Programme
Papers released Wednesday 01/07(no live Q&A)
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Programme Wednesday 01/07:
Papers released Wednesday 01/07 (no live Q&A):Programme Thursday 02/07:Programme Friday 03/07:
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Welcome (recorded) | ||||||
9:00: Release of all presentations Note that the sessions on 01/07 do not have live Q&A’s |
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12.30-14.00 Virtual Meet & Greet |
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Prof. Laurie Stras: What does it mean when a woman sings? 17.00-18.00: Keynote watch party 18.00-18.30: Live Q&A |
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20.00 Virtual Concert – Musica Secreta: Darkness Into Light |
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21.00-22:30 Virtual Reception I |
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Knowing and Hearing | Kévin Roger
Astronomical Knowledge in Fourteenth Century Motets: The Example of Febus mundo oriens |
Mikhail Lopatin
Cognitive and auditory alterations in Vincenzo da Rimini’s caccia «In forma quasi»? |
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Sources, Notations, Melodies | Karina Zybina
Lost, found & lost again: Revealing material traces of Johannes Zwicks’ Konstanzer Gesangbuch (1538) |
Eva Veselovská
DIE GRANER NOTATION IN DER SLOWAKEI. In Memoriam Janka Szendrei |
Nina-Maria Wanek
The Melodies of the Missa Graeca-Chants |
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Music in Early Modern England I | Joseph Ortiz
Singing Jane Shore: Music and Propaganda in Richard Legge’s Richardus Tertius |
Ross Duffin
The Gude and Godlie Ballatis Noted / Tunes and Contrafacts in Early Modern Britain |
Joseph Sargent
The Anthems of George Marson |
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Edition Issues | Robert J Mitchell
Trent 89: beyond the edition |
Alessandro de Lillo
Supplementum ad Graduale Romanum |
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Music in and Around the City | James V. Maiello
Ecclesiastical Power, Civic Authority: Reconstructing the Feast of St. James the Greater at Pistoia |
Jan Ciglbauer
Latin songs from the Prague University around 1400 and their renaissance |
Hana Studeničová
Musical duties of the City Trumpeter ca. 1550–1620: parallels between Moravia, Bratislava and Vienna |
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Constructions | Fernando Luiz Cardoso Pereira
Cadential refunctionalization over Binchois’ temor Comme femme desconfortée: New observations on the double cantus firmus technique in Ghiselin’s Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria |
Ed Emery
Proposal for new research methodologies concerning the transmission of musical and lyric forms from medieval al-Andalus into Early Europe |
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Georgian Music | Ekaterine Oniani
List of Musical Symbols According to the 10th/11thC Georgian Neumatic Codices |
Kathuna Managadze Educational Institution in the Medieval Georgia. The Function of a Music as a Subject | Eka Chabashvili
Medieval and Renaissance musical, literature, architecture, fresco and icon artworks dedicated to the Georgian Female Saints |
Tamar Chkheidze Mnemonic Formulas –as the Main Organizer of the Mode System in Georgian Chanting Tradition |
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Instruments and Performance | Melanie Shaffer
“Convincingly Sung: the influence of delivery instructions from the Rhetorica ad Herennium on conducti and motets from the ‘St. Victor’ manuscript” |
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Q&A TIME (BST/GMT+1) | THEME | CHAIR | PAPER | PAPER | PAPER | |
11.00-12.00: | ||||||
Session 1 | Music for the Dead in the Early Modern Period | Esperanza Rodríguez-Garcia | Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita
Music to reach heaven: sixteenth-century Barcelonan convents in urban life |
Sanna Raninen
“In dust and sand and dark soil” – Funeral Songs in Swedish Prints and Manuscripts from the Early Seventeenth Century” |
Andrea Puentes-Blanco
Music and Liturgical Practices of Funerary Rituals in Counter-Reformation Barcelona |
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Session 2 | Varia | Christian Leitmeir | Tim Daly
Contrapuntal Direction as a Diagnostic Tool in the Early L’Homme Armé Mass |
Veronika Giglberger And Bernhard Lutz
Exploring Watermarks in 16th Century Bavarian Music Manuscripts |
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12.00-13.00: | ||||||
Session 3 | Scribes and their Habits | Mark Everist | Lenka Hlávková
An inconspicuous relative of the Speciálník Codex. On Dating and Structure of the Manuscript CZ-Pu VI C 20a
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Andrew Woolley
Scribal creativity and performance practice in the instrumentally conceived four-part music in P-Cug, MM 242 and MM 48 |
Paul Kolb
Composers, Scribes, and Notational Agency |
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Session 4 | Unknowns | Lisa Colton | Riccardo Pintus
New Light On Some Doubtful Attributions In Palestrina’s Pro Defunctis Repertory |
Fañch Thoraval
The lute, the sonnet and the making of a chanson in the late 16th century: about an unidentified setting of the Amours de Francine in the tablature books of Charles de Croÿ |
Matthew Gouldstone
Alessandro Sfoi: An introduction to a lost composer |
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13.30-14.30: | ||||||
Session 5 | Current Questions | Katie Bank | Martina Montanari &
Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Only Wolfgang for Q&A) “Arab problem and Musical Practice in the Middle Ages” (1933): An unknown contribution to music historiography by Edwin von der Nüll |
David Allinson
‘Belonging without believing’: contemporary singers’ encounters with Renaissance polyphony |
Lark McIvor
A Question of Symbolism: Should Notational and Transcription Methods of Neumatic Music be Revised? |
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Session 6 | Hymns, Psalms, Songs | Lenka Hlávková | Antonio Chemotti
From Silesia to Pennsylvania: interdenominational circulation of vernacular hymns |
Timothy Duguid
‘Rangy’ Psalm Tunes? Singing Scottish Psalms in the Early Modern Period |
Barbara Dietlinger
Fathoming a New Reality in Song – the Birth of the Dutch Republic |
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Session 7 | Music and Politics | Tim Shephard and Vincenzo Borghetti | Tim Shephard
Introduction: Harmony, Virtue and Display |
Helen Coffey
Imagery and Instrumental Music at the Court of Maximilian I |
Vincenzo Borghetti
The Arrival of a Queen and the Departure of a Prince: Music for Maria de’ Medici and Heinrich Posthumus Reuss |
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15.00-16.00 | ||||||
Break | Musicology Yoga with Samantha Bassler | |||||
16.30-17.30: | ||||||
Session 8 | 13th C Songs and Voices | Brianne Dolce | Nicholas Bleisch
Self-Contrafaction in Paris and Arras: Trouvère melodies made for multiple lyrics |
Henry Drummond
Putting Faith in a Song: The Cantigas de Santa Maria and States of Play |
Anne Levitsky
“La rana e.l rossinhols: Interactions between Human and Animal Voices in Troubadour Song” |
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17.30-18.30: | ||||||
Session 9 | The ‘Other’ in Music | Samantha Bassler | Joseph W. Mason
Sound, song and violence in thirteenth-century crusades |
Alessandra Ignesti
Aspice Domine, quia facta est desolata civitas. Intertextuality as a Means of Worship Under the Turkish Menace |
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Session 10 | Towards a Prosopography of Early Scottish Musicians | n/a | James Cook | Ralph Corrigan | Gillian Gower | Adam Whittaker |
20.00-22:30 | Virtual Reception II | |||||
Q&A TIME (BST/GMT+1) | THEME | CHAIR | PAPER | PAPER | PAPER | |
10.00-11.30 | Virtual Reception III | |||||
12.00-13.00: | ||||||
Session 11 | Early Theory | Adam Whittaker | Kaho Inoue
Unnamed Semibreves in Pre-Franconian Theory: ‘Opposita proprietas’ and Reduction to a Three-Note Ligature |
Federico Zavanelli
De Semibrevibus: An insight on the early theory of the Italian divisiones |
Giacomo Ferraris
“Marchettan” divisiones in practice? A new look at some compositions from the Rossi codex |
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Session 12
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Dance | Lenka Hlávková | Laura Hellsten
Dancing with God? |
Moritz Kelber
The Senses of Early Modern Dance |
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13.00-14.00: | ||||||
Session 13 | Performance/Performing | Noel O’Regan | Livio Ticli
Towards the “Integrated Performance”: The Thorny Relationship between Polyphony and Monody |
Philippa Ovenden
Singing the notationally complex songs of Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS J.II.9 |
Stacey Jocoy
“These External Manners of Lament,” or, King Lear’s Missing Mad Song |
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Session 14 | Musical Languge, from the 13-16th Centuries | Henry Drummond | Joshua Stutter
The notational evidence of W1 as an artefact of an oral culture of Notre Dame polyphony at St Andrewse |
Eleanor Chan
‘Sweet’ and ‘Spic[y]’ Music in Sixteenth Century Britain |
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14.30-15.30: | ||||||
Session 15 | Music and Culture in Renaissance Nuremberg I | Elisabeth Giselbrecht | Frauke Jürgensen
Chez Schedel: Eurovision 1466 |
Helen Coffey
Exploring the Career of Hans Neuschel of Nuremberg: Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Holy Roman Empire c. 1500 |
Susan Forscher Weiss
Revisiting Louise Cuyler’s Emperor Maximilian I and Music c. 1973 |
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Session 16 | Music in Early Modern England II | Anne Heminger | Katherine Butler
The Role of Rounds and Catches in Sixteenth-Century English Society |
Nicholas Smolenski
Propagandistic Sensory Rhetoric of Charles I, 1647–49 |
Samantha Bassler
Feminine Voice, Sound, and Disability in Elizabeth Tanfield Cary’s The Tragedie of Mariam (1613) and Mary Sidney Herbert’s The Tragedie of Antonie (1592) |
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15.30-16.00 | Break | |||||
16.00-17.00: | ||||||
Session 17 | Music and Culture in Renaissance Nuremberg II | Helen Coffey | Sonja Tröster
Humanism, Music and Lighthearted Drinking Sessions — Wilhelm Breitengraser in Nuremberg |
Susan Jackson
Buchtrucker(in) –Women and the (Music) Book Trades in 16th-century Nuremberg |
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
Music as pedagogical tool |
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Session 18 | Iberian Chant | Marianne C.E. Gillion | David Andrés Fernández
Renovating processional practices around 1500 in the Iberian World: the case of the chant at the two cathedral chapters of Zaragoza |
Santiago Ruiz Torres
The liturgy of the saints in Roman sources from the monastery of San Juan de la Peña (12th to 15th centuries) | La liturgia de los santos en las fuentes de rito romano del monasterio de San Juan de la Peña (siglos XII al XV) |
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17.00-18.00: | ||||||
Session 19 | Facets of the Fifteenth Century | Jeannette D. Jones | Giacomo Pirani
On A Fifteenth-Century Italian Compilation Of Music Theory Again: New Light On And Old Issues About Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale, Ii 785 |
Adam Knight Gilbert
Ockeghem the Mathematician: Decoding Presque transi |
Jennifer Thomas
Remembering, Reading, and Retelling: Bending Genre in the In pace in idipsum Complex |
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Session 20 | Chant | Andy Bull | Haig Utidjian
“Imploring the Spirit with tearful sighs from the depths of our souls”: a confluence of music, theology and iconography within the Armenian Divine Liturgy |
Catherine Saucier
From Ephesus to ‘s-Hertogenbosch: Manna and the Mystery of Non-Death in Chants for the Dormition of St John the Evangelist |
Veronika Garajová
Processing System Of Medieval Notated Manuscripts In Slovakia – Medieval Notated Fragments As A Phenomenon Of Trans-Regional Connections |
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20.00-21.15 | Virtual Concert: Binchois Consort Virtual CD Launch Watch Party | |||||
Q&A TIME (BST/GMT+1) | THEME | CHAIR | PAPER | PAPER | PAPER | PAPER |
11.00-12.00: | ||||||
Session 21 | Spaces and Places | Magnus Williamson | Noel O’Regan
From private meeting room to public auditorium: the development of the Roman confraternity oratory as a musical performing space during the sixteenth century. |
Roberta Vidic
Counterpoint ‘Localisation’: Vestiva i colli in Rom and Munich |
Andrew Kirkman & James Cook
Hypothetical (Historical) and Virtual (Modern) Performance: some Implications of the Linlithgow Chapel VR Project |
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Session 22 | The Life of Books | Barbara Eichner | Sarah Oliver
Clerks and Chaplains: Christus Vincit in the court of Henry III |
Ellen Hünigen
The Office for St Catherine in a Notated Breviary of the Late 13th Century |
Lisa Colton
Owners, Scribes, and Users of a Fifteenth-Century English Missal (London, British Library, Additional 25588) |
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12.00-13.00: | ||||||
Session 23 | From Improvisation to Reconstruction | Paul Kolb | Paul Newton-Jackson
How to make a ten-voice mass in sixteenth-century Scotland: Robert Carver’s Dum sacrum mysteriumat the intersection of composition and improvisation |
Eric Thomas
Ricercari comunemente sono appellati si fatti suoni licentiosi: Improvisational techniques in the Italian Lute recercare and fantasia, 1507-153? |
Carmella Barbaro
The Horace motets, two incomplete sets of motets from RCM2037 |
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Session 24
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Instruments and Voices | Nicholas Bleisch | Kiichi Suganuma
Between Voice and Instrument: Girolamo Dalla Casa’s Diminution Technique Focusing on His Il secondo libro de madrigali (1590) |
Ian Harrison
Zorzi Trombetta da Modon: Wind Players Learn to read Music |
Amedeo Fera and Vincenzo Piazzetta
Martoretta’s lyre: tracing the roots of a mediterranean instrument |
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13.30-14.30: | ||||||
Session 25
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Josquin and Co. | Thomas Schmidt | Jeannette D. Jones
At the Fountain with Okeghem: Josquin’s Nymphes des bois and the Poets |
Brett Kostrzewski
A New Date for an Important Josquin Manuscript: Watermark Evidence in Cambrai Ms. 18 |
Benjamin Ory
The Imitation Generation |
Rachel Carpentier
Philippe Rogier and the soggetto cavato mass tradition at the end of the sixteenth century |
Session 26 | Music and Art History | Sanna Raninen | Samantha Chang
Variations on a Theme: Flemish and Italian Polygonal Virginals inside the Painter’s Studio |
Laura Ventura Nieto
A Daughter’s Pride: Lavinia Fontana’s Self-Portrait at the Virginals |
Lise Henriette Hindsberg
Vividness and “Visual Music” in Girolamo dai Libri’s Altarpieces |
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15.00-16.00 | Business Meeting/Break | |||||
16.30-17.30: | ||||||
Session 27 | Music in Early Modern England III | Katherine Butler | Samantha Arten
Singing The Whole Booke of Psalmes |
Magnus Williamson
Later career of John Taverner |
Anne Heminger
Civic Processions and the Performance of English Catholicism under Mary I |
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Session 28 | L’homme armé | Jennifer Thomas | Sam Bradley
Order and Finality in the Agnus Dei of La Rue’s MissaL’homme armé I |
Nicolò Ferrari
Crusading Propaganda and Fifteenth-Century L’homme armé Masses |
John Ahern
The Naples L’homme armé Masses: A New Connection |
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17.30-18.30: | ||||||
Session 29 | Computer-assisted analysis | Christian Goursaud | Cory McKay, Rían Adamian, Julie Cumming, and
Ichiro Fujinaga Exploring Renaissance Music Using N-Gram Aggregates to Summarize Local Musical Content |
Esperanza Rodríguez-García
Computer-assisted analysis as antool for attribution: the case of the anonymous O decus virgineum and Ave verum corpus natum from the manuscript Tarazona 2/3 |
Bram Geelen (speaking), David Burn, Bart de Moor
Classifying the works in the Josquin Research Project dataset by modelling the transitions in their symbolic chromagrams |
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Session 30 | Medievalisms | Karen M. Cook | Miri Blustein
The OrWarrior and the longing poet: medieval revival in Israeli rock music |
George Haggett
Public Solitude: The Paradox of the Operatic Anchoress |
Gillian Gower
Towards a Decolonized Medievalism |
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20.00-22:30 | Final Reception |
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