‘Per Aures ad Animum’ – The Harpsichord in the 16th Century II
Museo San Colombano – Tagliavini Collection, Genus Bononiae (Bologna), Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini, Genus Bononiae (Bologna)
in cooperation with
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Department of Musicology and Performance Studies and Department of Early Music), Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica (Bologna), HipER Musical Heritage
Bologna, 26 – 29 October 2023
Thursday, 26 October
14:00 – 16:00, Museo San Colombano
Opening
Introduction (Maria Luisa Baldassari / Augusta Campagne / Markus Grassl / Catalina Vicens)
Keynote Lecture
Ian Pritchard (Los Angeles): ‘Entrano sul Festin tutti d’accordo, Con un Luito in tuon dell’Arpicordo’: The Arpicordo in Early Modern Venice
16:30 – 18:00, Conservatorio di Musica
Papers
– Martin Kirnbauer (Basel):Why Build an Archicembalo? Attempt at a Response according to Nicola Vicentino
– Luigi Collarile (Basel): Nicola Vicentino, Inventor of New Chromatic-Enharmonic Keyboard Instruments
19:30 – 20:30, Museo San Colombano
Guided Tour
Guided tour of the 16th-century antique keyboard instruments of the Tagliavini Collection by the collection’s curator and artistic director, Catalina Vicens
Friday, 27 October
9:30 – 12:30, Museo San Colombano
Workshop
Maria Luisa Baldassari (Bologna), Augusta Campagne (Vienna), Catalina Vicens (Bologna): Sound and technique in 16th-century plucked keyboards
11:00 – 14:00, Museo San Colombano
Masterclass Fabio Antonio Falcone
11:00 – 14:00, Conservatorio di Musica
Masterclass Ian Pritchard
15:00 – 16:45, Museo San Colombano
Papers
– Vania Dal Maso (Verona): Bassi ostinati e formule ornamentali nell’Intabolatura nova di varie sorte de balli, Venezia 1551 (I-Bc R.178)
– Jane Hatter (Salt Lake City): Transgressive Skills: Musical Knowledge and Performance in the Self-Portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola
– Edoardo Bellotti (Rochester, NY): The Rhetoric of Invertible Counterpoint in the Sixteenth Century: Between Keyboard Pedagogy and Performance Practice
17:00 – 19:30, Museo San Colombano
Presentations
– Paola Erdas (Vicenza): Antonio Valente – Intavolatura de Cimbalo, Napoli 1576 on Rucellai Virginale and Sansevero Harpsichord
– Sébastien Wonner (Tours): Andrea Gabrieli and the Venetian Colorito
– Mario Aschauer (Houston): The Merulo Toccata in Codex Vienna, Minorite Convent 714
– Susanne Abed–Navandi (Vienna): Harpsichord Music by Marco Facoli (1588) as a Source of Inspiration for Performances at Standup Comedy Events of the 21st Century
Saturay, 28 October
9:30 – 12:30, Museo San Colombano
Workshop
Maria Luisa Baldassari (Bologna), Augusta Campagne (Vienna), Catalina Vicens (Bologna): Sound and technique in 16th-century plucked keyboards
11:00 – 14:00, Museo San Colombano
Masterclass Fabio Antonio Falcone
11:00 – 14:00, Conservatorio di Musica
Masterclass Ian Pritchard
15:30 – 17:15, Museo San Colombano
Papers
– Darryl Martin (Vemillion, SD): From Italy to England – the Changes to Italian Instruments Used by English Players
– Markus Grassl (Vienna): Stringed Keyboard Instruments at the Courts of the Austrian Habsburgs in the Sixteenth Century – the ‘Italian Perspective’
– Francesco Nocerino (Naples): Alessandro Fabri e I suoi allievi. Protagonisti dell’arte ‘de zimbararo’ a Napoli
17:30 – 18.30
Roundtable
Mario Aschauer, Maria Luisa Baldassari, Augusta Campagne, Markus Grassl, Brett Leighton, Ian Pritchard, Catalina Vicens
