主题：11th International Congress on Musical Significatic

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 It is our honour and pleasure to inform you that the forthcoming 11th International Congress on Musical Signification (ICMS) will take place in Kraków, Poland, between 27th September and 2nd October, 2010.

The Academy of Music in Kraków is the organizer of the Congress under the auspices of International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS), with the University of Helsinki and the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) as co-organizers and Prof. Eero Tarasti (University of Helsinki) and Prof. Stanis?aw Krawczyński (Rector of the Academy of Music in Kraków) as Directors.

We have invited to the Scientific Committee of the Congress the following eminent scholars: Micha? Bristiger, Ludwik Bielawski, Ruben Lopez Cano, Constantin Floros, Marta Grabocz, Robert Hatten, Stanis?aw Krawczyński, Teresa Malecka, Dario Martinelli, Costin Miereanu, Raymond Monelle, John Rink, Ruta Stanevi?iute-Go?tautien?, Gino Stefani, Ivanka Stoyanova, Eero Tarasti, Mieczys?aw Tomaszewski and Agostino Zino.

The 11th Congress will have for its theme Music: Function and Value. We hope that this will allow us to see musical semiotics from yet another angle. It seems that, in the present state of world culture, dominated as it is by mass and popular cultures and subcultures, by media and postmodern trends, a discussion and a definition of the function and the value of a work of music become particularly relevant.

At the same time, the proposed general theme of the Congress is versatile enough to realize a broad spectrum of topics and to view the entirety of the question from a multitude of perspectives.

Those of particular interest could include:

- Music in an axiological perspective

- Culture and popculture

- The work of music as a carrier of value, content and meaning

- The work’s character and genre versus its function in musical life and in culture

- The issue of limits in art: norm and transgression

- The semiotics of the masterpiece and of kitsch

- The avant-garde and the relevance of the work’s function, meaning, content and value

- The mode of existence, the repertoire and the hierarchy of values

- The relevance of truth and beauty in contemporary art

- The sacred and the profane values and functions

- The syndromes of the work’s quality and their aesthetic significance

- The axiological aspect of tonal systems

- The musical work’s values in male versus female perspectives

- Novelty versus value in the work of music

- Intertextual and intersemiotic relationships; their axiological aspect.

The year 2010 is celebrated worldwide as the Year of Chopin for the 200th anniversary of his birth. This is why any reference to his work – especially in terms of its function and value in history and culture – would be especially worthwhile.

On behalf of the Organisers I have the pleasure to invite you to the Congress.

Prof. dr hab. Mieczys?aw Tomaszewski

Head of the Local Scientific-Organisational Committee of ICMS11

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