Sacred Music in the Habsburg Empire 1619–1740 and Its Contexts (Utrecht)

SACRED MUSIC IN THE HABSBURG EMPIRE 1619-1740 AND ITS CONTEXTS

ROOSEVELT ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT

MIDDELBURG, THE NETHERLANDS

5 - 8 NOVEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sacred music at the Austrian Habsburg courts existed within a complex environment in which liturgy, theology, literature, art, architecture, and politics were tightly interwoven. Also as a cultural export product at the borders of the Empire, such as Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary and the Low Countries, this music interacted – positively or negatively – with local traditions. The symposium seeks to explore this cross-disciplinary interaction for the period from the beginning of the reign of Ferdinand II (1619) to the death of Charles VI (1740).

The sessions will be held over two days and will take place in the attractive surroundings of Middelburg’s late medieval town hall. Limited grants towards travel and subsistence may be available for younger scholars, those without university affiliation, and scholars from Central and Eastern Europe. Selected contributions will be published in a volume of proceedings.

Proposals are invited for

- individual papers of 20 minutes duration (followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion).

- round-table sessions of up to two hours (three or four papers) including discussion.

Individuals may submit one proposal in the form of

- an abstract of not more than 250 words (individual papers).

- a summary of not more than 250 words and abstracts of up to 250 words for each participant (round-table sessions).

Abstracts and papers may be written/presented in English or German.

Acceptance of a proposal will be at the discretion of the programme committee. The abstract should be preceded by the name, institution, postal address, phone no., and email address of the author and may be submitted electronically (plain text, MS Word, RTF) to Tassilo Erhardt (t.erhardt at roac.nl).

The deadline for proposal submission is 15 April 2009.

Programme committee:

Herbert Seifert, Steven Saunders, Robert Rawson, Tassilo Erhardt

For further information please contact:

Dr. Tassilo Erhardt

Email: t.erhardt at roac.nl

Link: http://www.roac.nl/roac/habsburgmusic.phtml

Deadline: 15 Apr 2009

CFP: Music, Plantation and Migration International Symposium (Dublin)

MUSIC, PLANTATION AND MIGRATION
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
DIT, DUBLIN, IRELAND
25 APRIL 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in association with The Department of Music, NUI Maynooth, UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and The Society for Musicology in Ireland

The legislation which resulted in the plantation of Ulster was passed in 1609 and this important event in Irish history is being marked by an exploration of the exchange of music and musicians between Ireland and Britain in the period 1600–1750 and how the story of plantation and migration has been recorded in Irish traditional music of this time and later periods.

The symposium will be held in DIT Kevin Street on Saturday 25 April 2009 and will be followed by the launch of the tenth volume of Irish Musical Studies: Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century (Barra Boydell & Kerry Houston editors).

We invite papers from writers reflecting on topics including:

• Irish and English musical culture of the time (including music at the Court of James I)
• Musical and cultural exchanges between Ireland and Scotland
• The recording of the events of plantation and migration in Irish traditional music
• The aftermath of the Plantation of Ulster and its impact on the musical and cultural life of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland
• Sacred music in Ireland and Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Abstracts of around 300 words for papers of 20 minutes should be sent to Kerry Houston, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Rathmines Road, Dublin 6 (kerry..houston@dit.ie) by Wednesday 11 March 2009. We will consider group proposals and lecture recital proposals.

Symposium committee: Barra Boydell (NUIM), David Connolly (DIT), Marian Deasy (DIT), Kerry Houston (DIT), Helen Lyons (DKIT/UCD), Adrian Scahill (NUIM) and Eamon Sweeney (DIT).

CFP: Sacred Music in the Habsburg Empire 1619-1740 and Its Contexts, Middelburg (Utrecht)

SACRED MUSIC IN THE HABSBURG EMPIRE 1619-1740 AND ITS CONTEXTS
ROOSEVELT ACADEMY (UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT), MIDDLEBURG, THE NETHERLANDS
5 - 8 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Sacred music at the Austrian Habsburg courts existed within a complex environment in which liturgy, theology, literature, art, architecture, and politics were tightly interwoven. Also as a cultural export product at the borders of the Empire, such as Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary and the Low Countries, this music interacted – positively or negatively – with local traditions. The symposium seeks to explore this cross-disciplinary interaction for the period from the beginning of the reign of Ferdinand II (1619) to the death of Charles VI (1740).

The sessions will be held over two days and will take place in the attractive surroundings of Middelburg’s late medieval town hall. Limited grants towards travel and subsistence may be available for younger scholars, those without university affiliation, and scholars from Central and Eastern Europe. Selected contributions will be published in a volume of proceedings.

Proposals are invited for:
- individual papers of 20 minutes duration (followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion).
- round-table sessions of up to two hours (three or four papers) including discussion.

Individuals may submit one proposal in the form of:
- an abstract of not more than 250 words (individual papers).
- a summary of not more than 250 words and abstracts of up to 250 words for each participant (round-table sessions).

Abstracts and papers may be written/presented in English or German.

Acceptance of a proposal will be at the discretion of the programme committee. The abstract should be preceded by the name, institution, postal address, phone no., and email address of the author and may be submitted electronically (plain text, MS Word, RTF) to Tassilo Erhardt (t.erhardt at roac.nl).

The deadline for proposal submission is 15 April 2009.

Programme committee:
Herbert Seifert, Steven Saunders, Robert Rawson, Tassilo Erhardt

For further information please contact:
Dr. Tassilo Erhardt
Email: t.erhardt [at] roac.nl