CALL FOR PAPERS:
INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE
WOMEN AND MUSIC IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE
Queluz National Palace, Portugal July 2nd - 4th, 2021
Organization: DivinoSospiro – Centro de Estudos Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal
Scientific Committee:
Cristina Fernandes, Giuseppina Raggi, Iskrena Yordanova,
Ricardo Bernardes, José Camões, Francesco Cotticelli, Paologiovanni Maione
The 9thinternational conference at the Queluz National Palace organized by DS-CEMSP aimsto investigate the role of women in the musical and theatrical worlds of theearly modern age, with special reference to the 17th and 18th centuries.
Theatrical practices favouredopportunities and emancipation processes which played significant roles in theimagery of and the stage production themselves. It is equally important tomention the patronage and the encouragement given to the performing arts byfemale sovereigns and nobles, who intended to promote the dialogue and thereflection between different contexts. Differences can be found in theeducational methods, distinctions amid theory and practice or between theamateur and the professional milieu,yet they often merged to produce events destined to leave their mark onhistory.
The conference promotesresearch into the careers of women as impresarios, singers, actresses,composers, no matter how resounding their activity was in their heydays. Emphasisis also placed on their travels, contacts, and repertoires, and on thestrategies adopted by female patronage in order to support the organization(and the memory) of theatrical and musical events throughout the continent.
TOPICS:
- Female performers: singers,instrumentalists, dancers and impresarios. Their rolesand repertoires.
- Female composers, librettistsand choreographers.
- The feminine in music: women as subjects in the musical literature.
- Women as music and theatre patrons. Political uses of female musical patronage.
- The importance of music in the education of aristocratic and royal women.
- The female public.
- Women as music collectors.
- Women and music sociabilities.
Scholars are invited to submit individual proposals. Each paper shall notexceed 20 minutes. Session proposals will be accepted as well: a maximumof three or four papers will be taken into consideration, and the sessionshould not exceed 1h30.
A selection of the presentedpapers will be published in our book series Cadernos de Queluz byHollitzer Verlag (Vienna). (http://www.hollitzer.at/de/programm/uebersicht/programm/specula-spectacula.html?no_cache=1&cHash=a9c950cc42d1315a1187701f3685723c)
Official languages of theconference are Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, and French.
Abstracts in Word format (.doc), should not exceed 300 words. Please enclose in the same file a brief curriculum vitae of 150words max., providing your name and surname, postal address, e-mail andtelephone number, as well as your institutional affiliation. Please indicateto which topic your proposal belongs.
Deadline for sending abstracts is March 1st, 2021
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The scientific board willexamine all the abstracts by March 15th, 2021 andcontributors will be informed immediately thereafter.
Iskrena Yordanova
Director of research
Divino Sospiro
Centro de Estudos Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal
https://www.divinosospiro.org/cemsp.html
https://www.facebook.com/DIVINOSOSPIRO/
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