CUMS-SMUC

Calling all writers, musicians and musicologists

Deadline for paper submissions: March 1st, 2010

The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) and the bilingual journal Circuit, musiques contemporaines are proud to announce the second international scholarly essay-writing competition, the “Concours Hommage”, which is held biannually alongside the “Tribute Series” of the Montréal / New Music Festival. Every two years, a composer is honoured in the MNM festival, and Circuit gives a special place to this composer in one of their issues. It is in this tribute issue that the winning essay will be published.

This year, writers, musicians and musicologists are invited to submit texts dealing with composer Gilles Tremblay. The jury, whose co-presidents are Jean Lesage (McGill University) and Jonathan Goldman (University of Victoria), will meet in April 2010 to choose the winning text, which will appear in Circuit’s Fall 2010 issue (vol. 20, no. 3). The selected writer will win a prize of $1000 CAD, in addition to the usual honorarium given to contributors of the journal. The SMCQ and Circuit, musiques contemporaines will then ensure that this article is as widely disseminated as possible.

Terms of application

• The articles must deal with a subject of the author’s choice dealing with the composer Gilles Tremblay;
• The texts must contain no more than 5000 words;
• The authors may submit their texts in French or English (the winning paper will be published in the language in which it was written);
• The winner must make any corrections suggested by the committee before publication;
• Documents must adhere as closely as possible to the editorial norms of Circuit, which are available for download here: http://www.revuecircuit.ca/apropos/protocole/
• The documents must be sent to the SMCQ no later than March 1st, 2010, as an email attachment ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or to the following address:

300, boul de Maisonneuve Est
Montréal, Qc
H2X 3X6
Canada

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

American Musicological Society
HOWARD MAYER BROWN GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP for 2010-11

for a graduate student at a North American university who is a member of a group underrepresented in musicology (broadly defined)

New application deadline:  15 December 2009

Students may apply who have completed at least one year of graduate work, intend to pursue a Ph.D. degree, and are in good standing at their home institution. The Fellowship is not limited to dissertation work. Awards are based on merit, with no restrictions as to research area, age, or sex. Intended for full-time study, the Fellowship carries a non-renewable twelve-month stipend currently set at US$19,000.

Consult http://www.ams-net.org/hmb.php for eligibility, application procedures, and award stipulations.

Application forms will be available on-line by mid November 2009 and are due by 5 p.m. EST, 15 December 2009.
The winner will be announced in Spring 2010. Inquiries may be addressed to Prof. Margaret Murata <mkmurata at uci.edu>.

For brief profiles of all previous Howard Mayer Brown Fellows, go to
http://www.ams-net.org/fellowships/hmb-winners.php.


Margaret Murata, chair
HMB Fellowship Committee
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2775

CUMS Non-Board Position for Advocacy

The CUMS Board is looking for an individual to fill a non-board, volunteer position for advocacy on issues of interest to our society and its membership. The individual would advise and report to the Board on new and existing situations of national or international interest in order for CUMS to be able to respond in a timely fashion and/or disseminate information to members, as appropriate. Over the last few years, a number of issues affecting our lives as music scholars/performers/educators have emerged (the CBC crisis, the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada eviction, proposed changes to copyright legislation, to name a few). An individual specifically interested in keeping up to date on such issues would ensure that, as a society, we are not ignorant of circumstances that directly affect us.

Please direct expressions of interest in this position by September 8, 2009 to Deanna Oye at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

CUMS Conference 2010 – University of Regina, Saskatchewan, June 3-6, 2010

The Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music Society will be hosted by the Department of Music at the University of Regina, from June 3 to 6, 2010.

We will be joined again by our sister society, the Canadian Association for Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (CAML) and, in addition, the conferences of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM - Canada) and the Canadian Society for Traditional Music (CSTM) will be held simultaneously at the UofR, allowing for interaction among four music societies to take place.

Please look for future updates regarding the conference on this website.