“Above all, music must move the heart...” C. P. E. Bach
The purpose of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is to promote the study and performance of music of the eighteenth century. The Society provides a forum where scholars and performers can further their knowledge of music, history and interrelated arts of the period and serves as a resource to facilitate and encourage collaboration.
The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music will hold its Fifth Biennial Conference jointly with the Haydn Society of North America (HSNA)
13–15 April 2012 at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.
Registration
Accommodation & Travel
Preliminary Program
Pictures of the College of Charleston
The Sterling E. Murray Award for Student Travel, named in honor of SECM’s founding president, was established in 2011 to encourage and enable college and university students currently enrolled as full-time undergraduate or graduate students in accredited academic programs and having career interests that relate to the mission of the Society for Eighteenth- Century Music, to attend the Society’s biennial meetings. The award consists of $500 to support travel expenses as well as a student membership in the Society for one year. Award recipients are announced in the Society’s newsletter and recognized at the meeting that they attend. Further information and an application form can be found here.
SECM at ASECS 2012
San Antonio, Texas
Date: 22–25 March 2012
The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music (SECM) will sponsor two sessions at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
Guido Olivieri, The University of Texas at Austin, will chair both sessions.
The full program can be found here.
The “Bononcini Project” of the Fondazione Arcadia promotes the music of Giovanni Bononcini with a web site, an online works catalog and downloadable scores. Further information can be found at their web site.
Haydn and His Contemporaries has been published by Steglein Publishing. This volume prints thirteen papers read at the joint conference of our society and the Haydn Society of North America in Claremont, CA in 2008. The book is the SECM 2011 membership gift. Further information about the title can be found at Steglein’s web site: www.steglein.com.
A list of dissertations currently being written or recently completed on topics pertaining to music in the eighteenth century can be found here.
The complete text of Charles Burney’s The Present State of Music in France and Italy, 2nd, corrected edition, (London: T. Becket and Co., 1773), is now available here. Access is free and open to anyone.
SECM members get 20% discount on Eighteenth-Century Music and Journal of Musicology