Unpublished scientific contributions, not intended for publication elsewhere, may be submitted to the competition, falling within one of the following research sections relating to sacred music:
– archival acts and documents
– theoretical and regulatory writings
– chronicles, reviews, and essays in periodical publications
– authors and musical compositions
– performance practice and recovery of the ancient
– art of organs.
Some questions... for example, why scientific? ...and ... is this a competition for musicologists?
by "scientific contribution" one means in a broad sense "academic contribution", i.e., methodologically correct. The Levi Foundation is first and foremost a musicological foundation, with musical libraries and archives, so I understand why they also accept that type of contribution.
That being said, for some time many disciplines have been called "sciences" even though they are not part of the natural or mathematical sciences. Musicology in general can be considered a musicological science, belonging to the humanities. Many of the specific branches of musicology, then, can belong to even more... scientific "scientific" disciplines :-) bibliography, archival science, and philology are deeply normative (and regulated) sciences; the same goes for some branches of organology.
