Name: Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries). IMS Intercongressional Symposium
Start: 2025-07-09T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-07-12T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació – Universitat de València

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

from Wednesday 9 July 2025 (08:00) to Saturday 12 July 2025 (20:00)

Monday 7 July 2025
Tuesday 8 July 2025
Wednesday 9 July 2025

08:00 Registration - Welcome participants
Registration - Welcome participants
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Hall - 1st Floor
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

09:00 From theatre to street: the role of the organillo in shaping Madrid’s musical identity in the Late 19th century

09:20 The Tune of Folías de Espanya in Catalan Popular Songs from Eighteenth Century

09:40 Negotiating Urban Musical Culture in Barcelona’s Domestic Concerts (1760–1808)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

09:00 Dalmatian Music Reimagined: Understanding Transformations

09:20 Musical Bridges Across the Atlantic: Forgotten Artists and the Transoceanic Circulation of Lusophone Music in the Early 20th Century

09:40 Entangled between hardware and software infrastructure: Assamese Popular music making in studios in Guwahati, Assam, India
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

09:00 Negotiating Artistic Identity in the Context of Migration and Exile: The Case of Clara Haskil

09:20 Inti-Illimani's Mediterranean Music and the Alchemy of Exile (1973–1988)

09:40 Italian Arab Musical Encounters (1880s-1930s): Sound and Power
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

09:00 General Assembly of the IMS SG “Mediterranean Music Studies” - Dinko Fabris (University of Basilicata)
09:30
09:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula 1
Contributions

09:30 SG Gender and Musical Patronage - Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita (Universidad de Granada) Jann Pasler (University of California, San Diego) Magdalini Kalopana (Laboratory Teaching Staff - Department of Music Studies-National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Roberta Vidic María Cáceres Claire Fontijn (Wellesley College) Cristina Fernandes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Vincenzina Ottomano
10:00
10:00 - 14:00
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

11:00 Theaters of the Mediterranean and Circulation of Opera
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

10:30 “Sol y sal”: music strategies regarding Mar Menor’s ecocide

10:50 When Spain courted tourists: Music in the tourism promotion magazines of the first half of the 20th century

11:10 Traditional music in the Pitiusas Islands: towards a sustainable genre (remote)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

10:30 A New Book on Qājār Music and Art in Iran: ʿAmalajāt-i Ṭarab-i Ḵāṣa (Exclusive Royal Musicians)

10:50 Exploring Early Modern Spanish Musical Imagery through Digital Tools

11:10 Musical iconography in nineteenth-century Brazilian illustrated periodicals: the first phase of the Revista Illustrada (Rio de Janeiro, 1876-1889) (remote)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

10:30 Emissaries of power. Material and symbolic journeys in the urban phonospheres of the Hispanic Mediterranean (17th century)
12:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

12:30 Opera in Colonial Vietnam: Symbol of Power and Authority?

12:50 The Italian Opera Business in South America: A Study in Migration, Colonialism, and Transculturation in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (remote)

13:10 Transoceanic Orpheus: aesthetic-musical experimentalism from opera to Brazilian carnival (remote)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

12:30 Breaking Sociocultural Boundaries: Basso Continuo Practice as ‘Trans-Social’ Tool in Eighteenth-Century Venice - Elia Pivetta (University of Pavia)

12:50 The chord, the composer, and the instrumentalist

13:10 Hispanic nuns and the global networks for the transmission of oral musical practices
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Saló de Graus "Enric Valor"
Contributions

12:30 Building Musicology from the Ground Up: The Valencian-Mediterranean Experience of AVAMUS - Marta Mechó Fenollosa (AVAMUS)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

12:30 ‘Rome dominates the Skies of the World’ Fascist Italy’s Radio, Music and Sonic Propaganda: Transatlantic and Trans-Mediterranean Routes
14:00 Lunch
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

15:30 Mediterranean Dialogue and Auto-Orientalism: Ontology of Spain

15:50 Llorenç Barber and Darmstadt: The Valencian Perspective during the Francoist Era

16:10 From the Mediterranean to Cuyo. Two versions of Hispanism in the Regional History of Music in the first half of the 20th century (remote)
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

15:30 Legal Discourse in Opéra-Comique: Annette et Lubin and Marriage Law in the Ancien Régime

15:50 Venetian "Villanesche alla Napolitana" and the repertoire of 'witches'
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

15:30 The Noguera-López-Chavarri Letters: Networks of Folklorists and Musical Nationalism in Turn-of-the-Century Spain (MUSred Project)

15:50 A Gregorian Chant, a Melodic Revelation from Mount Sinai, and the Burning of Martyrs at the Stake: the Legends and Presumed Relationship of Sanctus and Aleinu

16:10 Title of the Project: Zajal Digital Chronicles: An Interactive Collective Memory for the Preservation and Transmission of Lebanese Zajal (remote)
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

15:30 The histories of saxophone ensembles in Brazil: the symbiotic relationship between opera and band repertoire.

15:45 Angelo Persichilli, Raymond Guiot, and the Accademia italiana del flauto

16:00 Discursive Constructions of Cultural Meanings in Ephemeral Sources About the Concerts of the Philharmonic and Symphonic Orchestras of Havana in the 1920s.

16:15 Life of 78 RPM Records on the Domestic and Foreign Markets: The Case of Zagreb-Based Record Companies

16:30 Musical Theatre and Collective Identities in Hispanic and Portuguese Territories (1750-1814): Galician Perspectives (remote)
17:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

17:30 Dioniso 2.0: The psychoacoustic fascination of the Mediterranean Dionysian in its contamination with electronic music.

17:40 Mus.I.Care: Taking Care of Incomplete Music
18:00

18:00 - 19:30
Room: Saló d'Actes "Manuel Sanchis Guarner"

19:30

19:30 - 20:00
Room: Saló d'Actes "Manuel Sanchis Guarner"
Thursday 10 July 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

09:00 Alejandro García Caturla: an Afro-Cubanist Atlantic-Mediterranean path of "De-Westernisation" and "Afrotopia" in the music of the 20th century (1928-1929)

09:20 The Song of Erotokritos: Venetian-Cretan Legacy and 20th Century Performance Scenarios in Crete

09:40 A Deferred Primordial Sound: Resurfaced Musical Performance in the Milanese Armenian Avant-Garde
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

09:00 The Colonna harpsichord’s journey: Changing attitudes towards early musical instruments collecting during the US American Gilded Age

09:20 Categories of intercultural reception of Arab Music and its Music Theory in Western Composition since 1990

09:40 Riccardo Bonicioli (1853-1933) as a citizen of the world and the effect of the Greek Revolution on his work (remote)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

09:00 Rosa canta e cunta. Voice, memory, and resistance of a folk singer of Mediterranean culture.

09:20 Between Silence and Song: Rethinking Amália Rodrigues in Estado Novo Portugal

09:40 Between Modinhas and Lundus: Augusta Candiani and Marietta Baderna on the 19th-Century Brazilian Stage (remote)
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

09:00 “Musicology and Mediterranean: History and Anthropology” in memory of Tullia Magrini (1950-2005) - Dinko Fabris (University of Basilicata) Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (University of Cambridge)
09:00 - 14:00
Room: Aula 1
Contributions

09:00 ‘Tapestries’ of musical images, concepts, and data in the Mediterranean – and beyond

12:30 ‘Tapestries’ of musical images, concepts, and data in the Mediterranean – and beyond
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

10:30 Between Two Basins: The Circulation of Rioplatense Tango and the Musical Production of Cultured Tangos in the Mediterranean Region (1890-2002)

10:50 Harmonizing Diaspora: Situating Armenian Folk and Art Music in fin-de-siècle Paris (1890-1910)

11:10 Morelia, arrival and departure of musicians from around the world in the case of the Alfonso Vega Núñez International Organ Festival (1966-1988)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

10:30 Cultural Hierarchies in Music Education for Social Change: Neocolonialism and Coloniality in the SOMOS Música Program

10:50 Musical engagements between indigenous people and Spanish Benedictines in Western Australia: the case of the Valencian monk Odo Oltra (1826-1898).

11:10 China's Oceanic Routes in Global Music History Pedagogy
12:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

12:30 History in today’s plural societies: Mediterranean Voices (Neue Vocalsolisten 2014)

12:50 Toward a new ecosystem of musicological studies

13:10 An Alternate History of European Music: Translating Ernst Ferand's "Die Improvisation in der Musik"
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

12:50 Remapping Rossini’s Operas in the Ionian Islands

13:10 The Role of Algeria in the Creation of Rossini’s “L’italiana in Algeri”: Historical and Political Perspectives
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Saló de Graus "Enric Valor"
Contributions

12:30 Escuchar el Mediterráneo: rutas, retos, propuestas - Ugo Fellone (Universidad Internacional de Valencia)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

12:30 Mediterranean Imaginaries and Decolonial Perspectives from Abya Yala: Rethinking Global Music Histories
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

12:30 Music Education Between the Local and Global Across the Mediterranean - Ana María Botella Nicolás (Universitat de València)
14:00 Lunch
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30

16:00

16:00 - 17:30
Room: Saló d'Actes "Manuel Sanchis Guarner"

17:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:30 - 18:00
18:00
18:00 - 18:45
Room: Saló d'Actes "Manuel Sanchis Guarner"
Contributions

18:00 Music Educational Projects in Palestinian Territories, past and future
19:00

19:00 - 20:15
Room: Saló d'Actes "Manuel Sanchis Guarner"

21:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
21:00 - 23:30
Friday 11 July 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

09:00 «Apenas había un joven, una señorita, un oficial mozo que no supiera y cantase de memoria el Misero Pargoleto». Comedia as a genre of opera reception of eighteenth-century Madrid

09:20 Multiple identities between imperialism and nationalism

09:40 Children’s Lyric Companies: European and American Tours During the Spanish Restoration (1874-1931)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

09:00 ‘Bilbao Song’: Exoticism and Modernism in the Basque Amateur Scene during the ‘Jazz Age’ (1920-1930)

09:20 Moresca and Sabir: Lost heritage of the Mediterranean Basin (remote)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

09:00 Plainchant in Nueva España: Liturgical Monody in Manuscripts from the Guatemalan Highlands

09:20 Open the book! Repertory building, theory teaching and further relationships of the Split cathedral in the early Eighteenth Century

09:40 Between the Mediterranean and the New World: Music and Devotional Practices for Saint Benedict the Moor
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

09:00 Introduction to Study Session - David Irving (ICREA & IMF, CSIC)

09:10 Individual Papers - Maria Alexandra Chua (UST Conservatory of Music)

10:30 Discussion Panel - Jen-yen Chen (National Taiwan University – Taiwan)

11:30 Final Discussion & Administrative Matters - David Irving (ICREA & IMF, CSIC)
09:00 - 12:00
Room: Aula 1
Contributions

09:00 Music and Mobility - Egberto Bermudez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

11:00 Organs and Organ Music between Europe and the Americas - Egberto Bermudez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

10:30 ‘Roman salutes’ and ethnic makeup in Clemente’s Fracassi’s Aida (1953)

10:50 A Nation at War: The Edition of Rigoletto’s Draft (1941) and Fascist Italy’s Struggle for Supremacy

11:10 Sounds of the Empire: Music Exoticism in 1930s Luce Films
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

10:30 The Tragedy of the (Musical) Commons: Addressing Issues in Orality and Ownership

10:50 Early Music as a Way of Life: From Heritage to Market through Artistic Creation

11:10 Performing an Early Mediterranean. Repertoires and Historicities
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

10:30 “Que sobre el canto llano se echassen otras voces”. The Repertoire of Polyphonic Introits in the Iberian Peninsula (16th-17th Centuries): Contexts, Sources, and Practices.
12:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
12:00 - 12:30
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

12:30 Music in Motion: On Music’s Mobility in French Musical Films of the 1940s (remote)

12:50 Spain and Its Music in the Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano (1960–1990): Identity, Resistance, and Cooperation

13:10 Classical Music on Portuguese National Television or how to democratize after the revolution (remote)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

12:30 Rhythm as cross-cultural embodiment and representation

12:50 Travelling Songs in the Fifteenth Century

13:10 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)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Saló de Graus "Enric Valor"
Contributions

12:30 La SEdeM al servicio de la musicología española: contribuciones y retos - Cristina Urchueguia (Universität Bern) Francisco Rodilla León (Universidad de Extremadura) John Griffiths (University of Melbourne - Australia) María José de la Torre Molina (Universidad de Málaga) Nieves Pascual León (Palau de la Música de València)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

12:30 Knowing the Other: Sounds and Music in Travelogues and the Reception of the Exotic - Paola Dessì (Università di Padova) Elena Murarotto (Università di Padova) Andrea Pintimalli (Università di Padova) Chiara Casarin (Università di Padova)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

12:30 Music and Dance in Transatlantic Circulation, 16th–20th Centuries - Alejandro Vera (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Javier Marín-López (Universidad de Jaén, España) Álvaro Torrente (Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Beatriz Martínez del Fresno (Universidad de Oviedo)
14:00 Lunch
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30

15:30

15:30 - 17:00
Room: Saló d'Actes "Manuel Sanchis Guarner"

18:00 IMS Award Ceremony
IMS Award Ceremony
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Sala Lucrecia Bori-

19:30 CONCERT - Los clásicos de Broadway (28 Festival de Jazz de València)
CONCERT - Los clásicos de Broadway (28 Festival de Jazz de València)
19:30 - 21:00
Room: Sala Iturbi
Saturday 12 July 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

09:00 Pre- and post-dramatic approaches in today's early Baroque opera productions in Europe

09:20 Heterogeneous Sounds and Cross-Cultural Soundscapes in East-West Dialogue: A Study of the Opera Marco Polo (1996–2024)

09:40 Satyagraha in Sound: The Intersection of Glass's Minimalism, Indian Colonial History, and Hindu Mythology (remote)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

09:00 Haydn and the 5-string Cello

09:20 Study of Lexicography and Musical Terminology of Ophicleide in the 19th Century

09:40 Transcultural instruments from Africa to Europe: a contribution to the cultural history of timpani
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

09:00 El orientalismo musical español como expresión de sexualidades no normativas a principios del siglo XX

09:20 Silencing the other. The prohibition of morisco rituals, sounds and processions in 16th century Kingdom of València

09:40 The Barber-Surgeons of the Brazilian Empire: Another Side of Slavery
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

09:00 Remapping València in the Festival Borderlands: Musical Repertoire and the Reconfiguration of the Everyday

09:20 Echoes of the Mare Nostrum: Sonic Performativities and Identity Encoding in the Soundspaces of the Crown of Aragon

09:40 Origins and spread of marching bands in Southern Italy (1800-1870): sources, practices, circulation.
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula 1
Contributions

09:00 Giovanni Bottesini (1821 – 1889): a Global Mediterranean Life
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

11:00 The 1580 Culture Quake in Spain

11:20 Questioning Connectivity and Chronology in Global Music History

11:40 Women Music Historians in Greece (19th–21st Century): Interconnections and Influences
Miscellaneous 4
Miscellaneous 4
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula 8
Contributions

11:00 Processos actuals de patrimonialització i folklorització en la música tradicional valenciana: dos casos d’estudi - Àlec Arribas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

11:20 Blown fifths, visual equidistance, and the genesis of Sundanese scales and modes in West Java, Indonesia

11:40 “As if he were not the same person”: Schenker on Casals as cellist, conductor, and businessman (remote)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

11:00 Misa Aguinaldo and the Villancico in the Philippines: Tracing Cultural Flows and Transculturation from the Mediterranean to the Far East

11:20 Musical epigraphies as historical musical sources. Museumization as a proposal for the heritage preservation of musical epigraphies
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula 1
Contributions

11:00 Redes de intercambio musical en la Hispanoamérica colonial (Musical Exchange Networks in Colonial Hispano-America) - Alberto Hurtado Giménez Giovanna Caruso Eluchans Gladys Andrea Zamora Pineda Javier Marín López Omar Morales Abril Álvaro Mota Medina
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 10
Contributions

12:30 Artists' Piano Rolls: Circulation and Exchange of Musical Repertoires in Spain at the Beginning of the 20th Century

12:50 Two Nineteenth-Century Modinha Songbooks from Brazil: Transatlantic Destinies
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula 7
Contributions

12:30 From Subversive Marginality to Hard-Right Populism: The Shifting Politics of “Arabesk” in Contemporary Turkey

12:50 In Pursuit of a Sound Future: Industriousness in Maltese Popular Songs of the 1970s
14:00 Lunch
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
18:30
18:30 - 20:00
Room: Aula 9
Contributions

18:30 The birth of the French Dauphin (1729) in the eastern Mediterranean: Dynastic festivals as multicultural festivities?

18:50 Muslim ambassadors in the theatre and music of the Spanish Golden Age. An applied research for a contemporary re-reading.

19:10 The emergence of the music press in France and the war of the first music periodicals

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