A provisional programme, conference information and a booking form are now available.
The RMA Annual Conference 2008 will be hosted by the University of Aberdeen on 15 -18 July 2008.
Sessions include:
Performance & Meaning
Composition
Material Culture & Instrument Makers
Opera
Haydn's Music for Voice
Politics & Society
Aesthetics & Analysis
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Keyboard Music
Mozart
There will also be contributions to the two conference themes detailed below.
'My Ladye Nevells Booke'
As part of the conference there will be a celebration of the British Library's acquisition of 'My Ladye Nevells Booke', the priceless manuscript copied by John Baldwin in 1591 containing keyboard music by William Byrd, which will be on display in Aberdeen City Art Gallery throughout the duration of the conference. The first theme is the music of William Byrd and his pupils (e.g. Morley, Philips, Tomkins, Bull) and English virginalist music, including composers, instruments and performance practice.
'Sound and Space'
The second conference theme is 'Sound and Space', especially an examination of the articulation of space in electroacoustic music. This will include papers on, and submissions of, electroacoustic music (stereo or multichannel) and sound installations. A number of performances will take place during the conference.
