About the Journal

Focus and Scope

«Musica Docta» is a digital peer-reviewed journal born in 2010 as a project of SagGEM (Gruppo per l’Educazione Musicale del «Saggiatore musicale»). The journal is dedicated to publishing studies in the field of pedagogy and music education, in Italian, French, English, Spanish, and German. The expression Musica docta refers, on the one hand, to the appreciation of art music – without prejudice to other music genres and traditions – and on its transmission in the educational experience, on the other hand.

«Musica Docta» embraces the idea of culture promoted by SagGEM, and shares its ambition to fuel a permanent debate on Music education, while providing authoritative cultural referents, suggestions for work corroborated by research and experience, and influencing the world of politics and administration both at the central and peripheral levels – all this in the interest of a cultural policy built around music as knowledge.

Since 2011 «Musica Docta» has been indexed on DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals. In addition, each article is labeled with a DOI code – Digital Object Identifier.

Since 2015 "Musica Docta” has been rated as a "Class A” journal by ANVUR (the Italian rating agency for scientific journals) in the list for Area 10 - Antiquities, philology, literary studies, art history, sector C1 - Theatre, Music, Cinema, Television and Audiovisual Media.

Sections

  • Articles
  • Opinion Pages
  • Reviews
  • Educational Paths

Peer Review Process

All articles are sent for examination to two advisors, and their opinion is reported to the authors in detail, in writing. Submissions are reviewed anonymously (double blind peer review). The documents, in French, English, Italian, Spanish or German, are to be emailed to the Journal Manager, along with an abstract (200 words) and 5 keywords. Preference will be given to articles that do not exceed 10 pages in print (about 20.000 strokes).

Referee

2013-2016

Luca Aversano (Roma), Lorenzo Bianconi (Bologna), Andrea Chegai (Roma), Carla Cuomo (Bologna), Rossella D’Ugo (Urbino), Anna Ficarella (Roma), Maurizio Giani (Bologna), Paolo Gozza (Bologna), Giovanni Guanti (Roma), Berta Martini (Urbino), Stefano Melis (Sassari), Maria Teresa Moscato (Bologna), Giorgio Pagannone (Chieti-Pescara), Massimo Raffa (Perugia), Cesarino Ruini (Bologna), Daniele Sabaino (Cremona), Graziella Seminara (Catania), Paolo Somigli (Bolzano), Nico Staiti (Bologna).

2017-2021

Alfonso Alberti (Conservatorio Bergamo), Maria Teresa Arfini (UniRoma3), Andrea Apostoli (AIGAM-Roma), Annemarie Augschöll (UniBz), Luca Aversano (UniRoma3), Aloma Bardi (Firenze-Ann Arbor), Luca Barra (UniBo), Paola Besutti (UniTe), Lorenzo Bianconi (UniBo), Giorgio Biancorosso (Un. Hong-Kong), Giorgio Bolondi (UniBz), Sergio Bonanzinga (UniPa), Luca Bragalini (Conservatorio Marenzio, Brescia), Michele Cagol (UniBz), Barbara Caprara (UniBz), Daniela Castaldo (UniSalento), Roberto Caterina (UniBo), Amalia Collisani (UniPa), Franz Comploi (UniBz), Antonella Coppi (UniBz), Carla Cuomo (UniBo), Paolo Cecchi (UniBo), Silvia Dal Negro (UniBz), Paolo Fabbri (UniFe) Mario Falanga (UniBz), Elisabetta Fava (UniTo), Monica Fini (Bologna), Giuliana Fugazzotto (Bologna), Paolo Gallarati (UniTo), Maria Rosa De Luca (UniCt), Maurizio Giani (UniBo), Adriana Guarnieri (UniVe), Gerardo Guccini (UniBo), Nicoletta Guidobaldi (UniBo), Veronica Innocenti (UniBo), Saverio Lamacchia (UniBo), Cecilia Lazzaretti (UniBz), Federico Lazzaro (Un. Montreal, CA), Alessandro Luigini (UniBz), Maria Luisi (UniBo), Julia Lutz (Essen, D), Andrea Malvano (UniTo), Susanna Pasticci (UniCassino), Carlo Piccardi (Lugano), Giorgio Pestelli (UniTo), Pier Paolo Polzonetti (Un. California), Massimo Privitera (UniPa), Ingrid Pustijanac (UniPv), Anna Quaranta (Accademia Pianistica Imola), Enrico Reggiani (UniMi), Donatella Restani (UniBo), Alessandro Roccatagliati (UniFe), Stefania Roncroffi (Castelnovo ne’ monti), Daniele Sabaino (UniPv), Giuseppe Sanfratello (UniCt), Sarah Schrott (UniBz), Maria Semi (UniBo), Graziella Seminara (UniCt), Marissa Silvermann (Monclair State Un., NJ), Chiara Sintoni (UniPv), Johannes van der Sandt (UniBz), Pietro Zappalà (UniPv).

Publication Frequency

«Musica Docta» is a yearly journal updated on a regular basis.

Open Access Policy

«Musica Docta» is an open access digital journal issued under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International license, with the seal Approved for Free Cultural Works.

With this license, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author and redistributed under the same licence as the original. It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author or journal board.

The journal allows the reprinting of postprint on other websites or institutional archives, also in the definitive editorial version.
The journal considers also the publication of preprint which have been already published or inserted in institutional archives.

PDF articles can be accessed directly. To keep up with new issues and updates, we suggest that you register with our website.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Code of Conduct

The following statement is inspired by the COPE Code of Conduct:
http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors.pdf.

Musica Docta is a peer-reviewed journal. It follows a double-blind review procedure in selecting and publishing articles. All the parts involved in the publishing process – author, scientific director and journal manager, reviewers and contributors – are aware of the ethical standards required and expressly agree with them.

Duties for the Editorial Team

Editorial team takes all reasonable steps to ensure the quality of the texts published in Musica Docta.
Editorial team acts according to the existing legal provisions on libel, copyright violation and plagiarism, and has a duty to act as provided by Intellectual property legislation if they suspect misconduct or any other abuse on the part of authors.
Editorial team, assisted by highly qualified peer reviewers, decides whether to accept or reject a paper for publication based on subject relevance and originality.
Editorial team and the Scientific committee will ensure that appropriate peer reviewers are selected for submissions, and that peer reviewing is anonymous, fair, unbiased and timely.
A description of the peer review process is published at https://musicadocta.unibo.it/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess.
Editorial team is ready to justify any important deviation from the described process.
Editorial team evaluates submitted texts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. Editorial team adopts a double-blind peer-review protocol, which ensures that texts submitted to the journal remain confidential while under review. Confidentiality of individual information obtained in the course of research or professional interaction is guaranteed for the whole review process.
Editorial team adopts all procedures to ensure that published articles are open-access and freely available. Permanent identifiers as DOI guarantee the monitoring and preservation of articles over time.

Duties for Authors

Authors are personally responsible for the content of the articles they submit: they must assure the originality of their works, being aware of the consequences of misconduct.
Authors should always acknowledge their sources and cite them accurately and exhaustively.
Authors are asked to follow the guidelines published at https://musicadocta.unibo.it/about/submissions#authorGuidelines and to ensure that the research reporting in their articles is accurate, complete, clear, and in keeping with the technical and editorial standards of the Journal.

Duties for Reviewers

Articles are submitted to two Reviewers, whose motivated, detailed opinion is communicated to the Author in written form. Refereeing for submissions is rigorously anonymous. Reviewers are encouraged to comment on the originality and scientific relevance of submissions and are informed by the Editorial team about the need to handle submitted material in confidence. Reviewers are required to disclose any potential competing interests they should detect before agreeing to review a submission and during the reviewing process.
Reviewers are invited to alert the Editorial team about potential violations of the Intellectual property law and other violations.

Handling of errors and misconducts

Editors will promptly act in case of errors and misconducts, both proven and alleged. In case such as errors in articles or in the publication process, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, appropriate steps will be taken, following the recommendations, guidelines and checklists from COPE. These includes the publication of an erratum (errors from the publication process), corrigendum (errors from the author(s)) or, in the most severe cases, the retraction of the affected work.

The editorial policies and the code of conduct of the Journal will be reviewed periodically, particularly with respect to the guidelines of COPE.

Indexing and abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases:

  • ACNP – Italian Catalogue of Serials
  • BASE – Bielefield Academic Search Engine
  • DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Google Scholar – Academic Search Engine
  • JournalTOCs – Index of Scientific Articles TOCs
  • JURN – Academic search engine
  • PLEIADI – Portale per la Letteratura Scientifica
  • Ulrich's – Global Serials Directory
  • Worldcat – The world's largest library

Archiving Policy

The University of Bologna has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.
http://www.depositolegale.it/editori-aderenti/

Publisher

Dipartimento delle Arti – DAR
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Via Barberia, 4
40123 - Bologna (Italy)

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