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3921994, France. Polifonies Vivantes, under the patronage of the FrenchMinistry of Culture and the National Centre for Scientific Research, and with the help ofthe Royaumont Foundation, organized a meeting of the working group of experts intraditional polyphony of different cultures in Royaumont Abbey, from March 1-4, 1994.Participants also attended performance-demonstrations of African polyrhythmic,Corsican polyphony, and Georgian polyphony. No materials of this meeting werepublished. According to the conference program, the following papers were delivered:1. Simha Arom. Paris. “Zentralafrikanische Formen der Mehrstimmigkeit.” 2. Mantle Hood,Baltimore. “Heterophonie in der Gamelanmusic auf Java.” 3. Ito Loh, Manila: Mehrstimmigkeit derBergstamme in Taiwan.” 4. Marcel Peres, Paris. Mehrstimmigkeit auf Korsika (Professional UndKirchenmusik).” 5. Susanne Furniβ, Vincent Dehoux, Paris. “Mehrstimmigkeit in Afrika.” 6. EmanuelleOlive, Paris. Bushmannpolyphonie. 7. Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Paris. “Aasthetische und anthropologischeaspekte der Mehrstimmigkeit in Rumanien, Albanien and auf Sardinien.” 8. Jaume Ayats, Barcelona.Polyphone elementa in der Volksmusik in Spanien. 9. Anne Caufriez, Brussels. “Portugal- vokaleMehrstimmigkeit der Frauen. 10. Oskar Elschek. Bratislava. “Vokale Mehrstimmigkeit in Horechronie(Slowakei).” 11. Susanne Ziegler, Berlin, and Edisher Garakanidze, Tbilisi. “Georgische Polyphone.” 12.Alica Elschekova, Bratislava (spis). 13. Ricardo Canzio, Paris. “Polyphones Musizieren bel Amazonas-Indianern.” 14. Nikolai Kaufman, Sofia. “Bulgarische Diaphonie.” 15. Tran Quang Hai, Paris. a)“Mehrstimmigkeit bei minderheiten in Vietnam”, b) “Buddistische Musik in Korea un China”, c)“Obertonsingen.” 16. Jose Maceda, Quexon City. “Mehrstimmigkeit auf den Philippinen.” 17. FranzFodermayr, Wien. “Ison in der byzantin Kirchenmusik.” 18. Werner Deutch, Wien. PsychoakustischeAspekte der Mehrstimmigkeit.1998, Georgia. The series of conferences on traditional polyphony cameback after ten years of silence in Georgia. The conference was organized by the TbilisiState Conservatory (rector Manana Doijashvili and vice-rector Rusudan Tsurtsumia) andwas held from October 15-22, 1998. Papers were fully published in the language theywere presented in, although extended abstracts in alternative languages (English orGeorgian) were also published (see Tsurtsumia, 2000). Most of the participants werefrom Georgia (unless indicated otherwise). Here is the list of scholars and their papersaccording to the collection of published papers:1. Caroline Bithell, UK. (a) “Polyphony in the Corsican tradition structure: Style: Context:Motivation.” (b) “The Corsican sound: Identity, evolution and transformation.” 2. Tamaz Gabisonia.“Classification of the Georgian polyphony forms.” 3. Vladimer Gogotishvili. “On characteristics of mood-Shilakadze. “Polyphony and Georgian folk musical instruments.”intonational system in Georgian (Megrelian) lyrical songs.” 4. Malkhaz Erkvanidze. “On nature ofGeorgian polyphony.” 5. Nato Zumbadze. “The system of multi-part singing in Georgian women’s songs.”6. Nino Kalandadze-Makharadze. “Zari – polyphonic dirge in Georgian folklore.” 7. Tamar Meskhi.“Georgian urban polyphonic songs.” 8. Joseph Jordania, Australia. “Question intonation, speechpathologies and the origins of polyphony.” 9. Nino Pirtskhalava. “Ioanne Petritsi’a aesthetics and Georgianthree-part singing.” 10. Manana 11.David Shugliashvili. “On polyphony of Georgian hymns.” 12. Nino Tsitsishvili, Australia. “A systematicstudy of the relationships between polyphony and monophony in the Kartli-Kakhetian table and solo worksongs.” 13. Kukuri [Evsevi] Chokhonelidze. “The art of improvisation and Georgian polyphonic music.”2000, Georgia. An international conference “Problems of Polyphony inSacred and Secular Music” was organized at the Tbilisi State Conservatory by the TbilisiState Conservatory with the help of the foundation “Open Society – Georgia.” Paperswere published in the language in which they were delivered, with abstracts in theEnglish (or Georgian) language (Tsurtsumia, 2001). Here is the list of scholars and thepapers according to the published collection (most of the participants were from Georgiaunless stated otherwise):