The Open Access University Press of the mdw
mdwPress is the open access academic publisher of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. With this press, the mdw aims to increase the visibility of its research in all its diversity. Free from commercial motives, mdwPress makes research results freely accessible and reusable for the interested public.
The quality and academic freedom of mdwPress are ensured by an academic board whose regularly rotating internal and external members are characterized by distinguished academic achievements. Each proposal for a publication project, including a suggestion for the peer review procedure of the entire manuscript, is discussed and determined by this board.
mdwPress is open to all academic publication formats, including journals and innovative formats, and welcomes inter- and transdisciplinarity. Where necessary, mdwPress relies on external partnerships.
About This Volume
This volume emerged from a conference held in Bologna in October 2023, organised by the Museo San Colombano – Tagliavini Collection and the Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini in collaboration with the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica Bologna and the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
After the project proposal was accepted by the academic board of mdwPress, the book underwent a double-blind peer review by three reviewers. Due to the wide range of thematic perspectives and methodological approaches of the contributions, two groups were formed in order to be able to request two reviewers who were as highly qualified as possible. On the basis of the reviews and subsequent revisions, the academic board accepted the final manuscript for publication.
