Music in Art: Iconography as a Source for Music History

The Ninth Conference of the Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY,

commemorating the 20th anniversary of death of the Austrian/American musicologist 

Emanuel Winternitz (1898-1983)

 

co-sponsored by the

Department of Musical Instruments of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

and

Austrian Cultural Forum New York

 

New York, 5–8 November 2003

 

The conference will commemorate Emanuel Winternitz (1898–1983), the Honorary President of the Répertoire International de Iconographie Musicale, long-time curator of the Department of Musical Instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and co-director of the Research Center for Music Iconography. Winternitz focused his research on musical instruments, their decorations, their function in various stylistic periods, and their symbolism in iconography. The year 2003 will mark the 60th anniversary of the first season of Winternitz’s’ innovative series of concerts for members of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring programs of early music played on original instruments, and the 20th anniversary of his death.

 

Preliminary Program

 

 

Wednesday, 5 November 2003

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

9:00-10:00

Registration

 

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

  10:00-12:30

 

Music symbolism in visual arts

Chair: Katherine Powers

Ellen Van Keer (Center Leo Apostel, Brussels Free University), The ancient Greek myth of Marsyas: The curse of the aulos and the blessing of mythological iconography

Mary Rasmussen (Durham, New Hampshire), Music, astrology, and the power of women: Some aspects of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish music iconography

Darja Koter (Akademija za Glasbo, Ljubljana), Turqueries and Chinoiseries with the symbols of music: Some examples from Slovenia

Jannet Ataeva (Rossijskij Institut Istorii Iskusstv, St. Petersburg), Iconography of musical instruments in St. Petersburg monumental and decorative sculpture
 

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

2:00-3:30

 

Emanuel Winternitz

Chair: Zdravko Blazekovic

Leslie Hansen Kopp (New York), Music forgotten and remembered: The life and times of Emanuel Winternitz

Heinz-Jürgen Winkler (Hindemith-Institut, Frankfurt am Main), Paul Hindemith, Emanuel Winternitz und Collegium Musicum

11 East 52nd Street

New York, NY 10022

 

 

 

 

7:00-8:30

 

Opening ceremony

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 6 November 2003

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

  9:00-11:00

 

Interrelatedness of music and visual arts in the 20th century

Chair: Dorothea Baumann

CUNY GC Room 9.204

9:00-1:00

 

Iberia and its influences

Chair: Antoni Pizà

Session sponsored by the 

Foundation for Iberian Music

Antonio Baldassarre (Universität Zürich), Kandinsky-Schoenberg connection reconsidered

Mauricio Molina (City University of New York Graduate School), The square drum as a semitic and messianic symbol in medieval Spanish iconography

Dujka Smoje (Université de Montréal, Faculté de Musique), «The Well-Tempered Clavier» in Jakob Weder’s painting

Egberto Bermudez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá), The harp in the Iberian countries and its dominions, 1550-1800: A view through iconography

Anno Mungen (Universität Mainz/Hochschule für Musik Köln), Music iconography of modernism: From the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany and beyond

Jordi Ballester (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Music in the 16th-century Catalan painting

Marin Marian Balasa (Institutul de Etnografie si Folclor Constantin Brailoiu, Bucharest), Money reading: A lesson about fatherland’s castrating terrors and motherland’s musical pleasures

Sara González Castrejón (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo), An Iconography of Chaos: Music images in seventeenth-century royal funerals in Spain

Break

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

 11:30-1:30

 

Angels and saints

Chair: H. Colin Slim

 

Barbara Russano Hanning (The City College, City University of New York), From saint to muse: Saint Cecilia in Florence

Anna Cazurra (Universitat de Barcelona), The woman and the music in the Catalan Modernism: A study of a painting collection by Ramon Casas in the Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona

Sabine Meine (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover), Caecilia without gloriole – Changing musical virtus

Aurelia Pesarrodona (Barcelona), Pictorial subjects in Josep Soler: Dürer and Murillo

Elena Ferrari Barassi (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Facoltà di Musicologia, Cremona), Two images of Saint Mary Magdalene in the church of Cusiano, Italy

Laurence Libin (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Music in paintings of Jose Campeche

Katherine Powers (California State University Fullerton), Music-making angels in Italian Renaissance painting: Symbolism and reality

 
 

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

2:30-6:00

 

Mexico

Chair: Egberto Bermudez

CUNY GC Room 9.204

2:30-6:00

 

Manuscript studies

Chair: Björn R. Tammen

Robert Starner (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Two Mexican bajones: Double reed iconography in rural Michoacán

Aygul Malkeyeva (New York), Mystical world of music in the Islamic miniatures

Maria Elena Santos (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Musical iconography in paintings of Cristobal de Villalpando

Andras Borgo (Innsbruck), Die Musikinstrumente Mirjams in mittelalterlichen hebräischen Darstellungen

José Antonio Robles Cahero (Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México), "Sones", "jarabes" and "fandangos": Images of popular dance and music in the visual narratives of 19th-century Mexican music iconography

Sarah Davies (New York University), "Ausgeschnitten und... in Braunschweig gehenfort": The lost engravings of the Hainhofer lutebook found

Break

Beatriz Zamorano Navarro (Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información de las Artes Plásticas, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México), Brush and harmony: From rural life to suburban popular music in the works of two 20th-century Mexican artists

Michael Eisenberg (City University of New York Graduate Center), Reading apocalyptic iconography in a trecento Bible

Mark Howell (City University of New York Graduate Center), Meanings behind the representations of pre-Columbian Mayan trumpets

Björn R. Tammen (Vienna), The sacred and the profane: Music in the margins of late-medieval Books of Hours

Luis Antonio Gómez (Centro Nacional de Investigación Documentación e Información Musical "Carlos Chávez" (CENIDIM) del INBA, México) & Ramiro Lafuente López (Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas (CUIB) de la UNAM, México), The analysis of musical iconography in Mixtec pre-Hispanic codices

Vladimir A. Belov (Rossijskij Institut Istorii Iskusstv, St. Petersburg), The illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter and the introduction of bowing in Western Europe

 

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

8:00-10:00

Iberian Piano Music and Its Influences

Adam Kent, piano

 

 

 

 

Friday, 7 November 2003

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

 9:00-11:00

 

Romanticism

Chair: Antonio Baldassarre

CUNY GC Room 9.204

9:00-11:00

 

Qin

Chair: Bo Lawergren

Theodor Albrecht (Kent State University), The musicians in Balthazar Wigand’s depiction of the performance of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Vienna, March 27, 1808

Bo Lawergren & Jung-Ping Yuan, Introduction to the qin (demonstration)

Anna Celenza (Michigan State University, East Lansing), Appropriating Beethoven: Musical imagery in the 1902 Klinger-Beethoven exhibition

Bo Lawergren (Hunter College, CUNY), Iconography of the Chinese Qin (400 BC–900 AD)

Nancy November (Victoria University, Wellington), Nineteenth-century visual ideologies of Haydn and the string quartet

Mingmei Yip (New York), Women qin players: Gentry women, courtesans, nuns

Charles Frederick Frantz (Conservatory of Music, Lawrenceville & Westminster Choir College, Princeton), "Le décor symbolique": Debussy, Gallé

Mitchell Clark (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Iconography of the Chinese seven-string zither in Japan and Korea

Break

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

11:30-1:30

 

Portraits of musicians

Chair: Anno Mungen

CUNY GC Room 9.204

11:30-12:30

 

Asia

Chair: Stephen Blum

Mariagrazia Carlone (Università di Pavia), Portraits of lutenists

Terry E. Miller (Kent State University), The uncertain evidence of Thai musical iconography

Mario Valente (UCLA Medical School), Disderi and the carte de visite photographs of Verdi

Veronika A. Meshkeris (Institute of History of Material Culture, RAN, St. Petersburg), Indian iconographic sources in musical archaeology of Middle and Central Asia

Florence Gétreau (Institut de Recherche sur le Patrimoine Musical en France, Paris), Romantic pianists in Paris: Musical images and musical literature

 

H. Colin Slim (University of California, Irvine), Identifying Joseph Weber's singer: Pinxit 1839"

 

Break

CUNY GC Elebash Recital Hall

2:30-6:00

 

Opera

Chair: Barbara Russano Hanning

CUNY GC Room 9.204

2:30-5:00

 

Visions of brass

Chair: Mary Rasmussen

Session sponsored by the 

Historic Brass Society

Olga Jesurum (Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, Parma), Romolo and Tancredi Liverani’s set design for Italian operas in the 19th century

Patrick Tröster (Historiches Museum Basel, Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung),Which kind of trumpet played the „menstrel de trompette" in Late Gothic alta bands?

Peter Beudert (School of Theatre Arts, University of Arizona), Visual art for entertainment in the 19th century: The painters of the Paris Opera

Jeffrey Kurtzman (Washington University, St. Louis), Information and lessons from the iconography of Venetian processions and ceremonies

Mathias Auclair & Pauline Girard (Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra/Bibliothèque Nationale de France), Iconographie du XXe à la Bibliothèque-musée de l’Opéra.

Trevor Herbert (Open University, UK), Selling Brass Instruments: the commercial imaging of brass instruments

Break

Tatjana Markovic (Fakultet Muzicke Umetnosti, Belgrade), Iconography as a sign: The case of stage-music semiosis about Koštana

Joseph S. Kaminski (Kent State University), The search for ivory trumpets in Africa and ancient Europe using iconography as an indicator for time and distribution

Marie-Claire Mussat (Université de Rennes), From picturesque to imaginary: An image of Brittany, an iconographic reference of diversification in the French opera of the 19th century

 

Dorothea Baumann (Universität Zurich), Drawings of musical space: What do they tell us about acoustics?  

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Uris Auditorium

 7:15-8:30

Music of the Middle Ages: East and West

John Thompson, qin

Yuan Jung-Ping, qin

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Trefoil ensemble, New York

 

Sponsored by The Amati: Friends of the Department of Musical Instruments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

Saturday, 8 November 2003

   

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Uris Auditorium

  10:00-12:00

 

Symbolism and reality of musical instruments I

Chair: Kenneth Moore

Li Youping (Research Center for Music Archaeology in China, Wuhan Conservatory of Music), Chinese musical images and musical iconography

Cristina Alexandrescu (Archäologisches Institut der Universität zu Köln), Iconography of musical instruments in the Roman times

Valery A. Svobodov (Rossijskij Institut Istorii Iskusstv, St. Petersburg), The evolution of three stringed fiddle into two-stringed rebec

Adam Gilbert (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland), "Tu demoures trop, Robin": Pastorelle pipes and carnal humor in Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Uris Auditorium

  1:30-3:30

 

Symbolism and reality of musical instruments II

Chair: Laurence Libin

Debra Pring (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Love, lust and betrayal: The recorder as symbol in the visual arts and music
Laura Mauri Vigevani (Università di Pavia, Dipartimento di Scienze Musicologiche e Paleografico-Filologiche, Facoltà di Musicologia di Cremona), Musical instruments in the Duchy of Milan: The Viboldone’s "sala della musica", a painted catalogue of the Sforza age

Susan E. Thompson (Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven), Hautboists in service to the crown and state as depicted in Dutch etchings and engravings, 1672-1702

Raoul Camus (Queensborough Community College, City University of New York), Military musicians in English and French prints

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Uris Auditorium

  4:00-6:00

 

Symbolism and reality of musical instruments III

Chair: Florence Gétreau

Herbert Heyde (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Festival instruments
Eleonora M. Beck (Lewis and Clark College, Portland), Justice and music in Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel frescoes

Donatella Melini (Cinisello Balsamo/Milano), Music iconography and museum: Courses and pedagogical principles at the Borgogna Museum in Vercelli (Italy) on Winternitz’s example

Stewart Pollens (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), The Golden Harpsichord of Michele Todini: Evolving perspectives

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 6:30-8:00

AN EVENING OF VICTORIAN PARLOUR MUSIC

The New York Victorian Consort 

Julia Grella, mezzo-soprano

Allan Atlas, English concertina

Francesco Izzo & David Cannata, piano

 

 

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