21 MAR 2019 - 23 MAR 2019

The Research Center for Science and Technology in the Arts (CITAR) at Universidade Católica Portuguesa invites the submission of paper proposals to Música Analítica 2019: Porto International Symposium on the Analysis and Theory of Music.

The symposium promotes the notion of music as analysis and analysis as music - a gloss on “música analítica”- arguing that our discursive modes of analysis are not outside of music or simply an enriching addition we bring to it but rather integral to the way we may experience, conceive, and music. In short, implicit or explicit analysis is implicated in the way we reframe, process, and construct time and sound, including aspects such as gesture or communal experience into/as music.

The symposium's thematic range is inclusive, welcoming submissions from a variety of perspectives on music analysis and theory (speculative, practical, historical) or attendant to the multifarious intersections with disciplines such as music history, composition, critical theory, ethnomusicology, performance, sound art, mathematics, cognitive sciences, and technology. In addition, pedagogical approaches that address methodological and social implications of music analysis are particularly encouraged.