[AMS-announce] CFP: Cycle and Process: Joseph Haydn and Time, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, January 2009

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Cycle and Process: Joseph Haydn and Time

Interdisciplinary Symposium, January 19-21, 2009
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

In daily experience, time is perceived either as repetition of the same (cycle) or as continuous, irreversible change (process). Music has, thanks to its quality of temporal existence, always had a special relation to time in tempo, meter, and rhythm. Furthermore, since Haydn's day the perception of continuity and change, time patterns and irregular developments, has gained a sharper focus. Not incidentally, authentic titles or later added programmatic names of works by Haydn allude to time and its passing: Le matin / Le midi / Le soir / Die Uhr / Die Jahreszeiten. Therefore, our conference intends to examine applications of this sharpened perception on music. Our topic relates to recent debates in various fields and research areas such as New Musicology (e.g., narratology), Cultural Studies (significance of memory in the reception of music) and to the discussion initiated by Reinhart Kosellek regarding  the new perception of time during the 18th century (cf. the journal Das 
 achtz
ehnte Jahrhundert: vol. 30/2 [2006],  "Zeitkonzepte").

Proposals for papers (in German or English) including an abstract of no more than 250 words are requested by Dec. 15th, 2007, to the following address: 

Institut für Analyse, Theorie und Geschichte der Musik
Kennwort: Zyklus und Prozess
c/o Prof. Dr. Martin Eybl
Anton-von-Webern Platz 1
1030 Wien