Beginning in 15th century Italy, the polychoral musical performance practice and new compositional developments in church music required the modification of venerable churches and the integration of music spaces in new sacred buildings. This multifaceted change correlated with the rite and mass piety and enduringly affected the experience of liturgy and music. The most distinctive impact of this progress is epitomised by the installation of singer balconies and organ galleries on which top-class music ensembles and organists often performed and which served as stages for musical excellence. The permanent display of music advanced to become a core segment of sacred architecture while the potential of these spaces to promote identification becomes evident in numerous graffiti, as the singer pulpit in the Sistine Chapel in theVatican exemplifies.The conference explores the complex interdependencies between architecture, acoustics, musical performance practice and rite in the interdisciplinary discourse between musicology, art and architecture history. The congress is organised by the research project “CANTORIA. Music and Sacred Architecture”(Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) and the German Historical Institute in Rome (Department of Music History) in cooperation with the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and the Biblioteca Vallicelliana. A lecture-concert in Santa Maria in Vallicella with polychoral Roman church music of the 17th century will prove the interrelation of music, architecture and acoustics at an authentic space.
Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto, View of the Crossing and the Northern Transept of San Marco in Venice, 1766.
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
3.00 pm – 5.45 pm
Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Salone Borromini
3.00 pm Paola Paesano | Director of the Biblioteca Vallicelliana
Welcome
3.15 pm Klaus Pietschmann, Tobias C. Weißmann | Mainz
Introduction
I – Bases: Music, Liturgy, Architecture
Chair: Klaus Pietschmann, Tobias C. Weißmann | Mainz
3.30 pm Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort | Roma
Cantoria – coretto – palco? Zur Terminologie kirchenmusikalischer
Aufführungsorte in der Frühen Neuzeit
4.15 pm Jörg Bölling | Hildesheim
“ex qua omnes exemplum sumere debent”.
Zur vor- und nachtridentinischen Rezeption von
Liturgie, Musik und Architektur der “cappella papalis”
5.00 pm Joseph Clarke | Toronto
Clamours in Print: Theorizing Echo in Early Modern
Church Architecture
5.45 pm Aperitivo
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