Conferences
Research Center for Music Iconography, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
1st RCMI/RIdIM conference. Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 17 March 1973.
2nd RCMI/RIdIM conference. Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 16 March 1974.
3rd RCMI/RIdIM conference. Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 26 April 1975.
4th RCMI/RIdIM conference. Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 24 April 1976.
5th RCMI/RIdIM conference. Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 23 April 1977.
6th RCMI/RIdIM conference. Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 15 April 1978.
7th RCMI/RIdIM conference. Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 4–5 May 1979.
8th RCMI/RIdIM conference. Research Center for Music Iconography, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 8–10 May 1980.
Music in Art: Music Iconography as a Source of Music History, 9th RCMI conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of Emanuel Winternitz’s death. CUNY Graduate Center & The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 5–8 November 2003. Papers presented at the conference are published in Music in Art, vols. 29 (2004), 31 (2006), and 32 (2007).
Music, Body, and Stage: The Iconography of Music Theater and Opera, 10th RCMI conference & 12th RIdIM conference. CUNY Graduate Center, 11–14 March 2008.
Organs in Art / Organs as Art, 11th RCMI conference, jointly organized with the Organ Historical Society. CUNY Graduate Center, 15–17 October 2008.
Drawing on the Musical Past: Musical Iconology and Instrument Making in Music Archaeological Research, 12th RCMI conference & 11th symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology. CUNY Graduate Center, 23–25 September 2009.
Sounds of Wars and Victories: Images of Military Musicians on Battlefields and Promenades, 13th RCMI conference commemorating the centennial of World War I. CUNY Graduate Center, 11 November 2014.
Sounds of Prehistory and Antiquity, 14th RCMI conference. CUNY Graduate Center, 24 May 2017.
Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM)
The initial eight conferences of RIdIM were hosted by RCMI.
Musikalische Socialgeschichte im Bild, 9th RIdIM conference. Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, 27–28 August 1982
De l’image à l’objet: La méthode critique en iconographie musicale, 10th RIdIM conference, held in memory of Madame Geneviève Thibault de Chambure (1902–1975). Paris, Collège de France, 4–7 September 1985. Papers presented at the conference are published in Imago musicae IV (1987).
Imago musicae: Musikkultur im Spiegel der bildenden Kunst, 11th RIdIM conference. Hochschule für Musik und Theater & Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 21–24 August 1991. (schedule) Selected papers presented at the conference are published in: Harald Heckmann, Monika Holl, and Hans Joachim Marx, eds., Musikalische Ikonographie (Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1994).
Music, Body, and Stage: The Iconography of Music Theater and Opera, 10th RCMI conference & 12th RIdIM conference. CUNY Graduate Center, 11–14 March 2008. The conference included the workshop Methodology for Cataloguing and Indexing Visual Sources for Music History, moderated by Florence Gétreau. CUNY Graduate Center, 10–11 March 2008.
Enhancing music iconography research: Considerating the current, setting new trends. 13th RIdIM conference & 1st Brazilian conference on music iconography. Salvador, Bahia, 20–22 July 2011.
Visual Intersections: Negotiating East and West, 14th RIdIM conference. Pera Museum, Istanbul, 5–7 June 2013.
Visual Manifestations of Power and Repression in Music, Dance, and Dramatic Arts, 15th conference. The Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus (Ohio), 8–10 November 2015.
The Musical Salon in Visual Culture, 16th conference. Rimskij-Korsakov Museum, St. Petersburg, 7–9 September 2016.
Music and Dance in Visual Culture, 17th conference. Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” of the Friends of Music Society, Athens, 5–7 October 2017.
Music and Image in Cultural, Social and Politial Discourse, 18th conference. Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, 9–12 July 2018.
Belonging and Detachment: Representing Musical Identity in Visual Culture, 19th conference. University of Tasmania, Hobart, 13–15 November 2019.
Visualising the Unseen: Music in Visual Culture, 20th conference. School of Music, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 27–29 August 2021.
Looking Popular: Representations of the Popular in Music Visual Culture, 21sth conference. Národní Muzeum, České Muzeum Hudby, Prague, Czech Republic, 29–31 July 2022.
ICTM Study Group on the Iconography of the Performing Arts
The objective of the Study Group is to advance the research of visual sources relevant for music history, performance practice, musical life, and organology, as well as to provide a forum for cooperation among scholars of music iconography by means of international meetings and publications. The Study Group was founded by Tilman Seebass in 1985 as the Study Group for Music Iconography, and directed by him until its 10th conference in 2001. Since 2009 the Study Group’s chair is Zdravko Blažeković.
Methods in musical iconography. 1st symposium. The Hague, 10–13 June 1986.
North-Mediterranean folk music in the visual arts. 2nd symposium. Orta San Giulio, 24–29 May 1988.
The spirit of Greek music in the visual arts of antiquity. 3rd symposium. Thessaloniki, 21–25 May 1990.
Music in the visual arts of Central Asia before 1700. 4th symposium. Bukhara, 24–29 September 1990.
L’iconografia musicale: I miti della musica; Tempo, spazio, immagine, suono. Florence, Villa I Tatti, 10-11 October 1991.
Image and reality in the presentation of musical processions, 1660–1775. 5th symposium. Bad Köstritz, 5-9 August 1993.
Music images and the Bible, 6th symposium. Jerusalem & Ramat Gan, 29 December 1994–3 January 1995.
Myth and reality in dance pictures. 7th symposium. Innsbruck, 13–18 June 1995.
Music and dance in pictures of popular and courtly feasts (Southern Europe, 1500–1750). 8th symposium. Sedano (Burgos), 15–20 May 1996.
Music and images of music in the Mediterranean world, 300 B.C.–300 A.D. 9th symposium. Dion, 15–20 September 1998.
L’iconografia musicale: Mito e storia. 10th symposium. Bologna, 10 March 2001.
✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ Images of Music Making and Cultural Exchanges between the East and the West, 11th symposium of the ICTM Study Group on the Iconography of the Performing Arts. China Conservatory of Music, Beijing, 26–31 October 2012.
Neoclassical Reverberations of Discovering Antiquity, 12th symposium. Archivio di Stato di Torino, 6–9 October 2014.
Decoration of Performance Space: Meaning and Ideology, 13th symposium. Fondazione Georgio Cini, Venice, 16–20 May 2016.
Images of Music-Making and Its Trans-Cultural Exchanges, 14th symposium. Xi’an Conservatory of Music, 27–31 October 2017.
Iberian Musical Crossroads Through the Ages: Music-Making in Its Transcultural Exchange, 15th symposium. Societat Catalana de Musicologia & Institut d’Estudios Catalans, 17–19 October 2018.
Music in Popular Theater and Ritual, 16th symposium. Centro de investigación en artes musicales y escénicas del Litoral Noroeste, Universidad de la República, Salto, Uruguay, 23–26 October 2019.
Objects and Images of Music in Public and Private Art Museums, 17th symposium. Nova University in Lisbon, Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music CESEM, Lisbon – Alpiarça (Portugal), 7–9 October 2021.
Images of Nineteenth-Century French Musical Life, 18th symposium in honor of H. Robert Cohen, coorganized jointly with the Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM). Centre de Musique Romantique Françaiuse, Venice, Pallazzeto Bru Zane, 6–7 December 2021.
Images of Music in Rome, 19th symposium. Università Roma Tre, Fondazione Teatro Palladium, Rome, 18–20 May 2023.
ICTM World Congresses
Besides symposia of the ICTM Study Group on Music Iconography, Tilman Seebass organized dedicated panels on music iconography at the ICTM World Congresses. The purpose of these sessions was to discuss questions of methodology. The participants were supposed to bring one or two slides and in a presentation not longer than five minutes, explain what methodological problems their example is presenting. In addition to such methodological discussions in each session were included some full-length papers.
Società Italiana del Flauto Dolce & Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica
III seminario di iconografia musicale, diretto da Tilman Seebass, Urbino 21-23 July 1988.
IV seminario di iconografia musicale, diretto da Tilman Seebass, Urbino 20-22 July 1989.
I Seminario di iconografia musicale: Metodi e pratica di catalogazione di materiali aventi rilevanza per la storia delle arti e della musica, Rome, 31 May-3 June 1994.
II Seminario di iconografia musicale: Il far musica, le feste, la scenografia, Rome, 29-31 October 1996.
Course in Musical Iconography, Urbino 24-28 July 2000.
Corsi di iconografia musicale. Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte. A cura di Cristina Santarelli
I corso di iconografia musicale. Saluzzo, 7–12 July 2003.
II corso di iconografia musicale. Saluzzo, 5–9 July 2004.
III corso di iconografia musicale. Saluzzo, 4–9 July 2005.
IV corso di iconografia musicale. Saluzzo, 3–8 July 2006.
V Corso di iconografia musicale. Torino, 11–12 June 2007.
VI Corso di iconografia musicale. Torino, 8–9 May 2008.
VII Corso di iconografia musicale. Torino, 7–8 May 2009.
VIII Corso di iconografia musicale. Torino, 14 May 2010.
Giornate di Studio. Ravenna, Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna. A cura di Nicoletta Guidobaldi
Le immagini della musica: Temi e questioni di iconografia musicale. Giornate di Studio, Ravenna, 15–16 October 2004.
Le immagini della musica: Temi e questioni di iconografia musicale. Secondo Incontro di Studio, Ravenna, 14–15 October 2005.
IMS Study Group on Music Iconography
Le immagini della musica: Musical Iconography in the 21st Century: Mapping European Art for Context and Meaning. Università di Bologna, Campus di Ravenna, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, 7–10 June 2006. (schedule)
Metamorphoses of Orpheus: Musical Images from Greek Mythology in Antiquity and their Revivals in European Art. Corfu, Ionian University, 26–29 June 2008.
Simboli musicali nei cicli pittorici. Lecce, Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, 25–27 September 2009.
Musicians & Monuments: Tracing Composers’ Memorial Iconography Through the Ages. Wien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 15–17 April 2010.
La iconografia musical a la mediterrània i el seu impacte sobre la cultura europea al llarg de la història. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament d’Art i de Musicologia, 4–6 October 2010.
Le Corti in Europa: Iconografia musicale e potere principesco, 1400–1700. Torino, Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, 23–25 May 2011.
Music and Propaganda in the Visual Arts. Warsaw, Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 29–30 March 2012.
Travellers to Faraway Countries and the Musical Imagination on the Move, 16th–20th Century. Lecce, Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, 28–29 September 2015.
Envisioning Worldly and Otherworldly Pleasures in Music = Imaginando los placeres de la música: entre lo mundano y lo espiritual. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla, 29 November–1 December 2017.
Entre extase et inspiration: Le vin et la musique dans les arts visuels = Between ecstasy and inspiration: Wine and music in the visual arts. La Cité du Vin, Bordeaux, 21–23 June 2018.
Repertório Internacional de Iconografia Musical no Brasil (RIdIM-Brasil)
Enhancing music iconography research: Considerating the current, setting new trends. 1º Congresso Brasileiro de Iconografia Musical and the 13th conference of RIdIM. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, 20–22 July 2011.
Iconografia Musical: Abordagens, fronteiras e desafios: 2º Congresso Brasileiro de Iconografia Musical, Salvador, 27–29 November 2013.
Iconografia, música e cultura: Relaçõnes e trânsitos: 3º Congresso Brasileiro de Iconografi a Musical. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, 20–24 July 2015.
Música, Imagem e Documentação na Sociedade da Informação: 4º Congresso Brasileiro de Iconografia Musical & 2º Congresso Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Sistemas de Informação em Música. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, 17–21 July 2017.
Transversalidades em construção: 5º Congresso Brasileiro de Iconografia Musical. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, 22–26 July 2019.
Thematic sessions at congresses the International Musicological Society
The 8th International Congress of the International Musicological Society. New York, 1961. Round table organized by Genevieve Thibault: “The Visual Arts as a Source for the Historian of Music”; Position paper by Emanuel Winternitz and and the report from the session.
The 16th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, “Musicology and Sister Disciplines: Past, Present, Future”. London, 1997. Study session 15: “Music Iconography: Transmission and Transformation of Symbolic Images”, organized by Ann Buckley; and study session 37: “Musicology and Art History”, organized by Tilman Seebass.
The 17th International Congress. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2002. Study sessions “L’organologie à travers l’iconographie musicale: Appriached régionales” and “Visualizing Sound: Towards a Catalogue of Illustrations in western Latin Medieval and Renaissance Theory Treatises, ca. 1000-1600”.
The 19th Quinquennial IMS Congress: Musics, Cultures, Identities. Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Auditorium Parco della Musica Roma, 2012. Study session Multiple Identities of Music and Culture as Visualized in European Art.
The 20th Quinquennial IMS Congress: Musicology: Theory and Practice, East and West. Tokyo University of the Arts, 2017. Study session Crossing Borders in Musical Iconography: Current Themes, Goals, and Methodologies.
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca
Music and the Figurative Arts in the Twentieth Century. Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca. Complesso Monumentale di San Michelotto, 14–16 November 2014.
Music and the Figurative Arts in the Nineteenth Century. Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca. Complesso Monumentale di San Michelotto, 16–18 November 2018.
Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era. Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca. Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, 10–12 May 2023.
Royal Music Association Study Day on Music Iconography
Picturing Performance: Music as Symbolic Image. University of Cambridge, Faculty of Music, 21 November 1998.
Musical Interiors, 1600 to Present. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 20 June 2008.
Iconography as a Source for Music Iconography. University of London, School of Oriental and Asian Studies, 8–9 November 2019.
Séminaire d’organologie d’iconographie musicale. Musée de la Musique, Laboratoire CNRS d’organologie et d’iconographie musicale
Innovations et traditions dans la vie musicale francaise au XIXe siècle. Paris, 1992-1993.
Aspects de la vie musicale au XVII siècle. Paris, 1993-1994.
Institut de recherche en musicoogie, Paris: L’iconographie musicale et l’art occidental
L’iconographie musicale et l’art occidental. I, Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, January–June 2015.
L’iconographie musicale et l’art occidental. II: Lieux et espaces en musique, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, January–June 2017.
L’iconographie musicale et l’art occidental. III: Iconographie et mémoire du spectacle musical, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, January–June 2018.
L’iconographie musicale et l’art occidental. IV: Portraits de musiciens, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, January–June 2019.
MusIconis
Représentations du son au Moyen Âge. Musiconis: Seminaire bimensuel: Maison de la Recherche, Paris, 11 October 2012–11 April 2013.
Les figurations visuelles de la parole, di son musical et du bruit de l’antiquité à la Renaissance, Chartres, Auditorium de l’Hôtellerie Saint-Yves, 11–13 June 2015.
Other Conferences
Musical Instruments in an Art Museum. A symposium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on the occasion of the opening of The André Martens Galleries for Musical Instruments, New York, 26–27 November 1971.
The Iconography/Iconology of Renaissance and Baroque Keyboard Instruments. State University College Brockport, New York, 10–12 April 1975.
Iconogafia musicale: Metodi, obiettivi, opportunità & Strumenti e figure: Iconografia musicale in dipinti del XVII secolo delle collezioni diviche genovesi. Genova, Teatro Carlo Felice & Comune di Genova, 13-15 January 1994.
Glasba in likovan umetnost = Musik und bildende Kunst. Symposium of the Slovenski Glasbeni Dnevi, Ljubljana & Piran, 23–25 April 1996; proceedings ed. by Primož Kuret (Ljubljana, 1996).
Iconografia del teatro: Ricerca metodologia e gestione informatica. Symposium organized by the Comune di Prato, the Univeristà di Firenze, the Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo, the Teatro Metastasio, and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Prato, 23–26 May 1996.
Bildquellen zu Spieltechnik un Aufführungspraxis auf Streichinstrumenten. Streicher Festival auf Historischen Instrumenten, Zürich, 11–17 May 1998.
Instruments of Passion: Music, Painting, and the Contest of the Arts. Columbia University & The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, 6–7 February 2009.
Apprendere al museo: Didattica dei beni musicali. Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica & Il Saggiatore musicale, Bologna, 20 March 2009.
La musica al tempo di Caravaggio. Milano, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 29 September 2010.
Rival Sisters: Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism. Stony Brook Manhattan, New York, 25–26 March 2011.
Reconstitution de la musique et de la peinture anciennes. Colloquium organized by the CRPBC de l’HiCSA Equipe d’Accueil 4100 – Histoire culturelle et sociale de l’art, 26 October 2013.
Représenter la musique dans l’Antiquité: Le langage des images. Formes, usages et fonctions. Colloquium organized by the École Française de Rome, Rome, 25-26 March 2015.
Castalian Springs in Switzerland. Landgut “Zur Schipf”, Herrliberg, 31 August 2018 & Musikinstrumentensammlung, Historisches Museum Basel, 1 September 2018.
Voci e suoni, matite e pennelli: Giornata di studi su La ritrattistica musicale. Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, Bologna, 25 October 2018.
L’iconographie musicale dans les pays méditerranées à l’heure de la numérisation intensive des images. Le Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes (CMAM) in a collaboration with the Institut Supérieur de Musique de Tunis (ISMT). 20 September 2019.
Music and Visual Culture in England, c. 1400-1750. Shakespeare Institute, Strarford upon Avon. 15-16 September 2022.
Picasso and Musical Modernity, ca. 1900-1940. Parador de Mojácar, Spain – University of Melbourne, Australia. 12-14 October 2023