INTERNATIONAL FINAL
PICH Workshop
Madrid - July 8 and 9, 2025
What did a cathedral of the Ancien RégimeWhat was the function of the music in the development of ceremonialIn its symbolic dimension and in the sensorial experience of those who participated in it? How can we to reconstruct these practices today without reducing them to a simple musical repertoire?
These are some of the questions that articulate the international workshop organized in the framework of the research and development project " Interpretative internship in Spanish cathedrals (1563-1833)", a project that studies the links between ceremonial, space and musical internship through the analysis of cathedral sources such as directories, consuetas, ceremonial books or choir rules.
The meeting will bring together researchers from different fields -musicology, history of liturgy, architecture, programs of study on performance- to address, from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, the musical uses in the cathedrals of Europe and the Hispanic world. The sessions will deal with issues such as ritual normativity, sound specialization program , polyphonic improvisation, forms of transmission, liturgical dramatization and sound experience.
This workshop represents an opportunity to share approaches and methodologies in a field in full renewal, and to explore the possibilities of dialogue between historical research and current musical internship .
TUESDAY, JULY 8
09:30-10:00 - Institutional welcome
10:00-11:30 - Session 1: Ceremonial, rite and prescription.
→ David Andrés (Complutense University of Madrid): A ceremonial in a processional? The case of Juan Rincón's introduction in the 1562 Toledo processional.
→ Achille Davy-Rigaux (CNRS - IReMus). Les enseignements des cérémoniaux diocésains français pour la pratique musicale dans le cadre liturgique.
→ Simona Negruzzo (Università di Pavia - Università della Svizzera italiana di Lugano). Les cathédrales de l'État de Milan entre discipline tridentine et adaptation borroméenne.
11:30-12:00 - Break
12:00-13:30 - Session 2 Sound, space and experience.
→ Eduardo Carrero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). The voice of the place. Resonances of a church in time and space.
→ Linda Pearse (Mount Allison University, Sackville). 'Upon hearing the bells': Turk bells, sermons, processions, and a psalm against the Ottomans (1593-1606).
→ Sergi Zauner (Institut de Litúrgia ad instar facultatis-AUSP, Barcelona). The cathedral as a sonic experience.
13:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:30 Session 3: Interpretative internship . Sources and sound re-creation I
→ Paulo Estudante (Universidade de Coimbra). Polyphonic practices in the Completas in Portugal throughout the 16th and 17th centuries: from musical sources to normative documents.
→ Santiago Galán. From use to art: transformations in 17th century polyphonies according to Spanish treatises.
→ Philippe Canguilhem (Université de Tours. Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance [CESR]). Contrapunto concertado in Renaissance Spanish Cathedrals and the Renaissance of Improvised Counterpoint in Historical Performances Today: A State of the Art.
16:30-17:45 - Workshop discussion
WEDNESDAY, JULY 9
09:30-11:00 - Session 4 - Repertoire, genres and norms.
→ Albert Recasens (ICS, University of Navarra). Rito y re enactment: sources and musical practices in the cathedral of Palencia (1643-1751).
→ José Abreu (University of Coimbra). The internship of polychoral psalms in the Monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra (17th century).
→ Cristina Diego-Pacheco (Université de Lorraine). Normativity in the cathedral of Valladolid in the 16th century: the "mesa de cantores "of 1583 and the "report de ministriles" of 1584.
11:00-11:30 - Break
11:30-13:00 - Session 5 - interpretative internship . Sources and sound re-creation II
→ Gaëtan Naulleau. The Musical Dramaturgy of a Solemn Mass in Major French Churches (17th-18th Centuries): Instructions from Regulatory Texts and Insights from Experimental Practice.
→ Peter Bennett (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland). Liturgy, Space, and Performance in Louis XIII's France.
→ Drew Davies (Northwestern University). Manuel Sumaya and Timbre in New Spanish Cathedral Music.
13:00 Conclusions and farewell
Albert Recasens
Institute for Culture and Society
University of Navarra
David Andres
Complutense University of Madrid
Achille Davy-Rigaux
CNRS - IreMus
Simona Negruzzo
University of Pavia
University of Lugano (Italy)
Eduardo Carrero
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Linda Pearse
Mount Allison University, Sackville
Sergi Zauner
Institut de Litúrgia ad instar facultatis-AUSP, Barcelona, Spain.
Paulo Estudante
University of Coimbra
Santiago Galán
Philippe Canguilhem
University of Tours
Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance [CESR].
José Abreu
University of Coimbra
Cristina Diego-Pacheco
University of Lorraine
Gaëtan Naulleau
Peter Bennett
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Drew Davies
Northwestern University
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