13th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2026)
Call for Papers
The Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) conference presents a venue specifically for those working on, and with, Digital Library systems and content in the domain of music and musicology. DLfM welcomes contributions related to any aspect of digital libraries and musicology, including topics related to musical archiving and retrieval, cataloguing and classification, musical databases, special collections, music encodings and representations, computational musicology, or the application of music information retrieval (MIR) to musicology.
Deadline: Full paper and short paper: 23 January 2026
DLfM Challenge submission and poster submission: 15 April 2026
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International Conference on Musical Signification (ICMS) 16: Music as a Meaningful Art
Call for Papers
We invite proposals for presentations on topics relating to the conference themes along with those addressing broader notions of musical signification, meaning in music, and semiotics of music. In addition, we welcome proposals that approach these topics from interdisciplinary relations between semiotics and other disciplines.
Deadline: 31.01.2026
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Beyond Corelli: Geminiani and the Instrumental Music of His Time
Call for Papers
For the conference, papers are welcomed concerning a wide range of topics, including
• The violin and cello sonata of the primo settecento
• The concerto grosso of the primo settecento
• Performance practice of eighteenth-century sonata and concerto
• Eighteenth-century violin pedagagogy
• Musical life in Britain, in particular concert life and amateur music-making
• The influence of Corelli on eighteenth-century instrumental music
• Every topic related to any aspect of Geminiani’s life and works
• Geminiani’s pupils
• Geminiani versus Corelli versus Handel
Deadline: 31.01.2026
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Women and Musical Histories, 1789–1914
Call for Papers
Recognising the diversity, complexity and nuance of female engagement with musical historiographies, we invite proposals that consider the agency women exercised as performers, composers, scholars, teachers and recorders of musical practice. Special consideration will be given to submissions that foreground performance as a means of documenting, interpreting and communicating musical/historical narratives.
Deadline: 31.01.2026
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Authoritarianism Reimagined: Narratives, Cultures, Continuities, Ruptures, and Shifts, Past and Present
Call for Papers
Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:
• Authoritarian narratives and legitimacy-making
• Cultural and symbolic dimensions of authoritarian power
• Continuities and ruptures from past authoritarian regimes
• Transnational shifts and comparative perspectives
• Spaces of resistance, dissent, and reimagination
Deadline: 01.02.2026
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Music at the Edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
Call for Papers
For this meeting of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM we invite scholars to explore and reflect on the concept of peripherality as it relates to the diversity of practices undertaken in relation to music making and dissemination. We consider peripherality here in both its literal (spatial and geographical) forms and in the more metaphorical ways that attitudes and behaviours are shaped by a perceived distance from an implied centre. To this end, we encourage considerations of the ways in which peripherality may influence how musicis created, performed, recorded, and disseminated within and from such locales.
Deadline: 09.02.2026
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European Musical Culture as a Space of Dialogue. Traditions, Sources, Interpretations
Call for Papers
The conference welcomes papers addressing the following thematic areas:
– European musical culture;
– the interface between traditional music and compositional output;
– European music in political and societal perspectives;
– music as an intergenerational dialogic space;
– cultural institutions as sites of musical exchange
– and others.
Deadline: 15.02.2026
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Beyond the Existing: Musicology, Lost Works and Fragmentary Sources
Call for Papers
The conference welcomes papers in the field of musicology that address this theme/topic from philological, historiographical, theoretical, or methodological perspectives. Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Manuscript and printed transmission;
• Oral transmission, censorship, self-censorship, and oblivion;
• Textual archaeology and archival recoveries;
• Indirect tradition (quotations, indices, paratexts, commentaries) as a tool for reconstruction;
• Digital humanities and new instruments for researching dispersed collections;
• The impact of loss on the musical canon and historiography;
• Methodological reflections on the “once-existing” as a critical category
Deadline: 15.02.2026
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78. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung: Gedächtnisinstitutionen und Gedächtnismedien der Musik
Call for Papers
Die Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main veranstaltet zusammen mit der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt und dem Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik die 78. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung in Frankfurt am Main.
Deadline: 15.02.2026
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Beyond the Drawing Room: Women in the Promotion of Music in the Long 19th Century
Call for Papers
What role did women play in shaping musical culture during the 19th century, a period stretching from 1789, with the French Revolution’s hymn to freedom, to 1914, when the outbreak of war marked the end of the Belle Époque? How did women influence musical life and what contribution did they make to the process of female emancipation in the entertainment industry?
Deadline: 29.03.2026
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“Roczniki Humanistyczne”, Fascicle 12 Musicology: Composing/Creating in Exile
Call for Papers (Publikation)
Settling permanently abroad (possibly in exile) imposes numerous changes — whether psychological, artistic, commercial, etc. — and involves the implementation of strategies in one’s life (personal and/or professional) adapted to this new context. Music also carries traces of these experiences and bears witness to the changes and (sometimes radical) challenges that affect the artist far from his or her homeland. How can this be accounted for?
Deadline: 31.03.2026
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Soundscapes of Entertainment: Music at Leisure in the 19th Century
Call for Papers
The symposium aims to draw attention to various factors that influenced the articulation of leisure and the musical aspects that were associated with it, and also to the series of new demands that were placed on music for leisure.
Deadline: 12.04.2026
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The Reception of the Wiener Klassik in Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century: Legacy, Perspectives and Influences
Call for Papers
The areas of investigation can include (and extend) the following topics:
• Public, Critics and the Press
• Music Legacy: Composers, Genres, Style
• Music Arrangements and Adaptation for Domestic Settings
• The Symphonic Tradition
• Orchestration and Instrumentation
• The Critical Reception of Beethoven’s Compositions by his Contemporaries
• Music Treatises
• Music, Literature and Poetry
• Beethoven in History and Politics
• Music and the Transformation of Taste
• Revolutions, Unifications and Wars in Central Europe
Deadline: 19.04.2026
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