Colleagues Saurabh Goswami and Selina Thielemann in India are preparing an international meeting of the Studygroup for Musical Iconography on the representation of music in Asian -- in particular South-Asian -- art.

The meeting is planned for Spring 2007 in India.

Details will be posted on the ICTM Website, as available.

Submitted by Tilman Seebass, Chairman STG."


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On Saturday March 10th 2001, the ICTM STG for Musical Iconography in conjunction with "Il Saggiatore Musicale" held a small meeting at the Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo of the University of Bologna. The topic was "L'iconografia musicale: mito e storia". Nico Staiti acted as coordinator. Two discussion papers by Staiti ("Raffigurazioni della musica e tradizione orale") and Tilman Seebass ("Musicology and art history") were distributed in advance. A number of panelists discussed them and presented ideas of their own: Giovanni Azzaroni (Bologna), Daniela Castaldo (Ravenna), Alexandra Goulaki Voutira (Salonica), Nicoletta Guidobaldi (Tours), Febo Guizzi (Torino), Philippe Junod (Lausanne), and Donatella Restani (Ravenna).

Unfortunately, due to a financial crisis at my university, I shall not be able to attend the 14th world congress in Brasil this summer. Since apparently there is no interest in having a study session there, perhaps cancelling is not too big a disappointment. But we have definite plans for a session at the next ICTM-congress in China in 2003. Also there are plans to set up an East-Asian chapter of our study group during November in Kyoto, Japan. Our members are encouraged to comment on our plans.