News and Notes
New Web Site for
Music Theory
Wolfgang Freis, University of Chicago Press
In conjunction with the International
Hispanic Music Study Group, a new WWW site is in preparation, the Research
Guide to Iberian Music Theory. The purpose of the site is to provide
researchers, teachers, and students with an extensive on-line database
of theorists and treatises composed and published on the Iberian peninsula
from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
The foundation of this database
will be a comprehensive checklist of works in manuscript and print.
This list will not only be a descriptive catalog and summary of treatises,
but will also serve as a guide to libraries, modern editions, and translations.
Biographical information and comprehensive bibliographies on authors
and treatises shall be included as well.
Once the structure of the database
is sufficiently established, we will cross-reference the entries with
regard to topics and contributors (printers, dedicatees, etc.). Thus
indices that can serve as a dictionary-like reference source that elucidates
the disciplinary and cultural context of author and work. We also intend
to append a visual database of illustrations, graphics, photographs,
etc. that will complement the other texts of the database.
We hope to have a test site ready
in the near future. Our initial efforts will be to establish conventions
and procedures in order to provide guidelines for contributors. Please
check the website of the International Study Group for Hispanic Music
for further developments.
Given the nature of this project,
it is clear that it will require the participation of a great number
of scholars. We would like to encourage anyone interested in participating
and contributing essays and/or other information to contact us. Likewise,
we will greatly appreciate any information provided in the future that
will help us to maintain and improve the database in order to aid our
colleagues in their research efforts.
For further information or comments,
please contact Wolfgang Freis, who will serve as the coordinator
of the project, at: wfreis@press.uchicago.edu.
Forthcoming
Publications:
The University of
Rochester Press announces the publication of:
Music
and Musicians in the Escorial Liturgy under the Habsburgs, 1563-1700,
Eastman Studies in Music, vol. 9, 416 pp.
Michael Noone
This new book explores the performance
and composition of liturgical music in El Escorial, the great Spanish
monastery and palace, from its founding by Philip II in 1563 to the
death of Charles II in 1700. Philip II promoted within it a musical
foundation whose dual function as royal chapel and as monastery in the
service of a Counter-Reformation monarch was unique.
The study traces the ways in which
music styles and practices responded to the changing functions of the
institutions. Received notions about Spanish musical patronage are challenged,
musical manuscripts are scrutinized, biographical details of hundreds
of musicians are uncovered, and musical practices are examined.
Conference News:
The Hispanic Connection
will take place October 16-18, 1997, at Hofstra University, Hempstead,
New York. This three-day event will feature concerts, lectures and research
paper sessions devoted to the topic of Spanish and Spanish-American
Literature in the Arts of the New World.
Music as Heard:
Listeners and Listening in Late-Medieval and
Early Modern Europe 1300-1600.
Three presentations were devoted
to Hispanic topics at the Princeton Conference.
They were:
G. Grayson Wagstaff, "Music for
the Dead and the Control of Ritual Behavior in Spain 1450-1550"
Todd Borgerding, "Preachers, Pronunctio,
and Music: Towards an Understanding of Rhetoric and Vocal Polyphony"
Louise Stein, "Eros, Erato, Terpsichore
and the Hearing of Music in Early Modern Spain"
National Meeting of the American
Musicolgoical Society, 28 October--2 November, 1997.
The Special Study Session of the
IHMSG organized by Professor Carol Hess, Bowling Green State University,
includes the following participants:
Lucy Hruza, University of Calgary
James Parakilas, Bates College
Elizabeth Seitz, Boston University
Leonora Saavedra, CENIDIM, Mexico
City, University of Pittsburgh
Craig Russell, California State
Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo
Other presentations at the
AMS National Meeting of interest to Hispanicists:
Colonial Encounters, I:
New World Institutions and Practices
- William John Summers, "Choral
and Orchestral Institutions in Manila, 1571-1762: Evidence from Philippine
Archives"
- Mark Brill, "Carrasco or Mathias?
Plagiarism in and Eighteenth-Century 'Examen de Opposicíon'
from the Oaxaca Cathedral"
- Craig H. Russell, "The Apparition
of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Her 'Reappearance' in the Choral Masterpieces
of Eighteenth- century Mexico"
- Robert Stevenson, "Jerusalem
on American Soil"
Colonial Encounters, II: The
New World and the Postcolony
- Beth K. Aracena, "Indecent Verse?
Song for the Feast of St. Ignatius in Colonial Chile"
The Brazilian Music Society
Meeting, Friday, 12:30-2:00 P. M.
East Meets West
- Ann L. Solverberg, "Music in
the Experiences of Early Jesuit Missionaries to China"
Announcements
Monique Durham, Curator
of the John Donald Robb Archives of Southwestern Music, Center for Southwest
Research, University of New Mexico, sends the following information
about the Zarzuela collection there. The collection was found to contain
116 zarzuelas in various stages of completeness. Eleven works are complete,
having all parts necessary to stage a production. Sixteen include conductors'
scores from which parts can be transcribed and 53 include piano-vocal
scores.
Manuel Areu, the original owner,
was born into a theatrical family in Spain in 1848. He and members of
his theater group emigrated to the new world where they toured Mexico,
Cuba and the Southwest. Members of the Areu family still contribute
to the collection.
For Information about this collection,
which has been completely microfilmed, can be obtained from Monique
Durham via e-mail: mdurham@unm.edu
Mr. Jonathan Watts, The
Director of the Eleggua Project, sends word of forthcoming the following
workshop: AFROCUBAN MUSIC, DANCE & HISTORY, 28 December, 1997--11
January, 1998, and 22 June--6 July, 1998. For specific curriculum inquiries
contact: Professor Jim Lepore via e-mail at:
jlepore@osfl.gmu.edu
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