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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • This manuscript has not been published in any other journal, and it has not been offered to any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments for the Editor).
  • The manuscript and other files are written in one of the following formats: .doc (MS Word) or .rtf (Rich Text Format). Figures and score examples are in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format, embedded in the text.
  • An English-language abstract of no more than 200 words has been composed for the article. An English language abstract of no more than 70 words has been composed for another writing (e.g., lectio).
  • A brief introduction of the author (app. 20 words) and keywords (3–7) have been prepared in a separate file, all in English.
  • The manuscritp and the abstract are fully anonymised, including the reference list and the ID in the author's word processor (MS Word: File > Tools > Protect document > Remove personal information).
  • References should include DOI or URL if possible. DOI numbers can be found in crossref.org/guestquery/

  • The manuscript complies to the principles for the responsible conduct of research by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK)
  • For the publication images should also be ready as separate files in high resolution (photographs ideally 600dpi TIFF files, music examples preferably 1200 dpi TIFF files or high-resolution PDF files).

Author Guidelines

Publishing process and terms

Manuscripts submitted to the Trio Journal should not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The editorial team will evaluate all manuscripts and send article submissions to two anonymous referees according to the assessment method for scholarly articles (double blind peer review).

Style and other guidelines

– Anonymised manuscripts should be sent in MS Word format (remove your name from the document: File > Document properties > Summary). Pictures and examples of musical notation should be in PDF format in the Word document. Lectio praecursoria do not have to be anonymised.

– The articles should contain an English-language abstract of no more than 200 words. The other writings should contain an English language abstract of no more than 70 words. A brief introduction of the author (app. 20 words) and keywords (3–7) are also required all in English. The maximum length of the articles is  60 000 characters with spaces, including references.

– Please, use British (-ise) spelling style.

– Avoid any formatting in the text; italics may be used in work titles and to accentuate text.  No hyphenation or tabulator is used. Indentation is only used in citations exceeding three lines.

– Footnotes should be used as sparingly as possible, primarily for necessary comments that cannot be included in the body of the text itself.

– Use double quotation marks, except where ”a quotation is 'within' a quotation". Long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

-Provide images for publication also as separate files in high resolution (photographs min. 300dpi or preferably 600dpi TIFF files, music examples 1200 dpi TIFF files or high-resolution PDF files).

Referencing

– Manuscripts should contain in-text citations with author names and year of publication; page numbers are added for direct quotations (Kuusi 2001, 19–20).

– In the references list, the names of works and journals should be italicised.

– Articles are given a doi link (https: //doi.org ...), if one exists. DOI numbers can be found in crossref.org/guestquery/

Examples of how to format references 

Beethoven, Ludwig van 2004 [1866]. Beethoven's Letters 1790–1826 From the collection of L. Nohl. Transl. G. Wallace. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13065

Dahlhaus, Carl 2002 [1984]. Die Musiktheorie im 18. Und 19. Jahrhundert. Erster Teil. (Gesammelte Schriften in 10 Bänden, Band 4.) Laaber: Laaber-Verlag.

Jackendoff, Ray & Lerdahl, Fred 2006. The Capacity of Music: What Is It, and What's Special About It? Cognition, 100(1), 33–72. ps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2005.11.005

Lovejoy, Arthur O. 1948 [1927]. "Nature" as Aesthetic Norm. In Arthur O. Lovejoy (ed.) Essays in the History of Ideas. Westport: Greenwood Press. 69–77.

Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö 2021. Taide, kulttuuri ja moninainen Suomi. Kulttuuripolitiikka, maahanmuuttajat ja kulttuurisen moninaisuuden edistäminen -työryhmän loppuraportti. Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön julkaisuja 2021:2. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-263-872-4

Sibelius, Jean 1901. Tuonelan joutsen [The Swan of Tuonela]. Score. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel.

Sibelius, Jean 2003. Complete Piano Trios Volume I. BIS-CD-1282.

Simones, Lilian, Franziska Schroeder & Matthew Rodger2015. Categorizations of Physical Gesture in Piano Teaching: A Preliminary Enquiry. Psychology of Music, 43(1), 103–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735613498918

Sponheuer, Bernd 2002. Reconstructing Ideal Types of the “German” in music. In Cecilia Applegate & Pamela Potter (eds.) Music and German National Identity. Chicago, IL & London: The University of Chicago Press. 36–58.

Taruskin, Richard 2004. The poietic fallacy. The Musical Times, 145(1886), 7–34.

Vogel, Stephan 1993. Sensation of Tone, Perception of Sound, and Empiricism: Helmholtz's Physiological Acoustics. In David Cahan (ed.) Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 259–287.

Editing a lectio for Trio Journal

A lectio given at an examination or dissertation typically contains rhetoric elements, which the author, to streamline the delivery process, should modify into readable text format.

Lectio text is written with subheadings; titles describing the content, without titles such as “Introduction”, “First Concert”, “Written thesis”. From the spoken text of the lectio, the speeches of the board as well as the sentences related to the live performance situation of the lectio, such as “I will play next…” or “We hear now…” should be deleted.

A few individual references can be marked in a footnote; when there are over three references, a list of sources is to be created (subheading: REFERENCES). For direct citations, the reference should always be indicated with its page numbers.

The following information is to be added to the lecture:

  • Title (different from the title of the thesis/dissertation)
  • Abstract [max 70 words]
  • Keywords: [3–7, in lower case alphabetical order]
  • About the author: [max 20 words]

Like the articles, the lectio is uploaded in Trio's OJS platform https://trio.journal.fi/index (> Submit manuscript). Trio's general author guidelines should be followed.

Title (different from the title of the thesis)

FIRST NAME LAST NAME   [author's name, in verses]
Title   [different from the title of the thesis/dissertation]
Lectio praecursoria   [normal text type]

Ingress

The public examination (Artistic / Applied Artistic Programme) of N. N. was held on xx March 21 at the Organo Hall of Helsinki Music Centre. The subject of the doctoral degree was [title of the degree in quotation marks]. The title of the written thesis was: [Title of the thesis in italics]. The Chair was [degree or position, if the person is Professor tai Docent] N. N. The statement of the demonstration of artistic proficiency was presented by the Chair of the Artistic Board [degree or position] N. N. The statement of the written thesis was presented by [degree or position] N. N.

In a scientific degree (research study programme):

The public examination of N. N. (Scientic/ Applied Scientic Programme) [Title of the dissertation in italics] was held on xx February at the Organo Hall of Helsinki Music Centre. The opponent was [degree or position, if the person is Professor or Docent] N. The Chair was [degree or position]: N. N.

Information about musical performances

Musical performances during the lectio: [subtitle; musical performances can also be placed in the lectio text in the appropriate positions.]

  • name of the composer, years of life of the composer
  • the name of the composition in italics, if it is not a common name (sonata, trio, etc.) and the catalog number and year of composition (e.g., Op., BWV),
  • names of parts of compositions with normal text (eg Largo – Allegro – Vivace / parts 1 and 2)
  • recording information in the case of a recording (e.g., disc number or recording date and place)

Performer information

  • if different compositions have different performers and there are no more than three performers in total, the names of the performers are to be indicated separately for each composition
  • if the performers are the same in every composition or if there are more than four performers, the names of the performers are to be marked at the end of the program.

Copyright Notice

When submitting an article or other text to be published in Trio, the author or authors transfer publishing rights to the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. The Sibelius Academy then has the right to publish the text in printed form and in digital form at the University of the Arts Helsinki web platform. Prior to publication, the text must undergo editing as required by the established assessment process for Trio. The University of the Arts Helsinki has the right to sell Trio both in the printed and in the digital form and to transfer limited distribution rights to licensed national and international databases or publishing companies for academic publications (for example, Elektra and Ebsco), without forwarding rights. This transferred right of publication will not entitle the author(s) to monetary compensation. The author(s) will retain the proprietary rights and the right of use to the text, which will not be limited by the transfer of a parallel right of use. The author or authors warrant that the text does not infringe the copyright of a third party.

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