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Thursday 27 December 2012

Musica Scotica conference 27th April, Edinburgh



Musica Scotica - Eighth Annual Conference
Saturday 27th April 2013
The Open University in Scotland
10 Drumsheugh Gardens Edinburgh EH3 7QJ

Call for Papers
Papers, 20 minutes in length, are invited on any aspect of Scottish music.

Topics presented in previous years have included chant, Gaelic song, fiddle and bagpipe music, manuscript sources, music publishing, the Scottish diaspora, opera performance, cultural organisations, music education, sectarianism, George Thomson and Haydn, Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Learmont Drysdale, Hamish MacCunn, James MacMillan and Sally Beamish.

Please submit an abstract (250 words) as a Word document or rtf file by February 18th, 2013, to Dr Karen McAulay conference2013@musicascotica.org.uk

You will be notified in the first half of March if your abstract has been accepted.

A poster session may be included; delegates are invited to indicate whether they would be interested in availing themselves of this opportunity.

Proposed conference fees 
  • Full day to include lunch, morning and afternoon tea/coffee: £40 (£30 for students)
  • Morning and/or afternoon session to include tea/coffee, but not lunch: £15
The registration form will be available in due course on the Musica Scotica website.
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Publication of proceedings

Musica Scotica will publish papers from this conference along with a selection of papers from previous conferences.

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