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

Session

Transfer and Circulation, 15th–18th Centuries

FP25

11 Jul 2025, 12:30

Aula 8

Conveners

Transfer and Circulation, 15th–18th Centuries

• Andrea Bombi (Universitat de València)

128. Rhythm as cross-cultural embodiment and representation

11/07/2025, 12:30

Free paper

This paper will illustrate how different cultural contexts contributed to shape the rhythmic variety of European music from the late 15th to the early 18th century, connecting some of its features to the Islamic world (from the Persian-Arabic matrix up to Turkish hegemony) and West Africa. Particular rhythmic patterns, with asymmetric, syncopated or hemiolic characteristics, will be described...

116. Travelling Songs in the Fifteenth Century

11/07/2025, 12:50

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Of the surprises that arose while completing my long-planned book Art Songs of the Burgundian Era, 1415–1480, the greatest was the number of the most widely copied songs of those years that are plainly transmitted with the wrong text. Already in the 1950s Sylvia Kenney had shown that Walter Frye’s Ave regina celorum, by far the most widely copied song of the 1450s, almost certainly began life...

88. Cantiga 121 and a Founding Legend of the Rosary: Its Journey in Song, Sermon, and Print from Late Medieval Spain to Early Modern Mexico (remote)

11/07/2025, 13:10

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This paper examines a founding legend of the rosary that likely originated from the Cantigas de Santa Maria (late thirteenth century) and circulated in northeastern Spain before migrating directly from Valencia to Mexico City in the late 1500s. At its core is the rosary, an instrument of Catholic devotion associated with the Dominican Order, which played a key role in promoting its use through...