English NEMO-Online No. 5 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and IReMus are seeking papers for the fifth issue of NEMO. The theme will be about ‘Musicology/Ethnomusicology: evolutions and problems’. Since its origins as Vergleichende Musikwissenschaft, ethnomusicology struggles to define itself in relation to classical Occidental musicology, the latter being the semantic carrier of a more general character which is nevertheless restricted to the study of musics which in a first instance concerns only the Occident, and in a second instance, which is concerned with music labelled as ‘learned’, even integrating popular musics such as jazz, pop, rock [more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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).
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.
Français Le Volume 2 (Numéros 2 & 3) de NEMO-Online (V. 1.01 LR) est publié et accessible librement en téléchargement à cette adresse: https://nemo-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NEMO-Online-Vol.-2-No.-2-and-3-V.-1.01-LR-141130.pdf. Le fichier des animations pour l’article d’Amine Beyhom “Dossier : Influence des théories européanisées du xixe siècle sur la notation et la pratique des modes de la musique arabe et d’autres musiques, à travers la mise en exergue du mythe du genre ḥijāz semi-tonal,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 3 |2014-11| p. 87–177, (visibles et écoutables dans une présentation Power Point) peut être téléchargé par le lien https://nemo-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Amine-Beyhom-Hijaz-pour-NEMO-n°3-141129.ppsx. English NEMO-Online, Vol. 2, Nos. 2 & 3 (V. 1.01 LR) [more…]
Français Le Volume 1 (N° 1) de NEMO-Online est désormais accessible librement en téléchargement à cette adresse: https://nemo-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NEMO-Vol.-1-N°1-130929-V.-1.01-LR.pdf. English NEMO-Online, Volume 1 is now available for free dowloading at: https://nemo-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NEMO-Vol.-1-N°1-130929-V.-1.01-LR.pdf.
English Click on this link to go to the payment page for NEMO No. 1 (Vol. 1) at the price of £20.00 for the whole volume (in pdf format). Table of contents: Erik MARCHAND : “Une musique modale de tradition populaire en Occident – Tribune”, NEMO-Online 1 1 |2012-11| p. 5–10. François PICARD : “Back to modality. Musical Modes Revisited”, NEMO-Online 1 1 |2012-11| p. 11–18. Markos SKOULIOS : “Modern theory and notation of Byzantine chanting tradition – A Near Eastern musicological perspective”, NEMO-Online 1 1 |2012-11| p. 19–38. Jacob OLLEY : “Modal diversity in early Ottoman music – The case of makâm Sabâ”, NEMO-Online 1 1 [more…]
English NEMO-Online No. 3 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and PLM are seeking papers for the third issue of NEMO. The theme will be about ‘Myths and truths in Music from the Antiquity to the Present.’ (Mesopotamia, Asia, Egypt, Africa, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Occident and beyond.) Myths and legends always have had their purpose in the building-up of history and of its truisms such as with magical powers of the lyre and others. The Orient is particularly rich with such events even reaching the domain of theory, and often leading to astonishing blunders. Principal themes: Myths [more…]