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SECOND MEETING OF THE
ICTM STUDY GROUP ON MUSIC OF THE TURKIC-SPEAKING WORLD
IN BERLIN, GERMANY, MARCH 17-21, 2010

We are pleased to announce the Second Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Music
of the Turkic-speaking World and invite you to the meeting which will be held in Germany in 2010, March 17 – 21.

PLACE:
Berlin Free University
Institute for Turcology
Director of the Institute: Prof. Dr. Claus Schönig

Schwendenerstraße 33
14 195 Berlin
Germany

Tel.: +49-30-838 53 955
Fax: +49-30-838 53 823


TOPIC:

Vocal Traditions of Free-metric Singing in Eurasia

Speech and singing – interchanges in which both within the development of mankind are standing, are discussed in various theories, partly also divergently. Important research fields in this context are such forms of literature designated to be sung, poetry being set to music. Being in use in many cultures -past and present, in secular and sacral context - they seem to reach back to prehistoric times.

The Second Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Music of the Turkic-speaking World will set focuss on free-metric singing traditions within a far-reaching and complexe cultural area, determined by its transcontinental hugeness as well as its manifold interactions of most different and partly also marginal cultures.

Within Eurasia and Turco-mongolic speaking areas, up to nowadays free-metric singing styles are still practised by performers, like bards, singing poets, wandering minstrels, who represent - as performers as well as mediators, conoisseurs -
a crucial part of the heritage of old traditions, f. i. epic performances, shamanistic ceremonies, lamentation songs, religious chants in and out of ceremonial context.

Which are the genres containing free-metric singing? Which are the structures of poetry and music? Specific types of melody in free metric style are in the focus of contemplation, specifiying their chracteristic features of structure, like „long melodies“, wide ambitus, ornaments, melisms and vocalises, descending melos, parlando, recitativo style.

What is their position in regard to a possible scala of evaluation within the music culture? What is their meaning for every individual person, f. i. of being an identifying marker? What is the role of the performers in the society, which are the grades of estimation by the society?

The symposium will bring together international scholars and performers from Eurasia and Turco-mongolic areas. Papers and performances are going to be published.


LANGUAGES
English and Russian are the official languages of the symposium.

Please submit your abstract of 250 – 300 words in English or Russian language to a
member of the Program Committee.

Program Committee:
Dorit Klebe (Germany) e-mail: dorit.klebe@web.de
Ildar Kharissov (Tatarstan/Germany) e-mail: kharissov@gmx.de
Claus Schönig (Germany) e-mail: claus.schönig@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Razia Sultanova (Uzbekistan/U.K.): rs588@cam.ac.uk
Janos Sipos (Hungary): e-mail: sipos@zti.hu

You will be informed by November 15th about acceptance.


PRESENTATION FORMATS
Proposals may be submitted for individual presentations, media presentations, panel sessions. Each presentation will be allotted 20 minutes inclusive of all illustrations,
audio-visual media or movement examples, plus 10 minutes for questions and
discussion.