Music Building
In 1494 the two kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal, signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between them with the eventual blessing of Pope Julius II’s bull Ea quae pro bono pacis. These events paved the way for the continuous presence of the Spanish and Portuguese empires as colonial powers in the Americas until 1898, when Spain lost its last two colonies on the continent, Cuba and Puerto Rico. This symposium explores the dynamics of coloniality in Latin America through the lens of musical and aural practices that, regulated by a variety of imperial, religious, and civic institutions, played a significant role in shaping the ideologies that have affected everyday class, racial, and gender relations in the region for centuries. The Symposium will feature the work of graduate students Flora Giordani, Felipe Ledesma-Núñez, Cibele Moura, Lucas Recciteli, and Juan Patricio Saenz, along the latest research by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Colonial Ibero American music studies, including Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas (Mexico), Miriam Escudero (Cuba), Omar Morales Abril (Guatemala), Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell (Mexico), Álvaro Torrente (Spain), Alejandro Vera (Chile), and Leonardo Waisman (Argentina).
This symposium has been possible thanks to grants from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Provostial Fund for the Arts and the Humanities, and support from the Department of Music.
Schedule
Graduate Student Workshop
Moderator: Alejandro L. Madrid, Harvard University
8:30. Coffee and pastries
9:00. “Coya Huarmi.” Felipe Ledesma-Núñez, Harvard University
9:30. “Pious Ears: Listening to the Obscene on the Archives of the New Spain Inquisition.” Cibele Moura, Cornell University
10:00. “Tejeduras anacronísticas: On 18th-Century Mexican A Cappella Polyphony and its Archives.” Lucas Recciteli, Harvard University
10:30. “Methodological Proposal for a Critical Edition of the Mass of Potosí by Domenico Zipoli.” Flora Giordani, Harvard University
11:00. “Alfabeto, punto, and diapasón: The Guitar as an Instrument of Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century Iberia.” Juan Patricio Saenz, Harvard University
—Lunch Break—
Conference
Chair: Clara Viloria Hernández, Harvard University
2:00. “The 1580 Culture Quake in Spain.” Álvaro Torrente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2:30. “Tossed Salads and Gangster Stories: Gutiérrez de Padilla’s Jácaras.” Leonardo Waisman, CONICET (Argentina)
3:00. “Nahua Notions of the Sacred in Seventeenth-Century Christmas Villancicos.” Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas, Bowdoin College
3:30. “Itinerant Musicians in Colonial Lima (1663): Similarity and Difference as Means of Resistance.” Alejandro Vera, Universidad Católica de Chile
—Break—
Chair: Kate van Orden, Harvard University
4:30. “Celebration and Liturgy in the Cathedrals of Havana and Santiago de Cuba. Reconstruction of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Musical Practice.” Miriam Escudero, Colegio Universitario San Gerónimo de La Habana, Universidad de La Habana
5:00. “Transmisión oral de repertorio escrito: dos tonos de Miguel de Riva Pastor (floruit 1681-1711).” Omar Morales-Abril, CENIDIM (Mexico)
5:30. “Music, Reason, and the Writing of the Body in New Spain.” Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell, University of Oregon
We invite you to join us after the conclusion of the symposium for a performance by Christoph Wolff Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Tembembe Ensamble Continuo.