The Association Française pour l'Histoire et l'Etude du Papier et des Papeteries (AFHEPP) and the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM-CNRS/ENS) are jointly organising a one day conference which will take place in Paris on 13 October, 2023.
This conference is part of a series of annual events (since 2014) dedicated to paper as a medium of thought and/or transformed material.
The idea is to bring together specialists and young researchers from various disciplinary fields (history, restoration, stationery, musicology, etc.). The themes are studied according to technological, historical and artistic points of view. The day will include eight twenty-minute presentations, in French. They will take place both face-to-face and online.
The participants and listeners will discover that paper or cardboard can constitute the sound material itself in some musical instruments, such as mechanical music. Some music papers and their characteristics will be examined: watermarks, origins, bindings, annotations... They will be revealed as historical, social or even ethnographic testimonies.
Music scores will be investigated as physical media of creation, composition, transcription, distribution and performance of music, proving that the study of papers can nourish the reflection of the musicologist on the genesis of a musical production and contribute to its understanding.
Two members of the MARCMUS team, Eva Mathilde Ribeiro and António Jorge Marques, will jointly present the paper Dialogues atlantiques : papier à musique utilisé par les compositeurs Marcos Portugal (1762-1830) et Giuseppe Toti (c. 1760-1833) au Portugal et au Brésil.