[AMS-announce] CONF: Music Programme Notes (SMA Study Day), Univ. of Sussex, Nov. 2006

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Music Programme Notes

Society for Music Analysis
Autumn Study Day

Saturday 25 November 2006

Department of Music, University of Sussex in association with Society for
Music Analysis

Programme

10.00am Arrival and Registration
10.30 Opening Remarks: Nicholas Till
10.45 Keynote Address: Ian Pace (University of Cardiff). The Marxist
Programme Note: the logic of the supplement in the textual accompaniment
(Nono, Henze, Huber, Cardew, Wolff, Rzewski and Barrett).

11.30 Coffee

12.00pm Session I: Programme Notes for Contemporary Music Peter Laki
(Cleveland Orchestra, USA). "Oh No! Not Birtwistle Again!"
How programme notes can help get the message across.
Gordon Downie (University of the West of England). Cultural Production as
Self-surveillance: making the right impression.
Sam Hayden (University of Sussex). How a Composition "was not helped by a
programme note": a composer's view.

1.30 Lunch

2.30 Session II: Programme Notes for Concerts and Recordings Bethany Lowe
(University of Newcastle). Opposition, Correlation, and
Collaboration: rhetorical strategies and the web of relationships in the
programme notes from recordings of Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony.
Elina Prepula (Jyvaskyla University, Finland). Programme Notes as a
Discourse Practice: audience responses to concert programme notes in
Finland.
Georgina Boyes (University of Sheffield). Audience Expectations:
programme and album notes and the English Folk Revival.

4.00 Tea

4.15 Round Table: Commissioners, Writers and Audiences
Chair: tbc
Andrew Burn (Head of Education and Ensembles, Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra).
Mark Pappenheim (Editor, Proms programme book).
Arnold Whittall (Emeritus Professor of Music, Kings College London).
5.45 Closing Remarks
6.00 Close

Getting there: <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/howtofindus.html>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/howtofindus.html

Cost:  Attending the SMA day is free to current, paid-up members of the
Society for Music Analysis.
For non-SMA members who wish to attend, the cost will be:
      £10 for students
      £20 for non-students
which includes SMA membership until the end of 2007. Membership forms will
be available on the day, but please send a cheque in advance, made payable
to "Society for Music Analysis", to the address below.

Lunch:  Arrangements will be made for lunch to be served to anyone attending
the event, should they wish. Alternatively, people attending the event can
bring their own food. Lunch will cost £12 (£7 for students), and everyone
wishing to have lunch should send a cheque (separate to the registration
fee) to Nick Till by Friday 10 November, so that we can give the caterers
adequate notice of numbers. Lunch
cheques should be made payable to "The University of Sussex".   Please
state any special dietary requirements when reserving lunch.

Cheques to the SMA and/or lunch should be sent to:
Nicholas Till, Department of Music, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN

Enquiries:  Nick Till, <mailto:n.till at sussex.ac.uk>n.till at sussex.ac.uk

Further information is available at <http://www.sma.ac.uk/>www.sma.ac.uk/ events.  
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