VISITS
Friday, 5 July 2024: Pre-conference visit to the Archivo Manuel de Falla and the Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía
The successive visits will begin at 10am at the door leading to the Auditorio Manuel de Falla. For the first visit, two printed music books and one manuscript have been selected from the personal library of the composer Manuel de Falla: Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia Universalis (Rome, 1650); Gaspar Sanz, Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española (Zaragoza, 1697); and the minstrel manuscript 975 [E-Grmf 975]. This manuscript is the earliest surviving anthology of the instrumental repertory played by wind-bands in a variety of different performing contexts in the Hispanic world during the sixteenth century.
The second visit will take place in the Centro de Documentación Musical, in the Carrera del Darro, at the foot of the Alhambra; the Centre is housed in what was previously a residence of the noble Carvajal family, built at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth. Personnel from the Centre will give a tour of the space and explain the work that is being carried out in Andalusian musical heritage. We will have the opportunity to see a copy of Fuenllana’s Orphenica lyra (Seville, 1554), that, according to Klaus Wagner, formed part of the second print run (B). The copy is very well-conserved and was acquired by the Centre in 2005.
The estimated duration of both visits together is two hours.
Monday, 8 and 9 July 2024: visit to the Upper Choir and Archive of the Capilla Real of Granada
The Capilla Real of Granada was founded by the Catholic Monarchs as a royal pantheon, in accordance with Isabel’s will dating from 1504. In this emblematic sacred space, we will have access to the upper choir in which are found the original sixteenth-century choirstalls and lectern. We will also see the shelves in which the books of Gregorian chant used in both upper and lower choirs were kept, and we will visit the archive in the former chapter room situated at the upper level of the Lonja. These spaces are not generally open to visitors. In the archive we will have the opportunity to see a selection of music manuscripts and prints that afford insight into the repertory performed in the chapel in the sixteenth century and as part of the reportorial canon that continued to be sung there well into the nineteenth century:
- Missarum Libri Duo. Tomás Luis de Victoria (Rome, 1583).
- Liber missarum. Sebastián de Vivanco (Salamanca, 1608).
- Libro de polifonía nº 7 (manuscript, copied in the early seventeenth century).
- Motteta. Francisco Guerrero (Venice, 1570).
- Upper voice partbook of the miscellaneous manuscript anthology that includes motets by Ambrosio de Cotes (copied c. 1600).
- Libro de polifonía nº 8 (manuscript, copied in 1785).
The meeting point is the door for tourist access to the Lonja / Capilla Real. There will be two visits on 8 July and two visits on 9 July: the first will begin at 1.30pm, and the second at 2.10pm. Please be on time, since access to the spaces to be visited are private, and no-one will be able to enter once each of the two visits has begun.
Please fill in this form if you plan to attend these visits. Both are organised by Juan Ruiz Jiménez.
These visits have limited space, so reservations will be accepted in order of receipt. If you reserve a space but finally cannot attend, please let the organiser of the visit know via email (juanm.ruizjimenez@gmail.com), to ensure another person can attend.