberchoir.co.uk

Leeds International Jazz Conference 2011: CALL FOR PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

 LEEDS COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Leeds, United Kingdom

 

CALL FOR PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

 

Leeds International Jazz Conference 2011:

Time Captured - Jazz composition, composing and composers

Thursday & Friday 7- 8 April 2011

 

The 17^th Leeds International Jazz Conference takes place at Leeds College of Music from Thursday 7 to Friday 8 April 2011. LIJC is an annual event focusing on jazz research, education, performance and composition. It is the only conference of its kind in the UK and offers a unique forum for musicians, academics, educators, students, and arts organisers to engage with the latest sounds and ideas in jazz. Along with paper presentations, workshops, performances and jam sessions, there are opportunities for discussion, networking, information exchange, and professional development.

 

LIJC 2011 focuses on the under-explored subject of jazz composition, composing and composers. In keeping with this overarching theme we are delighted to welcome two eminent keynote presenters:   

 

Mike Gibbs, distinguished composer, arranger and trombonist is our Jazz Keynote. He will address us on composing, compositional process and the influences contributing to his own distinctive voice and methods. He also offers a workshop for small groups and jazz orchestra. Mike Gibbs has worked with many music luminaries including Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Gary Burton, John Dankworth and Laurie Anderson. Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) he was awarded scholarships to attend Lenox School of Jazz and Tanglewood Summer School where he studied with Aaron Copland, Gunther Schuller, George Russell, J.J.Johnson, Lukas Foss and Iannis Xenakis. He has several Melody Maker Awards, including First Composer, Best Big Band, Musician of the Year, First Arranger and his own album In the Public Interest was voted Best Album of 1974. He continues to write and arrange for the major European jazz orchestras. A newly commissioned piece will feature in LIJC 2011 with the LCM Jazz Orchestra.

Our academic keynote speaker is Tony Whyton Reader in Music within the School of Media, Music and Performance at Salford University, UK. His first book, Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010, and hot on its heels is a second book Beyond A Love Supreme (Oxford University Press). In his tenure at Leeds College of Music (1998-2007), Tony set up the Centre for Jazz Studies and was founding editor of the international journal The Source: challenging jazz criticism, the first peer reviewed interdisciplinary journal for jazz studies. He now co-edits the internationally peer-reviewed Jazz Research Journal. Tony Whyton has recently been awarded just under €1 million to lead a three-year, collaborative, pan-European project entitled Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities. His work champions the relationship between theory and practice and encourages performers, composers and musicologists to engage critically with music as a discursive cultural practice.

 

Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals

 

The conference committee invites proposals for research papers, workshops, lecture-recitals, panels and roundtable discussions. The deadline for the submissions of proposals is Monday 10 January 2011. We welcome presentations that advance the field of jazz composition and composition education, and the emergence of cross-disciplinary thinking and the development of new jazz scholarship. While we invite proposals on any area of jazz research and practice from within any discipline, preference will be given to topics which accord with the conference theme, and may address:

 

Defining composition, defining jazz composition

Performance and jazz composition

The changing compositional language of jazz

Jazz improvisation and composition

Improvisation and the jazz composer

Teaching and learning jazz composition

Critical evaluation of jazz composition

Precedent and tradition in jazz composition

Composition for small and large jazz ensembles

Jazz composition on record

The cult of personality and the jazz composer

National identities and jazz composition

Jazz composing and issues of notation

Jazz arranging techniques and aesthetic choices

Aesthetics and jazz composition

Inspiration and jazz composition

Influences on composition from outside jazz

The limitations of jazz scholarship for understanding composition

 

Individual presentations should be no more than twenty minutes in duration. There may be opportunities for longer slots for lecture-recitals and workshops. Proposals should take the form of a title followed by an abstract of not more than 200 words, and should include details of each presenter(s) including brief biographical description. The deadline for submissions is Monday 10 January, and decisions will be notified shortly after this date.

 

Any queries about a proposal should be directed to the LIJC 2011 Conference Director: Louise Gibbs l.gibbs@lcm.ac.uk

 

Submissions should be addressed to: Caroline Stephenson, Academic Administrator, c.stephenson@lcm.ac.uk  or sent to her at:

 

Leeds College of Music

3 Quarry Hill

Leeds

LS2 7PD

United Kingdom

 

For more information and to make a booking for the conference go to:

http://www.lcm.ac.uk/research-conference/leeds-international-jazz-conference.htm

Queries about attending LIJC 2011 should be addressed to: Louise Wood l.wood@lcm.ac.uk

Music Teacher Education in Brazil and the UK: Challenges and perspectives

Music Education Special Interest Group

Research Seminar Announcement

Music Teacher Education in Brazil and the UK: Challenges and perspectives

 

Professor Graham Welch, Institute of Education, University of London, UK; Dr. Sérgio Figueiredo, State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; Dr. José Soares, State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

 

Thursday 16^th December 13.00 – 15.00

Room: 944

 

Abstract

In Brazil students have to follow a different route to become a music teacher to that of the UK. There are significant variations in the preparation of music teachers, both across and within individual programmes, and these are reflected in a range of trainee teachers experiences. It is a complex matter to make comparisons between the mechanisms that operate in different countries for several reasons, in particular the fact that Higher Education Institutions and educational systems in general can vary in a number of ways and are influenced by socio-economic factors, government policies and other external factors. However, an understanding of similar or contrasting features in the preparation of music teachers in Brazil and UK is of great value in tackling social, political and educational problems. The purpose of this seminar is to hold a debate on the current challenges that face prospective music teacher in Brazil and the UK. The seminar is organized as follows:

 

Time	Presenter	Information
13.00	Dr. Sérgio Figueiredo	Dr. Figueiredo will present an overview of Music Teacher Training Courses in Brazil. He will also discuss the implications of a new Law 11.769/2008, which stipulates that music should be a compulsory part of the syllabus in the school curriculum at all levels of basic education, and should serve to prepare new music teachers in Brazil.
13.30	Professor Graham Welch	Professor Welch will discuss significant concerns about music teacher education in England. He will present the pathways to become a music teacher in the UK.
14.00	Dr. José Soares e          Dr. Sérgio Figueiredo	Dr. Soares and Dr. Figueiredo will give a presentation on the preliminary results of a research project "Becoming a music teacher in Brazil". This is being carried out by the Music Education Research Group (MusE) and funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education (CAPES), a department of the Ministry of Education, Observatory Program. The aim of the project is to identify the determinants factors that affect the process of becoming a music teacher in Brazil.
14.30-15.00	All presenters	Discussion

 

Biography of presenters

Professor Graham Welch

Professor Graham Welch holds the Institute of Education, University of London Established Chair of Music Education and is Deputy Dean of the Institute's Faculty of Culture and Pædagogy. He is elected Chair of the international Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) and president-elect of the International Society for Music Education (ISME). He also holds Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Sydney (Australia), Limerick (Eire), Helsinki (Finland) and Roehampton (UK). He has acted as a special consultant: (i) on aspects of children's singing and vocal development to the USA National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS) in Denver and the Swedish Voice Research Centre in Stockholm and (ii) on aspects of educational and research development in the areas of arts and music education, curriculum and teacher development to the British Council in the Ukraine and Argentina, the Ministry for Education and Youth in the United Arab Emirates and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Publications number over two hundred and embrace musical development and music education, teacher education, the psychology of music, singing and voice science and music in special education and disability. Publications are primarily in English, but also in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish and Chinese. Graham Welch is member of the editorial boards of the: Journal of Research in Music Education (JRME), Music Education Research (MER), International Journal of Music Education (IJME), Research Studies in Music Education (RSME), International Journal of Research in Choral Singing (IJRCS) and Psychology of Music (PsyMus).

 

Dr. Sérgio Figueiredo

Sérgio Figueiredo is Associate Professor at the State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Music Education at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology – RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He also holds a Master degree from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He is member of the editorial board of the Revista ABEM (Journal of Brazilian Society for Music Education). He has published in English, Spanish and Portuguese. His main areas of research interest include initial and continuing education of generalist and specialist music teachers, choral education and Philosophy of Music and Music Education. He is the coordinator of the Music Commission at the Ministry of Education in Brazil, specifically at INEP, for evaluation issues. He also is a member of the CNIC – a National Committee for Cultural Issues, at the Ministry of Culture, Brazil. He is a member of the ISME Research Commission, representing Latin America and Caribe. Currently he is the President of Honour of the Brazilian Society for Music Education (ABEM), being the president between 2005 and 2009.

 

Dr. José Soares

José Soares holds a PhD in Music Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He also holds a Master degree from Brazilian Conservatory of Music, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has presented in conferences in Brazil and abroad. He is a member of the editorial board of the Revista ABEM (Journal of Brazilian Society for Music Education). His main areas of interests include creativity, research methods and music teacher education. He is a lecturer at the State University of Santa Catarina. He is involved in the research project 'Becoming a Music Teacher in Brazil', funded by  the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education (CAPES), National Institute for Educational Studies Anísio Teixeira (INEP) and Secretariat for Continuing Education, Literacy and Diversity (SECAD).

Exchanging “Insider” Knowledge: Youth-Led Participatory Action Research in Music

Music Education Special Interest Group

 

Research Seminar Announcement

 

Exchanging "Insider" Knowledge: Youth-Led Participatory Action Research in Music

 

Dr. Susan O'Neill, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada

 

 

Tuesday 16^th November 2010; 12.30-1.30; Room 944

 

Further details from Lucy Green: l.green@ioe.ac.uk

 

All are welcome

 

 

Abstract

 

There is evidence that the involvement of young people as collaborators in the process of research contributes to the value and relevance of the information gathered. Young people, working within their own peer cultures, have a perspective that is not always easy for researchers and teachers to tap into. Yet, their "insider" knowledge can make an important contribution to curriculum initiatives and pedagogical approaches. This exploratory study draws on Participatory Action Research (PAR) frameworks and Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) to engage young people, teachers, and researchers in a collaborative "Music Inquiry Project". The project provides learning opportunities for youth to reflect on themselves and the ways they engage with music at school. The study explores how we might use youth-led research to build and sustain a culture of "knowers" in the classroom that fosters an appreciation of local knowledge and the capacity to speak out about that knowledge. It examines a pedagogical approach that can act as a catalyst rather than a constraint for expanding equitable learning opportunities that are reflective, dialogical, collaborative, participatory, interactive, integrative, value-driven and strength-based. It also affords opportunities for young people to gain an understanding of the need for advocacy efforts aimed at changing attitudes and promoting positive youth music engagement and a thriving music culture in their school. 

 

 

Biography

 

Susan O'Neill is Associate Professor in Arts Education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She is Director of Research for Youth, Music and Education (RYME) and Senior Editor of the Canadian Music Educators' Biennial Book Series, Research to Practice. She has published widely in music psychology and music education. She applies her multidisciplinary background (three separate graduate degrees in music, education, psychology) to the study of young people's artistic beliefs and values, youth-led participatory action research, and the impact of youth music engagement on motivation, identity, well-being, media literacy, and cultural understanding. As a flutist, she performs benefit concerts to raise awareness of social justice issues with her husband, pianist Yaroslav Senyshyn. One of their joint recitals was recently released on CD, Live at Von Kuster Hall (Platon Promotions).