First Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music
September 15 - 20, 2010 Sardinia, Italy

Preliminary Program

Organization:
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Studi Storici Geografici e Artistici

In collaboration with
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
ISRE, Istituto Superiore Etnografico Regionale, Nuoro
Conservatorio di Musica “G.P. Palestrina”, Cagliari
ERSU, Ente Regionale Diritto allo Studio Universitario, Cagliari
Associazione Tenores - Sardegna

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

9:30 – 15:00
Registration

15:00 – 15:45
Opening Ceremony (Aula Magna)
Prof. Francesco Atzeni, Dipartimento degli Studi Storici Geografici e Artistici
Prof. Roberto Coroneo, Facoltà delle Lettere e Filosofia
Prof. Paolo Piquereddu, ISRE
dott. Daniela Noli, ERSU
Prof. Gabriella Artitzu, Conservatory of Music
Dr. Ardian Ahmedaja (ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music)

Welcome Music by A Tenore song group

16:00 - 18:00
Session I: Conceptualizations of Multipart Music Making
Rudolf M. Brandl (Austria), Enrique Càmara de Landa (Spain/Argentina), Francesco Giannattasio (Italy) Bernard Lortat-Jacob (France), Ignazio Macchiarella (Italy).

19:00 - 19:45 Film

20:00 – 21:00 Dinner

21:15 – 23:00 Teatro “Nanni Loy” : A Tenore song (organizer Sebastiano Pilosu)

Thursday, 16 September 2010

9:30- 11:00
SESSION II: Early sound documents of multipart music
Chair: Rudolf Brandl (Austria)
Susanne Ziegler (Germany): Multipart music practises in historical perspective: recording versus notation.
Gerda Lechleitner (Austria): Early sound documents of multipart music: concepts and historical context.
Nona Lomidze (Austria/Georgia): Early sound documents of multipart music: transcription and interpretation.

11:00- 11:30 Coffee and Tea break

11:30- 13:00
SESSION III. PANEL: Discussing Written Sources
Chair: Ignazio Macchiarella (Italy)
Vasco Zara (Italy): Ad Infinitum. Multipart Practices and Theological Discussion in Ars Nova Era.
Massimo Privitera (Italy): Polyphony as an Emblem of Concorde in Early Modern Europe.
Rossana Dalmonte (Italy): «As in the past and even more so today Music must Concern itself with People and God».
Girolamo Garofalo (Italy): Traces of Ison and Biphonies in Bizantin Chant of Sicilian Arbereshe.

13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:30
SESSION IV: Multipart Singing in Croatia
Chair: Ankica Petrović (USA/Croatia)
Jakša Primorac (Croatia): Traditional Multipart Singing in Croatia in the Past and Present.
Giuseppe Massimo Rizzo (Italy): Sopela's circular interplays (island of Krk, Croatia)
Joško Ćaleta (Croatia): Ojkanje - the (multipart) musical system of the Dalmatian Hinterland; the social and emotional dimensions of the performance practices.

16:30-17:00 Coffee and Tea break

17:00-18:30
SESSION V. PANEL: Language, Gender, and the Performance of Georgian Polyphonic Song Internationally.
Chair and organiser: Nino Tsitsishvili (Australia).
Lauren Ninoshvili (USA): Global circulatory routes and Georgian vocal aesthetics.
Alma Bejtullahu and Urša Šivic (Slovenia): Encountering Georgian Polyphony: History, Gender, and Interpretation in Georgian Singing in Slovenia.
Nino Tsitsishvili (Australia): Verbal Transparency and the Musical Sublime in the Gender Aesthetics of Georgian Polyphonic Song.

19:00-19:45 Film

20:00- 21:00 Dinner

21:15- 23:00 Teatro “Nanni Loy” : A Cuncordu (organizer Ignazio Macchiarella)

Friday, 17 September 2010
9:30- 11:00
SESSION VI: Multipart Music: Concepts and Structures (1)
Chair: Enrique Camara (Spain)
João Soeiro de Carvalho (Portugal/USA): Triads, trials and triangles: harmony singing, mobility and social structure in Mozambique.
Hugo Ferran (France): The conception of polyphonic pieces by the Maale of Southern Ethiopia.
Joseph Jordania (Australia/Georgia): Social Factor in Traditional Polyphony: Definition, Creation and Performance.

11:00- 11:30 Coffee and Tea break

11:30- 13:30 SESSION VII: Multipart Music: Concepts and Structures (2)
Chair: Ardian Ahmedaja (Austria)
Žanna Pärtlas (Estonia): Musical thinking and sonic realization in vocal heterophony. The case of wedding songs of Russian-Belarusian borderland’s tradition.
Jacques Bouët (France): Heterophony is not the degree zero of polyphony: plurivocality of Macedo-Roumanian gramochtenes (Dobrogea, Roumania)
Eno Koço (UK/Albania): Styles of the Iso-based Multipart Unaccompanied Singing (IMUS) of south Albania and north Epirus
Gerald Messner (Australia): The Reciprocity of Multipart Vocal Traditions and Socio-Cultural Structures.

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:30
SESSION VIII: Multipart Musics in Italy
Mauro Balma (Italy): Styles of chant and styles of life: synchronous changes in a village in the Alps (Cogne)
Fulvia Caruso (Italy): Multipart singing in Latera (VT): musical behaviour and sense of belonging.
Paolo Bravi (Italy): The dialectics of repetition and variation in the polyphonic accompaniment in the extemporary poetry of Southern Sardinia.

16:30- 17:00 Coffee and Tea break

17:00-18:30 BUSINESS MEETING

19:00-19:45 Film

20:00- 21:00 Dinner

21:15- 23:00 Teatro “Nanni Loy”: Launeddas (organizer Marco Lutzu)

Saturday, 18 September 2010
9:30- 11:30
SESSION IX. Panel: Pyrenees an emerging field
Chair and organiser: Jean-Jacques Castéret (France)
Jean-Jacques Castéret (France): Introduction
Jean-Christophe Maillard (France): Religious traditional polyphonies in the central Pyrenees.
Iris Gayete (Spain): Time logic of the “Vespres del Pirineu”.
Jaume Ayats (Spain): The lyrical rhythm that orders the world. How the rhythmic models build the ritual space in the religious chants of the Pyrenees and Corsica.
Jean-Jacques Castéret (France): Multipart lexicon and trans-historical approach in Pyrenean Gascony.

11:30- 12:00 Coffee and Tea break

12:00- 13:30
SESSION X: Aesthetics and Perceptions of Multipart Music
Chair: Žanna Pärtlas
Ankica Petrović (USA/Croatia): Controversy in the aesthetic perception of traditional polyphonic rural songs in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Milica Simic (Serbia): Multipart folk singing as an 'avant garde' phenomenon of Serbia's urban culture.
Daiva Račiūnaitė-Vyčinienė: Specific features in performing Lithuanian multipart songs sutartinės: singing as birdsong.

13:30-15:30 Lunch

15:30-17:30
SESSION XI: PANEL: Studies on the Variety of Multi-part Musics in Sardinia
Chair: Bernard Lortat-Jacob (France)
Sebastiano Pilosu (Italy): A Tenore Song and Villages' Representativeness: a comparison between Orgosolo and Bortigali.
Roberto Milleddu (Italy): Cale est su giustu (What is the right thing?) Notes on the Multi-Part Singing in Bosa (Sardinia)
Andrea Congia (Italy): Harmonization Processes and Leadership in Multi-Part Singing of the Orthodox Community of Marrubiu (Sardinia)
Marco Lutzu (Italy): Rediscovering a polyphonic tradition: the case of Nughedu San Nicolò (Sardinia)
Ignazio Murru (Italy): To Serve the Poetry. Relationships between Voices and Accordion in the Repentina (Oral Improvised Poetry of Sardinia)

17:30- 18:00 Coffee and Tea break

h 18:00–19:00 Final Discussion and Closing Ceremony

h 19:00-19:45 Film

h 20:00- 21:00 Dinner

h 21:15- 23:00 Teatro “Nanni Loy” : A chiterra (organizer Fabio Calzia)

Sunday, 19 September 2010
H 9:00 Departure to Orosei – Irgoli – Galtellì

H 16-22 Workshop on Multipart Singing with the participation of groupes from Centre-North Sardinia and Corsica.*
Organizer Sebastiano Pilosu

Monday, 20 September 2010
Orosei-Irgoli-Galtellì

H 10-12 ; 16-22 Workshop on Multipart Singing with the participation of gruopes from Centre-North Sardinia and Corsica.*
Organizer Sebastiano Pilosu

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Departure

* detailed program will be available as soon as possible. Thanks in advance to the local singers groups and to the Municipalities of Orosei, Irgoli and Galtellì for their support and hospitality

Website of the conference: www.multipartmusic.org

Contact:

Local organizer:
Ignazio Macchiarella (macchiarella@unica.it ; skype: ignazio.macchiarella)
Paolo Bravi (pa.bravi@tiscali.it) Marco Lutzu (mlutzu@livestudio.it) Sebastiano Pilosu (bustianeddu@yahoo.it) Diego Pani (thegiannies@tiscali.it)
Associazione Achentannos (info@achentannos.it - Maria or Laura)

Program: Ardian Ahmedaja (ahmedaja@mdw.ac).