MusicAnalytica

MusicAnalytica - Interdisciplining Music Studies through the Reconfiguration of Theoretical and Analytical Knowledge

Abstract

MusicAnalytica aims to mobilise and attract talents, whose interconnected work will foster a radical reconfiguration in music studies and music theory research in particular, towards fulfilling the potential of cultural heritage, arts, and cultural and creative secrets. It will emerge from the intersecting work of a carefully planned and exceptional international team of music researchers committed to bridge and cope with the challenges of a fragmentary research landscape of distinct disciplinary paradigms and methodologies targeting music, and including music theory and musicology studies, music computation and mathematics, music cognitive- and neurosciences, and music anthropology. The team will be led by ERA-Chair Holder and world-prominent music theorist Richard Cohn, whose institutional leadership at the Univ. of Chicago and Yale have been on the forefront of impacting interdisciplinary conceptual innovations in the field, and will bring an institutional reform at the Univ. of Coimbra.

The project is structured by 7 Work Packages: Project management; ERA Chair Team recruitment; Widening of scientific participation and cooperation; Widening of societal participation and cooperation; Advanced training programs; Recruitment of permanent team; and D & E & C of results. MusicAnalytica will have five outcomes and impacts: the increase in quality and capacity of music R&I talents; the institutional reform at Univ. Coimbra; the creation of a reconfigured theoretical interdiscipline in music studies; the mitigation of the EU divide Widening/non-Widening in music studies; to better communication and contribute to the knowledge-based economy and society, promoting gender balance and citizen science.