The Music Therapy with Families Network and the Music Therapy Research Centre Vienna as part of the the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna organised an inspiring Music Therapy Symposium in Vienna, from 23rd-25th September 2022. The event was the first international stand-alone symposium focused on Music Therapy with Families. The focus has been on families across the age-span, from music therapy work with children and their families to practice with elderly people and their relatives. It included a lively programme of innovative, multidisciplinary, interactive sessions and presentations which encouraged discussion about a broad range of approaches when working with families.

A transcription of the lecture at the Erasmus Week of the Institute for Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics, mdw, on the topic "Eurhythmics in inclusive and therapeutic settings", Vienna 05.11.2021 Translated by: Hannes Taljaard

This article is not a detailed discussion or even can outline of inclusive music didactics, and it does not present a collection of methods that could serve as a reference work. The intention of this contribution is rather to select and present, perhaps in an unconventional way, five methodological-didactic aspects of artistic-pedagogical work in inclusive musicmaking groups with people with disabilities and to pose guiding questions that can be answered in such a way that conditions for successful inclusive music-making become clear. The elaboration of these conditions of success – I like to call them conditions of happiness – should encourage us to reflect on our own actions and practices and to remain in search of what makes us happy together.

Composed to mark Franz Joseph's state visit to Wilhelm II, Strauss' Kaiser Walzer (Emperor Waltz) provokes the question: which Emperor was it for? We investigate this in a case study of interdisciplinary collaboration in digital musicology, employing a FAIR data multimedia corpus associated with the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concerts.

How are music and sound involved in the creation of audiovisual documents? What kind of quantitative and qualitative research permits the examination of music and, more generally, sound for Austrian (music) history on the basis of digitized audiovisual sources? These questions were approached in the interdisciplinary Digital Humanities project “Telling Sounds” at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. This volume consists of various case studies conducted by the members of the team. The project’s main task was the conception and development of a Digital Humanities research tool: LAMA – Linked Annotations for Media Analysis. It was designed for the purpose of using machine-readable open data to annotate and link the ways in which music has been used and contextualized in different audio and audiovisual media texts in different times throughout Austrian history. Each of the case studies is dedicated to different genres of music, media texts, and events or timespans in history. Contributions by Aylin Basaran | Elias Berner | Paul Gulewycz | Birgit Haberpeuntner | Julia Jaklin | Birgit Michlmayr | Peter Provaznik | Cornelia Szabó-Knotik | Meike Wilfing-Albrecht

Die Zwischenkriegszeit in Österreich war geprägt von gravierenden politischen Veränderungen, sozialen Umbrüchen und wirtschaftlichen Krisen. Dennoch war sie, zumindest bis weit in die 1920er Jahre hinein, eine Ära intellektueller und künstlerischer Produktivität und Wien als Hauptstadt der neu gegründeten Republik Österreich konnte weiterhin als eines der geistigen Zentren Europas gelten. Vor diesem Hintergrund widmet sich Judith Kopecky der Untersuchung des zeitgenössischen österreichischen Liedschaffens dieser Jahre, wobei angeregt durch jüngere kulturwissenschaftlich orientierte Studien ein einziges Jahr, nämlich 1928, im Sinne des Geertz’schen Konzepts der ‚Thick Description‘ in einer Fülle von Blickwinkeln ins Zentrum des Forschungsinteresses gerückt wird.

Inside Austria, Vienna has always been the only place to study Eurhythmics on university level – besides Laxenburg (School Hellerau-Laxenburg 1925-1939). Vienna's Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics was the first Bachelor- and Masterstudy in Europe and is one of the largest programmes for this study in the world. (Sych 2016, 5) It attracts students from other European and non-European countries. (Witoszynskyj 2016, 18) Translated by: Hannes Taljaard Edited and supplemented by: Christoph Falschlunger, Vienna 2023 This text is a summery of an article of Eleonore Witoszynskyj, which was first published in German 2016.* Supplementary to this text you can find historic photo material within this digital exibition designed by Herta Hirmke-Toth: www.dermediendesigner.at/portfolio/img/17/tafeln.pdf