Tess Knighton, “Black African Musicians: Sounding Status in Early Modern Spain and Portugal”, Sound Politics: Somatics and Semantics in the Early Modern World, 8 May 2021

Early Modern Iberian Voices 2020-2021

Seminar Leaders:
Natalia Pérez, University of Southern California
Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California
Sonia Velázquez, Indiana University

Sound Politics: Somatics and Semantics in the Early Modern World

Saturday, May 8, 2021
Online Zoom Event
9:00 am – 12:15 pm PDT

Register via Zoom by 12 noon, Friday, May 7, 2021, to receive pre-circulated materials for this event.

Sir Barry Ife 
Research Professor, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Cervantes Professor Emeritus, King’s College London

“When Don Quixote starts to sing, what are we supposed to hear?”

Respondents:
Steve Hutchinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paul Michael Johnson, Depauw University
Mercedes Alcalá Galán, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tess Knighton
Research Professor, Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona

“Black African Musicians: Sounding Status in Early Modern Spain and Portugal”

Respondents:
Edwin Hill, USC
Luis Avilés, UC Irvine
Erin Rowe, Johns Hopkins

Sarah Finley
Assistant Professor, Dept of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Christopher Newport University

“Listening to Race in Sor Juana’s villancicos de negros: Urban Soundscapes and the Auditory Imagination?”

Respondents:
Emilie Bergmann, UC Berkeley
Mary Quinn, University of New Mexico
Roberto Diaz, USC

Kate van Orden
Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music Historical Musicology
Department of Music
Harvard University

“France and Spain in Rome circa 1580: National Churches and the Performance of Corporate Identity “

Respondents:
Lisa Pon, USC
Adam Gilbert, USC
Samantha Bassler, NYU

Full information: https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/early-modern-iberian-voices-2021/.

“Paisatges sonors i noves tecnologies”, 9 December 2019, 10am, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Jornada d’estudis Doctorals en Musicología
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Sala d’actes Frederic Udina (B7/1056)

10.00: Tess Knighton, ‘El paisaje sonoro: entre musicologia urbana y sound studies’
11.00: Juan Ruiz Jiménez, ‘Paisajes Sonoros Históricos: gestación, presente y futuro de una plataforma digital
12.00: Discussion

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“Connected Music Histories in the Global Renaissance”, 3 December 2019, 4pm, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona

Conference by Tess Knighton as part of the seminars of the IMS Study Group ‘Global History of Music’, organised by David Irving.

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“Carles V i la música: ceremonies reials a Barcelona, 1519” (pre-concert conference), 29 November 2019, 18.30, Barcelona Cathedral

Pre-concert conference by Tess Knighton

The concert will take place at Barcelona Cathedral at 8pm.
Pere-Lluis Biosca, chapel master of the Cathedral
‘Vespres polifòniques de Sant Andreu’
Cor de Cambra Francesc Valls, La Caravaggia and Juan de la Rubia

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Vespres de Sant Andreu
500 aniversari del Capítol del Toisó d’Or a Barcelona
29 de novembre del 2019, a les 20h
Catedral de Barcelona

Cor Francesc Valls
La Caravaggia
Juan de la Rúbia, orgue
Pere Lluís Biosca, director

Processó d’entrada, des de la sagristia fins al cor, entrant des del reracor. Instrumental, alternat Ministrers i orgue major.

Videns andreas Crucem de C. de Morales (2a part de Andreas Christi Famulus)

Deus in ajutorium

Cant plà i polifonia de B. Càrceres

Antífona 1. Salve Crux ACB

Dixit dominus

Cant plà alternat amb polifonia de M. Robledo

Ant. Salve Crux

Antífona 2. Beatus Andreas orabit ACB

Confitebor

Cant plà alternat amb polifonia de M. Robledo

Ant. Beatus Andreas orabit

Antífona 3. Andreas Famulus ACB

Beatus Vir

Cant plà alternat amb polifonia de M. Robledo

Ant. Andreas Famulus de C. De Morales (1a part)

Antífona 4. Maxsimillia Christo

Laudate Pueri Josquin Desprez (attr.)

Ant. Maxsimillia Christo polifònica, d’autor anònim. Cor o corneta i orgue

Antífona 5. Qui persequebantur

Laudate Dominum de P. de la Rue

Ant. Qui persequebantur

Himne Exsultat Caelum Laudibus

Cant plà i polifonia de P. de Escobar

Antífona Unus ex duebus

Magnificat de F. de Peñalosa

Ant. Unus ex duebus

Processó sortida Orgue Major (Cabezón?), sortint pel reracor.

International Conference “Rethinking the Soundscape: Musical Events and the Soundscape of Italian Cities, XVI-XIX Century”, Rome, 6-8 June 2019

Organized by Università di Roma “La Sapienza” • Dipartimento di Lettere e Culture Moderne • Dottorato in Musica e spettacolo Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom

Thursday 6 June, 14:30 – 19.00
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula Partenone
First session: The Role of Music and Theatre in the Construction of Urban Places and Identities
Chair: Franco Piperno (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)

14.30 Keynote address: Antonio Rostagno (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”): The Historical Urban Phonosphere

​15.30 Iain Fenlon (King’s College Cambridge): Sound, Space, and History

16.15 Coffee Break

16.30 Nathan K. Reeves (Northwestern University): The Oar, the Trumpet, the Drum: Music and Galley Servitude in Spanish Naples

17.00 Virginia Lamothe (Belmont University): Soundscapes of Power: Roman Entrate for the Habsburgs in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century

17.30 Aldo Roma (Italy, École française de Rome): Risonanze scolopiche nella Roma del giubileo del 1650

18.00 Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom): Peace music on the occasion of the War of the Spanish Succession in Rome, Naples, Hamburg and London

Friday 7 June, 9.30 – 13.00
Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom
Second Session: Sources for the Study of Urban Soundscapes​
Chair: Markus Engelhardt (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom)

9.30 Tim Carter (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill): Gratioso Uberti’s Musical Tour of Rome (1630)

10.15 Simone Caputo (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”): Immaginare il soundscape: Roma, 1691-1721. Domande e modelli per la musicologia urbana

11.00 Coffee Break

11:15 Massimo Privitera (Università degli studi di Palermo): Napoli sonora

11:45 Graziella Seminara (Università degli studi di Catania): Dal teatro alla folla. Il profilo sonoro della Milano di Giuseppe Rovani

12:15 Nari Shelekpayev (Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris): Capital Cities and Opera: Some Theoretical Reflections

Friday 7 June, 15.00 – 19.00
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula Partenone
Third session: Hearing, Imagining and Mapping the Soundscape: an Interdisciplinary Approach
Chair: Emanuele Senici (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)

15.00 Tess Knighton (ICREA / Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona): Thinking about Acoustic Communities in Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean Cities

15.45 Andrea Chegai (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”): Note da una città sonora. Turismo mondano-spirituale nella Venezia dei secc. XVII-XVIII e produzione dell’‘immagine’ urbana

16:15 Coffee Break

16.45 Giada Viviani (Università degli studi Roma Tre), Francesco Trentini (Univerità Ca’ Foscari Venezia): Costruire il proprio soundscape. L’organizzazione di un ambiente sonoro colto tra prassi musicale e cultura visuale nella Venezia di metà Cinquecento

17:15 Angela Fiore e Sara Belotti (Università degli Studi di Modena-Reggio Emilia): Alla Corte degli Este, tra musica e cartografia: spunti per la ricostruzione del paesaggio sonoro di una città ducale (sec. XVII)

Saturday 8 June, 9:30 – 13.00
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula “Nino Pirrotta”
Fourth session: Spaces, Phonosphere, Musical Ecology
Chair: Giovanni Giuriati (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)

9.30 Antonello Colimberti (Accademia delle Belle Arti, L’Aquila): Paesaggio sonoro urbano e paesaggio ritmico-temporale. La proposta innovativa di Albert Mayr

10:15 Andrea Bombi (Universitat de València): Voci bianche: bambini in processione

10:45 Coffee Break

11.00 Marco Lutzu e Roberto Mileddu (Università degli Studi di Cagliari): Flussi sonori tra realtà urbane e rurali nella Sardegna del XVIII e XIX secolo

11.30 Fabrizio Crisafulli (Accademia delle Belle Arti, Roma): Lo spettacolo teatrale come “luogo” generatore di suoni

12:00 Conclusions

Acoustic Communities in Early Modern Barcelona, 14 May 2019

Artsoundscapes Seminar Series

Acoustic Communities in Early Modern Barcelona

Tess Knighton (ICREA / Institució Milà i Fontanals-CSIC)

14 May 2019, 2pm

Seminari de Prehistòria i Arqueologia

Facultat de Prehistòria i Arqueologia

Facultad de Geografia i Història

Carrer Montalegre 6, Barcelona

Happy World Book Day!

The IMF-CSIC Library has selected the book Hearing the city in early modern Europe (2018), edited by Tess Knighton and Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, on the occasion of the World Book Day (23 April).

Seminar “ENTRADES REIALS A BARCELONA, 1500-1700”, Barcelona, MUHBA, 24 & 31 January 2019

Al llarg dels segles, les entrades reials foren moments essencials que reflectien, mitjançant la posada en escena, les relacions polítiques entre la monarquia i la ciutat. Les entrades tenien una naturalesa doble: formaven part de les festivitats urbanes alhora que constituïen el cicle festiu i de celebracions de la monarquia. Especialment, representaven un moment idoni per a l’escenificació i la projecció del poder monàrquic. Així, la cerimònia de l’entrada reial, simbiosi de processó cívica i religiosa a la vegada, esdevenia una ocasió única per a la negociació política, social i fins i tot identitària. Aquest seminari reuneix experts en la història de la cultura de la ciutat de Barcelona a l’edat moderna.

DIJOUS 24 DE GENER
L’IMPACTE POLÍTIC

17.00 h
Obertura

17.15 h
Imatge del rei i percepció ciutadana: veure i ser vist a les entrades reials a Barcelona
Alfredo Chamorro, historiador

18.00 h
La visita reial: alliçonament espectacular
Francesc Massip, URV

18.45 h
Esbalair la cort. Les arts figuratives al servei de la inefable meravella de la ciutat transformada
Ida Mauro, UB

19.30 h
Debat general

DIJOUS 31 DE GENER
L’IMPACTE SOCIOCULTURAL

17.00 h
Obertura

17.15 h
Les entrades reials a Barcelona i la història de les emocions
Tess Knighton, ICREA-IMF, CSIC

18.00 h
Una festa dels sentits: olors, sabors, colors i sons a les entrades reials a Barcelona
Maria Ángeles Pérez Samper, UB

18.45 h
Viure la festa, viure la música: les músiques com a element emocional a les entrades reials a Barcelona
Jordi Raventós, historiador

19.30 h
Debat general

20.00 h
Cloenda

Tot i que l’entrada és gratuïta, cal fer la reserva prèvia a l’apartat “Entrades i reserves” del web barcelona.cat/museuhistoria.cat

MUHBA Pl. del Rei, Sala de Martí l’Humà
Plaça del Rei, s/n
08002 Barcelona
Tel. 93 256 21 00
museuhistoria@bcn.cat

Workshop on Sounds and Spaces: The Future of Urban Musicology, 25 October 2018

Workshop on Sounds and Spaces: The Future of Urban Musicology
as part of the Humanities in Transition Conference organized by the Institució Milà i Fontanals–CSIC at the Palau Macaya, Barcelona
Thursday 25 October 2018, 17.30-1900hh
Co-ordinator: Tess Knighton (ICREA / IMF–CSIC)
Participants: Isabel María Ayala Herrera (Universidad de Jaén); Lluis Bertran (Barcelona); Simone Caputo (Università La Sapienza di Roma); Ferrán Escrivà Llorca (Universitat de Jaume I de Castellón), María Rosa de Luca (Università di Catania); Javier Marín-Lopez (Universidad de Jaén), Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita (Universidad de Granada); Virginia Sánchez López (Universidad de Jaén)

Urban musicology is already established as  a major line of inquiry within the Humanities. By nature transdisciplinary, relevant to all periods and with a global reach, urban musicology offers a conceptual portal into many fundamental aspects of social and cultural practice. It affords a way forward for the study of the complex dynamic between space, acoustic, sound, ritual, ceremony, performance, daily experience, emotional impact and expression, and social identity. To date most studies have focused on individual urban centres with little development of the potential for a comparative approach, whether synchronically or diachronically and whether at local, regional, national or global levels. This workshop offers the opportunity to discuss how a comparative approach might be developed, both conceptually and through the use of the tools for data collection and analysis that form part of the digital humanities.  The workshop will include some case studies, and will also address the wider theoretical issues.

Vox feminae: la mujer como compositora, intérprete y fuente de inspiración en la música medieval, Huesca, 7-9 September 2018

Vox feminae: la mujer como compositora, intérprete y fuente de inspiración en la música medieval
Huesca, UIMP, Sede Pirineos, Centro cultural Ibercaja Palacio de Villahermosa
7-9 September 2018

Coordination: Mauricio Molina
Administration: Virginia Gonzalo

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