Sounds of Power
Sonic Court Rituals In- and Outside Europe in the 15th – 17th Centuries
Bern
17.-19.06.2021
Accessible Via Zoom: https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/j/65350706118
Meeting ID: 653 5070 6118
Thursday, 17 June 2021
Introduction & General Reflections
Chair: Cristina Urchueguía
14:00 Opening
(CET) Cristina Urchueguía
Margret Scharrer
A. Tül Demirbaş
14:15 Keynote: Sovereign Power and the Place of Pleasure: Musical Patronage in Mughal India, 1593–1707
Katherine Butler Schofield
15:00 What’s All This Noise? Exploring the Soundscapes of the Early Modern
Court: Chances and Challenges
Harriet Rudolph
15:30 Coffee break
Chair: Judith I. Haug
16:00 Sight and Sound of Power. Communication Strategies of Papal Rituals in Early
Modern Rome
Tobias C. Weißmann
16:30 “Cantiam vittoria, gaudio, honor, trionfo, e pace” – Die Sakralisierung Venedigs mittels der rappresentazioni (1570–1605)
Evelyn Korsch
Friday, 18 June 2021
Ottoman & Habsburg-Burgundian Court Cultures
Chair: Margret Scharrer
10:00 “Pour consideracion des bons et aggreables services”: dons, musiciens et communication politique à la cour de Bourgogne
(1404–1467)
Baptiste Rameau
10:30 Maximilian I and the Musical Experiences of Bianca Maria Sforza
Helen Coffey
11:00 Marian Devotion as Expression of Power. Aspects of Repertoire and Political Representation at the Court of Margaret of Austria
Daniel Tiemeyer
11:30 Lunch
Chair: A. Tül Demirbaş
13:30 Traces of Modern Ideas in the Music of the Ottoman Empire
Songül Karahasanoğlu & Süleyman Cabir Çıplak
14:00 The Expression of Awe during the Early Modern Ottoman Carnivals of Animals
Ido Ben-Ami
14:30 The Soundscape of Ottoman-Habsburg Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century
Gamze İlaslan
15:00 Coffee break
Chair: Margret Scharrer
15:30 Roundtable: Between Ottoman, Habsburg and Burgundy
Markus Koller
Cristina Urchueguía
Karolina Zgraja
Saturday, 19 June 2021
Other Cultures and Transfers
Chair: Judith I. Haug
09:30 Setúbal Soundscapes: Performing the Power of the House of Aveiro during Early Modern Portugal
Ana Cláudia Silveira
10:00 “Ein solcher Lärm ..” Der Klang auf den Hochzeiten des Spätmittelalters
Christof Paulus
10:30 Coffee break
Chair: Margret Scharrer
11:00 The Multi-Layered Soundscape of Charles V Entries in Spanish Cities
Esperanza Rodríguez-García
11:30 Die leisen Klänge der Macht – Das Rebecchino im Kunsthistorischen Museum in Wien
Thilo Hirsch & Marina Haiduk
12:00 Lunch
Chair: A. Tül Demirbaş
14:00 Sonorous Spaces of Splendour: Utilization of Sound in the Courtly Culture of the Safavid Empire in the 17th Century Isfahan
Zeynep Çavuşoğlu
14:30 Koreanische Hofmusik der Joseon-Dynastie zur Zeit von König Sejong (1418–1450)
Jieun Kim
15:00 Coffee break
Chair: Cristina Urchueguía
15:30 Imperial and Far-reaching: State Processional Music of 16th Century China
Joseph S. C. Lam
16:00 The Sound of Habsburg Power in Colonial Mexico: Ritual and Projection of Identity Throughout Music in Exequias and Other
Viceregal Events
Grayson Wagstaff
16:30 Coffee break
Chair: Songül Karahasanoğlu
17:00 Roundtable: Sound of Power, Sound of Cultures
François Picard
Wolfgang Behr
Britta Sweers