Date/Time
Date(s) - 27 Feb 2014 until 28 Feb 2014
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
CUNY Graduate Center
Category(ies) No Categories
Sounding Communities: Music and the Three Religions in Medieval Iberia, February 27-28, 2014, New York, New York
Thursday, February 27: CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room Session 1: 4:00-5:30 pm (Chair: Patricia Grieve, Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University)
Dwight Reynolds, UC Santa Barbara: “Traffic and Trade in Music and Musicians: Conduits of Courtly Culture in Medieval Iberia”
Carl Davila, The University at Brockport: “The Andalusi Turn: The Nuba in Mediterranean History”
Lourdes Alvarez, University of New Haven: “Marketing Mysticism: Shushtari from the Medieval Suq to the Sacred Music Festival Circuit”
Pause: 5:30-5:45 pm Lecture-Demonstration: 5:45-6:30. Judith Cohen, York University, Toronto: The Sephardic Romancero
Reception: 6:45-7:45 pm, followed by 8 pm performance by the New York Andalus Ensemble, Elebash Recital Hall
Friday, February 28: Faculty House, Columbia University, 9:30am-5pm
Session 2: 9:30-10:30 (Chair: Jesus Rodríguez-Velasco, Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University) Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Universidad Nova de Lisboa: “Medieval Iberian Song in its Mediterranean Context: from Andalusian muwashshahat to the Cantigas de Santa Maria”
Benjamin Liu, University of California at Riverside: “Social Antagonisms in the Serranillas.”
10:30-11:00 Break
Session 3: 11:00-12:00 (Chair: Antoni Pizà, Foundation for Iberian Music, CUNY) Carmen Julia Gutiérrez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: “The Mozarabic Chant as a Model for the Construction of Cultural Identity”
Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Granada: “Processions in Context: Ritual and Music for Assumption feasts at Seville Cathedral During the Late Middle Ages”
12:00-2:00 Lunch, Faculty House (time to visit exhibition, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler Library)
Session 4: 2:00-3:30 (Chair: Adam Kosto, History, Columbia University) Rebecca Maloy, University of Colorado at Boulder, “The Verona Orationale as a Witness to Visigothic Liturgy, Chant, and Exegesis”
Susana Zapke, Austrian Academy of Sciences: “The Antiphonary of Leon and its Prologues”
Lucy Pick, University of Chicago Divinity School: “The Infanta Speaks: Court and Family in the Refounding of the See of Tuy, 1071”
3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-5:00 Discussion (moderator: Seth Kimmel, Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University) Discussants: Alessandra Ciucci, Northeastern University and Don Randel, University of Chicago
5:00 Reception, Heyman Center for the Humanities
Co-sponsors:
University Seminar on Medieval Studies, Columbia University Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Columbia University Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University Department of Music, Columbia University Department of History, Columbia University Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University Foundation for Iberian Music, CUNY Medieval Studies, CUNY Center for Latin American and Iberian Music, University of California at Riverside