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Albania. 2012

The Second Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Multipart Music was held in Tiranë and Vlorë from 22-29 April 2012. The conference was accompanied by a series of concerts of traditional polyphony from different countries of Europe. The conference was organized by Ulysses Foundation (Tiranë, Albania) and Institut für Volksmusikforschung and Ethnomusikologie Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (Austria).

Themes of meeting were: 1. Multipart music practices as creative processes. 2. Multipart music in religious practices. 3. Multipart music awarded.

ITALY. 2010

An ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music was founded in July of 2009 after the ICTM World Conference in Durban, South Africa. First Symposium of ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music 15-21 September 2010 Cagliari and Baronia in Sardinia, ITALY .

Symposium was organized by Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Studi Storici Geografici e Artistici.

Theme of the meeting was: Multipart music as a specific mode of musical thinking, expressive behaviour and sound. Here is the list of participants and their papers:

Georgia. 2010

The Fifth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony was held at Tbilisi State Conservatory from October 4-8, 2010. The Symposium was accompanied by the series of concerts of traditional polyphony from several cultures. Full texts of the papers (in English and Georgian) were published in 2011 (The Fifth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony. Proceedings . Edited by Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, Joseph. International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection. Tbilisi: 2011).

Austria. 2008

The second International conference “European Voices II. Cultural Listening and Local Discourse in Multipart Singing Traditions in Europe” was held in Vienna from October 23-25. The conference was accompanied by a series of concerts of traditional polyphony from different countries of Europe. The conference was organized by the Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Österreichisches Nationalkomitee im ICTM, and Wiener Konzerthaus. Here is the list of participants and their papers:

Georgia. 2008

The fourth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony was held at Tbilisi State Conservatory from September 15-19, 2008. A series of concerts of polyphonic singing from different traditional cultures were running parallel to the conference. Full texts of the papers (in English and Georgian) were published in 2009 (The Fourth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony. Proceedings . Edited by Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, Joseph. International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection. Tbilisi: 2009).

Georgia. 2008

The fourth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony was held at Tbilisi State Conservatory from September 15-19, 2008. A series of concerts of polyphonic singing from different traditional cultures were running parallel to the conference. Full texts of the papers (in English and Georgian) were published in 2009 (The Fourth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony. Proceedings . Edited by Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, Joseph. International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection. Tbilisi: 2009).

Portugal. 2007

The International colloquium “Multipart Singing in Europe: Historical Trajectories and Current Perspectives” was held in Portel, Aletejo, on October 4-6, 2007. It was organized by The Institute of Ethnomusicology (INET) of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in collaboration with The City Hall of Portel and the Regional Directorate of Culture in Alentejo. The colloquium was coordinated by Salwa el-Shawan Castelo-Branco. Several concerts of traditional polyphony of Alentejo were organized. Proceedings of the conference are in the press. Here is the list of participants and their papers:

Georgia. 2006

The Third International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony was held at the Tbilisi State Conservatory from September 25-29, 2006. The Symposium was accompanied by the series of concerts of traditional polyphony from several cultures. Full texts of the papers (in English and Georgian) were published in 2008 (The Third International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony. Proceedings. Edited by Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, Joseph. International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection. Tbilisi: 2008).

Austria. 2005

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An international symposium “European voices: Multipart singing in the Balkans and in the Mediterranean” was helded from March 11-13, 2005. The symposium was organized as a joint venture of the Institut fur Volkcmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie, the Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, the Osterreichisches Nationalkomitee im ICTM, and Wiener Konzerthaus. A research centre of European traditional polyphony was established (Ardian Ahmedaja, Gerlinde Haid). Organisers of the symposium are planning to publish the full papers. According to the published abstracts, the following papers were delivered:

Georgia. 2004

The second International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony was organized from September 23-27, 2004 at the Tbilisi State Conservatory. After the symposium participants travelled to Western Georgia, Guria, to attend the “First International Festival of Gurian Traditional Polyphonic Song” (29-30 September). Full papers delivered at the conference were published in 2005 in two languages – Georgian and English (The Second International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony. Proceedings. Edited by Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, Joseph. International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection. Tbilisi: 2005).

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