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Music in Transition: Changing Styles and Approaches in the Mid-Baroque (1650-1710)

Thursday 2 July 2015

Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

12 - 1pm	Registration (in Coffee Bar)
1pm	Welcome
1.15 - 2pm	Invited Speaker: Professor Michael Talbot (University of Liverpool) ‘On the Cusps of Stylistic Change: Vivaldi's Sonata RV 820 for Violin, Cello and Continuo and its Seventeenth-Century Roots’
2 - 3.30pm	Exchanges of National Styles in European Instrumental Music Michael Robertson (University of Leeds): ‘Changing Concepts and Priorities: The German Consort Suite of the Later Seventeenth Century’ Isobel Clarke (Royal College of Music): ‘Development and Cultural Transfer: The Emergence of the Recorder Sonata in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century’ Samantha Owens (University of Queensland): ‘Duplex Genius: The French and Italian Musical Styles in the Instrumental Works of Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716)’
3.30 - 4pm	Tea and Coffee
4 - 5.30pm	Performers and Performance Practice Rebekah Ahrendt (Yale University): ‘“Mon cher Camarade”: Performers’ Networks at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century’ Adrian Powney (Birmingham Conservatoire): ‘A Time of Transition: The French and Italian Roots of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Time Signatures Explored’ Hetti Price (University of Birmingham): ‘The 'da spalla' Position in Italy 1650-1720’
5.30pm	Wine Reception, followed by dinner in a local restaurant (optional)

Friday 3 July

9 - 9.30am	Friday Registration and tea/coffee
9.30 - 10.15am	Invited Speaker: Professor Peter Holman (University of Leeds) ‘The Style Change Around 1700: Implications for Performance’
10.15 - 11.15am	Progressive and Conservative Approaches to Trio Sonata Texture in England Stephen Rose (Royal Holloway): ‘An Englishman Analyses Corelli: James Sherard’s Commonplace Book’ Alan Howard (Cambridge University): 'Trio Sonatas in Orchestral Garb”: Purcell’s Orchestral Canzonas'
11.15 - 11.45am	Tea and Coffee
11.45am - 12.45pm	The Appropriation of French Style in England Sandra Tuppen (British Library): ‘English Theatre Music in Transition: The Influence of Lully on Music and Instrumental Practices’ Andrew Woolley (New University, Lisbon): ‘“… the new Airy Tunes of these Times”: ‘French Dances’ in Late Seventeenth-Century England’
12.45 - 1.30pm	Lunch
1.30 - 2.15pm	Concert given by students of Birmingham Conservatoire
2.15 - 3.15pm	Regional Stylistic Developments Robert Rawson (Canterbury Christ Church University): ‘Borders and Crossings: Musical Style in the Austro-Bohemian Baroque’ Rodolfo Zitellini (RISM Switzerland): ‘Oh my! Parallel fifths! Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678) as Litmus Test for Evolving Musical Taste in Bologna 1660-1670’
3.15 - 3.45pm	Tea and Coffee
3.45 - 4.30pm	Invited Speaker: Professor Colin Timms (University of Birmingham) ‘Euterpe's Revenge, or: The Italian Opera Aria c. 1670-1720’
4.30 - 5.30pm	Developments in Opera and Cantata Graham Sadler (Birmingham Conservatoire/University of Oxford): 'Agostino Steffani and the French Style: New Perspectives’ Rosalind Halton (University of Newcastle, Australia): ‘A Microcosm of Italian Cantata Composition in the 1690s: The Seven Settings of ‘A voi che l’accendeste’ by F. M. Paglia’
5.30pm	Performance of Scarlatti’s A voi che l’accendeste (Miriam Allan and Rosalind Halton), t.b.c.
6pm	Close