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Thu Jan 30 at 05AM UTC

End of submission period

Wed May 7 at 10:59PM UTC

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Thu Jul 31 at 04PM UTC
The call for papers for Issue IV/2025 is now open. "Ex Chordis – A Bowed Strings Journal" [ISSN 3034-8781] aims to explore the Culture of Bowed String Instruments in all its fields, including: technique and performance practice; music analysis; history of instruments and repertoire; artistic research; teaching and new technologies.

"Ex Chordis" is an accademic, open access and double-blind peer reviewed Journal edited by "Niccolò Piccinni" Conservatory of Music, Bari, and published by Milano University Press. The Journal promotes original papers on major topics for bowed string players in all research fields. The aim is to create a shared hub to link music practice, education and research, providing new tools from different fields.

"Ex Chordis" presents the following main sections: (1) "Essays" provides submissions by professors from Academic Institutions or independent researchers; (2) "Theses & Projects" provides submissions by students from degree Theses or research projects within Academic Institutions.

Authors are requested to follow the Guidelines for Authors.

The submissions should be formulated in such a way as to:
 indicate the field of the research, the state of the art, and the reasons for interest; indicate the research object, the objectives, and the research question (input);
 critically justify your position;
 follow appropriate writing styles and presentation methods;
 develop a documented conclusion (output).

The submission may be supported by any attached files (e.g. scores, audio or video recordings).

The intellectual property of the texts is owned by the individual authors. The author reserves the right to create derivative works and to reproduce, distribute, perform and publicly display his or her work in lectures, conferences, presentations or other works of a scientific nature. There will be no remuneration for authors of published papers. Authors must obtain a licence to publish iconographic material subject to copyright.

Details are available at web pages:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/exchordis/index