Feasting, fasting: Music, Sculpture and Cuisine:

Social Science/History | Registration opens 8/5/2024 12:00 AM MST (Arizona)

12535 W. Smokey Dr. Surprise, AZ 85378 United States

1011

11/19/2024 (one day)

12:30 PM-1:30 PM MST (Arizona) on Tue

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For several decades musicologists have considered the two major Las Cantigas de Santa Maria manuscripts to be the most important sources documenting medieval Iberian musical instruments.  Recently attention has been drawn to several "collections" of sculptures in Northwest Spain and Northern Portugal which depict musical instruments; the best known of which is the Portico de la Gloria of the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela.  Adjacent to the Cathedral in Compostela is the Gelmírez Palace, constructed in the 12th-century under the direction of the Archbishop as "a palace splendid enough for the great people who arrived on pilgrimages to Santiago--kings, princes, and magnates."  The corbels of the palace dining room present a series of sculptures illustrating a 12th-century banquet scene complete with musicians, musical instruments, servers, and a variety of food.  Based on the Gelmírez sculptures and related carvings, manuscript illuminations, and musical codices from 12th- and 13th-century Iberian sources, a view of a medieval Spanish feast complete with music, musical instruments and cuisine is presented.

 

  • Dr. J. Richard Haefer is a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for thirty-six years. He has studied North American Indian music and Gregorian Chant for more than fifty years; Mexican music (Indigenous, música regionales, and art music), mariachi (in Mexico and the U.S.), and colonial art music for forty years. He was the founder of the ASU Mariachi Program and directed for it twenty-five years.  He has been a professional mariachi for more than thirty years recording two CDs with his group Mariachi Corazón de Phoenix.  He prefers performing in the style of Plaza Garibaldi, Cuidad México.