• The 2022 Frances Densmore Prize awarded to NEMO-Online Chief Editor and CERMAA Director Amine Beyhom

    We are delighted at NEMO-Online and CERMAA to announce that Amine Beyhom, Chief Editor of NEMO-Online and Director of the CERMAA, was awarded the 2022 Frances Densmore Prize by the American Musical Instrument Society for his 2020 Dossier on the ʿūd in NEMO-Online. The award announcement stands: The Frances Densmore Prize is awarded annually for the best article-length publication in English that furthers the goals of the Society. The 2022 Densmore Prize is awarded to Amine Beyhom for his article “Was the Early Arabian ‘Ūd ‘Fretted’?” published in Near-Eastern Musicology Online 5, no. 9 (November 2020). “Was the Early Arabian [more…]

  • In memoriam Katy Romanou / Publication internet et version imprimée du NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE NEMO-ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE of NEMO-ONLINE now online and in print

    In memoriam Katy Romanou / Publication internet et version imprimée du NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE NEMO-ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE of NEMO-ONLINE now online and in print

    In Memoriam Katy Romanou Available in free pdf version here. Available in print version (paperback) here. Contents / Articles Andriana SOULELE THE CHORUS REFORMATION IN MODERN PERFORMANCES OF ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDY AFTER 1945: The Suppliants (1964) of Iannis Xenakis and The Persians (1965) of Jani Christou … p.1 Apostolos PALIOS ANALYTICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE APPROACH: Yorgo Sisilianos’s Works for Two Pianos … p.19 Christina GIANNELOU MY 20 YEARS LIFE TRIP: Between Katy Romanou and Rena Kyriakou … p.43 Lampros EFTHYMIOU A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW AND COMPARATIVE STUDY: Musical-Poetical Structural Analysis of Greek Folk-Songs … p.67 Lorenda RAMOU KATY ROMANOU S’EXPRIME: L’oeuvre pour [more…]

  • NEMO-Online Vol. 6 No. 10 is online / Mise en ligne de NEMO-Online Vol. 6 n°10

    English NEMO-Online is delighted to announce the publication of issue No. 10, with three articles by Amine Beyhom (English), Jean During (English) and Hanene Gharbi (حنان الغربي – Arabic). Amine Beyhom: “Further Analyses from the VIAMAP,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 6 10 |2021-11| p. 5–36. The article is a sequel to two already published articles, “MAT for the VIAMAP” and “The Lost Art of Maqām”, with 4 new video analyses and two explicative videos. “[With this article and analyses, the author has] opened a completely novel way of scientific enquiry in musicology.” Wim van der Meer Additional material: Video Analysis no. [more…]

  • NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE / NEMO ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE

    In Memoriam Katy Romanou NEMO-Online would like to inform potential authors for the NEMO-Online Special Issue “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (below) that the deadline for submitting propositions of texts is extended till the end of March 2021. / NEMO-Online souhaite informer les auteurs potentiels d’hommages et d’articles pour le numéro spécial “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (description en fin d’annonce) que la date limite de proposition de textes est étendue jusqu’à fin Mars 2021. The Editors / Les éditeurs English Katy Romanou (Kaitē Rōmanou) was born in 1939, Athens and died in May 2020. She studied at Indiana University where she [more…]

Free download and viewing of NEMO-Online 4 articles available / Mise en téléchargement et en ligne des articles de NEMO-Online 4

Nov 262015
 

English Free download of the articles of Nemo-Online below (click for the pdf version on the corresponding title of each article).  Issue 4 of NEMO-Online and editorial will be available in hard copy and pdf with Issue 5 in Volume 3, November 2016.   NEMO-Online 4 contents : Instrumental facture from its sources in the Ancient Near East to modern times Jean During : ‘The Baluchi benju, a new traditional instrument,’ Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 4 |2015-11| p. 5–12. In the years 1920 a small dulcimer with a keyboard appeared in Karachi, brought by Japanese sailors. This musical toy became an essential Baluchi instrument [more…]

NEMO-Online No. 4 : Call for papers / Appel à contributions : reminder/rappel and/et extension

May 172015
 

English NEMO-Online No. 4 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and IReMus are seeking papers for the third issue of NEMO. The theme will be about ‘Instrumental facture from its sources in the Ancient Near East to modern times.’ All aspects of Organology will be considered such as: Prehistory: Instrument making in pre-history as an unconscious cognitive phenomenon Distinction between implement and instrument Sensorial analogy in the conceptualisation of musical instruments History: Instruments and totemism Instruments and worship Instruments as urban and commercial tools Earliest evidence of musical facture Organological evidence: material, glues and their making, hides, strings, [more…]

Ralf Martin Jäger joins / rejoint / the Academic Board of / le Comité scientifique de / NEMO-Online

May 132015
 

(English) We are very pleased to announce that Ralf Martin Jäger, Professor in ethnomusicology and History of European music in the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpaedagogik of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität – Münster, has joined the Academic Board of NEMO-Online. Ralf Jäger is a renowned musicologist with numerous publications in the fields of Turkish music and music of Eastern-Asia. His competence is a welcome complement to the Academic Board of NEMO-Online, and an extension towards German musicology. We warmly welcome him among us. (French) Nous avons le très grand plaisir d’annoncer que Ralf Martin Jäger, Professeur d’ethnomusicologie d’Histoire de la musique [more…]

Lassâad Zouari joins / rejoint / the Academic Board of / le Comité scientifique de / NEMO-Online

Apr 252015
 

(English) We are very pleased to announce that Lassâad Zouari, Director of the Higher Institute of Music in Sfax – Tunisia, has joined the Academic Board of NEMO-Online. Lassâad Zouari is a well-known violin teacher, musician and band leader, as well as a recognised musicologist and has published numerous books and articles in the field of Arabian music of the Mashreq and the Maghreb. His competence will be an asset to the Academic Board of NEMO-Online, and an extension towards the Maghreb countries. We warmly welcome him among us. (French) Nous avons le très grand plaisir d’annoncer que Lassâad Zouari, [more…]

NEMO-Online No. 4 : Call for papers / Appel à contributions

Mar 192015
 

English NEMO-Online No. 4 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and IReMus are seeking papers for the third issue of NEMO. The theme will be about ‘Instrumental facture from its sources in the Ancient Near East to modern times.’ All aspects of Organology will be considered such as: Prehistory: Instrument making in pre-history as an unconscious cognitive phenomenon Distinction between implement and instrument Sensorial analogy in the conceptualisation of musical instruments History: Instruments and totemism Instruments and worship Instruments as urban and commercial tools Earliest evidence of musical facture Organological evidence: material, glues and their making, hides, strings, woods, [more…]

Version 1.10 of NEMO-Online Vol. 2 Nos. 2 & 3 / is now published and available free of charge / est publié et peut être téléchargé gratuitement

Feb 042015
 

English A new (V1.10) version of NEMO-Online Volume 2 Nos. 2&3 is now available here (in Low Resolution). There are some emendations in this latest version with improved resolution.   French Une nouvelle version (V1.10) de NEMO-Online Volume 2 Nos. 2&3 est disponible (ici) pour téléchargement : cette version contient des corrections et des améliorations et est proposée en plus haute résolution que la version précédente (V1.01).

NEMO-Online Vol. 2 Nos. 2 & 3 – Version 1.10 (High Definition) / is now available in hardcover / est disponible en version reliée Haute Définition

Feb 042015
 

English Click here to purchase the hard copy, hardcover of Nemo-Online Vol. 2 Nos. 2 & 3 – Version 1.10 (High Definition).   French Une version reliée de NEMO-Online Vol. 2 Nos. 2 & 3 – Version 1.10 (en Haute Définition) est désormais disponible à l’achat ici.