International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance

A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO

11th Symposium: Program

Images of Music-Making and Cultural Exchange
between the East and the West

China Conservatory of Music / 中国音乐学院, Beijing

26–31 October 2012

 

 

Saturday, 27 October 2012

 

Room I

Room II

 

Opening

Liu Yong / 刘勇

 

9:00-9:30

Welcoming remarks

Zdravko Blažeković, Chair of the ICTM Study Group on the Iconography of the Performing Arts

Zhao Talimu / 赵塔里木, President of the China Conservatory of Music

 

9:30-10:00

Group photograph and tea break

 

Opening coordinates

Li Mei / 李玫

 

10:00-10:30

Zdravko Blažeković (City University of New York, The Graduate Center), The research of music iconography in the East and the West

 

10:30-11:00

Wang Zichu /王子初, The resources of Chinese music iconography

 

11:00-11:30

Antonio Baldassarre (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts), The “Western Orient” or Orientalizing the West: Visual discourses on the “Orient”

 

11:30-12:00

Huo Xuchu /霍旭初 (Xinjiang Qiuci Research Institute), Recent Discoveries of Ancient Musical Instrument in Xinjiang

 

12:00-12:30

Niu Longfei /牛龙菲 (陇 菲) (Lanzhou University), Sistrum

 

12:30-2:00

Lunch

 

Cross sections. I

Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek

Instruments. I

Luzia Rocha

2:00-2:30

Liu Yutong /刘宇统 (College of Music and Performing Arts, Yibin University, Sichuan), Three academic issues in music iconology in China: Direction, position and paths

Ingrid Furniss (Lafayette College, Easton, Pen.), Lutes, gender, and ethnicity in pre-modern Chinese history: The visual and textual evidence

2:30-3:00

Lin Guizhen /林桂榛 (Xuzhou Normal University, Jiangsu), A study of the variants and meanings of the Chinese character

Li Mei /李玫 (Chinese National Academy of Arts, Musical Research Institute, Beijing), Chinese adaptation of harps

3:00-3:30

Hon-Lun Helan Yang /楊漢倫 (Hong Kong Baptist University), Visualizing the soundscape of Chinese modernity

Beatriz Magalhães-Castro (University of Brasilia), The “guitar” in Ibero-American iconographic sources: Iconological and organological methodological problems as perspectives of meaning in globalized contexts

3:30-4:00

Li Rongyou /李荣有 (The Musical Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang), The connection of modern contents to traditional culture of Chinese music iconography

Ardian Ahmedaja (Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien), Lahutë images between symbolism and everyday practice

4:00-4:30

Break

 

Cross sections. II

Sylvain Perrot

 

4:30-5:00

Liu Yong / 刘勇 (China Conservatory of Music, Beijing), Could wall paintings provide reliable oconographic evidence?

 

5:00-5:30

Wang Ling / 王玲 (Yunnan University, Kunming & Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou), Images of music and dance on the Dai people’s Hinayana Buddhist mural paintings in Yunnan

 

5:30-6:00

Sergey A. Yatsenko (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) & Aleksey M. Kossykh (The Novgorod Center for Music Antiquities, Veliky Novgorod), Musicians in the art of medieval Novgorod and Pskov republics: Costumes and instruments (the 13th to 15th centuries)

 

6:00

Dinner

7:30

Theater performance / to be announced

 

 

Sunday, 28 October 2012

 

Room I

Room II

 

Missionaries

Ma Sheng-Mei

Instruments. II

Liu Yong / 刘勇

9:00-9:30

Jia Shubing / 贾抒冰 (Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing), Western music in High Qing China (1662–1795): An iconographic approach

Shen Yingying /申莹莹 (Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing), Drums of the New Stone Age

9:30-10:00

Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos & Jon Peruarena Arrehui (Universidad de Valladolid), The image of the East: Musical iconographies and the construcion of the historical discourse in the Museo Oriental of Valladolid

Wang Jinxuan / 王金旋 (Shanghai Conservatory), Shakuhachi in ancient visual sources

10:00-10:30

Luzia Rocha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), European visions of Chinese music—Chinese visions of European music: A Portuguese case study

Chen Anting /陈岸汀(China Conservatory of Music, Beijing), Performance practice on ancient Chinese pipa

10:30-11:00

Break

 

Asia. I

Ardian Ahmedaja

Tang dynasty / Armenia

Wang Xidan / 王希丹

11:00-11:30

Dorit M. Klebe (Universität der Künste, Berlin), Iconography and symbolism of the circle and its significance for cyclic structures in notation and performance of music and dance in parts of Eurasia since the seventeenth century

Chao Nancy Hao-Ming (Chin) / 趙琴 (皓明) (Taipei Municipal University of Education), The iconographic evidence for the Huxuan (胡旋舞) and Huteng (胡騰舞) of Central Asia during the Tang dynasty

11:30-12:00

Ş. Şehvar Beşiroğlu (Istanbul Technical University, Turkish Music State Conservatory, Istanbul), The çeng and the kanun as female symbolic figures in Mughal, Timurid, and Ottoman court paintings

Liang Mian / 梁勉 (Shaanxi Historical Museum, Xi’an), The scenes of music-making in the wall paintings of the Tang dynasty tombs in the Xi’an area and the cultural exchanges between the West and the East

12:00-12:30

Gabriela Currie (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Sounding images of self and other: Ilkhanid, Genovese, and Timurid intersections

Emma Petrosyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan), Theatrical events in the Armenian iconography

12:30-2:00

Lunch

 

Instruments. III

Beatriz Magalhães-Castro

Han dynasty. I

Ingrid Furniss

2:00-2:30

Wang Jun / 王军 (China Conservatory of Music, Beijing), The wall paintings at the Goddess Temple in Tian village in Fenyang, Shanxi province

An Qile /安其乐 (Inner Mongolia Institute of Arts, Huhhot), Music activities in the Sichuan province during the Han dynasty

2:30-3:00

Lee Mei-Yen / 李美燕 (National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan), The cultural significance and aesthetics of Chinese guqin iconography

Gu Xingli /顾兴立 (Graduate School, Chinese National Academy of Arts, Beijing), Evidence about the existence of the jian-drum dance during the Han dynasty

3:00-3:30

Veronika A. Meshkeris & Vladimir A.A. Mamonov (St. Petersburg), Chinese musical images in the painting of medieval Khulbuk (Tajikistan)

Guo Xuezhi /郭学智 (Huanghuai University, Zhumadian, Henan), Drums with knobs represented in the Han dynasty stone reliefs at Nanyang

3:30-4:00

Dorota Popławska (Warsaw), Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century woodcuts with musical depictions kept in Polish collections

Hu Yaofang /胡耀方(China Conservatory of Music, Beijing), Han dynasty stone reliefs discovered in southwestern Shandong province

4:00-4:30

Break

 

Celebrations and festivals / Popular music

Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos

Han dynasty. II

Wang Ling / 王玲

4:30-5:00

Candela Perpiñá García (Universitat de València), Urban festivals in 15th-century Valencia: A musical iconographic reconstruction

Wang Jie /汪洁 (School of Music, Hangzhou Normal University), The handkerchief dance represented in the Han dynasty carvings

5:00-5:30

Anna Valentini (Università degli Studi di Padova), The place for musicians in Ferrarese banquet scenes at the beginning of the 17th century

Ji Wei / 季 伟 (Research Center for Han Culture, Nanyang Normal University), Bronze bells in the Nanyang stone reliefs of Han dynasty

5:30-6:60

Nicola Bizzo (Università degli studi di Torino), The singles’ covers of Queen discography: The different approach to images in Asian countries

Zhang Feng / 张峰 (Shaoxing Arts School), Jian gu and its symbolism in Han stone carvings

6:00-6:30

Yang Yuanzheng / 杨元铮 (The University of Hong Kong), Portrait on the double ninth: A glimpse into the recirculation of twelfth-century literati music in eighteenth-century Yangzhou

Zheng Like/ 郑立克 (School of Music, Hangzhou Normal University), Analysis of the Han dynasty visual sources for instruments

7:00

Dinner

8:00

Performance of Chinese opera students from the China Conservatory

 

Monday, 29 October 2012

 

Room I

Room II

 

Intersections in modern art and music

Bruno Forment

 

9:00-9:30

Arabella Teniswood-Harvey (University of Tasmania, Hobart), Music and cross-cultural aesthetic exchange in late 19th- and early 20th-century Australian art

 

9:30-10:00

María De Los Remedios Vázquez González (Conservatorio Superior de Musica Eduardo Martinez Torner, Oviedo), Mongolian overtone singing Chinese & flamenco diphonic voice in the Spanish contemporary music: Iconography, notation, graphical analysis of the sound

 

10:00-10:30

Ma Sheng-Mei (Michigan State University), Big picture, big sound: Global media’s great wallpaper and Beethoven bug

 

10:30-11:00

Break

 

Music and social order

Zdravko Blažeković

 

11:00-11:30

Conrad L. Donakowski (Michigan State University, East Lansing), Platonic paradigm: Art and propaganda in philosophical and historical context

 

11:30-12:30

Keynote lecture: Richard Leppert (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), Music and Western social order (Ancient World and Early Modern World)

 

12:30-2:00

Lunch

 

Antiquity and Byzantine art

Colum P. Hourihane

 

2:00-2:30

Theodor E. Ulieriu-Rostás (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris & University of Bucharest), Negotiating Easterness: Auloi, contexts and cultural identity in Attic red-figure vase painting

 

2:30-3:00

Sylvain Perrot (École française d’Athènes), The iconography of the bells in the Greco-Roman world: A link between the West and the East?

 

3:00-3:30

K. Deniz Polat (Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM), Istanbul Technical University), Imagining fourth-century festive dances at the Hippodrome of Constantinople

 

3:30-4:00

Angeliki Liveri (Athens), Fulin dances—Byzantine dances: A lost painting of Li Gonglin and the iconography of dance in the Byzantine art

 

4:00-4:30

Break

 

Western theatrical visions of China

Antonio Baldassarre

 

 

4:30-5:00

Anna Mouat (University of Calgary), European perceptions of Chinese culture as depicted on the 18th-century opera-ballet stage

 

5:00-5:30

Olga Jesurum (Rome), Chinese imaginary in Galliari’s set designs for Italian operas at the end of the 18th century

 

5:30-6:00

Bruno Forment (Ghent University / Vrije Universiteit Brussels), Jumbo-sized artifacts of operatic practice: The opportunities and challenges of historical stage sets

 

6:00-6:30

Michael Saffle (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), From “Chin-Chin” to “Chu-Chin-Chow”: Re-inventing musical China on London and Broadway stages and screens, 1900–1940

 

7:00

Dinner

 

Tuesday, 30 October 2012

 

Room I

Room II

 

Databases then and new

Dorit M. Klebe

 

9:00-9:30

Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek (Instyt Muzykologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski), Images of music in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia

 

9:30-10:00

Colum P. Hourihane (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University), The iconography of music in The Index of Christian Art: Medieval art from early apostolic times to the end of the sixteenth century

 

10:00-10:30

Lin Yaxiu / 林雅琇 (Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing), The evidence about Buddhist music in Chinese cave murals

 

10:30-11:00

Dinner

 

Theater  and its venues

Jia Shubing / 贾抒冰

 

11:00-11:30

He Lina / 何丽娜 (China Conservatory of Music, Beijing), Dissemination of the Cantonese opera in the Guangxi province

 

11:30-12:00

Liu Qianyao /刘倩瑶 (China Conservatory of Music, Beijing), Sculptures on the Yuedong Assembly Hall in Baise city representing characters of the Cantonese opera

 

12:00-12:30

Christoph Klemmt (Orproject, Beijing), Anisotropia

 

12:30-2:00

Lunch

 

Asia. II

Ş. Şehvar Beşiroğlu

 

2:00-2:30

Martin Knust (University of Stockholm), Towards a social history of music in ancient Angkor: The iconography of music on the Bayon temple carvings

 

2:30-3:00

Gretel Schwoerer-Kohl (Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg), Images of Thai and Mon music making from the late 19th century preserved on the mural paintings of Wat Sai Arrirak in Central Thailand

 

3:00-3:30

Zulfiqar Ali (Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations, Quad-i-Azam University, Islamabad), Dance depictions in Hindu temples and Sikh shrines of Sindh, Pakistan

 

3:30-4:00

Ilnaz Rahbar (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran), The chordophones in Safavid miniatures

 

4:00-4:30

Break

 

Cross-polinations

 

4:30-5:00

Wang Xidan / 王希丹 (Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing), A comparative study of images of musical instruments and dance in the Koguryo tombs in Ji‘an and tomb murals of Central Plains of China

 

5:00-5:30

Xiao Wenpu /肖文朴 (Guangxi Art College, Nanning), Visual sources for music in Guangxi: Their range, forms and significance

 

5:30-6:30

ICTM Study Group on the Iconography of the Performing Arts general assembly

 

Closing remarks

Zdravko Blažeković

Liu Yong / 刘勇

Li Mei / 李玫

 

7:00

Farewell Dnner

 

Tuesday, 31 October 2012

Full-day excursion to Yungang grottoes near Datong.

The conference will be held at the Jingmin Hotel Beijing, where the participants can also stay for approximately 45 US$ per night (http://www.jingminhotel.com/enindex.htm). The registration fee for the conference is US$ 80 (for students with ID US$ 40) and it includes meals (lunch and dinner) during the conference and the excursion to Yuangang grottoes near Datong.