Devoted to the theme "Before and After Music." ICMS10 has encouraged the discussion and exchange of ideas about both the "archaeology" of music and its after-life. By aiming to transcend recent research on similar themes represented by historical musicology, cultural musicology, and related disciplines, the congress has invoked musical semiotics as a platform for providing a refreshing rethinking of musical worlds and the capacity of music to decode and construct hyman reality from cultural practices to their theoretical conseptualisations.