{"id":112510,"date":"2025-10-02T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esmuc.cat\/research\/conferences\/euromac-11-conference\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:58:21","slug":"euromac-11-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esmuc.cat\/en\/research\/conferences\/euromac-11-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroMAC 11 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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EuroMAC 11 Conference<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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In 2017, during EuroMAC 9 in Strasbourg, T&AM was born as a network gathering nine European societies for music theory and analysis. As of today, the consortium has incorporated five more scientific societies, including the three ones organizing EuroMAC 11. This growth shows the health of our scientific field but also warns us about the risk of scattered actions. For this reason, ATAM, SATMUS, and SPIM decided to jointly work for EuroMAC 11, after a fruitful work meeting held at ESMUC in April 2024.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In addition to the geographical reasons mentioned above, the Iberian Peninsula countries share a strong historical link with Latin America due to our colonial past. We hope that our shared initiative for EuroMAC 11 will also help to reinforce bridges of scientific friendship and collaboration with our peers from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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EuroMAC tradition + rationale<\/span><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/div>\r\n
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Since its first edition in 1989, EuroMAC has served as a key forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners in music theory and analysis across Europe and beyond. Over more than three decades, it has reflected the evolution of the discipline\u2014from the consolidation of analytical methods and national societies to the emergence of broader, interdisciplinary, and globally connected approaches. Each edition has contributed to redefining the purposes, languages, and communities of music-analytical research.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

EuroMAC 11 in Barcelona will continue this trajectory while asking whether music analysis today stands at a point of crisis or renewed vitality. The conference aims to foster dialogue on the present and future of the discipline, considering both its historical legacies and its evolving intersections with contemporary thought and practice. Three overarching thematic vectors are proposed as possible lenses through which to engage:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1. Ontology – The Nature of the Discipline.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What does it mean to do music theory and analysis in 2026? Does the current diversification of approaches represent a fragmentation of the field or the consolidation of a new interdisciplinary domain?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2. Impact – Music Analysis and Today’s Challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

How do global transformations\u2014climate crisis, social and cultural inequalities, migration, shifting identities, digitalization, and artificial intelligence\u2014reshape analytical concerns? And conversely, how might the practices and epistemologies of music analysis inform our understanding of these challenges?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

3. Pragmatics – Objects, Mediation and Education.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

How are changes in music\u2019s social functions, modes of dissemination, and technologies of listening and learning affecting the analytical object itself, as well as the pedagogies and research methods of the discipline?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

By articulating these questions, EuroMAC 11 seeks to reaffirm the conference\u2019s dual mission: to represent the diversity and excellence of music-theoretical research in Europe, and to offer a space for collective reflection on its epistemological, cultural, and institutional futures.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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EuroMAC 11 at ESMUC<\/span><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/div>\r\n
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ESMUC will celebrate its 25th anniversary in September 2026. During these days, it has not only consolidated its role as a higher education center in music\u2014the only publicly funded institution of its kind in Catalonia\u2014but has also gained significant international recognition and projection.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

ESMUC is currently engaged in a range of international initiatives and programs, notably the European University Alliance In.Tune\u2014the only alliance dedicated to music and the arts\u2014together with seven other universities from Northern, Eastern, and Western Europe. The institution is also a member of the European Association of Conservatoires, Academies and Schools of Music (AEC); ELIA, the European network for higher arts education and research; and the International Benchmarking Group (IBG), a global network of eleven conservatoires, music schools, faculties, and universities of the arts with two primary objectives: to share best practices and to provide global leadership in music education and training. In addition, ESMUC takes part in Musethica, an international network of projects and concert programs aimed at making classical music accessible to individuals facing personal or social challenges.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Thus, ESMUC\u2019s projection beyond its regional context\u2014at the European and even global level\u2014is one of the school\u2019s core principles. Achieving this requires a combination of many factors in multiple directions: presence in forums, networks, and projects; internationalization of its academic offer, faculty, and student body; and active participation in debates on the future of music education.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In addition, the participation in and organization of high-level academic events, such as the EuroMAC conference, reflects the institution\u2019s commitment to scientific research, which is increasingly consolidated at an institutional level.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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