*XIII Jornades de Musicologia AVAMUS (Study Day)*

*Associació Valenciana de Musicologia*

The ornamentation of Liturgical Chant and the Mystery Play of Elche


Elx (Alacant, Spain). Centre Cultural de Les Clarisses. Passeig de les Eres
de Santa Llúcia, 14.



The art of melody ornamentation is a practice as old as the own liturgical
songs. However, this art was gradually banished from the late 19th Century
due the new guidelines established by Solesmes reformation. The target of
this study day is to reflect, guided by two specialists as Marcel Pérès and
Juan Carlos Asensio, on procedures and performing ways. These practices,
nowadays almost forgotten, have reached today in living testimonials like
Mystery Play of Elche.



The Study Day is scheduled in two phases: More theoretical at the morning
and another more practical through a round table and the performing by
singers of Mystery.



Marcel Pérès will talk on “The Ornamentation of Plainchant and Polyphony:
past, present and future”. The ornamentation was always at the core of
musical practice, although it was only made evident in the 19th Century
through aesthetic choices. In spite of problems on ornamentation have
reappeared as a musicological issue since 1970s with the revival of Baroque
music, the practice of ornamentation in chant plain and polyphony –both
Medieval and Renaissance– is still used hardly ever. Pérès will discuss
about different perspectives to approaching to the evolution of this
practice from the observation and study of some living traditions.



Juan Carlos Asensio in his speech “Lecciones olvidadas de ornamentación: *El
arte de canto llano *de Francisco Marcos y Navas (Madrid 1777) y la
práctica melódica de los seises de Todelo (siglos XV-XIX)” will focus on
the aspects of forgotten ornamentations and old practices from these two
examples that we will resume in the afternoon roundtable.



The afternoon session will try to combine theory and practice, so that will
discuss several aspects discussed previously with the collaboration of the
singers, who will interpret the settings: *Ternari*, *María*, *Ángel*,
*Araceli* and *Coronation* of the Mistery Play of Elche.



At the end, it will award III AVAMUS Musicology Prize, an honorary award
given by AVAMUS (Valencian Association of Musicology) every three years and
which recognizes the musicological trajectory of a scholar or institution
that has contributed to a significant diffusion of the Valencian musical
heritage.


More information:

www.avamus.org

avamus-at-hotmail-dot-com

http://avamus.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/D%C3%ADptic-AVAMUS-2017.pdf

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Ferran Escrivà Llorca

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