Dear colleagues,
Medieval Song Network: Workshop 2
http://www.medievalsongnetwork.org/
This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting proposals to the
second Medieval Song Workshop (12-14 September 2011) is approaching (May
28th). This multi-disciplinary event will include a performance workshop
and research-led public concert by leading professional early music
ensemble, The Orlando Consort. Our larger aims are to identify and
develop
(i) some of the most important research tools that would benefit the
study of medieval lyrics, and
(ii) the intellectual questions and issues that are central to this
research.
We would like to invite multi-author submissions. The idea is to
encourage two or more scholars, ideally from different disciplinary
perspectives, to take a shared case study and present their findings.
Some of these case studies might, if appropriate, be linked to the
performance workshop and concert programme. Case studies may take the
form of individual songs, manuscripts, texts or resources and may relate
to one or more of the themes suggested below. Individual submissions may
also be made: however, proposals that think creatively across
disciplines will be especially welcome. Please do feel free to contact
the organisers if you have any queries or wish to discuss an idea for a
proposal in more detail. The full invitation can be downloaded from
http://www.medievalsongnetwork.org/
Some suggested topics:
Song and the liturgy
Song and commentary
Devotional practices and singing
Gesture, cognition and memory
Rhetoric, declamation and performance
Theories of listening
Learning and/through song
Song and image
Notes and syllables
Textuality and performance
Rhythm and metre
Editing songs
Using digital technologies to access and interpret medieval song
Conceptions of song
Song, agency and authority
Please send a brief description (250 words) of your proposed
contribution to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by
Friday 28th May, 2011.
Professor Ardis Butterfield Dr Helen Deeming
Department of English Department of Music
University College London Royal Holloway
Gower Street University of
London
London Egham, Surrey
WC1E 6BT TW20 0EX
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