Dear all,
I hope the message below may be relevant to your interests.
Best wishes,
Jane
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From: Leah A Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 20 May 2019 17:19:12 BST
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Subject: [M-R] Fwd: PETITION AGAINST CLOSING THE MONUMENTA MUSICAE BYZANTINAE
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
My apologies if this is an in appropriate use of the list, but it seemed an expedient way to get the message out to our colleagues in medieval music theory and Byzantine studies who may be affected by the closure of the study.
Leah
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From: James Borders
Sent: Monday, May 20, 9:01 AM
Subject: PETITION AGAINST CLOSING THE MONUMENTA MUSICAE BYZANTINAE
To: Cantus Planus
PETITION AGAINST CLOSING THE MONUMENTA MUSICAE BYZANTINAE
The future of a major enterprise in chant studies is under threat due to the decision of the University of Copenhagen to make the Director of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Christian Troelsgård, redundant as part of a cost-cutting initiative.
The Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae (MMB) was established in Copenhagen in 1935 under the direction of Prof. Carsten Høeg, and quickly became a world-renowned scientific enterprise devoted to the study and publication of Byzantine musical and liturgical sources (http://www.igl.ku.dk/MMB/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.igl.ku.dk_MMB_&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=KQQPKDfEz9WSBGXcrCthuA&m=NaZGpcag_blLmQo48M3IDEzi4RtU-8o4EWey3AlMHq8&s=bZnXcFalJRSGVIbCYqvCfdrTvehvdJ2e5j_jGQEM33Q&e=>). The University of Copenhagen has been central to the activities of the MMB ever since, housing a comprehensive library and archive which has supported a sustained and highly productive programme of research and publication by a very international body of scholars. Students of the successive directors of the MMB have gone on to secure prestigious positions around the world in the fields of Classics, Byzantine Studies and Musicology. The MMB volumes are published under the auspices of the Union Académique Internationale, with the support of the Carlsberg Foundation and several other funding bodies.
The present director of the MMB, Christian Troelsgård, well known to most Cantus Planus members and a member of the advisory board, has been a lecturer in the Department of Greek and Latin for the past 26 years, and has an outstanding reputation both as a teacher and for his research. He is universally regarded as a leading scholar in all branches of the study of Byzantine chant, known internationally through his many books and articles, and widely respected in his University through his co-ordination of several externally-funded research projects and as a member of the Royal Danish Academy and the Academic Council of the Faculty of Humanities. The University of Copenhagen has rashly determined that his position no longer ‘matches the future development of the Faculty’, and proposes to dismiss him for reasons of ‘necessary cut-backs’. Since Prof. Troelsgård represents the one and only institutional affiliation of the MMB project in Denmark, there is a real risk that this proposal would precipitate the sudden closure of all MMB activities, and the dispersal of an immensely valuable tradition of research that has been a jewel in the crown of Danish (and European) research in the humanities for more than 80 years. The consequences of this dismissal on research in this field would be really dramatic on a world scale, at a time when many new avenues of research are being actively explored.
If you would like to request a reconsideration of this decision, and to express your support for the MMB project, we invite you to sign the following petition, which also provides further details:
http://chng.it/WnvzKY95L7<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__chng.it_WnvzKY95L7&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=KQQPKDfEz9WSBGXcrCthuA&m=NaZGpcag_blLmQo48M3IDEzi4RtU-8o4EWey3AlMHq8&s=NkUccQJ8s66UpsyCEkeb4dcmvnLMKVZuynCMr2MKZoU&e=>.
Please also feel free to write directly to Prof. Jesper Kallestrup, Dean of the Humanities at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
The Head of the Saxo Institute, who is also involved in the decision making process, is Prof. Stuart James Ward [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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