Early Music and the New World / Música Antigua y Nuevo Mundo
The IMS Study Group on Early Music and the New World was created in Havana, at the first conference of the IMS Regional Association for Latin America and the Caribbean hosted by Casa de las Américas on March 17-21, 2014. The first meeting of the Study Group was co- chaired by IMS President Dinko Fabris y CONICET Principal Researcher Leonardo Waisman. Spearheaded by Fabris, the Study Group’s mission is to further knowledge about music in Latin America from the 16 th to the 19 th centuries, and also serve as the professional research branch of the “Progetto Higini Anglès,” which, supported by the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra in Rome, intends to probe the cultural legacy of European missionaries in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, and also involve the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis for research into performance practice of early music.
Meetings in 2015
On January 19–22, 2015, the Study Group met in Cartagena, Colombia, in the context of a colloquium organized by Egberto Bermúdez on “Music iconography and music history in Europe and Latin America: Sources and problems.” Historiographical approaches to music iconography were presented by Zdravko Blazekovic, Director of the Research Center for Music Iconography (RCMI) at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY) (“Visualization of ancient Greek and Roman instruments by 18th-century antiquarians” and “Musical instruments in late Medieval astrological maps”); IMS President Dinko Fabris (“Caravaggio e la musica” and “Parténope: De sirena a reina de la ópera napolitana” / “Partenope da sirena a regina: il mito musicale di Napoli”); and Egberto Bermúdez (“Música popular y baile en Colombia, siglos XVII y XVIII: Fuentes iconográficas”). Lecturers on Latin American music historiography included Bernardo Illari (“Criollismos musicales peruanos: Orejón y Mesa,” and “Martin Schmidt (1694–1772), músico: Apuntes para una genealogía”); and Omar Morales Abril (“Para acabar los maitines qué haremos, qué haremos? Evidencias de teatralidad en la interpretación de chanzonetas y villancicos religiosos iberoamericanos durante los siglos XVII y XVIII” y “Gaspar Fernández: Su vida y obra como testimonio de la cultura musical novohispana a principios del siglo XVII”). Students in the Master’s Degree Program in Musicology at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia under the supervision of Egberto Bermúdez also presented iconographical perspectives on topics from Colombian music history.
The IMS Study Group on Early Music and the New World held an open session on “Patrimonial rights: Private and public music archives” at forthcoming IAML/IMS conference in New York, June 21–26, 2015. Speakers included Egberto Bermúdez, Chair (Professor of Music, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá); Yael Bitrán Goren (Director, Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical / CENIDIM, Mexico City); Álvaro Torrente (Professor of Music History, Department of Musicology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Director, Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales [ICCMU], Madrid, Spain); Paulo Castagna (Professor and Vice-Coordinator, Post-Graduate Program in Music, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho [UNESP], Brazil); and Omar Morales Abril (Director, ensemble La Capilla del Valle de la Asunción, Guatemala; Researcher, Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical / CENIDIM, Mexico City).
Chair, Egberto Bermúdez (Profesor Titular, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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