De Canciones y Cancioneros
Music and Literary Sources of the Luso-Hispanic Song Tradition
Princeton University
Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall
April 7-8, 2018
Saturday, April 7
8:00-8:30am Coffee and continental breakfast
8:30-8:45am Opening remarks
Ireri E. Chávez Bárcenas (Princeton University)
8:45-10:15am Authority and Agency in Spanish Cancioneros
Sophia Blea Núñez (Princeton University), chair
- Carlos Roberto Ramírez (Cornell University), “Ciphering Song, De-ciphering Identity: the Libro de Cifra Nueva (1557), the transmission of song, and the creation of identities in Early Modern Spain”
- Daniel Hartnett (Kenyon College), “Cancioneros as Technology: Literary Social Networks at the Court of Juan II”
- Víctor Sierra Matute (University of Pennsylvania), “Publishers Against Performance: The Case of Quarta, Quinta y Sexta Parte de Flor de Romances”
10:15-10:30am Coffee Break
10:30-12:00pm Allegories of Sound and Song
Mia Prensky (Princeton University), chair
- Lorena Uribe Bracho (City Colleges of Chicago), “Orphans of Orpheus: Poetry’s Return to Music”
- John Fleming (Princeton University), “The Many Musics of Luís de Camões”
- Andrew Cashner (University of Rochester), “Christ as Singer and Song: Poetry, Music, and the Divine Word in Seventeenth-Century Villancicos”
12:00-1:00pm Lunch for registered participants
1:00-2:30pm Crossings and Circulation
Ireri E. Chávez Bárcenas (Princeton University), chair
- Elizabeth G. Elmi (Indiana University), “Intersections of Musical and Poetic Practice in the Spanish and Neapolitan Song Traditions of Aragonese Naples”
- Rachel Carpentier (Boston University), “Never was there greater fame: the international life of a Spanish song”
- Bernadette Nelson (CESEM-FCSH/Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; Wolfson College, Oxford), “Literary Evidence for the Circulation of ‘Spanish Court’ Songs in Portugal, c. 1480-c. 1530”
2:30-2:45pm Coffee Break
2:45-3:45pm Unwritten Music
Sean B. McFadden (Princeton University), chair
- Yoel Castillo Botello (Georgetown University), “Reading Music in Cervantes’s Entremeses”
- Rui Araújo (CESEM-FCSH/Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and Nuno Mendonça Raimundo (CESEM-FCSH/Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), “A thorough analysis of the improvisatory models of the songs of Luis Milán and their applicability in the reconstitution of vihuela accompaniment parts”
4:00-5:30pm Keynote Address
Tess Knighton (ICREA / Institució Milà i Fontanals–CSIC, Spain)
“‘For whom are sweet songs set to music?’ Women as performers of and listeners to the cancionero repertory”
8:30pm Concert “Vaya de Fiesta”
Eduardo Egüez and Nell Snaidas, with the participation of Early Music Princeton
Tickets are required for this concert at University Ticketing
Sunday, April 8
8:00-8:30am Coffee and continental breakfast
8:30-10:00am Courtly Contexts
Marcel Camprubí (Princeton University), chair
- Ignacio López Alemany (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro), “Early Modern Vihuelists and the Courtly Performance of Poetry”
- Lluís B. Polanco-Roig (University of València), “The unusual blend of the Triumphus: Music, chivalry and Cancionero courtesan invenciones within the humanist Latin chronicle on the 1481 royal entry of the Catholic Monarchs in Valencia”
- Nuno Mendonça Raimundo (CESEM-FCSH/Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), “The Cancioneiro de Paris and the emergence of a declamatory song repertory under John III of Portugal”
10:00-10:15am Coffee Break
10:15-12:15pm Women’s Voice in Seventeenth-Century Villancicos
Nadia Cervantes Pérez (Princeton University), chair
- Álvaro Torrente (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), “Two-hundred Poems of (Divine) Love for a Cloistered Muse”
- Nicole D. Legnani (Princeton University), “Voicing Neuter in the Portraiture Poems: Deixis and the Third-person Lyric Voice of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”
- Martha Lilia Tenorio (El Colegio de México, Mexico), “Sor Juana’s Voice in her Villancicos”
12:15-12:30pm Closing remarks
Sophia Blea Núñez (Princeton University)