Revue des Traditions Musicales

ISSN:3071-3226

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Nidaa Abou Mrad

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Aims and Scope

 

The Revue des Traditions Musicales (RTM) / Journal of Musical Traditions (online ISSN 3071-3226) is published by Luminous Insights Publishing in partnership with Antonine University (Université Antonine), in collaboration with Sorbonne Université and the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (IReMus).

Target audience

RTM serves musicologists, ethnomusicologists, performers, educators, and interdisciplinary scholars researching living and historical modal musical traditions. The journal publishes scholarly research for an international audience of specialists and informed professionals in music studies, cultural heritage, organology, and related disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.

Aim

A peer-reviewed scholarly journal published in French, English, and Arabic, RTM aims to promote general, analytical, and transdisciplinary musicological research focused on living and/or historical modal musical traditions. The journal provides a platform for empirical and theoretical studies, critical synthesis, and scholarly debate that advance understanding of modal practices, repertoires, and theories in their cultural, historical, and performative contexts.

Scope

RTM covers research on modal traditional musical practices and theories across regions and historical periods, including but not limited to: maqām and related Arabo-Persian systems; Indian raga traditions; Byzantine and modal liturgical chant; folk and regional modal repertoires; organology and performance practice; transmission, pedagogy, and oral histories; and comparative or transdisciplinary work linking modal traditions to analysis, semiotics, cognitive science, anthropology, history, and music therapy.

Within this field, manuscripts may draw on the following disciplinary approaches:

  • Analysis
  • Didactics
  • Semiotics
  • Cognitive sciences
  • History
  • Anthropology
  • Organology
  • Music therapy