Forschungsportal Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

This year’s symposium of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis explores the relations and functions of sound and movement in dance music based on two guiding questions: “How does dance affect music?” and “How does music affect dance?”.

From the Middle Ages to the time around 1800, there is a broad spectrum of “dance music”. It ranges from dance in a ritual context to functional dance or ballet music to instrumental or vocal music that has only retained the name of the dance, such as the ballata or dance movements in symphonies. In all these forms, a different relationship between sound and movement is evident in each case. Each of these forms shows a different relation of sound and movement.

The contributions to the symposium will examine the interaction of music and dance and, based on the guiding questions, will focus on: the role of rhythm or choreographic movement in shaping melody and phrase formation; on how structures are formed reciprocally; the influence on the dynamics, rhetoric, form and aesthetics of a dance piece. Through the different perspectives of the interdisciplinary contributions, we hope to gain impulses for historically informed music practice.

PARTICIPATION ON SITE

Free admission. Limited number of participants, registration required via the Basel Music Academy event page: www.musik-akademie.ch. Please note:

Registration according to panel/session; please register separately for each panel/session.
Participation only with mask and Covid certificate (recovered, vaccinated or tested – antigen rapid test not older than 24h). Please present the appropriate proof and an identity card at registration.

PARTICIPATION ONLINE

- via livestream on YouTube: using the links below, per panel.

- If you would like to participate in the discussions online, please register by email by September 21: forschung.notexisting@nodomain.comscb.notexisting@nodomain.comhsm@fhnw.notexisting@nodomain.comch. Access information will be emailed to you shortly before the event.

The video recording of the symposium will be available until Monday, September 27, 2021 via the indicated links of our YouTube channel.

PROGRAM
Doors open 45 minutes before the start of each session /panel. Please arrive early due to Covid certificate check.

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Neuer Saal	> LIVESTREAM of the first panel
14:00	Christelle Cazaux, Martina Papiro, Agnese Pavanello Begrüssung und Einführung
14:20	Klangfenster Gambenconsort der SCB, Rebeka Rusó (Ltg.) «lieblich und lustig zu gebrauchen»: Tanzsätze aus J. H. Scheins Banchetto musicale (1617) und William Brades Newe auserlesene Branden, Intraden, usw. (1617)
14:30	Andrea Ravignani (Max Planck Institute Nijmegen) Interactive Rhythms, Animal Movement, and the Evolutionary Origins of Dance
15:15	Christelle Chaillou-Amadieu (Université de Poitiers CESCM / Würzburg) [virtual spkeaker] *The Earliest Rondeaux* (13th Century)**
16:00	Pause
16:30	Anne Daye (Bedford) [virtual speaker] Measure: Moving in and out of Time
17:15	Mary C. Caldwell (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) [virtual speaker] The Clerical Dance Song: Myths, Facts, and Historiography
Kleiner Saal
18:15	Präsentation Véronique Daniels (SCB), Baptiste Romain (SCB) Interaction between a Violin Band and Dancers Performing French 16th-Century Danseries > download the handout

Friday, 24 September 2021

Neuer Saal	>LIVESTREAM of the 2nd Panel
09:30	Jennifer Nevile (UNSW Sydney) [virtual speaker] Reflections on the Importance of Dance Music and Dance Rhythms c. 1400–1550
10:15	Cristina Cassia (Università degli Studi di Padova) From Pieces for Amateurs to Works of Art: Dance Musik for Keyboard in 16th-Century Italy
11:00	Pause
Kleiner Saal
11:30	Präsentation Gabriele Miracle (Amelia) Mind Their Steps! The Percussionist as Mediator between Dancers and Musicians
12:30	Mittagspause
Neuer Saal	> LIVESTREAM of the 3rd Panel
14:30	Cecilia Nocilli (Universidad de Granada) [virtual speaker] Musical Composition for Dance in Some 16th-Century Tablatures and Frottole
15:15	Rebecca Herissone (University of Manchester) [virtual speaker] Purcell's Ostinato Challenge: or, How to Set Dance in Restoration Opera
16:00	Pause
16:30	Barbara Leitherer (SCB) Gavotte mit und ohne Auftakt: Welche musikalische und tänzerische Interpretation? > download the handout

Don Bosco Saal	(no Livestream)
20:00	Konzert Compagnie RenaiDanse, Véronique Daniels (Konzept) Bassadanza, delle misure regina – piva, delle misure la più trista: Tänze von Domenico da Piacenza (vor 1455)

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Saturday, 25 September 2021

Neuer Saal

> LIVESTREAM of the 4th Panel