Projects
Rewriting for the salon. The practice of arrangement for (accompanied) piano of the first half of the nineteenth century. KU Leuven
At the beginning of nineteenth century the art of arrangement lives his Golden Age: at a time which does not yet have the technical means of sound reproduction, the publication of transcriptions of symphonies, concertos and operas makes it possible to hear or to evoke in the salon music that was intended for public concerts or theatres. The rediscovery of this practice is the main goal of this research project. Through the analysis and the ...
Keyboard music in the 18th-century Southern Netherlands. The repertoire in context. KU Leuven
This dissertation took as starting point the observation that many fine 18th-century organs survive in the Southern Netherlands, but that extremely little repertoire is known. This leads evidently to the question what repertoire was played upon them?
The search for this repertoire entailed expanding the notion of organ music beyond its traditionally narrow frame in at least two ways: first, by understanding keyboard music as flexible in ...
Re-Writing for the Salon: The Practice of Arrangement for (Accompanied) Piano in theFirst Half of the Nineteenth Century Orpheus Institute
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the phenomenon of the arrangement was endemic. As attested to by musical editors’ catalogues of the time, repertoire of all kinds was regularly readapted and rewritten for all sort of instruments. Modern musicology has interpreted this practice as the nineteenth-century equivalent of modern “downloading”: a system of dissemination of the public concert’s repertoire in the domestic setting at a time ...
Performing in the 21st Century Salon: Tradition and Innovation KU Leuven
Performing in the 21st century Salon project is focused on historically informed performance practices with the aim to explore and test new creative techniques and performative concepts. My research will be focused on musical performance as an integral part of salon gatherings and one major component of this research is the question of - how to communicate with present-day audiences. This opens a space for research on the historical ...
Being a Salonnière: New Perspectives for Historically Informed Performance.
Orpheus Institute
Within the framework of a salon gathering, Ivana's aim is to question present performance practices of 18th- and 19th-century music and to reconsider paradoxes of established historically informed practices, as well as explore their limitations and potentials. Using the cultural life of Dubrovnik [Croatia] as a groundwork, she is putting myself in a role of a 21st-century salonnière in order to both re-create salon performances of the past ...
Resounding Libraries: Unfolding Archived Knowledge Through Artistic Research Orpheus Institute
In one of his many writings, the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) pleads for the maintenance of a bibliothèque bien garnie. Such a book collection, Leibniz argues, constitutes an indispensable instrument of reform in every realm of human endeavor. There exists one condition for success: the library must excel in its arrangement and accessibility. Self-evident as though Leibniz’s point of view might seem, the issue of orderly, ...
C’est aussi beau que du Fauré. August De Boeck’s orchestral songs rediscovered AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Urban bourgeois interiors as playgrounds for historically inspired styles, in search of national identity (Belgium, 1850-1913) Ghent University
This research aims to illuminate and explain two seemingly contradictory types of ‘period room’ in private bourgeois homes in Belgium during the second half of the 19th century – namely, the French salon and the neo-(Flemish) Renaissance dining room (or its gothic alternative). It will do so in relation to Belgium as a newly-created nation state within Europe and the process of creating a national identity. The primary research goal is to ...