TITLE: «Sicut in coelo, et in terra»: Commissioning and Production 
of Sacred Music in Italy from the Middle Ages to Today

organized by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini 
Istituto Italiano di Musica Antica
Italian Institute for Applied Musicology
Palma Choralis Research Group

Virtual Conference, 6-8 October 2023

Website: https://www.luigiboccherini.org/2022/08/01/sicut-in-coelo-et-in-terra/ <https://www.luigiboccherini.org/2022/08/01/sicut-in-coelo-et-in-terra/>

Italian cities are full of cathedrals, collegiate churches, convents and monasteries. These ecclesiastical institutions are proof of a widespread propagation of the church from the Middle Ages to today, a diffusion rich in history and artistic and musical clients. The sacred music that accompanies liturgical life is therefore an extremely articulated and extensive phenomenon whose production has encompassed a variety of contexts over the centuries, both institutional (for example the musicians who served in the chapels, or the patronage of cardinals and ecclesiastics) and non-institutional (represented by courts, noble and bourgeois families linked to the clergy). Within these generic subdivisions, several other elements were inserted: the canonization of the saints, the sacred feasts, popular religious devotion, the musical production of the brotherhoods, and extra-liturgical sacred music. It was a variegated world rich in cultural stimuli that is too often interpretated by an analysis that relegates it to a subsidiary or secondary position with respect to melodrama or to “profane” music itself, which is wrongly considered to be the sole engine of an avant-garde language.
The aim of the conference is to investigate the multiple aspects of sacred music production in Italy from the Middle Ages to today, in order to create an overall and articulated picture not only of its composition and diffusion but above all of the cultural role it played in social life. The symposium is devoted to musicologists, musicians, liturgical historians and all those who want to contribute to providing an overall vision of the phenomenon, and the systems of commissioning and production of sacred music in Italy from the Middle Ages to today. The programme committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are also welcome:
The musical patronage of the popes and their contribution to the formation of a ceremonial
The cardinal’s commission and the role of music in artistic promotion
Ecclesiastical institutions and their role in music production
Religious orders and brotherhoods
The canonization of the saints
Motets, oratorios, sacred cantatas
The liturgical and musical libraries
Popular religiosity and music through processions and devotions
The analysis of the sacred feast and the role of music in specific ceremonials
The relationship between centres and peripheries in the diffusion and production of sacred music
The circulation of musicians among the various ecclesiastical institutions
Instrumental music, the use of the organ and the role of cantus firmus
The Palestrinian reception and the use of the “ancient style”
Keynote Speakers:

Galliano Ciliberti (Conservatorio ‘Nino Rota’, Monopoli)
Jeffrey Kurtzman (Washington University in St Louis)
Programme Committee:

Galliano Ciliberti (Conservatorio ‘Nino Rota’, Monopoli)
Roberto Illiano (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)
Marcello Mazzetti (University of Huddersfield UK, Istituto Italiano di Musica Antica, Palma Choralis)
Fulvia Morabito (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)
Massimiliano Sala (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)
Livio Ticli (University of Huddersfield UK, Istituto Italiano di Musica Antica, Palma Choralis)

The official languages of the conference are English, French, Italian and Spanish. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a miscellaneous volume.

All proposals should be submitted by email to <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> not later than Sunday 6 March 2023.

For any additional information, please contact:

Dr. Massimiliano Sala
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