Conference Programme

The ICHKM Conference 1 - 3 July 2011
Music, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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1st International Conference on Historical Keyboard Music: Full Timetable

Friday 1st July

1500-1700

Registration opens (St Cecilia's Hall)

1700-1745

Tour of St Cecilia's Collection

1800-1900

Organ recital in the Reid Concert Hall: John Kitchen

1900-

Informal event

Saturday 2nd July
0900-1100 Session 1a: Keyboard instruments ineighteenth-century Vienna and beyond (Alison House: Lecture Room A)
Chair: Thomas Tolley
Session 1b: Organs, carillons, and their musicin the eighteenth century (Alison House: Lecture Room B)
Chair: John Kitchen
Sesssion 1c: Questions of style and influence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Alison House: Faculty Room)
Chair: Nancy Lee Harper
Luk Vaes (Royal Conservatory, The Hague) Octave glissandos in the piano part of Haydn's trio Hob. XV:27: an unsuspected performance technique helps determining the appropriate instrument Peter Strauven (Catholic University of Louvain) Eighteenth-Century Organists in the Southern Netherlands: Interaction between Instruments and Repertoire Ki Tak Katherine Wong (Hong Kong) The Left Hand Techniques in Carl Czerny's Piano Pedagogical Works
Robin Blanton (University of Gothenburg) Exhibiting to an "Enlightened Public": Johann Andreas Stein's Musical Inventions and the Public Sphere Carl Van Eyndhoven (Lemmensinstituut) 'In playing those bells, his amazing dexterity raised my wonder much higher': performance practice by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century carilloneurs João Pedro d'Alvarenga (CESEM, FCSH-UNL/University of Évora) Carlos Seixas's Keyboard Concerto in G Minor: An Essay in Style Analysis and Authorship Attribution
Tilman Skowroneck and Andrew Pinnock (University of Southampton) Grand and Grander: Economic sidelights on piano design and piano salesmanship in early nineteenth century Vienna João Vaz (CITAR / Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa / Universidade Católica Portuguesa) Dynamics and Orchestral Effects in late Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Organ Music: The Works of José Marques e Silva (1782-1837) and the Organs of António Xavier Machado e Cerveira (1756-1828) Vanda de Sá (Universidade de Évora) The influence of the viola and the Portuguese guitar in local keyboard repertoires during the Reign of D. Maria I (1777-1816): modinhas, minuets and dance like rhythms
Tilman Skowroneck (University of Southampton) Andreas Streicher and piano building: users, distributors and invention Sarah Davies (Pocono Pines, PA) 'It's Not Necessary!': Johann Schnetzler and Changing Attitudes toward the Organ in Reformed and Anglican Worship
1100-1130 Refreshments
1130-1230 Lecture 1: Christine Jeanneret: From scribbling to composition: the Roman manuscripts for keyboard in the 17th-century (Alison House:Lecture Room A) Session 2a: Performance practice and recordings (Alison House: Lecture Room B)
Chair: tbc
Session 2b: João Cordeiro da Silva (Alison House: Faculty Room)
Chair: Nancy Lee Harper
Sheila Guymer (Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney) The Style Hongrois in Haydn Performance Practice LR: Mário Marques Trilha (Aveiro) João Cordeiro da Silva (1735-1808): A Portuguese Galant Keyboard Composer
Nils Franke (University of Reading) The recorded composer-performer: Sergei Rachmaninoff's solo piano recordings. A case study
1230-1320 Lunch
1320-1450 Session 3a: Aspects of Byrd (Alison House: Lecture Room A)
Chair: tbc
Session 3b: Keyboard repertories and their reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Alison House: Lecture Room B)
Chair: Yo Tomita
Session 3c: Seventeenth-century sources (Alison House: Faculty Room)
Chair: Noel O’Regan
Walter Kreyszig (University of Saskatchewan and Center for Canadian Studies, University of Vienna) William Byrd's My Ladye Nevells Booke (1591): Negotiating between the stile antico and stile moderno in the Solo Keyboard Repertory Russell Stinson (Lyon College) Bach's Organ Works and Schumann's Neue Zeitschrift Barbara Cipollone (University of Bologna) The Libro di Fra Gioseffo da Ravenna
David J. Smith (University of Aberdeen) Making connections: William Byrd, 'virtual' networks and the English keyboard dance Luisa Morales (FIMTE, Almería) The Cabezón Canon: on the performance of Antonio de Cabezón works during the twentieth century Heather Windram (University of Cambridge) The Royal College of Music Manuscript 2093
Janet Pollack (University of Colorado) Johann Baptist Cramer and the Practice of Keyboard Adaptation: The Newly Discovered Cramer-Byrd Manuscripts Nancy Lee Harper (University of Aveiro) Portugal's forgotten nineteenth century: the emergence of female piano composers Alexander Silbiger (Duke University) Four centuries of Frescobaldi reception: introducing a new online thematic catalogue and bibliographic database
1450-1510 Refreshments
1510-1620 Session 4a: New analytical perspectives (Alison House: Lecture Room A)
Chair: tbc
Session 4b: Continuo practice (Alison House: Lecture Room B)
Chair: Peter Holman
Session 4c: Eighteenth-century virtuosi (Alison House: Faculty Room)
Chair: Tilman Skowroneck
LR: Tibor Szász (University of Music, Freiburg) A new analytical approach: "Reverse" decoding yields the IL FILO of W. A. Mozart's Fantasy and Sonata K. 475-457 and of F. Liszt's Sonata in B minor LR: Thérèse de Goede (Amsterdam Conservatory) Solo Keyboard Repertoire as a Source for Continuo Realization LR: Kris Worsley (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester) Beethoven and his first composition teacher, Christian Gottlob Neefe: Variations on themes by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Lars Henrik Johansen (Oslo) Broken Style in French 17th Century Continuo Playing Graham Sadler (University of Hull) Reflections on Domenico Scarlatti's visits to Paris in 1724 and 1725
1620-1630 Transfer to St Cecilia's
1630-1730 Lecture 2: Susan Wollenberg: Music for connoisseurs and amateurs: C.P.E. Bach and the Keyboard (St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Hall)
1730-1800 Refreshments from the Friends of St Cecilia’s
1800-1900 Concert at St Cecilia's Hall: Robert Hill performs the 12 polonaises of W.F. Bach
2000-2400 Conference Dinner at Pollock Halls
Sunday 3rd July
0900-1100 Session 5a: Eighteenth-century notation and performance practice (St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Hall)
Chair: John Koster
Session 5b: Fantasia and related forms (St Cecilia's Hall: Laigh Room)
Chair: Alexander Silbiger
Sesssion 5c: The keyboard and literary sensibility (Alison House: Lecture Room A)
Chair: Kris Worsley
Yo Tomita (Queen's University, Belfast) Deciphering J. S. Bach's Performance Hints in his autograph manuscripts Filipe Mesquita de Oliveira (University of Évora) Some aspects of manuscript P-Cug MM 242: António Carreira's keyboard tentos and fantasias in its close relation with Jacques Buus's ricercari from his Libro primo…(1547) Sara Gross Ceballos (Lawrence University) Reconsidering 'C. P. E. Bachs Empfindungen'
Beth Pei-Fen Chen (Independent) The Practicability of Mozart's Double Slurring in his Keyboard Music Massimiliano Guido (Pavia University and McGill University) The Inganni: a musical mockery in the early seicento ricercare: an analytical explanation LR: Erik Entwistle (Longy School of Music) Magnum Opus: Dussek's 'L'Invocation' Sonata and the Mystique of the Last Work
LR: John Irving (University of London, School of Advanced Studies) Recording Mozart on the Haas Clavichord Luciana Câmara (Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil/ University of Glasgow) Seventeenth-century keyboard music in freestyle and the Early-Modern subject
LR: Balder Neergaard (Royal College of Music, London) In the footsteps of Jean Paul: Sonority and Pedalling in Robert Schumann's Papillons, op. 2
10 minute break Transfer to St Cecilia's
1040-1100 Mini-recital from Terence Charlston (St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Hall)
1100-1130 Coffee break (St Cecilia's Hall: Laigh Room)
1130-1230 Lecture 3: Robert Hill: Reverse-Engineering Late-Romantic Performance Practice: Agnes Nicholls' and Hamilton Harty's Recording of 'At the Mid-Hour of Night' (1909) (St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Hall)
1230-1330 Transfer to light lunch at Alison House
1330-1530 Session 6a: Nineteenth-Century Britain (Alison House: Lecture Room A)
Chair: Andrew Woolley
Session 6b: Temperaments and pitch (Alison House: Lecture Room B)
Chair: Darryl Martin
Session 6c: Aspects of eighteenth-century repertoire (Alison House: Faculty Room)
Chair: Graham Sadler
Samantha Carrasco (University of Southampton) The public and private sphere: Music making in Hampshire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Frauke Jurgensen (University of Aberdeen) and Ian Knopke (BBC) An empirical investigation of tuning systems in fifteenth-century keyboard music LR: Mario Aschauer (University of Vienna) Lully Transcriptions in Vienna around 1700
Penelope Cave (University of Southampton) The Broadwood and the Banker's Daughter John Koster (University of South Dakota) Questions of Keyboards, Temperaments, and Transpositions in Northern Europe and Spain in the Sixteenth Century LR: Jane Clark (London) François Couperin's 'New and diversified character'
Iain Quinn (University of Durham) Czerny's organ music in the context of Victorian musical culture Dan Tidhar and Francis Knights (University of Cambridge) Recorded temperament LR: Joyce Lindorff (Temple University) Perfect Vibrations: Pasquali's Art of Fingering and the New Keyboard Aesthetic
Peter Holman (University of Leeds) The harpsichord in nineteenth-century England Peter Mole (Ellesmere, Shropshire) Seventeenth Century Harpsichords—Playing the Four Foot Stop  
1530-1600 Transfer to refreshments at St Cecilia's Hall: Laigh Room
1600-1700 The John Barnes Lecture: Terence Charlston: A Choice Collection? Performance and musical taste in late seventeenth-century English keyboard sources (St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Hall)
1700-1745 Round table (St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Hall): How viable is it to see keyboard studies as a field in its own right? Panel: John Butt, Robert Hill, John Koster, Susan Wollenberg, Andrew Woolley (chair)
1745-1830 Business meeting (St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Hall)
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