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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 More … Continue reading →

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).

The book Hearing the City in Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: Brépols, 2018), edited by Tess Knighton and Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, is now published. Contents Introduction Tim Carter, Hearing and Listening: Some Problems for the Urban Musicologist 1 Crossing Boundaries 2. Dinko … Continue reading →

A couple of photos of the book launch held at the Museu d’Història de Barcelona last Thursday. It was very well attended and offered a good opportunity to talk about some aspects of music and politics in the urban context … Continue reading →

October was a busy month for events relating to URBANMUSICS. Both Ascension and I were involved in them, and I give a brief report of each here. On Monday 9 October 2017, the historian Joan-Lluis Palos organized a seminar entitled … Continue reading →

Seminario del Área de Historia Moderna. Facultad de Geografia e Historia. Universitat de Barcelona 9 October 2017, 9.30am-2pm PROGRAM 9:30-9:45 Welcome and presentation of the seminar. Joan-Lluís Palos 9:45-10:30 Espacios de mecenazgo musical femenino en la Barcelona del siglo XVI: … Continue reading →

It’s the old adage about the buses: you wait ages for a bus and then two come at once. Last week saw two presentations on music in Barcelona libraries, both based on long-term research projects and both illustrated by musical … Continue reading →

This month I have participated in two conferences presenting papers which are a result of my research as part of the Urbanmusics Project. First, I attended the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS), which took place in Vancouver … Continue reading →

The archaeologist Margarita Díaz-Andreu (UB) organized a fascinating workshop which took place on the morning of 14 September based around various facets of the study of acoustical archaeology. This mixed the scholarly and technical with artistic expression, from prehistoric rock … Continue reading →