Announcement of two conferences during Laus Polyphoniae Festival, Antwerp, August 2018
Symposium - 'Tempus Fugit', Issues on Time in Polyphony
With Ruth DeFord, Stratton Bull, Fabrice Fitch, Isaac Alonso, David Burn
Antwerp, 17 - 19 August, AMUZ and Campus Carolus
Organised by the KU Leuven (Department of Musicology), Alamire Foundation (Leuven) and AMUZ, Flanders Festival-Antwerp
This symposium will focus on a range of issues all related to time in polyphony of the 15th and 16th centuries. What is tactus and how should a conductor show it? How to navigate the complex system of mensuration signs? Can we know what the tempo was?
Special attention will be given to Jacob Obrecht's Missa Maria zart, a work offering a wide range of challenges regarding issues of time. The Cappella Pratensis (dir. Stratton Bull) performs the mass on Friday evening, 17 August at the Laus Polyphoniae Festival.
Specialist Prof. Ruth I. DeFord (New York, Hunter College) will be the central guest in sessions bringing together researchers, performers and music-lovers (among Ruth I. DeFord's publications is the authoritative 'Tactus, Rhythm and Mensuration in Renaissance Music' (Cambridge University Press, 2015)).
Format: structured conversation and discussion; Core team: Stratton Bull, Ruth DeFord, David Burn, Fabrice Fitch, Isaac Alonso
Programme and registration on: http://www.alamirefoundation.org/en/activities/symposium-tempus-fugit-laus-polyphoniae-festival-antwerp-17-19-august-2018
Conference - 'The Leuven Chansonnier in Context' with performance of all the chansons in the manuscript
Dates: 23-25 August 2018
Venue: Antwerp, Campus Carolus & AMUZ
Organised by the KU Leuven (Department of Musicology), Alamire Foundation (Leuven) and AMUZ, Flanders Festival-Antwerp
In 2014 a tiny music manuscript was sold in Brussels that turned out to be a previously entirely unknown late fifteenth-century chansonnier, complete and in its original cloth binding. The appearance of a new such source of any kind is extremely rare, and all the more so of one in unaltered form. Repertoire and physical characteristics date the chansonnier to c. 1470-75, and mark it out as a prestigious, personal object for wealthy nobility. The discovery adds to our understanding of fifteenth-century song in numerous ways. Among others, it deepens knowledge of the ways in which fifteenth-century song was consumed; it deepens knowledge of the circulation of fifteenth-century courtly song; it provides a new witness for known works, including the most popular songs of the time; and, most spectacularly, it adds no less than twelve new pieces to the fifteenth-century song repertory.
The conference in Antwerp aims to treat the musical and historical context of the chansonnier, including poetry, fifteenth-century chanson culture, chansonniers more broadly, repertoire dissemination, and variant versions. The conference will end with four concerts presenting the repertoire of the chansonnier in its entirety.
Programme and Registration on:
http://www.alamirefoundation.org/en/activities/conference-leuven-chansonnier-context-antwerp-23-25-august-2018-registration-open
Alamire Foundation
Klaartje Proesmans, Staff member
House of Polyphony
Park Abbey 1 - B-3001 Heverlee
Tel. 1 +32 16 32 37 46; Tel. 2 +32 16 38 92 85
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