Music in Late Medieval English Cathedrals

A day conference, organised by the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, to be 
held at The Faculty of Music, St Aldate’s, Oxford

Saturday, 6 May 2006, 10 am to 5 pm

The conference will explore the context of the cathedral institution, 
institutional change at the time of the Reformation, the provision of Lady 
Chapels for singers, the adoption of Sarum Use, issues of migration of 
musicians and repertory, music education, the provenance of key polyphonic 
sources, and the liturgical timetable of the new-foundation secular 
cathedrals, with contributions from scholars currently active in this field:

•	Roger Bowers (Cambridge University)
•	Tim Tatton-Brown (Salisbury)
•	Magnus Williamson (Newcastle University)
•	Sally Harper (University of Wales, Bangor)
•	David Lepine (Dartford/Exeter University)
•	Jane Flynn (Leeds)
•	Anna Burson (Oxford University)
•	John Harper (RSCM/University of Wales, Bangor)

There is no charge for members of the society.
Non-members will be asked to pay a fee of £12 on arrival
(students and senior citizens, £6).

Titles of papers and a timetable for the day appear below.

The conference will be followed by the Society’s Annual General Meeting at 
5.00 pm and by Evensong in Christ Church at 6.00 pm.
 
Timetable

10.00 Welcome
10.15 David Lepine: ‘Famous Colleges of Priests’: English Secular Cathedrals c 
1450-1560
10.45 Sally Harper: The spread of Sarum Use: the case of Wales, especially St 
Davids and St Asaph
11.15 Tim Tatton Brown: The provision of Lady Chapels for singers: the case of 
Salisbury
11.45 Short break
12.00 Anna Burson: Institutional change and music during the mid 16th century 
at Hereford Cathedral and Worcester Cathedral
12.30 John Harper: The pattern of liturgy and music in the 1540s: Nicholas 
Heath, the Statutes of the Cathedrals of the New Foundation and his 
Injunctions for Rochester Cathedral
2.30 Jane Flynn: The Mulliner Book as a record of the education of adolescents 
in Cathedrals
3.00 Roger Bowers: Caius 667: the choirbook of an early Tudor provincial 
cathedral?
3.30 Short break
3.45 Magnus Williamson: Issues of the migration of musicians and polyphonic 
repertory
4.15 Discussion leading on from afternoon papers
4.40 Tea
5.00 PMMS AGM
6.00 Evensong in Christ Church, including early 16th century repertory


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