Second Struga conference organised by IRAM was once again concerned with the general subject Contemporary Trends in Musicology and Ethnomusicology. This title proved to be very adequate for the variety of papers we have received from the contributors, although we could say that ethnomusicology and digital technology for sound processing, were the dominant areas of interest. The freedom of the subject selection was in accordance with the individuality of the scientific researches in the extremely particularised and segmented world of contemporary musicology and ethnomusicology.
There was general agreement among the participants of the conference that this approach made the conference very interesting, inovative, provocative and challenging.
        The conference was part of The Struga Music Autumn,  taking place at Ohrid Lake, 19-21 September, 2003. This year we had bigger number of participants, who presented 12 papers.
The Conference was organised with the support from EU Tempus program and SCOPES program of the Swiss National Foundation.
We would like to thank Kim Sargeant, the Associate Director from Koninkljik Conservatorium from Den Haag, and Kenneth Robbins the Director of the School of the Perofrming Arts  of Louisiana Tech University, for their assistance in the proofreading of the English version.

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