Dear All,

*The Worldwide Music Conference **Organizing Committee** moves the 2021 conference ONLINE and **extends the deadline for Call for Papers until December 15.***

Worldwide Music Conference (WWMC) brings together scientists from various fields (music theory, biology, psychology, ethnography, mathematics, acoustics, and others) to make their achievements in music studies available to the entire music research community, to help them find connections for further research and spread their discoveries. The WWMC 2021 will be held on April 22-23, 2021 online.


*We invite papers on the following topics:*

1. Music theory
- Theoretical concepts of music in general and its individual aspects (pitch structures, rhythm, counterpoint, etc.).
- Musical epistemology.
- The lingual and non-lingual aspects of music.
- Problems and methods of musical analysis.
- Musical-theoretical systems: a variety of approaches to the understanding of music by theorists of different times and peoples.

2. Music and biology. Relationship of physiological and psychological aspects in music research
- Musical activity as a component of mental and nervous activity.
- Neurological studies of musical thinking.
- Experimental study of intonation as a musical phenomenon and as a phenomenon of verbal language.
- Musical activity at early stages of a human formation (pre-verbal period).

3. Psychology and physiology of musical perception

4. Origin, formation and evolution of musical activity according to anthropology, ethnography, paleography

5. The diversity of forms of musical thinking in different cultures and in different epochs
- Differences and similarities in pitch and rhythmic structures in different musical cultures.
- Discoveries in the field of musical paleography.

6. Music and mathematics
- Mathematical methods in music-theoretical research.
- Mathematical methods in experimental studies of musical activity and sound perception.
- Links and analogies between musical thinking and mathematical thinking.

7. Music and acoustics
- Acoustic factors in musical thinking and perception.
- Psychoacoustics.
- The phenomenon of timbre and the phenomenon of harmony from the standpoint of acoustics.
- New approaches to the theory of musical tunings.

8. Animal sound activity
- The problem of revealing musical specificity in sound activity of animals.

9. Philosophical paradigms of music-theoretical, natural science, mathematical and humanitarian aspects of the study of music in their specificity and interconnection

10. Music technology from a scientific perspective
- The scientific principles of digital technologies for musical activity (music analysis, education, sound recognition, etc.).
- Digital technologies as tools for research of music composition, performing, and perception.
- Artificial Intelligence.
- Philosophical, culturological, sociological aspects of the presence of digital technologies in the field of music, communication, and education.

We welcome researches that are not limited to individual fields, but make the connections between them, and combine the methods of the different sciences in the study of music.


*To submit your paper, please follow the instructions below:*

1. Submit your article to the EasyChair system before December 15 with the link https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wwmc2021 <https://bit.ly/2FlBZCq> and inform us about your submission by sending an email to [log in to unmask]

2. Wait for the results of the review process.

3. Make corrections to your paper based on the comments of reviewers. Update the file in the EasyChair system.

4. Get a link to make a payment (see registration fees here: https://wwmc.io/registration/)



Find out more about other participation options, incredible speakers, and different activities on the conference website: https://wwmc.io/ <https://wwmc.io/?utm_campaign=5_fm_link_website&utm_medium=fastmail&utm_source=fastmail>

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Best wishes,
Andrey Bayadzhan
General Chair of WORLDWIDE MUSIC CONFERENCE

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