NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MUSICAL SIGNIFICATION

19-23 september 2006 - Università di Roma Tor Vergata

about ICMS

The ICMS is a biannual conference to provide a platform for presentations and discussions of recent developments and future trends in Musical Semiotics. It has been held since 1986 as part of the International Project on Musical Signification. ICMS9 is the ninth edition of the congress.

Chronology of the previous editions:

ICMS1 1986 - Imatra (Finland)
ICMS2 1989 - Helsinki (Finland)
ICMS3 1992 - Edinburgh (Scotland)
ICMS4 1994 - Paris (France)
ICMS5 1996 - Bologna (Italy)
ICMS6 1998 - Aix-en-Provence (France)
ICMS7 2001 - Imatra (Finland)
ICMS8 2004 - Paris (France)

This year, the organizers especially encourage submissions on topics such as: musical ‘gesture’; ‘feeling, emotion and meaning’, today; bodily roots of the musical mind; metaphor in music; image and embodied schemata in musical semiosis, composition and analysis; synaesthesia and transductions ‘interartes’; body as musical medium; etc.