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Sempre are delighted to announce that Psychology of Music has been accepted for coverage in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, CC/A&H (Current Contents/Arts & Humanities) and CC/S&BS (Current Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences). As far as we know, this is quite unusual for a journal to be accepted by both the Arts & Humanities and the Social Science Citation Index at the same time. On behalf of Sempre, I take this opportunity to thank our publishers, SAGE, the journal editors (past and present) and editorial teams, referees, trustees and all our friends in the academic community for their support in enabling us to achieve this coverage. This is excellent news for the psychology of music and music education communities!

Professor Graham F. Welch, Chair

Background and aims of the Society

The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (Sempre) was founded in 1972, growing out of the Reading Conferences on Research in Music Education that were started in 1966 by Arnold Bentley. Originally known as the 'Society for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education' ('SRPMME'), Sempre remains to this day the only society which embraces research in both music education and music psychology, providing an international forum to encourage the exchange of ideas and to disseminate research findings.

The Society is particularly keen to encourage the participation of those at the start of their research career and to maintain a broad membership that reflects the considerable range of interests that are represented within music education and the psychology of music. Membership includes free copies of the journal, reduced fees for attendance at conferences, and entitlement to apply for a range of financial awards that are intended to foster new research and assist the work of new researchers.

Activities

Sempre is engaged in four main areas of activity:

  • Since 1973 it has published the journal 'Psychology of Music' (ISSN 0305-7356), originally biannually, but from 2003 four times a year through SAGE Publications. The journal aims to increase the scientific understanding of all psychological aspects of music and music education, including studies on listening, performing, creating, memorizing, analysing, learning and teaching, as well as applied social, developmental, attitudinal and therapeutic studies.
  • The Society hosts two conferences a year, including a two-day international conference at Easter time on alternate years, which attracts a wide range of speakers and poster presenters.
  • Sempre runs the moderated email discussion list Psymus, which encourages discussion on any matters relating to research in music psychology or music education. The list is open to anyone interested in reading or contributing to the discussion; subscription is free and is not restricted to Sempre members.
  • From 2004, Sempre has also granted a number of awards to members.

Conference News

A review of the past Sempre conference on Empirical Musicology (London, 2-3 April 2008) is now available.
Please click here for the review (PDF format, 76 Kilobytes).

For a review of the Birmingham Conservatoire conference on Composition and Computer-assisted Music-making (31 March 2007) click here. Papers and abstracts will be posted here very shortly.

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