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

Session

Sacred music: circulation

FP21

11 Jul 2025, 09:00

Aula 9

Conveners

Sacred music: circulation

• Théodora Psychoyou (Université Paris-Sorbonne – France)

64. Plainchant in Nueva España: Liturgical Monody in Manuscripts from the Guatemalan Highlands

11/07/2025, 09:00

Free paper

One of the most understudied yet potentially fruitful areas of research along the East-West axis connecting the Mediterranean and the Americas is the presence and use of plainchant in the newly conquered lands of sixteenth-century Nueva España. While many musical sources and collections remain unexamined, an increasing number of libraries are digitising plainchant manuscripts and prints,...

132. Open the book! Repertory building, theory teaching and further relationships of the Split cathedral in the early Eighteenth Century

11/07/2025, 09:20

Free paper

Music-theoretical works have long not been a specific subject of research in Croatia. As Stanislav Tuksar (2008) once concluded: «the proportions and then-contemporary needs for such music titles, both for education and for all other purposes, still remain a closed book for today’s researchers.» As we will see, this is certainly due to cataloguing issues, but also to historical separations of...

174. Between the Mediterranean and the New World: Music and Devotional Practices for Saint Benedict the Moor

11/07/2025, 09:40

Free paper

Saint Benedict the Moor (1526-1589), a prominent figure in the devotional panorama of the early modern period, represents a bridge between the religious traditions of the Mediterranean and Afro-American spirituality. Born in San Fratello (Messina) to a family of African slaves, he became the object of a special cult that rapidly spread between Sicily and Spain, thanks to the efforts of the...