ONLINE STUDY DAYS on Early Music and Ritual Music in the 21st Century
In partnership with Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, Doctoral School 58 (ED 58), the Montpellier Center for Medieval Studies (EA4583), the Higher Institute for Teaching and Education (INSPÉ) of the Academy of Montpellier, and the Centre International de Musiques Médiévales.
Objective: How can we address the phenomenon of early music and ritual music in the 21st century through the lens of complex thought? What is the modern experience of early music? What do we actually hear when listening to early music today?
Target Audience: Students and the general public
Dates: December 10 & 11, 2020
© Khaï-Dong Luong
Thursday, December 10
1:15 PM – Welcome and Registration
1:35 PM – Opening Remarks
By Gisèle Clément, Associate Professor at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, and Khaï-Dong Luong
2:10 PM – Early Music: A Converted Try
Philippe-Jean Catinchi, Cultural Journalist for Le Monde
2:55 PM – A Circus Music Collection
Elisabeth Gavalda, PhD in Performing Arts, Research Associate at RIRRA21 (Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University), and Pierre Diaz, Saxophonist
3:55 PM – The Virtual Real Aspect of the Oud (‘ūd) in the Arab-Muslim World
Amir Lemhaiech, PhD Candidate in Musicology at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University (RIRRA21)
4:40 PM – The Voice of Emotion: Constructing an Identity for the Comtessa de Dia in Performance
Leah Stuttard, Musician and PhD Candidate at the University of Huddersfield (UK)
5:30 PM – Testimonial from a Research-Creation Practice on Medieval Music in the 21st Century
Ensemble-école: Lou Bleyer, Maxime Docteur, Clément Frouin, Marion Grassis, Estelle Mazzillo (Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University)
7:00 PM – Performance: "Goldmund or The Lily Among Thorns" — CANCELED
Ensemble Musica Humana — Ensemble-école Class of 2020
Friday, December 11
9:15 AM – Welcome and Registration
9:30 AM – Understanding Innovative Vocal Music of the Early Baroque Period...
Joël Heuillon, Associate Professor at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and Researcher at the Euridice 1600-2000 Laboratory
10:15 AM – Journey of an Early Music Singer's Voice (1987–2020)
Bruno Bonhoure, Singer and Co-Artistic Director of La Camera delle Lacrime
11:15 AM – Documents and Memories
André Tricot, Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University and Researcher at the Epsylon Laboratory
12:00 PM – Medieval Music in the 21st Century, a 20th-Century Creation: Playwrighting, Artistic Gesture, and Performativities — Scenological Questions in Medieval Music Performances
Khaï-Dong Luong, PhD Candidate in Musicology at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University (CEMM) and Co-Artistic Director of La Camera delle Lacrime
2:00 PM – Anthropological Theater: Between Oral Tradition and Creation (Part 1)
Jean-François Favreau, PhD in Literature (Paris 7 University), and Fabrice Nicot, PhD Candidate in Arts under the direction of Jean-François Dusigne (Paris 8 University) and in Anthropology under the direction of Laënnec Hurbon (State University of Haiti / LADIREP), Theater Director, Actor, and Educator
2:45 PM – Anthropological Theater: Between Oral Tradition and Creation (Part 2)
3:45 PM – Closing Remarks
By Gisèle Clément and Khaï-Dong Luong
Online Event
Thursday, December 10, 2020
1:15 PM – 6:15 PM (CET / Paris Time)
Friday, December 11, 2020
9:15 AM – 4:15 PM (CET / Paris Time)
Musicologists studying early music are confronted with a dilemma inherent to their subject of study: early music only achieves its "reality" as music if it can be heard, yet it is precisely no longer "audible" in the sense that we possess no traces directly accessible to human hearing.
The absence of this sonic and musical fact sparks an imaginative power to satisfy the need and desire to hear what can no longer be heard, recreating early music from the surviving written or iconographic records. However, early music—having transitioned from a state of disappearance to a "familiar" present-day reality—raises fundamental and global questions that extend beyond musicology. Early music in the present day also challenges our very apprehension of reality.
Three main, inextricably linked thematic axes will be addressed: transmission and blindness, study and analysis of frameworks, and knowledge of knowledge.
Transmission and Blindness
How can we transmit knowledge of a form of understanding whose subjects of study can only be conceived through speculative thought? In other words, how do we transmit knowledge when the subject remains a mystery, and when any strategy of knowing requires acknowledging its limits, its challenges, and the dependency of that strategy on its framework?
Study and Analysis of Frameworks
Within a lived sensory experience that engages the senses and emotions, how is our relationship to knowledge structured? What rules and principles govern the thought processes through which we organize reality? How do we select or prioritize certain data while other aspects are excluded or marginalized?
Knowledge of Knowledge
What is the modern experience of early music? What do we actually hear when listening to early music today? What are we experiencing when attending an early music concert or performance? What performativity can we expect from these events?