‘Tapestries’ of musical images, concepts, and data in the Mediterranean – and beyond

Study Session at the IMS Intercongressional Symposium: Valencia, 10 July 2025

chaired by Björn R. Tammen & Luzia Aurora Rocha

9:00 Welcome & Introduction 

9:20-12:00

  • Cristina Santarelli (Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte), “Warburg before and after the Renaissance: classical quotations between archaeology and psychohistory”
  • Luís Correia de Sousa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) & Luzia Aurora Rocha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), “Medieval echoes in the Portuguese Baroque: the satirical case of the ‘Macacarias’ (or monkey scenes)”
  • Luísa Correia Castilho (Politécnico Castelo Branco & Universidade Nova de Lisboa) & Luzia Aurora Rocha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), “The Portuguese Mediterranean discovered: migrations, seasonality, and musical iconography in ‘Ratinho’ faience”
  • Alessia Zangrando (Università di Udine), “Visualizing early modern Ottoman music: Western perspectives from travelogues and costume books”
  • Gaia Prignano (Universitat de Barcelona), “Beyond the database: rethinking digital music iconography in early modern contexts”
  • Björn R. Tammen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), “Research space, semantic web design, and the Lasso/Mielich/Quicchelberg Penitential Psalms”
  • Cláudia Sousa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), “Weaving a Concerto Grosso: from Alfred Schnittke’s No.1 to Tom Phillips’ Tapestry”

COFFEE BREAK 12:00–12:30

12:30–13:30

  • Caio Vitor Priori-dos-Santos (Universidade de Évora), “Ivonne Rebello (1928) to Luiz Bonfá (1958). The Brazilian guitar in between dynamics and representations”
  • Beatriz Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), “Reinventing tradition: the visual aesthetics of Chinese revolutionary Peking Operas (1966–1976)”


13:30–14:00 Business meeting of the IMS Study Group “Musical Iconography”