Tuesday 18 August 2009

CFP: Parallels, Quarrels, Confrontations: Comparatism as a discursive strategy in 17th century writings on music (Sorbonne, Paris)

PARALLELS, QUARRELS, CONFRONTATIONS: COMPARATISM AS A DISCURSIVE STRATEGY IN 17TH CENTURY WRITINGS ON MUSIC
UNIVERSITY PARIS-SORBONNE & ATELIER D'E'TUDES OF THE CENTRE DE MUSIQUE BAROQUE DE VERSAILLES
10 - 12 DECEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The research group Patrimoines et Langages Musicaux of the University Paris-Sorbonne and the Atelier d'études of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles is organizing an international conference on the discursive strategies deployed in 17th century writings on music, which will take place 10-12 December 2009 in Paris and Versailles.

Proposed topics (unexhaustive list)

- issues of comparatism;
- strategies of legitimization and validation: appropriateness of models, establishment of canons and authorities;
- Identification of pairs and related issues;
. spatio-temporal criteria: Ancient and Modern, French and Italian, etc.
. cross-disciplinary criteria: music and architecture, music and mathematics, music and rhetoric, music and painting, etc.
- transformation into other pairs: Ancient / Modern ârt theorists / practitioners, etc.

Scientific committee:
Andre CHARRAK (Université de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne), Jean DURON (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles), Theodora Psychoyou (Université de Paris-Sorbonne), Rudolf Rasch (Universiteit Utrecht)

Contact: theodora.psychoyou at paris-sorbonne.fr

Detailed program forthcoming on website: www.plm.paris-sorbonne.fr/theorie1209.shtml

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