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

Session

Misc. 2: Issues of Circulation

FP12

10 Jul 2025, 09:00

Aula 8

Conveners

Misc. 2: Issues of Circulation

• John Griffiths (University of Melbourne - Australia)

175. The Colonna harpsichord’s journey: Changing attitudes towards early musical instruments collecting during the US American Gilded Age

10/07/2025, 09:00

Free paper

This paper follows the journey of an Italian harpsichord, purchased by renowned New York architect Stanford White during his 1895 European tour, to explore changing attitudes towards early musical instruments in the United States at the turn of the century. After its travels across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, the instrument, known as the “Colonna harpsichord,” probably once owned...

56. Categories of intercultural reception of Arab Music and its Music Theory in Western Composition since 1990

10/07/2025, 09:20

Free paper

Since 1990 the interaction of contemporary compositional strategies with traditional practices and tonal systems of non-Western music has been increasing in the European new music scene. The question how music material from a different musical culture can be integrated into new music and how this process can be analyzed is the core of many discussions in the last three decades in field of...

169. Riccardo Bonicioli (1853-1933) as a citizen of the world and the effect of the Greek Revolution on his work (remote)

10/07/2025, 09:40

Free paper

Greece, placed in the center of the Mediterranean basin, has always been a crossroads of goods, ideas and people. During the 19th century, the Greek Revolution inspired artists, poets and musicians who stood beside the Greek people and created masterpieces. Alongside, the Ionian Islands, being under Venetian - instead of Ottoman - rule for many centuries, were the part of Greece closer to...