Newsletter No. 31 (January 2009) (PDF) - Society for Music Analysis

S M AQuickTime and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressorare needed to see this picture.Call for PapersInternational Conference onMusic and EmotionUniversity of Durham31 August – 3 September 2009The conference is conceived around four key-note panels representing thedisciplines of music theory, philosophy, psychology and sonic arts. In addition, weinvite papers on any aspect of emotion research, including:* new tools for analysing emotion in musical structure* theories of expression, arousal, contagion, and representation* categorical, dimensional, circumplex, and prototype models* aesthetic psychology and the role of empirical evidence* statistical and probabilistic models, including theories of expectation andmarkedness* measuring physiological change, brain imaging, and analysis of gesture andwhole-body movement* mechanisms of induction, transmission, and evaluation* cross-modality and metaphor* labelling versus dynamic modelling* cross-cultural and trans-historical differences and universals* musical emotion in social context* classical versus evolutionary perspectives* rhetoric, figurality, and the passions* how emotion is mediated through musical form, material, timbre, and voiceProposals (up to 200 words) for papers of around 20 minutes' duration should besent by email to Jo Buckley (jo.buckley@durham.ac.uk) by 1st March 2009. Furtherdetails can be found at www.dur.ac.uk/music.emotion/.societyeventsfor music analysisSMA newsletter 20