Crisis, creativity and the self, 1550-1700
Interdisciplinary study day, Institute of Musical Research, Senate House, University of London (room 261), Tuesday 14th May 2013, 10.00-17.30
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10.00 Tea/coffee, registration
10.30 Introduction: crisis and creativity in the long 17th century (Stephen Rose, Royal Holloway)
Session 1: Performing the self in religion, drama and music (chair: Deana Rankin)
11.00 Sounding rituals: music, confession and identity formation in Heidelberg around 1600 (Matthew Laube, Royal Holloway)
11.30 Performing the self in Anna of Denmark's court masques (Clare Whitehead, Queen Mary)
12.00 'Musicke doth witnesse call': Representing lies and truth in the English madrigal (Katherine Bank, Royal Holloway)
12.30 Lunch (supplied)
13.30 Keynote address: Early modern musical subjectivities, listening and embodiment (John Butt, Glasgow University)
Session 2: Crisis, creativity and the self in England 1650-1700 (chair: Stephen Rose)
14.30 A mid-century musical friendship: Silas Taylor and Matthew Locke (Alan Howard, University of East Anglia)
15.00 Ancients and moderns, physicians and cooks: perspectives on musical creativity from the Royal Society (Katherine Butler, University of Oxford)
15.30 Tea/coffee
Session 2 continued: Crisis, creativity and the self in England 1650-1700
16.00 Dennis & Eccles's Rinaldo and Armida (1698), and the cultural politics of adaptation in Williamite England (Michael Lee, Queen's University Belfast)
16.30 Celebrity and self: Restoration actors and their famous parts (Elaine McGirr, Royal Holloway)
17.00 Closing discussion
Convened by Stephen Rose ([log in to unmask])
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Supported by the Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway
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Dr Stephen Rose
Music Department
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham Surrey TW20 0EX
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