Soundscapes of Histories Entwined: Food and Music 1400-1850

Programme

Banquets and Celebrations (i) 

Marco Vito – Il cibo e la musica. Un connubio diffuso in canti, banchetti, danze e ritmi medievali 

Rafal Hryszko – Tra confetti, musica e danza, ovvero la colazione rinascimentale come la più perfetta forma conviviale 

Oliver Doyle – «Per chi si dilecta di cantare»: Diet, the Voice, and the Humoral Implications of Music in Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Italy 

Camilla Cavicchi – Music and Ephemera in Messi Sbugo’s Banquets

Keynote Speaker 1 

Allen J. Grieco – Music, Food and the ‘Passions of the Soul’ in Ottaviano Rabasco’s «Il Convito» (1615)

Banquets and Celebrations (ii) 

Maria Sirago – Musica e cibo nelle ‘Posillicheate’ napoletane del Cinquecento e Seicento, le ‘feste marine’ vicereali

Galliano Ciliberti – Musica e banchetti nella società pontificia tra Cinquecento e Seicento

Literary Sources on Food and Music 

Sébastien Bujeaud – «L’iau pour la Muse et le vin pour le poüette»: Music, Drinks, and Food in Rouen in the First Half of the 17th Century, in the Poems of «La Muse Normande» by Ferrand 

Agata Meissner – «…ein wenig Citronen-Safft die Zunge viel besser delectiert»: Food as Source of Metaphors in the 18-Century German Writings on Music

Street Cries and Urban Soundscapes (i) 

Salih Demirtaş & Marie Helene Sauner Leroy – Sonic Heritages of an Ottoman Ritual Food: «Helva» 

Mark Seow – Spiritual Agriculture: Musical Listening as Farming in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany 

Jan Dewilde – «We must drink!»: The Social Appeal of Food and Drink in the Growth and Flourishing of Flemish/Belgian Male Voice Choirs (1750-1850)

Keynote Speaker 2 

Iain Fenlon – Obscured and Revealed: Sounds of the Table in Restoration London

Street Cries and Urban Soundscapes (ii) 

Ivana Jelača – «Music is the Best Accompaniment to any Feast because it Lifts the Spirit that Has Weakened with Abundant Food and Drink»: Junije Resti (1755-1814) 

Stephane Crayton – Good Garlic: Seventeenth-Century Characters, and the Ingredients of Berio’s Musical Processes

Diet and Treatises

Pedro Pecero Caballero & Manuel Gómez del Sol – The Art of Spanish Singers and Their Diet: Food and Drinks in Early Modern Hispanic Musical Treatises 

Magdalena Weber – «In mensa Musica et hospites ordinarii»: Monastic Table Music as Reflected in the Melk Priors’ Diaristic Records 17.30-18.30 

Diaries, Letters and Iconography

Jeanice Brooks – Dancing and Dining in the British Home 

Marta Salvatori & Matteo Fiorino – Profumi e suoni odeporici nei dipinti di Cristoforo Munari e nei versi di Lorenzo Magalotti

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