Irish Musicology

Subject: Irish Musicology
From: sian, west wales
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 05:35 PM

I've just been sent this, which should be of interest to some here:

sian

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Dear colleague

It is my pleasure to announce the inauguration and first publication of a new journal: the *Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland*, ISSN 1649-734X, online at http://www.musicologyireland.com/jsmi/ and http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/

The first contents of the journal's first annual volume (2005) are now
available: click on one of the links above.

JSMI is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published exclusively online. Following the principles of open-access journals, its full-text articles and other content are entirely free to read online and to print out. To use the journal, all you have to do is register as a user at the journal's website.

Submissions to JSMI (full-length articles, short articles, reviews) are warmly invited from all interested scholars. For information on the journal's policies and advice on how to submit, see http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/index.php/jsmi/about JSMI is intended to be a forum for both distinguished scholars and young musicologists, including postgraduate students, whether associated with Ireland or not. It is the policy of the journal (as, indeed, it is of the Society for Musicology in
Ireland) to embrace all traditions and disciplines of musicology, old and new, including ethnomusicology and critical musicology. Neither readers nor authors are required to be members of SMI (the Society for Musicology in Ireland), though they are of course most welcome to join: see http://www.musicologyireland.com/

Enquiries about JSMI may be directed to me at [e-mail]

With best wishes

Paul Everett
Executive Editor, JSMI

Editorial Board, JSMI: Aileen Dillane, Barra Boydell, Jacqueline Waeber, Paul Everett, Wolfgang Marx

Advisory Board, JSMI: Christoph Wolff, Harry White, Martin Stokes, Michael Beckerman, Reinhard Strohm, Susan Youens

Subject: RE: Irish Musicology
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 05:43 PM

To be sure

Subject: RE: Irish Musicology
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 05:56 PM

This is the beginning of the end.

Subject: RE: Irish Musicology
From: David Ingerson
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 08:04 PM

I know what you mean, Leeneia. At one point in my life I considered getting an advanced degree in folklore. I started reading some of that stuff and it was like I was shot with a tranquilizing dart. Ethnomusicologists come up with some interesting stories now and then but most of what they do seems pretty deadening to me. But more power to them if that is what they like. And more power to them for organizing, publishing, and publicizing what they do.

Thanks for sharing the info, Sian.

Me? I'd rather sit around with my friends drinking and singing old Irish songs.

David

Subject: RE: Irish Musicology
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 08:58 PM

I'm with you, David. Glad they are around, but it ain't my cuppa. I'd rather set around a porch, preferably with a pint of Guinness, and make music. Glad they are out there finding them though.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Irish Musicology
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 10:38 PM

The current edition consists of two papers: Bruckner's Symphonies and Sonata Deformation Theory, and Anonymous I and Prologus in tonarium: Changing Interpretations of Music Theory in Eleventh-Century Germany.

Note that this is a journal devoted to Musicology, not Ethnomusicology (though that discipline is not excluded); and the fact that it has "in Ireland" in its name doesn't mean that it is in any way devoted to the study of Irish music of any kind. I really don't see why anybody would have a problem with it if it were.

My problem with it is that it requires unnecessary registration, and that the process doesn't work properly. They need to peer-review their website scripting to the same standard as their papers.