CALL FOR PAPERS
Centre for the Study of Music, Gender and Identity (University of Huddersfield in collaboration with the University of Sheffield)
Sources of Identity: Makers, Owners and Users of Music Sources Before 1600
University of Sheffield, 4-6 October 2013
Manuscript and print sources have traditionally had a central role in establishing and examining musical texts. However, they also have much to reveal about the meanings and purposes assigned to music by the people who commissioned, made, owned and used them. In this context, the ‘use’ of music sources extends beyond their role in live performance, to encompass also their use as gifts and as objects for collection and display. Aspects of noble, bourgeois, artistic and professional identities rested on the ways in which musical texts were selected, presented, distributed and used in this expanded sense. This conference turns the spotlight onto the people involved in music manuscripts and prints, asking what the sources with which they are connected can tell us about the various motives lyin
g behind their investment in music.
Invited speakers will include Jane Alden (Wesleyan), Rob Wegman (Princeton), Julie Cumming* (McGill), Honey Meconi (Rochester), and Marica Tacconi* (Penn State). (*Funding allowing.)
An anthology of essays deriving from the conference will be published in the Brepols series ‘Epitome musical’; it will be the subject of a proposal and selection process running parallel to that for the conference.
Proposals (250 words) for 20-min papers, paired papers and themed sessions should be sent to Catherine Haworth ([log in to unmask]) by 30 April 2013. Queries can be addressed to the conference organisers, Lisa Colton ([log in to unmask]) and Tim Shephard ([log in to unmask]). Further information will be mounted onto the MuGI website over the coming months.
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