The Production and Reading of Music Sources
London, June 6 – 08, 2013
International Conference hosted by the Warburg Institute and the British
Library, 6-8 June 2013
Organised by Thomas Schmidt (University of Manchester) and Hanna Vorholt (University of York)
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council ‘Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480-1530′ project
Speakers include: Jane Alden (Wesleyan), Stanley Boorman (New York), Vincenzo Borghetti (Verona), Stratton Bull (Leuven), Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway), Pawel Ganczarczyk (Warsaw), Mara Hofmann (Warburg), Oliver Huck (Hamburg), Christian Leitmeir (Bangor), Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl (Salzburg), Emanuele Lugli (York), Grantley McDonald (Salzburg), Elizabeth Morrison (Getty Museum), Sanna Raninen (Manchester), Ian Rumbold (Manchester), Martina Šárovková (Prague), Katelijne Schiltz (Munich), Thomas Schmidt (Manchester), Tim Shephard (Sheffield), Dagmar Thoss (Vienna), Paul Vetch (King’s College London).
The mise-en-page of medieval and early modern music sources has become an increasing focus of scholarly enquiry in recent years. In their combination of verbal text, musical notation, images and other graphic devices, they are amongst the most complex books of their time, and much about the relationship between their visual appearance, their function and their use (in performance or otherwise) is still insufficiently understood. This conference – organised in the context of an AHRC-funded project in which a team of musicologists, art historians and codicologists examines the mise-en-page of sources containing polyphonic music from 1480-1530 (www.proms.ac.uk) – brings together a wide selection of scholars engaged in the analysis of the layout of manuscripts and printed books, and will explore in an interdisciplinary perspective overarching questions that are relevant to music sources in the broadest sense. The spectrum of papers ranges from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, from simple workaday collections to elaborate presentation codices, from panel paintings to chantbooks and music theory prints.
A full schedule of the conference, and information on how to register, can be found at
Further information on the conference can be obtained by e-mailing :
thomas.schmidt@manchester.ac.uk
Programme :
Thursday 6 June
British Library, Centre for Conservation
14h00 : Welcome – Thomas Schmidt, Nicolas Bell
Session 1 – Chair : Peter Gumbert (Leiden)
14h10 : Tim Shephard (Sheffield) – Seeing and Singing: Interpreting Visual Decoration in Music Manuscripts of ca 1500
14h45 : Thomas Schmidt (Manchester) – The Notation of Polyphonic Music: Visual and Spatial Aspects
15h20 : Jane Alden (Wesleyan) – Nested Polyphonies: Stratification and Organicism in 15th-Century
Chansonniers
16h00 : coffee
Session 2 – Chair : Nicolas Bell (British Library)
16h30 : Oliver Huck (Hamburg) – The Layout of the Early Motets
17h05 : Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway) – Isolated Jottings? The Compilation, Preparation and Use of Song Sources from Thirteenth-Century Britain
Friday 7 June
Warburg Institute
10h10 : Welcome – Hanna Vorholt
Session 3 – Chair : Hanna Vorholt (York)
10h20 : Emanuele Lugli (York) – Music in the Sky. On the Washington Coronation of the Virgin
10h55 : Katelijne Schiltz (Munich) – Subtilitas—Brevitas— Tentatio: Reading Musical Riddles
11h30 : Coffee
Session 4 – Chair : Mara Hofmann (Warburg)
11h55 : Martina Šárovcová (Prague) – Limbus Patrum. Correlations Between Visual and Textual Elements in Sources of Rorate Chants in Bohemia
12h30 : Christian Leitmeir (Bangor) – Design or Disaster? A Concert of Images, Words and Music in the Penitential Psalm Codices (Munich Ms. A)
13h05 : Lunch
Session 5 – Chair : John Lowden (Courtauld)
14h20 : Dagmar Thoss (Vienna) – On the Miniatures and Initials of the Vienna Alamire Codices
14h55 : Elizabeth Morrison (Getty) – Music Meant to Impress: A Consideration of the Design of Some Late Flemish Alamire Manuscripts
15h30 : Coffee
Session 6 – Chair: Charles Burnett (Warburg)
16h00 : Mara Hofmann (Warburg) – Nipped Noses and Locked Lips: Grotesque Initials in the Alamire Manuscripts
16h35 : Vincenzo Borghetti (Verona) – The Listening Gaze: Alamire’s Presentations Manuscripts and the Courtly Reader
17h10 : Stratton Bull (Alamire Foundation, Leuven) – The Cappella Pratensis – PRoMS Collaboration
18h00 : Wine Reception (Warburg)
Saturday 8 June
Warburg Institute
Session 7 – Chair: Christian Leitmeir (Bangor)
10h15 : Ian Rumbold (Manchester) – Alternative Mises-en-Page in Informal Sources: The Case of Heinrich Isaac’s Missa Wohlauf gesell
10h50 : Pawel Ganczarczyk (Warsaw) – From Manuscript to Print: Transformations of Musical Sources in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century
11h25 : Coffee
Session 8 – Chair: Ian Rumbold (Manchester)
11h50 : Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl /Grantley McDonald (Salzburg) – The Early Days of Music Printing in German-Speaking Lands: Ode Settings and Hymn Books
12h25 : Sanna Raninen (Manchester) – Xylography in Polyphonic Music Printing
13h00 Lunch
Session 9 – Chair: Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway)
14h00 : Stanley Boorman (New York) – Interpretations of the Notation in Early Printed Treatises
14h35 : Paul Vetch (King’s College London) – PRoMS at a Glance: The Visual Representation of Complex Musicological and Codicological Data (with presentation of the online resource)
15h35 : Coffee and close
Source de l’information : ArtHist
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