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Greetings, gentle readers and viewers of Symposium,

With the new Video Lectures, Performances, and Lecture-Recitals component of Symposium, we place Symposium's 50-year history of excellence in a 21st-century context, offering world-class, refereed videos of music lectures, performances, new compositions, and lecture-recitals to the Symposium viewing public. Here, we combine multi-media oriented technology with the grand, multi-disciplinary missions of the music journals of old, such as Dwight's Journal of Music and Der Kunstwart, providing a quintessential video resource for musicians and non-musicians alike.

We encourage new and creative video or multimedia submissions relating to professional-level musical endeavors. Although we are uniquely suited for the publication of quality videos, we also welcome submissions that link video to other media, such as presentations, audio, interactive programming, and written ancillaries. Our goal is to provide access to the best performances, lectures, lecture-recitals, and compositional premieres that the musical field has to offer.

The Editorial Board will evaluate submissions primarily on the quality and originality of the content, accepting only those lectures, performances, and lecture-recitals that adhere to the highest professional standard. The Board will also evaluate the production value of the video and the accompanying audio. Given today's easy access to devices that produce quality video and the user-friendliness of editing software such as iMovie or PowerDirector, we hope that quality video production can be a secondary consideration.

All submissions should be pre-edited to remove excess background noise, blank space, and applause, and videos should be cropped so that performers and lecturers take up the majority of the center of the screen. For lectures and lecture-recitals, the video should be continuous, but the submission should be accompanied by a well-edited summary of the lecture as well as a list of works performed and timings at which they appear in the video. For recitals, each individual work (not individual movements) should be a separate submission with its own edited video. Performance and/or program notes are highly encouraged, but not required. For performances of compositions, each individual work should, again, be a separate submission. Musical scores for the compositions are highly encouraged, although listeners may instead be directed to the appropriate place to acquire the score of the work. All submissions must be accompanied by appropriate permissions and a brief biography of all performers.

I invite you to look at the Guidelines for Video Presenters and the Call for Video Submissions to learn more. We look forward to watching your submissions and hope that you will make high-quality video and subsequent submission to Symposium a part of all your musical endeavors!

Your submissions are welcome at any time. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

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Video Lectures, Performances, and Lecture-Recitals
College of Music
Florida State University
122 North Copeland Avenue
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1180
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Editorial Board

Matthew Shaftel, Chair
Florida State University

Christine Beard
University of Nebraska, Omaha

Juan Chattah
University of Miami

Jane Kuehne
Auburn University

Sam Magrill
University of Central Oklahoma

Todd Sullivan
Northern Arizona University

Christopher Swanson
Longwood University

Melinda Crawford Perttu 
Westminster University