Nicolas MEEÙS

Professor emeritus, University Paris-Sorbonne

1975-1995 Assistant Director, then Director, Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments
1990-1995 Head of the Music Department, University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve
1995-1999 In charge of the DESS Administration and Management of Music, University Paris-Sorbonne
1996-1999 Academic Secretary of the Archeology Department, University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve
1997-2010 President of the Commission de Spécialistes (18th section), University Paris-Sorbonne
1999-2001 Assistant Director, PhD School of Art History and Musicology, University Paris-Sorbonne
1999-2004 Director of the Music Deparment, University Paris-Sorbonne
2004-2013 Assistant Director, PhD School V, "Concepts and languages"

President of the Belgian Society for Music Analysis
Member of the Administration Board of the French Society for Music Analysis
Editor-in-chief, Musurgia (Paris)

Enseignement :

1971-1978 Professor, Royal Conservatoire, Liège, Belgium (Music History)
1978-1989 Professor, Royal Conservatoire, Brussels, Belgium (Music History)
1980-1989 Professor, Music Chapel Queen Elisabeth, Belgium (Music History)
1981-1995 Professor, Catholic University of Louvain at Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium (Organology ; Music theory)
1994-1995 Associate Professor, University Paris-Sorbonne
1995-2013 Professor, University Paris-Sorbonne
2013 (September 1) Professer emeritus

Recherche :

1970-1974 Scientific Collaborator, Museum of Musical Instruments, Brussels
1975-1990 Assistant Director, Museum of Musical Instruments, Brussels
1990-1992 Ad interim Director, Museum of Musical Instruments, Brussels
1992-1994 Deputy Head of the Department "Museum of Musical Instruments" of the Royal Museum of Art and History (Brussels)
1994-1995 Deputy Head of Section in the Department "Museum of Musical Instruments" of the Royal Museum of Art and History (Brussels)

Publications :

Complete list of publications on my personal Website

Publications of the last five years (2013-2017)

• "Modalité de la polyphonie pré-tonale", Regards sur la tonalité (Tours, 28-29 novembre 2009) ; Proceedings, H. Gonnard ed., Delatour-France, 2013, pp. 169-178.
• (with Luciane Beduschi), Manuel d'analyse schenkérienne, CNED, 2014. Doracaku Schenker shqip, Përkthim i plotë i Doracakut nga Sokol Shupo (Albanese translation by Sokol Shupo).
• "Célestin Deliège, lecteur de Schenker", Modernité musicale au XX^e siècle et musicologie critique, V. Dufour and R. Wangermée ed., Académie royale de Belgique, 2015, pp. 59-70.
• "Syntactic Parameters, Statistic Parameters, and Universals", Analitica, Rivista online di studi musicali, vol. 8, 2015.
• "Épistémologie d'une musicologie analytique", Musurgia XXII/3-4 (2015), pp. 97-114.
• "Notation, transcription, analyse", Musiques orales, notations et encodages numériques, S. Leblond-Martin ed., Paris, CréaTIC, Les Éditions de l'Immatériel, 2016, pp. 16-31.
• "Formenlehre in Der freie Satz: A Transformational Theory", Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale XXI/2 (2015), pp. 97-111. (Paper read at the European Conference of Music Analysis (Euromac 8), Leuven, 19 September 2014.)
• « Heinrich Schenker, le contenu de la musique et le langage », Musurgia XXIII/1-3 (2016), pp. 27-35.
• Review of Leonhard Euler. Mathématicien, physicien et théoricien de la musique, X. Hascher et A. Papadopoulos éd., Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2015, in Revue française de musicologie 102/2 (2016), p. 472-479.
• « La partition », Keynote paper read at the meeting of the GRIAM, Évaluer une production artistique, 19 Februari 2016. Orphée apprenti 6 (2017), p. 19-28.
• « Schenker's Inhalt, Schenkerian Semiotics: A Preliminary Study », The Dawn of Music Semiology, Essays in Honor of Jean-Jacques Nattiez, J> Dunsby & J. Goldman ed., Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 1917, pp. 81-96.
• « Schenker’s Fließender Gesang and the Concept of Melodic Fluency », Orfeu 2/1 (2017), p. 160-170.
• « Luigi Cherubini, Contrepoint », p. 85-87 ; « Hucbald von Saint-Amand, Musica », p. 223-224 ; « Joseph Sauveur, Principes d'acoustique et de musique », p. 440-443. Lexikon Schriften über Musik, Band 1, Musiktheorie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, U. Scheideler & F. Wörner éd., Bärenreiter, .

To be published

• "Übergreifen", Paper read at the Fifth International Schenker Symposium, Mannes College, New York, 16 March 2013. To be published in Gamut 8 (2018).
• "Analyse et théorie schenkériennes : délimitation du corpus et transgression", Journées d'analyse musicale de la SFAM, Rennes, 5 April 2013. Proceedings in preparation.
• "Hiérarchisation des progressions dans la théorie des vecteurs harmoniques", paper read at the European Conference of Music Analysis (Euromac 8), Leuven, 20 September 2014. Publication in preparation.

Liens :

Personal web site

Cursus Universitaire et Diplômes:

PhD, Musicology, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), 1971.

HDR, Habilitation à diriger des recherches, University Paris-Sorbonne, 1993.

First Prize in Solfège, Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Belgium), 1969
First Prize in Harmony, Royal Conservatory of Mons (Belgium), 1972

Equipes de recherche:

2.3. Historiographie et épistémologie

Analyser la musique

3.1. Théories musicale, méthode et pratiques analytiques

3.2. Genres, répertoires et styles

3.3. Sémiotique Musicale (ex-axe notation)