Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries). IMS Intercongressional Symposium

Session

Performing practices and circulation

FP7

9 Jul 2025, 12:30

Aula 8

Conveners

Performing practices and circulation

• María Ordiñana Gil (Universidad Internacional de Valencia)

30. Breaking Sociocultural Boundaries: Basso Continuo Practice as ‘Trans-Social’ Tool in Eighteenth-Century Venice

Elia Pivetta (University of Pavia)

09/07/2025, 12:30

Free paper

When studying basso continuo practices as historical musicologists or theorists, we usually examine treatises and compare them with the music of ‘great’ composers in order to formulate analysis, reflect on creative processes, or to draw insights for performance practice. However, our knowledge of these practices remains tied to specific exemplary cases, with the risk of ‘incomplete’...

142. The chord, the composer, and the instrumentalist

09/07/2025, 12:50

Free paper

From the early sixteenth century, lutenists, guitarists, and keyboard players understood chords and how to use them. These instrumentalists understood what we now call functional harmony and used it in practice long before it was codified by theorists. In the same way that the unwritten practices of singer-songwriters throughout the sixteenth century have have not been accommodated into the...

89. Hispanic nuns and the global networks for the transmission of oral musical practices

09/07/2025, 13:10

Free paper

Nunneries participated in cultural and liturgical exchanges involving music at national and international levels, particularly through the existing networks of their religious orders, which connected Hispanic cities to other European centres and also to the New World. This paper addresses processes of musical-cultural exchange in convent spaces, arguing that nunneries were an important focus...