# Moisa Society

> The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage


## Pages

- [](https://www.moisasociety.org/16th_moisa_conference/): 16th MOISA International Conference Music in Greek and Roman Antiquity: Memory and Identity Vilnius, 16–18 June, 2025. The 16th MOISA conference aims to explore the connections between music, memory, and identity in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Music played a significant role in maintaining and transmitting cultural memory, enabling people to recall the distant past, both mythological and historical. It allowed the ancients to distinguish between what they regarded as their own and what they attributed to the domain of others. Through rhythmic and metric patterns, along with phonetic nuances, music served as a mnemonic tool, guarding against forgetfulness and facilitating […]
- [{:gb}Recordings{:}{:it}Video{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/recordings/): 2025: Music in Greek and Roman Antiquity: Memory and Identity 2023: Technology for the Music of Ancient Greek and Roman Antiquity: from Past to Present 2022: The Mysteries of Ancient Greek and Roman Music
- [{:gb}Forum manager{:}{:it}Forum manager{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/forum-manager/): This forum allows you to send messages to the other forum members. It can be used to share information about the upcoming events, the news about the recently published books, and similar updates that all the MOISA community could benefit from. It should not be used for the private conversations. Your have four hours from the insertion date to modify or delete the message. Afterwards, the text will be sent to the e-mail accounts of the forum members. Additionally, it will visible in the forum page of the MOISA website. To modify a message, click on the Forum button and […]
- [{:gb}Forum{:}{:it}Forum{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/forum/): MOISA forum allows sending informational emails to all our members at once. It could be used to notify about upcoming events, concerts, conferences, meetings, book publications, and other relevant topics that our community could benefit from. Members can share up to 3 attachments, such as calls for papers, posters, brochures, etc. This function is available to all our users who have an active membership plan. After submitting an announcement to the forum, a user is provided with the opportunity to change or edit the message (editing is available for 4 hours from the insertion time). During the precautionary 4-hour period, […]
- [{:gb}Renew membership{:}{:it}Rinnovo iscrizione{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/renew-membership/): 1) Enter the www.moisasociety.org and log in with your credentials. In case you forgot your password, please click on the “Lost your password?” option available in the login menu. If you have any problems with the login, please contact the website administrator by sending an e-mail to administrator@moisasociety.org If you are already logged in, simply go to the following page: MyAccount – Subscription 2) After logging into Moisasociety.com, enter the ‘Subscriptions’ page from your account menu or directly via the following link MyAccount – Subscription 3) Select the type of subscription applicable to you and click “Sign up” 4) Select […]
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- [{:gb}membership{:}{:it}Iscrizioni{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/membership/)
- [{:gb}Join MOISA society{:}{:it}Iscrizione a MOISA{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/join-or-renew-with-moisa/): MOISA membership All the members of MOISA are automatically subscribed to Moisa’s electronic discussion list that was set up in order to allow the Executive Board and Society members to discuss the Society’s business in between the annual meetings and to communicate calls for papers, notices of publications, conferences, colloquia, seminars, lectures, performances, research or teaching positions available; scholarship announcements; and invitations for research collaboration. There are two levels of membership: Regular membership (€50.00 for one year) Student/Retiree membership (€25.00 for one year) Additional Member Benefit Members of MOISA are entitled to receive a discount of 35% off the price […]
- [{:gb}Send a Request{:}{:it}Invia una richiesta{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/request/): Your request will be sent to the website administrator.
- [{:gb}Reports{:}{:it}Rapporti{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/reports/): No report is yet available.
- [{:gb}Member Directory{:}{:it}Elenco membri{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/member-directory/): MOISA website users can see the current members list below and view their  profiles by clicking their name. Active MOISA members may view the user’s email address. Honorary Members: F. Alberto Gallo (Università di Bologna) Egert Pöhlmann (Institut für Alte Sprachen Uni Erlangen)
- [{:gb}Send a message{:}{:it}Invia un messaggio{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/contact/): Your message will be sent to the website administrator.
- [{:gb}Events in video{:}{:it}Eventi in video{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/events-in-video/): No event is yet available.
- [{:gb}Executive Board{:}{:it}Comitato Direttivo{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/about/officers/)
- [{:gb}About us{:}{:it}Chi siamo{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/about/about-us/): MOISA: The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage is an interdisciplinary association that promotes the conservation, interpretation and enhancement of the musical heritage of the Greeks and Romans, and its cultural heritage from the Middle Ages to Contemporary age. MOISA started from an idea of Andrew Barker, who already in 1993 identified and put in contact scholars from all over the world interested in these topics, founding a first association, International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music, and creating the printed magazine Skytala Moisan. In 2006 the association was […]
- [{:gb}MOISA Bylaws{:}{:it}Statuto di Moisa{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/about/moisa-bylaws/): {:gb} Art. 1 Incorporation and head office “MOISA: the International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage” (hereafter, the “Society”) is hereby incorporated. The Society is an apolitical, voluntary, non-religious, no-profit organisation. Its activities and structure are based upon, and regulated by, democratic principles, tolerance and mutual respect. The Society’s registered head office is in Ravenna, at the Dipartimento di Beni Culturali of the University of Bologna in via degli Ariani 1. Art. 2 Aims The Society shall promote the preservation, study, and appreciation of ancient Greek and Roman music and musical theory, and […]
- [{:gb}The society{:}{:it}L'associazione{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/about/)
- [{:gb}Events{:}{:it}Eventi{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/events/)
- [{:gb}News Archive{:}{:it}Archivio notizie{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/news-archive/)
- [{:gb}Panels{:}{:it}Panels{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/panels-2/): In 2015, MOISA became an affiliated group of the ‘Society for Classical Studies’ (SCS, formerly known as the American Philological Association, APA), the principal learned society in North America for the study of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Since then, MOISA organizes a panel on Ancient music at every Annual Meeting of the SCS.
- [{:gb}Seminars{:}{:it}Seminari{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/seminars/): Every summer from July 2004 to July 2011, the Music Department at the Ionian University in Corfu (Greece) held a week-long Seminar on Ancient Greek and Roman Music, which was attended by students and scholars from several European, American and Asiatic countries (http://conferences.ionio.gr/sagrm/2011/en/home). The programme comprised morning sessions – led by Prof. Andrew Barker (Birmingham), Prof. Egert Pöhlmann (Erlangen) and Prof. Eleonora Rocconi (Pavia) – devoted to the study of the particular text or topic chosen for that year, such as ps-Plutarch De musica, ps-Aristotle Musical Problems, Music in Comedy, Music in Plato’s Laws and in Aristotle’s Politics. In addition, a […]
- [{:gb}Summer School{:}{:it}Summer School{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/panels/): The First and Second ‘MOISA Summer School in Ancient Greek Music’ have been held at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento in June 2014 and 2015. Designed and organised by Dr Tosca Lynch, this programme aim at bringing together many of the most renowned specialists in the field of ancient Greek music and provide excellent academic introductions to the numerous disciplines involved in these studies – by nature interdisciplinary, given the complex character of the Greek concept of mousikē.
- [{:gb}Meetings{:}{:it}Convegni{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/meetings/): A conference on a topic in the field of Ancient music has been organized by MOISA each year since 2006. Scholars and students interested in the subject, whether or not they are members of the Society, are welcome to attend and to submit proposals for papers; however, only active members of the Society may deliver papers at the Annual meetings. During the conference we also hold the Annual General Meeting of MOISA to discuss the business of the Society; all participants at the conference may attend this meeting, but only members of MOISA may vote on the issues considered.
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- [{:gb}JOURNAL{:}{:it}Rivista{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/journal/): Greek and Roman Musical Studies Founding Editor: Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham). In 2012 the Society founded Greek and Roman Musical Studies, a specialist, peer-reviewed journal published by Brill. Members of MOISA are entitled to receive a discount of 35% on the price of the individual subscriptions to the printed edition. For details, please contact Eleonora Rocconi (eleonora.rocconi@unipv.it)
- [{:gb}Home{:}{:it}Home{:}](https://www.moisasociety.org/): MOISA. The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage is an interdisciplinary association that promotes the conservation, interpretation and enhancement of the musical heritage of the Greeks and Romans, and its cultural heritage from the Middle Ages to Contemporary age.


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