GUIDELINES

1. General Information for participants

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The 4th Edition of HarMA – Harmony and Music Analysis – Seminar Event will take place in Conservatori Superior de Música “Joaquín Rodrigo” de València – Spain on April 14-16th, 2025. The participants should be supported by the Erasmus+ Training Staff Mobility (STT) – certificates upon completion.

The goal of the International HarMA Seminar Event is to bring in a single place the Music Theory faculties from Higher Music Education Institutions to talk about their Home Institutions’ organization and especially to share their teaching practice experiences, international projects and innovative teaching methods in these fields.

This event will also present the working process of the HarMA HUB Project (Strategic Partnerships Erasmus+ Project KA2 led by Salvatore Gioveni, Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles) and especially the main activities and tools in development or achieved : we kindly ask the participants to contribute to it by sending us some data for our EU Bibliography and EU Music Analysis Repository, HarMA PeerJournal, and the EU Glossary explained in the project’s description.

2. Registration and Participants Profile

We have now opened the registration form to allow eligible participants to register and submit their proposals in line with the rule-book requirements.   

The participants should be a music theory faculty teacher/member or similar (Harmony, Music Analysis, …), or the heads of the music  theory departments or delegates able to provide authorized information about their Home Institution in these fields.

All participants will be contacted to register to the HarMA Dinner (second day, 15th April, 8 PM) with payment

3. Erasmus+ STT grant (mobility for training)

HarMA Seminar Event is supported by the Erasmus+ Programme. It allows you to be supported by the Erasmus+ grant. Please, first, contact your Erasmus+ coordinator in order to apply.

The Conservatori Superior de Música “Joaquín Rodrigo” de València will provide you all the necessary documents.

Invitation Letter
Mobility Agreement for STT (training mobility)
Certificate of attendance (digital document)

4. Speaker guidelines

Speakers are asked to focus on their topic chosen during the registration form process. In preparing for their sessions, speakers should note that participants are drawn from many countries and from different professional backgrounds.

Proposal has to be sent by 15/01/2025 at the latest

2.1. Topic Specific Talks (30′)

2.2. Training Session (1h30′)

Format proposal : only PDF, 2 pages max. with your full name, email, positions and institution, and the abstract of 850 characters spaces included will be accepted.

To be selected, the session has to be an interactive pedagogical training session for participants (1h30 including A/Q session of 20min)

The proposal has to be related to one of these topics : (1h30min including A/Q session of 20min)

• • • • Issues occurred in Music Theory fields (problems/solutions’ study, raising interest within MT fields)
      • Teaching practices (Innovative or current teaching practices, new technologies, digitalization, e-Learning…)
      • Pedagogical projects related to Music Theory
      • Internationalization and strength of the Music Theory fields
      • Any other topic related to MT

5. Length and structure of session

Speakers are asked to keep their presentations as long as required (30′ or 1h30′) in order to allow maximum time for roundtable discussion in the session. Each session usually lasts 10′ (topic specific talk) or 20′ (training session). Thus in a session of two speakers, speak for a limited time as indicated for one speaker. During the ensuing discussion, the speaker panel will have opportunities to contribute further and to respond to any specific points raised. Chairman/women will be chosen for your session.

6. Presentations

The seminar does not require speakers to prepare a formal written paper if they prefer to work from notes. However, each speaker is asked to provide the HarMA event team, by April 1st, with their pptx presentation. PDF version of your presentation will be upload and share to all participants after the event. We usually publish all presentations made during an event onto our secured drive file which only participants can access.

7. Discussion protocol

Our event is designed to be as interactive and smooth as possible. All speakers and participants are encouraged to participate in their own personal capacity. Discussion in all sessions is ‘off the record’ and no individual speaker or participant should be quoted without that individual’s express permission. Should a speaker wish or agree to talk ‘on the record’, the Chair will make this clear at the beginning of the session. In such cases, the speaker may be identified and quoted. All subsequent collective discussion reverts to the standard ‘off the record’ format.

Individuals attending HarMA Seminar Event may be video recorded or photographed during the course of a meeting. These media may be used for promotional purposes through broadcast, webcast or publication by other means. If you do not consent to your comments or likeness being used,please notify the Chair of the event (salvatore.gioveni@conservatoire.be).

Journalists, and other participants, are welcome to seek individuals’ agreement to conduct ‘on the record’ interviews with speakers or participants for which we shall provide space and facilities.

Participant lists will be circulated only beyond registered participants.

8. Social media

The protocol also applies to all uses of digital and social media, both before, during and after the event. If you do not consent to this protocol, please notify the Chair of the event (salvatore.gioveni@conservatoire.be)

9. Conference room

All plenary sessions take place in different Conference Rooms of the Conservatoire. Speakers usually stay seated for their presentations. There is sound equipment for amplification; the sessions are not recorded.

10. Practical Information