[AMS-announce] CFP: Music, Body, and Stage: The Iconography of Music, THeater, and Opera, CUNY, New York, Mar 2008

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The Research Center for Music Iconography 

at the City University of New York Graduate Center 

and

the Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale

are announcing a joint conference

Music, Body, and Stage:

The Iconography of Music, Theater and Opera

to be held at the CUNY Graduate Center 

11 - 14 March 2008  

 

The conference will provide a forum for the discussion of iconographic sources for opera, dance, and music theater of the East and West, and proposals for papers on the following topics are invited: 

Scenographies for opera, music theater, and dance theater 
Monsters and mythological beings in opera and dance theater 
Opera orchestra in pictures 
Portraits of opera composers, singers, dancers, and librettists 
Religious theater from medieval drama to modern ceremonies 
Street theater and public spectacles on pictures 
Music in military parades 
Iconography of folklore rituals with music 
Visual sources for theater genres of Asia 
Music theater on film and video 
 

Abstracts of 200-300 words may be submitted before 1 October 2007 to:

Zdravko Blazekovic 

Research Center for Music Iconography

The City University of New York Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016-4309

zblazekovic at gc.cuny.edu 

and

Antonio Baldassarre

Centre International du RIdIM

Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art

2, rue Vivienne

F-75002 Paris

a.baldassarre at swissonline.ch 

 

 

Program Committee: 

Antonio Baldassarre, Zürich  <> Zdravko Blazekovic, New York  <> Cristina Bordas Ibá ez, Madrid   <> Olga Jesurum, Parma  <> Jérôme de La Gorce, Paris  <> Anno Mungen, Bayreuth  

 

Proceedings of the conference will be published in the journal Music in Art, and papers are expected to be the original work not previously published. 

Prior to the conference will be offered a two-day workshop on cataloguing of visual sources, with a special attention to the iconography of theater and opera, moderated by Florence Gétreau. 

Further information will be posted at

http://web.gc.cuny.edu/rcmi/