In 2009, the Alamire Foundation launched its own peer-reviewed academic journal, the Journal of the Alamire Foundation, at the initiative of its director Bart Demuyt. JAF is published twice per year. It provides a critical forum for the most recent and outstanding research on music in or related to the Low Countries up to the end of the Ancien Régime. The Journal has established itself as one of the leading publications in the field.
The Journal’s editors are David Burn (KU Leuven, 2009-) and Sarah Ann Long (Michigan State University, 2015-); between 2009 and 2015, Katelijne Schiltz (Universität Regensburg) served as one of the first editors. The Journal’s copy-editors are Stratton Bull (2009-) and Pieter Mannaerts (2023-); Pieter is the coordinator of the Journal.
The quality of the Journal is furthermore ensured by the internationally composed editorial board consisting of leading scholars.
Each issue of the Journal contains three sections:
I. A Thematic section, often based on the proceedings of an academic conference, and coordinated by a guest editor.
II. A Free Papers section, research articles unrelated to the thematic section.
III. The Performance Practice Forum, featuring contributions that establish the connection between musicological research and historical performance practice.
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The Journal of the Alamire Foundation is published by Brepols Publishers and has also been published as an open access publication since 2019; all back issues are freely accessible. It is the successor to the Yearbooks of the Alamire Foundation (7 volumes, 1995–2008). |
Call for submissions
Contributions are invited in any area of musicological research, including analysis, music theory, palaeography and notation, source studies, archival research, music and institutions, and aesthetics. Interdisciplinary research, in fields such as music and iconography, literature, theology, politics, art history, emblematics, or philosophy is also particularly welcomed. Since the Alamire Foundation is particularly committed to connecting musicological research and performance practice, practice-based research and scholarly reflection on performance are also warmly invited.
The standard article length is 5,000 - 10,000 words, including footnotes and other supplementary materials, although both longer and shorter contributions will be considered. The principal language of the Journal is English, but contributions are also possible in any commonly understood scholarly language.
Articles may be submitted at any time, via email, at JAF@alamirefoundation.org.
Download the JAF style sheet here.
