At the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg (in Freiburg, Germany)
The Hampsong Foundation was thrilled to support the first Global Art Song Congress at the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg in March 2024.
The congress explored 20th-century piano-accompanied songs (Kunstlieder) from former colonized and colonial-adjacent regions. It focused on recent archival discoveries, coupled with a decolonizing approach to scholarship, which will transform our knowledge of 20th-century global art music. Song unites text and music on an intimate scale, revealing personal and local concerns. However, music composed under the shadow of colonialism risks being lost to new nationalist narratives, despite its artistic significance. The congress addressed that challenge.
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Program:
20th Century Global Art Song
Hybridity, Multiplicity, Interculturality
(Deutsch & English)
Presenters
Ido Ariel
“Integration and Dis-integration: Israeli Art-song between Fantasies and Realities”
Phillip Burnett, University of York, UK
“Missionaries, Hymns, and Art Songs”
(Anglican missions in Southern and Eastern Africa)
Julia Byl
“‘Splendid Seekers of the Missing Link’: Agency and Legacy in Sumatran Lieder”
Patricia Caicedo
“The Latin American Art-song: Sounds of Imagined Nations”
Joys Cheung
“Against the “economy of means”: Accessibility of the Art-song by Mrs. S. M. Woo (Hu Zhou Shu’an, 1894–1974)”
Amanda Harris and Shannon Foster (online)
“Art Song and Aboriginal Australia”
Amanda Hsieh
“The Shapes and Romantic Nostalgia of ‘Kōjō no Tsuki’ from Imperial Japan to Colonial Taiwan”
Lena van der Hoven
“Exploring Genre Boundaries in South Africa after 1994”
Amanda Hsieh
The Shapes and Romantic Nostalgia of ‘Kōjō no Tsuki’ from Imperial Japan to Colonial Taiwan
Erin Johnson-Williams
“Singing (through) Scorched Earth: Survival and the Piano During the South Africa War”
Nina Kanter & Sandeep Gurrapadi
“Twentieth-Century Art-song in India: Exchanges and Hybridities”
Cüneyt-Ersin Mıhçı
“Art Song and National Identity in Ottoman and Republican Turkey: A Comparative Study”
Sharifah Mohammed
“Lagu seriosa in the Malay archipelago: empowering cultural identity”
Olabode Omojola
“African Pianism and the Nigerian Art-song: Synthesis as a Compositional Device”
Chris van Rhyn
“Priaulx Rainier’s Art Songs and the Shaping of a White African Musical Identity”
Jennifer Ronyak
Black and Viennese Modernisms Meet: Stylistic Affinities and Political Impulses in Alexander Zemlinsky’s settings of Langston Hughes
AJ Villanueva
“Dialoguing with the present by singing the past: musical borrowing from the traditional kundiman as a critique of globalization”
Resources
This section links to resources and information directly connected to the participants of the Global Art Song Congress in March 2024.
Aboriginal songs (Australia)
Music:
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- The Song of the Women of the Menero Tribe (1834)
- Australian Aboriginal Songs (1937)
- “Poor Fellow Me” (Composer: Alfred Hill)
Books:
- Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance, 1930-1970 (New York, London, Dublin: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) – Open Source
Online Resources:
- PARADISEC: Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
- Reclaiming Performance Under Assimilation
For more information:
Dr. Shannon Foster
Dr. Amanda Harris: [email protected]
China, Japan, Taiwan (Asia)
Music:
- Composer: Mrs. S. M. Woo (Hu Zhou Shu ‘ an, 1894-1974)
- Song: “Kōjō no Tsuki” (1901), Japanese song
- Composer: Taki Rentarō (1879-1903)
Books:
- The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900-1950 (New York: Routledge, 2023)
For more information:
Dr. Joys Cheung: jhcheung@ntnu.edu.tw
Malay Archipelago (Asia)
Music:
- Lagu Seriosa
- “Kisah Mawar di Malam Hari” (“The Story of the Rose in the Night”) (1953)
- Composer: Iskandar / Mochtar Embut
- Text and English Translation
- Composer: Slamet A. Sjukur (1935 – 2015)
Books:
- Musical Nationalism in Indonesia: The Rise and Fall of Lagu Seriosa (Singapore: Springer, 2021)
For more information:
Dr. Sharifah Mohammed: [email protected]
Nigeria (Africa)
Music:
- “Groove for the Master Drummer” (Composer: Seun Owoaje)
- Aria from Funmilayo (Composer: Olabode Omojola)
Online Resources:
For more information:
Dr. Olabode Omojola: [email protected]
South Africa (Africa)
Music:
- Three Greek Epigrams for soprano and piano (Composer: Priaulx Rainier (1903-86))
Other:
For more information:
Dr. Chris van Rhym: [email protected]
Dr. Lena van der Hoven: [email protected]
Spanish & Latin America (Europe & Central/South America)
Books:
- Spanish Diction for Singers: A Practical Guide for the Pronunciation of the Peninsular and American Spanish (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
- The Latin American Art Song: Sounds from the Imagined Nations (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books, 2018)
Websites:
Opportunities:
For more information:
Dr. Patricia Caceido: Contact Form