1. Remapping musicology Thoughts of a disciplinary Other Richard Parncutt Centre for Systematic Musicology University of Graz, Austria Musicology (Re-)Mapped European “Science” Foundation Warsaw 18-21 November 2009 SysMus Graz

2. Musicology in Austria City 1 No. of profs 1 Uni + ArtUni Quality of research Epistemological diversity of Bachelor Wien4+6?med 2 med Graz2+7?med 2 high 3 Salzburg2+4?med 2 med Innsbruck1med 2 med Austrian Society for Musicology progressive: interesting historical projects and meetings conservative: historically dominated 1 PhD + international search 2 little research evaluation 3 collaboration Uni-ArtUni

3. A previous attempt Parncutt, R. (2002) Interdisciplinary balance, international collaboration, and the future of (German) (historical) musicology. In A. Edler und S. Meine (Eds.), Musik, Wissenschaft und Ihre Vermittlung: Bericht zur Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung

4. Main points in Parncutt (2002) Diversity and balance – history, elites, Western culture, humanities? Professorial selection procedures – expertise in specific area; transparency Teaching – balance of subdisciplines; interdisciplinarity Research – peer review (books, articles, confs); English

5. Further points Ambiguity and power Alterity in academe Epistemological diversity Things to do New conferences and journal

6. Maintaining power with ambiguity science = natural, social, formal humanities = lettres, Geisteswiss.  science = all academic research and scholarship Which “science” are you talking about?  music ology ethno music ology systematic musicology  musicologysystematic musicology musicology = all research about all music What do you mean by “musicology”?

7. Alterity in academe out-group: humanities literature history art and music intermediate social sciences legal studies economics in-group: sciences physical sciences life sciences

8. out-group (Others) acoustics psychology physiology computing intermediate ethnomusicology pop/jazz research sociology philosophy performance research in-group (“musicology”) history theory/analysis cultural studies Alterity in musicology

9. Size matters Humanities ≈ Sciences – amount of research – number of students – social relevance Ethnomusicology ≈ Historical ≈ Systematic – IMS (“musicology”): 900 participants, mainly historical – ICMPC (music psychology): 400 – only part of SysMus – many ethnomusicological societies and confs!

10. Inherent epistemological diversity of musicology 1.definitions of music 2.representations of music 3.music versus its contexts

11. Inherent epistemological diversity of musicology 1. Any attempt to define music involves several disciplines (a)an acoustic signal that (b)evokes recognizable patterns of sound, (c)implies physical movement, (d)is meaningful, (e)is intentional wrt (b), (c) or (d), (f)is accepted by a cultural group and (g)is not lexical (i.e. is not “language”)

12. Inherent epistemological diversity of musicology 2. Representations of music  subdisciplines of musicology The “three worlds” (“Popperian cosmology”) World 1 physical: music as signal, ear, brain – acoustics, physiology, psychology World 2 subjective: music as experience – sociology, cultural studies, phenomenology, psychology World 3 abstract: music as info, knowledge – music theory, computing, psychology … and why not also World 4 agents: listeners, performers, composers, stakeholders – sociology, cultural studies, psychology

13. Inherent epistemological diversity of musicology 3. Different disciplines address “music itself” and its contexts Scientific musicology music’s representations – as physics, experience, information, agency high separation researcher ↔object Two nominally equal approaches: Cultural musicology music’s contexts historical, social, political, cultural low separation researcher ↔ object

14. Why be interdisciplinary? Combine different sources of evidence Sources of evidenceDisciplines Logical argumentphilosophy Personal experience and (inter-) subjectivity humanities, cultural studies Informantsethnomusicology, sociology Historical documentshistory Score analysismusic theory and analysis Empirical datapsychology, sociology, acoustics, physiology Computational simulationinformation sciences

15. What else? Visibility Quality control Interdisciplinary collaboration Language Globalisation Transferable skills Relevance of musicology

16. Visibility Research in the internet – articles (permission of publisher) – books (out of print) – English abstracts Applications – popular writing – education, therapy, medicine – performances (e.g. rare or lost music) – CDs, instruments – projects

17. Globalisation Internet (see above) Hire foreigners Promote bi- and multilingualism

18. Quality control More and better peer-review procedures More promotion of good researchers Better interdisciplinary comparison More articles, fewer books

19. Interdisciplinary collaboration Increasingly necessary due to: expansion of literature – no-one can represent all of musicology peer-review culture – satisfy specialist reviewers Needs explicit promotion! funding prizes

20. Language Quality control in international language – Why? Largest pool of possible reviewers – What? Best journals, all PhDs Promote local languages – multilingual abstracts of journal articles – extended local-language summary of PhDs – funds for translation of best articles

21. Transferable skills for students bi- and multilingualism clear thinking teamwork computing

22. Relevance of musicology Music money (economy, GNP) life (activity, identity, happiness) Humanities reflexion, wisdom, humanity Musicology dynamic, sensitive to social needs? model of interdisciplinary collaboration?

23. The Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology CIM promotes interdisciplinary collaboration Each abstract has two authors representing two of humanities, sciences, practically oriented disciplines CIM focuses on quality rather than quantity anonymous peer review of abstracts independent international experts same disciplines as authors procedure is transparent reviews are impersonal and constructive CIM promotes musicology's unity in diversity all interdisciplinary music research all musically relevant disciplines

24. Past and future CIMs YearThemeCityHostDirector 2004-GrazUniversity of GrazParncutt 2005timbreMontréal Observatoire internationale de la création musicale Traube 2007singingTallinn Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Ross 2008structure Thessa- loniki Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Cambou- ropoulos 2009 instru- ments France Université Pierre et Marie Curie Castellengo 2010 nature / culture SheffieldUniversity of SheffieldDibben Different themes  bottom-up unification of musicology

25. The Journal of Inter- disciplinary Music Studies (JIMS)

26. (Re-)Mapping musicology 1. Take responsibility, take control be open to suggestions want self-improvement stop talking - start doing! 2. Promote diversity, redistribute power all relevant disciplines women and men Western and non-Western