Palermo, Steri Monumental Complex, 14–16 December 2023
Conference organized by the Department of Humanities of the University of Palermo in collaboration with the Italian Society of Musicology, under the patronage of the Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Programme: Thursday 14 December
Church of Sant’Antonio Abate
14:30 Institutional greetings
Massimo Midiri, Rector of the University of Palermo
Francesca Piazza, Director of the Department of Humanities
Alessia Cervini, Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Programme in Musicology and Performing Arts
Claudio Toscani, President of the Italian Society of Musicology
Palermo, Steri Monumental Complex, 14–16 December 2023
Conference organized by the Department of Humanities of the University of Palermo in collaboration with the Italian Society of Musicology, under the patronage of the Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Programme: Thursday 14 December
Church of Sant’Antonio Abate
14:30 Institutional greetings
Massimo Midiri, Rector of the University of Palermo
Francesca Piazza, Director of the Department of Humanities
Alessia Cervini, Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Programme in Musicology and Performing Arts
Claudio Toscani, President of the Italian Society of Musicology
Session 1 – Music and Political Power (chair: Lucio Tufano)
15:00 Keynote speech I: Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly (University of Oxford), Staging power, seeing power, hearing power
16:00 Simone Caputo (Sapienza University of Rome), Sounds, identity, and power in the Naples of Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna (1616–1620)
16:30 Anna Tedesco (University of Palermo), Changes of dynasties, continuity of musical taste in Palermo
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17:30 Galliano Ciliberti (Conservatory “Nino Rota” of Monopoli), Music in Neapolitan Baroque funeral rites: emotions, images, and power
18:00 Thierry Favier (Université de Poitiers), Music and politics in Malta: the festivals for the birth of the son of Louis XV, King of France (1730)
Friday 15 December
Sala delle Capriate
Session 2 – Patronage and Musical Taste (chair: Amalia Collisani)
09:30 Keynote speech II: Valeria De Lucca (University of Southampton), Music, theatre, and the power of the ephemeral
10:30 Maria Teresa Arfini (Roma Tre University), The court of the Gesualdo da Venosa family and instrumental music
11:00 Louise K. Stein (University of Michigan), Viceroy Carpio and opera’s ‘shameless liberty of women’
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12:00 Maria Rosa De Luca (University of Catania), «… under what revered shadow we should place the present drama». The beginnings of melodrama and the celebration of power in the city of the Almi Studi
12:30 José María Domínguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Cultural agitation and musical patronage in the Rome of the last Neapolitan pope (1727–1728)
lunch
Session 3 – Music and Religious Power (chair: Teresa M. Gialdroni)
14:30 Sergio Bonanzinga (University of Palermo), Catechetical strategies and musical practices of popular tradition in Sicily
15:00 Dinko Fabris (University of Basilicata), «Respondiendo luego toda la música de la capilla real … conforme el sólito». The role of the music of the royal chapel of Naples in the ceremonies of the Spanish Viceroyalty. A longue-durée reassessment
15:30 Angela Fiore (University of Messina), The archbishops of Naples: patronage, music, and the representation of power
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16:30 Marco D’Acunzo – Marina Lucia, «To solemnize the feast of the glorious Patriarch»: music in the Royal Congregation of San Giuseppe of the Work of Clothing the Naked in Naples in the eighteenth century
17:00 Fabio Ciulla – Fortunata Prinzivalli, A rediscovered archive: the Oratorians of Palermo and music
Church of Sant’Ignazio all’Olivella
20:45 Concert
From Naples to Palermo. Music in the Oratory of San Filippo Neri at the Olivella
Music by G. Veneziano, D. Perez, D. Cimarosa, G. Bertini, G. B. Pergolesi
Ensemble Antonio Il Verso, Arianna Art Ensemble
Conductor Fabio Ciulla
Saturday 16 December
Sala delle Capriate
Session 4 – Opera and Serenata (chair: Anna Tedesco)
09:00 Adriana De Feo (Austrian Academy of Sciences), An opera for Philip V of Spain: Il Giustino by Giulio Convò and Domenico Scarlatti (Naples 1703)
09:30 Margaret Butler (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Power on the southern Italian stage during ‘the century of women’: Marescalchi’s prints and the prima donna’s voice in 1780s Naples
10:00 Davide Pulvirenti (University of Rome Tor Vergata), In order not to offend «either the rights of sovereignty, or public decorum, or custom». Control and censorship on the Neapolitan stage (1779–1795)
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11:00 Paologiovanni Maione (Conservatory “San Pietro a Majella” of Naples), «Upon the waters of those delightful shores»: the Bay of Naples amplifies the glory of power
11:30 Ilaria Grippaudo (University of Palermo), L’Ercole gallico (Palermo 1704) between myth and the exaltation of power
12:00 Lucio Tufano (University of Palermo), Giovanni Baldanza and the Palermitan tradition of cantatas for the royals of Naples
Scientific Committee:
Teresa M. Gialdroni (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Ilaria Grippaudo (University of Palermo)
Paologiovanni Maione (Conservatory San Pietro a Majella of Naples)
Massimo Privitera (University of Palermo)
Anna Tedesco (University of Palermo)
Lucio Tufano (University of Palermo)
For information: convegno.musicaepotere@gmail.com
