International Conference on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Croatian Association of Music Theorists (HDGT)

The Croatian Association of Music Theorists was founded in Zagreb on 1 March 1997. Today the HDGT has more than 300 members who teach music theory and music history at specialized music schools from elementary to higher educational levels, at general education institutions, or promote music theory and practice in different ways. The HDGT strives to promote music theory, advance the teaching of music theory and the art of music, and participate in all kinds of pedagogical activities relating to music theory. We wish to celebrate our important anniversary by bringing together relevant experts from different parts of the world for discussions and an exchange of ideas related to our core activity: teaching music theory. Our main goal is to meet new friends along with the old ones, promoting our discipline based on the harmony of tradition and contemporaneity, inclusion, multiculturality, tolerance and mutual understanding.

Music theory teachers from across the discipline are invited to submit proposals on their teaching practices, theories, experiences, and related research.

Subject categories:

1. Teaching and music theory today

2. Teaching music theory and musical practice

3. Theories & anniversaries: Rameau – Lučić – Devčić – ... revisited

4. Other related topics

Keynote speakers:

Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago

Steven G. Laitz, Juilliard School, New York

Conference languages: English; Croatian and related languages (Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin) Conference format: Hybrid (on-site and virtual)

Proposal formats:

Oral presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion; on-site or virtual)

Panel (3 - 5 participants, 40 minutes panel + 15 minutes discussion; on-site or virtual)

Poster (online presentation, 5 minutes + 3 minutes discussion)

Book presentation (on-site; length depending on the total number of book presentations)

Proposal submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/3791/submitter (Registration needed; sign-in with Google or LinkedIn possible)

Submission deadline: 15 June 2022 Letter of acceptance: by 1 August 2022 Contact address for further instructions: tmtt2022@gmail.com

Conference website: http://hdgt.hr/teaching-music-theory-today-zagreb-2022/