Mediterranean Music Conference

VENERDI 30 OTTOBRE 2026

17:00 – 18:00 | Saluti istituzionali e apertura del convegno

Ferdinando Mirizzi, delegato del Rettore · Osservatorio di Antropologia del Mediterraneo, Università della Basilicata

Francesca Sogliani, delegata del Direttore · Osservatorio di Archeologia del Mediterraneo, Università della Basilicata

Antonio Nicoletti · Sindaco di Matera

Rita Orlando · Direttrice Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019

Luca Aversano · Università Roma Tre / Presidente Associazione Docenti Universitari Italiani di Musica

Philippe Vendrix · CNRS, Ricercarlab-CESR, Tours – Echoes of EarlyMuse: Perspectives on Musicology in Europe
Dinko Fabris · Università della Basilicata — Maria Rosa De Luca · Università di Catania — Vania Cauzillo · Università della Basilicata / RESEO
An Observatory on Mediterranean Musics: Introduction to the Conference
Kate van Orden · Harvard University / President of the International Musicological Society
Ten years of Seachanges

18:00 – 19:00 | Keynote 1: Iain Fenlon (· em. King’s College Cambridge), Mapping the Territory: Mediterranean Encounters in the Age of Braudel

19:30 – Concert at Ecoverticale Il più bel fiore
Musica per corde pizzicate e battute nella Napoli del primo ‘600
Brani di Andrea Falconieri, Girolamo Montesardo, G. B. Abbatessa, Foriano Pico e anonimi
Luca Tarantino, archlute and Spanish guitar

SABATO 31 OTTOBRE 2026

09:00 – 11:30 | Sessioni Mattutine 1: Free Papers 1 (Immaginari adriatici, esilio) / Panel 1 – Music of the Christian East and Orient (Canto bizantino, medicina, rituali).
Chair: Andrea Bombi · Universitat de València

Tamara Jurkić Sviben · University of Zagreb
A Mediterranean Sonic Imaginary in Bruno Bjelinski’s
Mediteranska sinfonietta

Yevgeniya Ignatenko · National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv Byzantinoslavica: Ukraine and the Mediterranean Musical World

Ferran Escrivà-Llorca · Universitat de València
Listening to Processions of Redeemed Captives:
Phonosphere, Memories and Source Genres (Valencia, Livorno, Naples, 16th–18th Centuries)

Mariana Portas de Freitas · INET-md / FCSH Universidade
Nova de Lisboa
The «villancico» in Spanish music theory of the 17th–18th centuries: introducing new triple divisions in binary mensurations («proporción menor», «sexquialtera menor») to characterize an extra-liturgical genre of art music with popular resonance

Sara Navarro Lalanda · Università Roma Tre
Music Fellows at the Spanish Academy in Rome: Cleto Zabala (1878–1883) as an Institutional Case Study

Lívia Oliveira Itaborahy · Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil
Listening to Exile: Mercedes Sosa, Madrid, and the Territorial Meaning of a Singing Voice

12:00 – 13:30 | Sessioni Mattutine 2: Panel 2 (1st part) – Music in the Muslim Worlds (Archivi coloniali, rituali Zār) / Free Papers 2 (Opera adriatica, lamento politico, devozione campana). Chair: Salvatore Morra · University of Cambridge

Salvatore Morra · University of Cambridge
Re-Orientating Ethnographies of Sound in Libya 1939
Kawkab Tawfik · Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Cairo
Singing Slavery: Oral Memory and African Histories in the Egyptian Zār Repertoire
Giovanni De Zorzi · Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
Musical scenes from the courts of Samarkand, Herat, Constantinople and Khiva between the 16th and 19th centuries

14:30 – 17:00 | Sessioni Pomeridiane: Panel 3 – Early African Sound Worlds (Diplomazia afro-europea, inni post-coloniali) / Free Papers 3 (Musica greca, polifonia araba) / Panel 2 (2nd part) – Music in the Muslim Worlds (Archivi coloniali, rituali Zār)

INTRODUCTION / BOOK PRESENTATION
Camilla Cavicchi and Janie Cole (eds.)
Music in Africa and its Diffusion in the Early Modern World (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2027) Chair: Camilla Cavicchi · CESR, CNRS – Université de Tours

Gabriela Currie · University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Imaging Sounds and Mapping the Worlds of the Mediterranean: The Cocharelli Codex

Paola Dessì · Università di Padova
Woman, Prostitute, and Saint: The Blackness of Mary of Egypt in the Fourteenth-Century Liturgical Office

Janie Cole · University of Connecticut
Music and Afro-European Diplomacy: Kongo in the Early Modern Dutch Atlantic World

Elena Murarotto · Università di Padova
Listening to Egypt: Giuseppe Forni and the Case of the “European Ear”

Lethiwe Zondo · University of South Africa (UNISA)
From Displacement to Dissonance: National Anthems as Tools of Epistemic Violence in the Post-Colonial African State

DOMENICA 1 NOVEMBRE 2026

09:30 – 11:00 | Panel 4 · IMS Study Group
Mediterranean Music Studies / subgroup Circulation of Opera

Maria Rosa De Luca · Università di Catania — Dinko Fabris · Università della Basilicata

Introduction

Marco Bizzarini · Università Federico II, Napoli — Paul Atkin · Teatro San Cassiano
Reconstructing the Teatro San Cassiano of 1637: Between Historical Performance and Sustainable Musicology
Kostas Kardamis · Ionian University, Corfu
Alexandros Grek’s operetta Myriella. A Mediterranean synthesis in Alexandria (1932)
Avra Xepapadakou · University of Nicosia
“Opera in the Greek Tongue”: The First Greek Opera Company

11:05
Free Papers 4 · Part 1
Chair: Kate van Orden · Harvard University

Tetiana Martyniuk · Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav
To the problem of modeling Italian-Ukrainian intercultural interaction in the context of Mediterranean musical culture

11:30
María José de la Torre Molina · Universidad de Málaga
From Naples to Málaga: Music, Ceremonial, and Royal Mourning after the Death of Charles III (1789)

AULA MAGNA · 12:00 PM · ROUND TABLE

Towards an Inter-university Observatory on Mediterranean Music
Daniela Castaldo (Università del Salento) · Maria Rosa De Luca (Università di Catania) · Dinko Fabris (Università della
Basilicata) · Fabrizio Festa (Conservatorio di Matera / Politecnico di Bari) · Kostas Kardamis (Ionian University, Corfu) ·
Salvatore Morra (University of Cambridge) · María José de la Torre Molina (Universidad de Málaga)
Open to all conference participants

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