International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance

A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO

ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music

Multipart music is a specific mode of music making and expressive behaviour based on the intentionally distinct and coordinated participation in the performing act by sharing knowledge and shaping values. 

Multipart music represents one of the most fascinating phenomena in numerous local musical cultures. It has therefore been a favoured object of research for a long time, particularly in the national framework. Regional studies, which extend beyond political boundaries, have been, however, rare and sporadic.

Therefore a network of researchers, many of them ICTM members, is working since 2003 focusing on multipart music traditions in Europe in the framework of the “Research Centre of European Multipart Music” established at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology of the Vienna University of Music.

The works of this Centre served as basis upon which we were able to draw during the negotiations with the ICTM Board for the establishing of a Study Group on Multipart Music. The board reached a positive decision on the formation of the group in July 2009 after the ICTM World Conference in Durban, South Africa.

An ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music is of a great help to extend the existing network and our views on multipart music traditions worldwide, by means of research, documentation, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study, intending a tight collaboration with local singers and musicians also in the scholarly discussion processes.

Our Study Group shall promote multipart music through research, documentation, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study and shall provide a forum for cooperation among scholars and students of multipart music by means of international meetings, publications and correspondence, intending a tight collaboration with local singers and musicians also in the discussion processes. The Study Group may undertake such projects as are in support of its stated objectives, including, but not limited to, organization of Study Group symposia, and formation of sub-study groups.

Contact

Executive members of the Study Group are: Ardian Ahmedaja (Chairperson) (ahmedaja@mdw.ac.at), Ignazio Macchiarella (Vice Chairperson) (macchiarella@unica.it), Žanna Pärtlas (Secretary/Treasurer)(zhanna@ema.edu.ee)

see the new web-site: www.multipartmusic.eu

6th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Multipart Music 23-27 September 2019 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

6thSymposium of the ICTM Study Group for Multipart Music

23‑27 September 2019

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Call for papers

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONSMarch 19, 2019.

PLACE: Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

LANGUAGE: English.

THEMES

A new book by the ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music

Multipart Music. Individuals and Educated Musicians in Traditional Practices. Pál Richter and Lujza Tari, eds. Budapest: Institute of Musicology RCH HAS, 2015. Paperback, 540 pp., colour photos, transcriptions, DVD. ISBN 9789634160168. 

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