Society for Eighteenth-Century Music
“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.
Encounters with Eighteenth-Century Music is pleased to present three exciting events in the first half of 2025.
Please visit our website for more information about the events of the 2024–2025 season.
The American Bach Society is pleased to announce that the Frances Alford Brokaw Grant will award $1,500 to an undergraduate student to support a project relating to Bach or figures in his circle at the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (RBI) next year. The collection of the RBI, located at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, OH, comprises over 30,000 items, including Bach-oriented manuscripts, books, archival materials, and scores (discover more about these holdings here. RBI musicology faculty will work with the Brokaw Grant winner during their residency to further refine and shape their project. The award is for a period of residence of one or more weeks during the 2025 calendar year to use the RBI’s resources; applications are due February 15, 2025. Further information about the Brokaw Grant is available here.
Call for Papers: Scarlatti’s World: Artists, Sovereigns and Diplomats around a Family of Great Musicians
September 4th-7th, 2025
Biblioteca da Ajuda | Palácio Nacional de Mafra (LISBON)
This international conference, organized by Divino Sospiro CEMSP, commemorates the 300th anniversary of Alessandro Scarlatti’s death and the 340th anniversary of Domenico Scarlatti’s birth. It aims to explore the context in which the Scarlatti family worked, highlighting their relationships with political and artistic circles. The conference will focus on the influence of Alessandro and Domenico, along with other notable musicians of their time, on European music. Topics will include operas, biographies, artistic strategies, production systems, and international connections, with an interdisciplinary approach to understanding their impact on European culture, including Italian opera’s influence in Portugal and Spain.
The official languages of the conference are Portuguese, English, Italian, and Spanish.
Abstracts in Word format (.doc), should not exceed 300 words. Please enclose in the same file brief curriculum vitae of 150 words max., providing your name and surname, postal address, e-mail and telephone number, as well as your institutional affiliation to universoscarlatti@gmail.com. The deadline for sending abstracts is February 28th, 2025.
The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music solicits proposals from graduate students for five-minute lightning talks for our 2024 conference, April 3-6, 2025 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. to submit a proposal, graduate students should simply send their title and the name of the dissertation advisor by March 5, 2025 to Stewart Carter, carter@wfu.edu.
HAYDN: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America
Volume 14 (2024): Reassessing Haydn's Sacred Music
The Haydn Society of North America and Internationale Joseph Haydn Privatstiftung Eisenstadt co-sponsored the international conference “Reassessing Haydn’s Sacred Music” in Eisenstadt in June of 2023. The current volume of HAYDN: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America includes conference papers by Dexter Edge and Janet K. Page on Marian works by Haydn, along with another Marian-related article by Henry Stratmann proposing a Rosary-inspired reading of some of Haydn’s symphonies. Other conference papers, along with some additional Haydn studies will be published in the Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte, Vol. 13: Haydn, Sacred Music, and Perspectives of the Viennese Classical Triad (EHB13; Vienna: Hollitzer), which should be available in February or March 2025.
The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is pleased to provide two resources for the teaching of eighteenth-century music: DEIB Teaching Resources for Music and Musical Examples by 18th-century BIPOC Composers. These resources promote diversity, equity, and belonging and we hope they will expand the ways we teach and think about eighteenth-century music.