[AMS-announce] CFP: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Univ. of Bristol, July 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

Seventh Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain 2009 (University of Bristol) 

Call for Papers 

The seventh biennial conference on music in 19th-century Britain will be held at the Department of Music, University of Bristol, with the support of CHOMBEC (the Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth), from Thursday, 23rd July to Sunday, 26th July 2009.

Abstracts of up to 300 words are invited for individual papers of 20 minutes length, lecture recitals, themed panels or roundtables, and should reach Dr Guido Heldt either by e-mail or snail mail at the addresses below not later than Friday, 5th December 2008.

As 2009 will see ‘round’ anniversaries of the birth or death of George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn and Louis Spohr, we would like to encourage papers on the relationship between these composers and music in 19th-century Britain, and about musical cross-channel relationships in the 19th century in general. This is by no means supposed to be a conference theme, though, just an opportunity for a few sessions focusing on such questions, and of course and as in previous years proposals on any aspect of music in 19th-century Britain are welcome. 

For further information please contact: 

Dr Guido Heldt
University of Bristol
Department of Music
Victoria Rooms
Queens Road
Bristol BS8 1SA
United Kingdom 
e-mail: guido.heldt at bristol.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0)117 954 50 34 or +44 (0)117 954 50 28
fax: +44 (0)117 954 50 27