Kraków, 11-14 September 2008

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Round Table 5

Zofia Fabiańska (chairperson) | Aleksandra Patalas (co-chairperson)

Reception of Italian Musical Culture in Central Europe
up to ca. 1800.

1. Research on reception of Italian musical culture in Central Europe: scholarly trends, their transformation and consequences for interpretation; preserved documents and their character.
2. Musicians; reception of Italian culture and its background:
   1. Italian composers and performers active in Central Europe, their origin;
   2. Central European composers resident in Italy (educated there); contacts with Italian centers of musical life;
   3. Artistic patronage and cultural centers in Central Europe where Italian musicians were active; music ensembles (chapels) and influence of Italian musicians on local composers in the process of their education.
3. Music in Central Europe and testimonies of reception of Italian music.
   1. Italian repertoire (chronological profile; domains of production, musical genres, forms and styles, choice preferences), its provenance and methods of assimilation and modification;
      1. evidence of knowledge of the repertoire: Italian music sources known, preserved and used in practice (catalogues, inventories, accounts; prints);
      2. copied works and collections (partially or wholly) and their provenance; manuscript anthologies and their sources; printed anthologies;
      3. intabulations and transcriptions;
      4. contrafacta, translations and adaptations (Latin and vernacular);
      5. parodies and paraphrases; quotations of Italian compositions in local works;
   2. Italians' oeuvres connected with the region (composed and edited there); compositions (occasional) / collections dedicated to local personages (commissioned);
   3. Local works (genres and styles of compositions) and "Italian" stylistic elements / inspirations; stylistic similarities and attempts to define their provenance.
4. Testimonies of knowledge of Italian thought on music in Central Europe and range of its influence: theoretical treatises (and Italian compositions referred there), polemic writings and manuals created in the region; works dedicated to local personages and commissioned by them.
5. Testimonies of reception of Italian music in Central Europe up to ca. 1800 (chronicles, diaries, correspondence etc.).
6. Musicians' migration and Italian repertoire transmission: musicians and music of Central versus Western, Northern, and Eastern European centers.