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Topicality of
Universals in Music
1st International Colloquium
of Aix-en-Provence
3 -4th December 2010,
University of Provence, France
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Organised by :
− The Laboratory for the Studies in Sciences of Arts (LESA) of
the University of Provence
− The Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (IMéRA)
− The Aix-Marseille University Institute for Teacher Training
(IUFM)
With the support of the European Society for the
Cognitive Science of Music (ESCOM).
Programme
• Themes and objectives •
During the second half of the twentieth century, the question of “universals” in music was
considered to be predominantly academic and outdated. Despite this, the question has repeatedly
appeared in some of the more remarkable contributions of the last decade (notably Wallin, Merker and
Brown, 2000, The Origins of Music; Juslin and Sloboda, 2001, Music and Emotion; Peretz and Zatorre,
2003, The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music; Vitouch and Ladinig, 2009-10, Music and Evolution). This
bounce-back is accompanied by a general movement towards bringing the sciences of music into the
sphere of the life sciences, especially in relation to the phenomenon of music in evolutionary and
functionalist perspectives.
Such a question would appear to be crucial inasmuch as it poses the problem of
bioanthropological conditions of musical systems, and more generally articulations of the biological, the
psychological, the social and the cultural in the phenomenon of music and its mechanisms.
This field of study nevertheless runs into numerous difficulties of a conceptual, ideological,
methodological and institutional nature.
The International Colloquium on the universals in music aims to help reduce these difficulties, by
initiating a working cycle intended to promote research (including contradictory research) into this topic
through the organisation of events, through publications, and through the initiation and support of
collaborative networks that bring together researchers from different disciplines.
• Scientific committee •
Mario Baroni (Musicology, Italy)
Steven Brown (Neuroscience, Canada)
Irène Deliège (Psychology, Belgium)
Marcel Frémiot (Musico., Composition, Fr.)
Michel Imberty (Psychology, France)
Jean-Luc Leroy (Musicology, France)
Bernard Lortat-Jacob (Ethnomusicology, France)
François-Bernard Mâche (Musico., Comp., Fr.)
Isabelle Peretz (Neuroscience, Canada)
Wulf Schiefenhövel (Human ethology, Germany)
Sandra Trehub (Psychology, Canada)
Geraint Wiggins (Artificial intelligence, U.-K.)
Topicality of Universals in music
1st International Colloquium
of Aix-en-Provence
3th-4th December 2010
Aix-en-Provence
IUFM of Aix-en-Provence, 2 avenue Jules Isaac − Tél. : 00 33 (0)4 42 33 02 02
Contact : [email protected], 00 33 (0)492 776 840 / 06 83 11 85 21
• Enrolment •
To enrol, please send an e-mail to : [email protected]
• Location, transport and accommodation •
Do see the information and the map of the center of Aix-en-Provence after the programme.
Friday 3th Decembre
8h Reception
8h45-10h55 1st Plenary session (“Petit amphi”)
1. Jean-Luc LEROY (Université de Provence, France)  8h45-9h25
Le paradigme des universaux en musique
2. Michel IMBERTY (Université Paris 10-Nanterre, France)  9h35-10h15
Les universaux musicaux entre histoire et neurosciences
3. Bernard LORTAT-JACOB (Musée de l’Homme- CNRS, Paris, France)  10h25-10h45
Les universaux : à vous d’en jouer !
Break
11h15-12h45 Parallel sessions
SOCIABILITY ROOM SESSION
4a. Mark REYBROUCK (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)  11h15-11h35
Musical universals and the axiom of psychobiological equivalence
5a. Thomas POOLEY (University of Pennsylvania, USA)  11h45-12h05
“Dismanting Music”: Reductionist models and evolutionary explanations in music cognition
6a. Helen PRIOR (King’s College London, United Kingdom)  12h15-12h35
Links between music and shape: style-specific; langage-specific; or universal?
“PETIT AMPHI” SESSION
4b. Nathalie FERNANDO, Nathalie GOSSELIN and Isabelle PERETZ (Université de Montréal and
McGill University, Canada)  11h15-11h35
Le rapport musique et émotion au-delà des cultures
5b. Sandeep BHAGWATI (Concordia University Montréal, Canada)  11h45- 12h05
Bhava & Rasa  Creative Misunderstandings & Musical Universals
6b. Marina KORSAKOVA-KREYN (University of Texas, USA)  12h15-12h35
Emotional processing and music universals
LUNCH at the IUFM (12h45-14h)
14h-16h10 2d Plenary session (“Petit amphi”)
7. Isabelle PERETZ (Université de Montréal, Canada) and Yun Nan (Beijing Normal University,
Chine)  14h-14h40
Universals in music disorders (amusias)
8. Sandra E. TREHUB (University of Toronto, Canada)  14h50-15h30
The Elusive Search for Musical Universals
9. Marcel FREMIOT (Laboratoire Musique et Informatique de Marseille, France)  15h40-16h
Les Unités Sémiotiques Temporelles sont-elles des Universaux
Break
16h30-17h30 POSTERS session (Sociability room)
a. Jose A. ORDOÑANA, Arantza ALMOGUERA, Mónica SÁNCHEZ and Ana
LAUCIRICA (Universidad Pública de Navarra and Universidad del País Vasco, Spain)
Atonal music, enculturation, and high-level music studies repertoire
b. Alessia R. VITALE (Université Paris 4-Sorbonne, France)
Towards a grammar of vocal gestures
c. Piotr PODLIPNIAK (University of Poznán, Poland)
Musical Universals and the Ontological Unity of Music
d. Maurizio GIORGIO (University of Rome, Italy), J. Alexander DALE (Allegheny College
Meadville, USA) and Mara Olivetti BELARDINELLI (University of Rome, Italy)
Melodic contour interact in the sound localization processing. A behavioral study
e. Winfried SAKAI (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Des systèmes musicaux différents sous une fonction universelle de la musique
f. Elisa NEGRETTO (University of Padua, Italy)
A conceptual distinction: innate versus universal
g. Georges BÉRIACHVILI (Paris, France)
L’intonation et le geste expressif : de l’héritage d’Assafiev vers une théorie générale de
l’expression artistique
h. István NÉMETH (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
“L’impression d’un tournoiement fantastique et fatal”  A musical “universal” in triple meter
i. Jean-Luc LEROY (Université de Provence, France)
Principes d’organisation des hauteurs discrètes dans les systèmes musicaux
17h30-18h30 Parallel sessions
SOCIABILITY ROOM SESSION
10a. Frank DUFOUR (University of Texas, USA)  17h30-17h50
Unités Sémiotiques Temporelles et universaux perceptifs
11a. Frédéric CHIASSON, Caroline TRAUBE, Clément LAGARRIGUE, Bennet SMITH and
Stephen McADAMS (Université de Montréal and McGill University, Canada)  18h-18h20
Le volume de Koechlin, universel du timbre ? Etude de la perception de la grosseur auditive parmi les
instruments de musique de l’orchestre
“PETIT AMPHI” SESSION
10b. Peter NELSON (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)  17h30-17h50
Towards a Social Theory of Rhythm
11b. François JOLIAT (Haute Ecole Pédagogique des cantons de Berne, Jura et Neuchâtel,
Switzerland)  18h-18h20
L’effet de l’expertise musicale sur la syntonisation des gestes musicaux
BUFFET DINNER and EVENING (Oblats Monastery) (20h-22h)
With two composers : Sandeep BHAGWATI (The RASALILA project) and Leticia CUEN
Saturday 4th Decembre
8h Reception
8h35-10h15 3d Plenary session (“Petit amphi”)
12. Steven BROWN (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada)  8h35-9h15
Comparative musicology and musical universals
13. Geraint WIGGINS (University of London, United Kingdom)  9h25-10h05
What and where is a musical universal? Information content and musical experience
Break
10h30-11h30 Parallel sessions
SOCIABILITY ROOM SESSION
14a. Adam OCKELFORD (Royal National Institute for Blind People, London, United Kingdom) 
10h30-10h50
What makes music “music”? Explorations using zygonic theory
15a. Olivier LARTILLOT (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)  11h-11h20
For a copernician revolution in the understanding of universality of structural analysis of music
“PETIT AMPHI” SESSION
14b. Jana K. SASLAW and James P. WALSH (Loyola University New Orleans, USA)  10h30-10h50
The Adjacency and Alienation
15b. Leticia CUEN (Université Paris 10-Nanterre, France)  11h-11h20
Musique, émotion et temps. Le principe d’équivalence amodale du ressenti
Break
11h45-12h30 POSTERS session (Sociability room)  Drink
LUNCH (12h30-13h45)
13h45-15h50 4th Plenary session (“Petit amphi”)
16. Mario BARONI (University of Bologna, Italy)  13h45-14h25
Musical grammar: limits of the concept and possible universal aspects
17. François-Bernard MÂCHE (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Académie des BeauxArts, Paris, France)  14h35-15h
Réflexions sur les universaux en musique
18. Christian LEHMANN (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany)  15h10-15h40
Why is Don Giovanni a baritone and why should we sing with our children? Evolutionary studies of
music and their relevance for music analysis, music education and today’s musical life
Break
16h05-17h35 Parallel sessions
SOCIABILITY ROOM SESSION
19a. Gertraud FENK-OCZLON and August FENK (Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
 16h05-16h25
Cross-cultural parallels between vowel inventories and musical scales: Evidence from ethnic music
20a. Mondher AYARI (Université de Strasbourg, France) and Olivier LARTILLOT (University of
Jyväskylä, Finland)  16h35-16h55
Universalité cognitive versus spécificité culturelle : une modélisation cognitive de l’écoute structurelle de
musique modale improvisée
21a. Pascal TERRIEN (Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France)  17h05-17h25
Les universaux et l’enseignement de l’écoute musicale : point de vue didactique
“PETIT AMPHI” SESSION
19b. Eugenia COSTA-GIOMI (University of Texas, USA)  16h05-16h25
Towards a Social Theory of Rhythm
20b. Annie LABUSSIÈRE (Université Paris 4-Sorbonne, France)  16h35-16h55
Bercer en chantant, geste universel ? La berceuse dans le monde : un parcours analytique du plan de
l’expression
21b. Andrew ARLEO (Université de Nantes, France)  17h05-17h25
Investigating the Universal Children’s Rhythm (UCR) hypothesis: data, issues, perspectives
17h45-18h Closure of the Colloquium (“Petit amphi”)
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Practical information
The tourist office provides information about the city of Aix-en-Provence (see
www.aixenprovencetourism.com, or tel.: +33 442 263 728). Apart from maps of the city and other tourist
information, the website also contains details of accommodation in the area.
Below we have listed some hotels in the centre of town that are no more than a 10-minute walk
from the IUFM. In most cases, reservations can be made via the tourist office’s reservation centre (e-mail:
[email protected], tel.: +33 442 161 184 or +33 442 161 185, fax: +33 442 161 179). Prices
given are for guidance only. The hotels can be found on the map along with their number. This map also
shows the location of the IUFM, the bus station (gare routière), and the train station (gare SNCF). Below
we have also given the contact details of the youth hostel in Aix-en-Provence. This is not shown on the
map, as it is outside the city centre.
The Aix-TGV (train de grande vitesse) station is about 10 kilometres from the centre of Aix-enProvence; the Marseille-Marignane airport is about 20 kilometres. There is a regular bus service between
the TGV station or the airport and the central bus station (“Gare routière” on the map below).
The IUFM can be reached by taking bus route no. 1 from the bus station (towards Parc Relais des
Hauts de Brunet), alighting at Bellegarde. To get to the youth hostel from the bus station, take route no. 4
(towards Mayanelle) and alight at Fondation Vasarely. Information for all bus routes can be found at
www.aixenbus.com. (In the left-hand column click “Plan”, then “Plan de ligne”, and in the table of bus
routes click “Telechargement” in the right-hand column of the route you wish to see.)
The centre of Aix-en-Provence is relatively small. The walk from the train station to the IUFM
takes about 10 minutes.
List of hotels in the centre of Aix-en-Provence and details of the youth hostel:
1. Le Mozart **, 49 cours Gambetta, rooms from 56 €.
2. L’Atrium d’Anaïte ***, 15 cours Gambetta, rooms from78, 30 €.
3. Le Concorde **, 66-68 boulevard du Roi René, rooms from 60 €.
4. Cézanne ***, 40 avenue Victor Hugo, rooms from 159 €.
5. Les Quatre Dauphins **, 54 rue Roux Alpheran, rooms from 60 €.
6. La Bastide du Cours **, 43-47 cours Mirabeau, rooms from 100 €.
7. De France **, 63 rue Espariat, rooms from 81 €.
8. Artea **, 4 boulevard de la République, rooms from 68 €.
9. Du Globe **, 74 cours Sextius, rooms from 62 €.
10. Aquabella ***, 2 rue des Etuves, rooms from 99 €.
11. Adagio City Aparthôtel Aix Centre ***, 35 rue des Chartreux, studio flat from 90 €.
Youth hostel, 3 avenue Marcel Pagnol, communal rooms (two to four beds) from 20,60 €, tél. : 00 33
(0)442 201 599.