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

Session

Issues in theory and methodology

FP17

10 Jul 2025, 12:30

Aula 7

Conveners

Issues in theory and methodology

• Simone Caputo (Sapienza, Università di Roma)

82. History in today’s plural societies: Mediterranean Voices (Neue Vocalsolisten 2014)

10/07/2025, 12:30

Free paper

What impulses do works of contemporary music provide for a current historiography of today’s plural societies? This question will be examined on the basis of Mediterranean Voices by Neue Vocalsolisten (Stuttgart 2014) and its relations to the historiography of the Mediterranean, for which the interplay between plurality and unity is central.
The ‘video-concert architecture about twelve...

151. Toward a new ecosystem of musicological studies

10/07/2025, 12:50

Free paper

Music is an essential part of European cultural and economic objectives. While this might seem to provide an opportunity for musicology, both music and the science that best represents it remain underrepresented in policy and scientific infrastructures. Part of the problem is the nature of musical artefacts themselves. Unlike tangible heritage fields such as archaeology and visual arts,...

57. An Alternate History of European Music: Translating Ernst Ferand's "Die Improvisation in der Musik"

10/07/2025, 13:10

Free paper

In his 1938 book "Die Improvisation in der Musik," the Hungarian scholar and music educator Ernst Ferand (1887–1972) presents nothing less than an alternate history of European music. Through groundbreaking readings of primary and secondary sources, Ferand reconstructs a forgotten network of improvised practices that were central to the early development of European music (from plainchant, to...