Sound, Space and Object: The Aural, the Visual and the Tactile in Early Modern French and Italian Music Rooms

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge

9th – 11th July 2009

DRAFT PROGRAMME

Thursday 9^th July 2009 CRASSH

3.30 pm Registration

4.30 – 7 pm  Art, Music, Architecture, Acoustics and Instrument-making: The case for Interdisciplinarity

-        Professor Patricia Fortini Brown, Full Professor, Princeton University: ‘Seduction and Spirituality: The ambiguous role of music in Venetian Art’

-        Michael Lowe, lute-maker, Wotton-by-Woodstock, Oxfordshire: 'Settings for the Lute's Use in Early Modern France and Italy'

-        Professor Iain Fenlon, Professor of Historical Musicology, University of Cambridge: 'Dancing in Arcadia; Mantua and Florence in the 1590s'

-        Dr Tarek Berrada, Chercheur, Insititut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Sorbonne, Paris: ‘French seventeenth-century music rooms’

-        Discussion

7.30 pm  Opening reception and buffet supper, Old Library, Pembroke College

8.30 pm Concert by ‘Full Fathom Four’

Livia Caffagni, flauto dolce, Modena, Italy

Rodney Prada, viola da gamba, Cremona, Italy

Skip Sempé, clavicembalo, Paris, France

Doron David Sherwin, cornetto, Modena, Italy

Friday 10^th July  CRASSH

9am – 1pm Early Modern Space and its Entertainments

-        Professor Tracy Cooper, Full Professor, Temple University, USA: ‘The place of music in the artist’s home’

-        Dr Amanda Lillie, Senior Lecturer, University of York: ‘The social history of the lettuccio’

-        Professor Deborah Howard, Professor of Architectural History, University of Cambridge: ‘Family festivals of Venetian cittadini’

-        Dr Flora Dennis, Lecturer, University of Sussex: 'Objects and sounds in non-courtly interiors'

-        Dr Guido Beltramini, Director, Centro di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza: 'Living like the Ancients in Bembo's Padua'

-        Discussion

Lunch

2.30 pm  – 6.30 pm  Strategies for interdisciplinary research

-        Dr Laura Moretti, Scott Opler Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford: ‘Archival sources regarding domestic music in North Italian courts’

-        Dr Davide Bonsi, Laboratorio di Acustica,Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice: ‘The acoustic analysis of Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza’

-        Dr Sophie Pickford, Research Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge: ‘Using inventories for investigating the French domestic interior’

-        Mimmo Peruffo, string-maker, Aquila, Italy: ‘Investigating period instruments: The balance of the lute’

-        Dr Raf Orlowski, Director, Arup Acoustics, Cambridge: ‘Assessing the acoustic performance of small music rooms’

-        Discussion

7.30  Conference dinner  King’s College

Saturday 11^th July  CRASSH

9 am – 1 pm New developments in cultural representation

-        Professor Michael Markham, Assistant Professor, State University of NY, Fredonia, USA, ‘Caccini's Stages: Identity and Performance Space in the Late Cinquecento Court’

-        Professor Giovanni Zanovello, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington: ‘The role of the frottola’

-        Professor Arnaldo Morelli, Professore, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila: ‘Spaces for musical performance in Baroque Rome’

-        Dr Tessa Murdoch, Deputy Keeper, Department of Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass, Victoria and Albert Museum: 'The Musical Patronage of Queen Christina of Sweden in Rome in the 1650s'

-        Discussion and concluding remarks

Lunch

Organisers:

Professor Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art and St John’s College djh1000@cam.ac.uk

Dr Sophie Pickford, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge sophiepickford@googlemail.com