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The Traditional Music and Dance Chair takes part in the “Ora Pro Nobis” Congress

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  • November 13rd, 2023

“Ora Pro Nobis. From the Cathedral of Valencia to society. Tradition, legacy and current state of the cultural heritage” will be held on 15 and 16 November. The entry to the congress is free.

The congress is organized by the Association of Young Researchers in Religion Sciences, with which the Traditional Music and Dance Chair collaborates. On both days, there will be conferences and debates on the cultural, musical and artistic heritage of the Cathedral of Valencia. On Wednesday, 15 November, it will be held in Evangelisation Vicariate of Valencia’s Archbishopric and on Thursday, 16 November, in the Assembly Hall of the Rector Peset Hall of Residence. The entry is free and requires no prior registration, both on 15 and 16 November.

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Programme of the Congress
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Place: Evangelisation Vicariate of Valencia’s Archbishopric, 12 Avellanas St., Valencia

  • 10:15 Institutional opening.
  • 10:45 - 11:30 Opening conference: “Liturgy and music in the Cathedral of Valencia”. Mr. Jaime Sancho Andreu (Canon in charge of the artistic heritage o Cathedral of Valencia, retiree).
  • 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break.

TABLE 1. The Cathedral of Valencia as a heritage creator and a cultural “mirror”

  • 12:00 - 12:20 The recovery of “tornejants” dance in Ontinyent. The promotion of recreation of the dance in the current process of transforming the festive culture into heritage. Enric Olivares Torres (UV).
  • 12:20 - 12:40 Visual programme of the ordination rites in the “Pontifical of Vidal de Blanes”. Pascual A. Gallart Pineda (UV)
  • 12:40 - 13:00 The royal harpsichord of the Cathedral of Valencia. From the hands of Domenico Scarlatti to the performance of Rafael Anglés. Pablo Márquez Caraballo (Principal organist of the Cathedral of Valencia and full professor of harpsichord of the Superior Music Conservatory of Castellón)
  • 13:00 - 13:20 Can we understand the Cathedral of Valencia, dedicated to Saint Mary, without the Mosque of Balansiya? Myths and historiographic “non-approaches”. Belén Cuenca Abellán (UPO).
  • 13:20 - 14:00 Debate.
  • 14:00 - 15:15 Lunch break.

TABLE 2. The Valencian bell ringer heritage: from Miguelete Tower to the territory

  • 15:15 - 15:35 The study of a living language: the ringing of Cathedral’s bells through ecclesiastical celebrations - Eliseu Martínez Roig (Bell ringers of the Cathedral of Valencia).
  • 15:35 - 15:55 “Ringing in cloudy times”. Bell ringing for dispelling thunderstorms in the diocese of Valencia. Pau M. Sarrió Andrés (UV - Bell ringers of the Cathedral of Valencia)
  • 15:55 - 16:15 The register of bells of the Valencian Community. State of play, results and future proposals. Joan Alepuz Chelet (Bell ringers of the Cathedral of Valencia).
  • 16:15 - 17:45 Debate.
  • 17:15 Guided tour of the Cathedral of Valencia by Mr. Jaime Sancho Andreu (Canon in charge of the artistic heritage of the Cathedral of Valencia, retiree).
  • 18:00 Organ concert by Pablo Márquez Caraballo (Principal organist of the Cathedral of Valencia)

Thursday, 16 November
Place: Assembly Hall of the Rector Peset Hall of Residence (4 Forn de Sant Nicolau Sq., Valencia)

  • 9:30 - 10:15 Conference by Dr. Adrià Besó Ros (Tenured professor of the Department of Art History - UV) – “The beauty takes us to the field. The orange field as a place to recreate the senses”.
  • 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break.

TABLE 3. The Cathedral of Valencia, an artistic visuality generation centre

  • 10:45 - 11:05 Iconographic type of the Madonna of Humility in the Crown of Aragon. M. Elvira Mocholí Martínez (UV).
  • 11:05 - 11:25 Our Lady of the Forsaken, a Valencian heritage in the Cathedral of Salamanca. An historic and iconographic overview. Yasmina Panisello Ferré (USAL).
  • 11:25 - 11:45 Pentecost, Christus patiens and the Dormition of the Mother of God: The find of the lost predella of the artist Vicente Macip. Claudia Monzó Calero (Artistic Heritage Inventory Manager of the Metropolitan Cathedral–Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady of Valencia – UV)
  • 11:45 - 12:05 Recovery of the artistic heritage of the Cathedral of Valencia. The bocaporte canvas (a canvas that can be hidden) of the major and minor organs. C. Montiel Seguí Balaguer (UV)
  • 12:05 - 12:25 With passion for the compassion: the pictures of Father Simón and the visuality of the tears in Valencia during the Catholic Reformation. Natalia Polo Chocano (UV).

TABLE 4. Valencian heritage, a gate to sensitiveness

  • 12:25 - 12:45 A XX century Christ in the Cathedral of Valencia: visual construction of Christ’s image in the works of Peris Aragó. María Mercedes Sanz Peris (UV).
  • 12:45 - 13:05 Chroma: a post-revisionist performance. Salvador Pellicer (independent researcher) and Xavier Rausell (Cànem School)
  • 13:05 - 13:25 The symbolical and sensorial richness in the rituals: scents and music, from East to West. M. Teresa Blanquer Cots (UV - UNIR) and Sergio Sanchis Pérez (UV).
  • 13:25 - 14:00 Debate.
  • 14:00 - 15:30 Lunch break.

TABLE 5. The treasure of the Cathedral: historic and artistic research as a basis of its preservation

  • 15:30 - 15:50 The stone with no colour: transparent quartz in liturgy. A reliquary of the Cathedral of Valencia. Roberto Mariotto (UV).
  • 15:50 - 16:10 The legacy of Alfonso the Magnanimous; the Royal Treasure that was a turning point for the Cathedral of Valencia. Inmaculada Traver Badenes (Valencia’s Commercial Athenaeum and CEU-UCH)
  • 16:10 - 16:30 The polemics of the gilt in the Cathedral of Valencia during the first half of the XX century. Two historical restorations between the divergence and the concord on fine gold. Néstor Olucha Feliu (UV).
  • 16:30 - 16:50 The contribution of the Tenca to the music of Algemesí’s Festivity. Andrés Felici Castell (UV).
  • 16:50 - 17:10 Dance and metaphors. Raül Sanchis Francés (URV-UPF).
  • 17:10 - 17:30 Debate.
  • 17:30 - 18:45 Round table “Experiences of the recovery of festive heritage”. Moderated by Enric Olivares Torres (UV). With the participation of Celeste Lafarga Alfonso, Raül Sanchis Francés, Andrés Felici Castell and Kike Gandia Álvarez.
  • 19:00 Closure ceremony.

Participants: Cathedral of Valencia - Cathedral of the Holy Chalice, Traditional Music and Dance Chair, Association of Young Researchers in Religion Sciences, Visual Culture Studies - APES, Department of Art History of the UV, Aromas Itinerarium Salutis and Rector Peset Hall of Residence.

Download the complete “Ora Pro Nobis” programme