The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music will hold its Twentieth Annual Conference from Thursday through Sunday, 19-22 April 2012, in New York, NY, hosted by the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Proposals on all aspects of seventeenth-century music and its cultural contexts are welcome. In view of the setting, we particularly encourage proposals concerning instruments, iconography, or connections between music and art.

Presentations may take a variety of formats, including individual papers of twenty minutes in length, lecture-recitals (forty-five minutes), workshops involving group participation, roundtable discussions, and panel sessions. The Irene Alm Memorial Prize will be awarded for the best scholarly presentation given by a graduate student.
    

It is the policy of the Society that all presenters be members in good standing. A presenter may not give an individual paper at two consecutive meetings, nor make more than one presentation at a single meeting. For individual papers, abstracts not exceeding 350 words should clearly represent the title, subject, and argument, and should indicate the significance of the findings. Proposals for presentations in other formats should be of a similar length; they should clearly state and justify the intended format and should indicate the originality and significance of the material to be delivered. Those for lecture-recitals must include recordings of the proposed performer(s) playing examples of the same repertory if not the exact proposed work(s).

Proposals should be sent by e-mail (deadline: midnight, Eastern Daylight Time, 1 October 2011) to the Program Committee at Shirley.Thompson@bcu.ac.uk with the header “SSCM Proposal.” The e-mail should carry two attachments in Microsoft Word. The first (file name: “anonymous submission”) should include only title and abstract; the second (file name: name and short title) should contain name, address, telephone, fax, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation or city, along with the title and abstract. The content of the second attachment should also be pasted into the body of the e-mail in case of transmission problems. Submissions will be acknowledged within three days of receipt.

Students should identify themselves as such on the non-anonymous copy of the abstract. Anyone proposing a lecture-recital should attach a short biography. Please include audio-visual needs. Audio or video recordings supporting proposals for lecture-recitals are required; we regret that they cannot be returned.