Organizers

• Cynthia Cyrus (Chair), Vanderbilt University, cynthia.cyrus@vanderbilt.edu
  
• Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul University elias@cs.uchicago.edu;
• Kevin Moll, East Carolina University mollk@mail.ecu.edu

Business Meeting

All interested scholars are welcome.

Session I: Music and the Arts
Thursday May 8, 1:30 PM, Fetzer 2030

Presider: Sarah Davies, New York University

• Dance and the Liturgy of Easter in the Thirteenth Century: The Case of the Monophonic Latin Rounds of the Florence Manuscript

  Benjamin Brand, Yale UniversityAbstract

• "Listen Up, You Priests!": Anticlericalism in Popular Songs of the Late Middle Ages

  Rebecca Wagner Oettinger, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Abstract

• Deception, Reversal, and Paradox: The Rondeaux of the Chantilly Manuscript in Context

  Virginia Newes, Independent Scholar Abstract

Session II: Liturgy Need Not Be Scary
Thursday May 8, 3:30 PM, Fetzer 2030

Presider: Cynthia J. Cyrus, Vanderbilt University.

• Vocabulary Lesson: Liturgical Terms and What to Do about Them

  Alice V. Clark, Loyola University, New Orleans Abstract

• Threading through the Liturgical Labyrinth: Web Resources for Liturgical Music before 1500

  John Stinson, La Trobe University Abstract

• Dealing with Chunks of Chant: Motets, Poetry, and Liturgy

  Michael Phelps, New York University Abstract

Session III: Music and Place
Friday May 9, 10:00 AM, Bernhard 213

Presider: Barbara Walters, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY

• The Tropes for the Feast of St. Martial and St. Martin in Tenth-and Eleventh-Century Aquitania, or Borrowing from Martin to Praise Martial: The Usurping of a Repertory

  licia Doyle, University of Texas-El Paso Abstract

• A Gift of "Gütter" Dances and Motets: Reassembling the Basel-Amsterdam Lute Book

  Sarah Davies, New York University Abstract

• "Déjà Vu All Over Again": Deep Structures in the Missa dum sacrum mysterium of Johannes Regis

  Kevin N. Moll, East Carolina University Abstract

Session IV: New Approaches to Source Studies
Friday May 9, 1:30 PM, Bernhard 213

Presider: Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul University

• What Is a Song Book?

  Elizabeth Randell Upton, University of California-Los Angeles Abstract

• Divina auxiliante gratia: A Case Study in the Transmission of a Medieval Text

  Linda Page Cummins, University of Alabama Abstract

• Sociology Meets Medieval Musicology: Complementary Partners or Strange Bedfellows?

  Barbara Walters, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY Abstract

Session V: Treatises That Lie: Theory and Practice in Medieval Music
Sunday May 11, 8:30 AM, Bernhard 107

Presider: Deborah Lawrence, George Washington University

• The Pythagorean Experimental Tradition: Lie or Self-Deception?

  William R. Bowen, University of Toronto Abstract

• Recipes Produce Good Food Not Music

  Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul University Abstract

• What Is the Compendium musicale of Nicolas de Capua?

  Jan Herlinger, Louisana State University Abstract

• In Defense of the Medieval Imagination: A Study of Registration and Voice-Crossing in the Songs of Machaut

  Lester A. Castellana, Independent Scholar Abstract

This is an informal compilation. We apologize for any omissions.

The International Machaut Society has several sessions at the Congress:
The Future of Machaut Studies: A Roundtable on Saturday morning ( Program)
and Reading Machaut/Machaut Reading Saturday 1:30 PM ( Program)

Session 59 (Thursday 10 AM) is on Medieval Song Program

Thursday 1:30 PM (in conflict with Session I of Musicology at Kalamazoo) there will be a session on Text and Context of Representation: Music, Literature, and Dramatic Theories in the English Renaissance Program,
as well as a talk on The Medieval Philosophy of Music in Tolkien's Works in Session 80.

Thursday 3:30 PM (in conflict with Session II of Musicology at Kalamazoo) there will be a talk on Intertextual Resonances in the Music of Machaut's Voir-dit in Session 155.

Friday morning (in conflict with Session III of Musicology at Kalamazoo) there is a session on The Multiple Directions of Troubadour Studies Program,
a roundtable on the performance of Boewulf, Program,
and a session on Music in the Context of Medieval Studies Program.

Friday afernoon (in conflict with Session IV of Musicology at Kalamazoo) there is a session on The Ballad, Medieval and Modern: Ballads and the Graphic Arts ( Program).

There are two sessions devoted to Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival in Performance: Session 407 Saturday 10:00 AM ( Program), and Session 624 Sunday 10:30 AM ( Program).

Session 436 (Trubadour Poetry) on Saturday 1:30 PM includes a talk on "What Singing Does".

The Saturday 3:30 PM sessions include "Laity in Medieval Liturgy: How Did They Take Part in Ritual and Song? " ( Program). Session 522, Hildegard's Horizons-Others before and after: A Comparison has several music-related talks ( Program).

Sunday morning (in conflict with Session V of Musicology at Kalamazoo) there is a session on Music for the Liturgical Veneration of Irish and Scottish Saints ( Program).

There will be several musical performances.

On Thursday night at 8:00 p.m. the Institute presents "Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf" at the Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College, with a discussion of the performance Friday at 10:00 a.m. in Fetzer.

On Friday night at 8:00 p.m. Hourglass will present "A Mélange of Songs of Love and Devotion from Southern France and the Iberian Peninsula" at the First Baptist Church.

Friday at 5:30 PM there will be a cello recital Hildegard, J.S. Bach and the Contemporaries by Elizabeth Start (Kalamazoo College) in Fetzer 1030.

On Friday, there will be an organ concert, following Vespers at St. Augustine Cathedral, Francis Kline OCSO organist.

For comments about this website send email to Cathy Ann Elias elias@cs.uchicago.edu

For questions about Musicology at Kalamazoo, please contact Cynthia Cyrus cynthia.cyrus@vanderbilt.edu