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 the Antonine University, in collaboration with Sorbonne Université and the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (UMR 8223 (IReMus)).

Target audience

RTM publishes scholarly research intended for an international audience of researchers, students, musicians, and music lovers, interested in the study of the world’s modal musical traditions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Aims

A peer-reviewed scholarly journal published in French, English, and Arabic, RTM aims to foster general, analytical, and multidisciplinary musicological research focused on the study of living and/or ancient modal musical traditions worldwide.

The journal provides a platform for empirical and theoretical multidisciplinary studies, critical syntheses, reports of dedicated publications, and scholarly debates that deepen the understanding of traditional modal musical practices—both living and/or ancient—within general and/or global musicology. This encompasses their sonic, graphic, and/or digital documentation; their analysis, modelling, and musical grammatical theorisation; their production and signification processes; their vocal and organological apparatus; their transmission and pedagogy; their cognitive and emotional neuropsychological processing; their sociocultural, anthropological, and historical contextualisation; their aesthetics; their endogenous and exogenous interactions and transformations; their treatment by artificial intelligence; and their societal impact, notably in therapeutic contexts.

Scope

RTM covers a broad range of multidisciplinary research within the framework of general and/or global musicology, all centered on living and/or ancient modal musical traditions from around the world—whether sacred or secular, art or folk music—with a particular focus on the modal musical traditions of Western Asia, North Africa, and medieval Europe.

The submitted articles must focus on one or more monodic modal musical traditions and pursue either monodisciplinary or multidisciplinary approaches in general and/or global musicology. These may pertain to musical documentation (sound, graphic, and/or digital); musical analysis; modelling and theorisation; musical semiotics; organology; music education; psychology and neuropsychology of music; anthropology and sociology of music, music history, and modal music therapy.