European Voices III

The Instrumentation and Instrumentalization of Sound
Local Multipart Music Cultures and Politics in Europe

In commemoration of Gerlinde Haid

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013

Sound and Community

Venue:
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn-Saal

9:00 - 9:30 Opening Ceremony
Welcome Addresses:

Andrea Kleibel, Vice Rector for International and Public Relations
Ursula Hemetek, Director of the Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie

Introduction to the project: Ardian Ahmedaja

09:30 - 11:00Chair: Ursula Hemetek (Austria)
Keynote Address: Philip Bohlman (USA)
“But Glorious It Was” –
The Pilgrim’s Progress and the Musical Instrumentation of the Heavenly Host

11:00 - 11: 30 Coffee and Tea Break

Session I. Chair: Ardian Ahmedaja (Austria)
11:30 - 12:15 Thomas Nußbaumer (Austria)
The role of multipart music and sounds in Gerlinde Haid's conception of “Musica Alpina”

12:15 - 13:00 Ian Russell (UK)
The Performance Roles and Dynamics of a Christmas Carolling Traditionin the English Pennines

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Session II. Chair: Gerda Lechleitner (Austria)

14:30 - 15:15 Enrique Cámara de Landa (Spain)
Polyphonic arrangementsfor amonodic tradition: rituals and musical creativity in Soria today.

15:15 - 16:00 Susanne Ziegler (Germany)
Georgian polyphonic songs recorded in German prison camps 1916-1918 –
Examples of a shared musical tradition or haphazard polyphony?

16:00 - 16: 30 Coffee and Tea Break

Session III. Chair: Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann (Austria)
16:30 - 17:15 Jean-Jacques Castéret (France)
At the bottom of the ethnomusicologist’s bin:
Multipart singing and self-presentation strategies.

17:15 - 18:00 Ignazio Macchiarella (Italy)
It is a matter of amalgam. Constructions of sound images in multipart singing practices.

20:00 CONCERT
I sang a sonorous song at the edge of a sonorous forest
Folk and religious songs from Latvia

Venue:
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Haydn-Saal.
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien
No entrance fee.
Registration: krammer(at)mdw.ac.at
Tel. (+43-1) 711 55 42 01

 

SATURDAY, April 27, 2013

Performance as Instrumentation

Venue:
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn-Saal

Session IV. Chair: Ulrich Morgenstern (Austria
09:00 – 09:45 Žanna Pärtlas (Estonia)
The tuning and manner of singing as social markers in Seto multipart songs

09:45 – 10:30 Daiva Račiūnaitė-Vyčinienė (Lithuania)
Sound instrumentation in Lithuanian multipart music practice:
the relationship between the individual and the collective in music making processes.

10:30 - 11: 00 Coffee and Tea Break

Session V. Chair: Enrique Cámara de Landa (Spain)
11:00 – 11:45 Anda Beitāne (Latvia)
The sound of Medņeva: local multipart singing practice
as an instrument of identity in north-eastern Latvia.

11:45 – 12:30 Rudolf Pietsch (Austria)
Sound aspects caused by the formation of intentional and accidental multipartite instrumental music depicted by selected examples

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Session VI. Chair: Ian Russell (UK)
14:30 - 15:15 Lujza Tari (Hungary)
Multipart musical phenomena in Hungarian folk music

15:15 - 16:00 Speranţa Rădulescu (Romania)
I hear the drum, but I can’t see it!
The main accompanying instrument and its emblematic sound

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee and Tea Break

16:30 – 18:00 Chair: Ignazio Macchiarella (Italy)

FILM PRESENTATIONandDISCUSSION
The life of the song by Paolo Vinati (Italy)

Free evening

 

SUNDAY, April 28, 2013

Tradition, Revival, Practice

Venue:
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn-Saal

Session VII. Chair: Žanna Pärtlas (Estonia)
09:00 - 09:45 Bernard Garaj (Slovakia)
Towards the instrumentation of sound in a band consisting of string instruments and bagpipes

09:45 - 10:30 Ulrich Morgenstern (Austria)
Instrumentation and texture in European Folk Music revivals.
Sonic ideals, social settings, historical imaginations.

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 - 12:30 Chair: Philip Bohlman (USA)

Keynote Address: Walter Deutsch (Austria)
Traditionelle Mehrstimmigkeitsformen in Österreich
(Traditional forms of multipart music in Austria)

12:30 - 14:00 Closing Ceremony and Birthday Celebration for Walter Deutsch