Performance des monodies médiévales (xiie-xvie siècles) = The Performance of Medieval Monophony (12th-16th centuries)

Voir programme en ligne sur le site du CESEM : https://cesem.fcsh.unl.pt/en/event/conference-the-performance-of-medieval-monophony-12th-16th-centuries-2/

Cette rencontre interdisciplinaire vise à placer la monodie (chant à une seule voix) au centre d'une discussion réunissant musicologues, liturgistes, historiens, historiens de l'art et spécialistes de la littérature. Tout au long du haut et du bas Moyen Âge, non seulement les écrits musicaux, mais aussi les représentations visuelles et les récits écrits des chantres n'ont cessé d'augmenter. En particulier, la fin du Moyen Âge a vu une explosion de textes concernant la "bonne conduite" et les manières "appropriées" de chanter, coïncidant avec l'introduction de nouveaux médias et la circulation plus large de textes et d'images imprimés. Cette conférence se concentrera moins sur le chant noté lui-même que sur les descriptions et/ou descriptions techniques, pédagogiques, poétiques, littéraires ou artistiques et les représentations de la pratique du chant monodique. La plupart des contributions seront publiées dans le volume 7 de Textus & Musica.

Lieu : Colégio Almada Negreiros - Universidade Nova Lisboa/CESEM

Campus de Campolide, 1099-032 LISBONNE

Pour s’inscrire en présentiel ou par ZOOM contactez : khoefener@fcsh.unl.pt

Organisateurs : Kristin Hoefener (CESEM, Université Nova Lisbonne), CJ Jones (Université Notre-Dame) 

The Performance of Medieval Monophony (12th-16th centuries)

This interdisciplinary encounter aims to place monophony (single-voice chant) at the center of a conversation drawing together musicologists, liturgists, historians, art historians, and scholars of literature. Throughout the high and late medieval periods, not only music writing but also visual depictions and written accounts of singers increased steadily. In particular, the end of the Middle Ages witnessed an explosion of texts concerning "good conduct" and "proper" ways of singing, coinciding with the introduction of new media and the increased circulation of printed texts and images. This conference will focus less on the notated chant itself than on technical, pedagogical, poetic, literary, or artistic descriptions and/or representations of the practice and performance of song for one voice. Most of the contributions will be published in volume 7 of Textus & Musica. 

Location: Colégio Almada Negreiros - Universidade Nova Lisboa/CESEM

Campus de Campolide, 1099-032 LISBON

Please contact for online participation: khoefener@fcsh.unl.pt

Organizers: Kristin Hoefener (CESEM, Nova University Lisbon), CJ Jones (Notre-Dame University)

Conference Program

January 26 (Thursday): Day 1

12.30-13.00: Arrival / Coffee and Light Refreshments

13.00: Welcome by the organizers

13.15-14.45: Session 1

  • “Bodies, Music, and Text in Aquitanian versus”, Eva Moreda Rodríguez (University of Glasgow) p

  • “From Icons to Narratives and From Musical Manuscripts to Treatises: Aspects of Performance Practice and Training of the Medieval Chanter and Chantress in Byzantium”, Evangelia Spyrakou (University of Macedonia) v

  • “Performance of the teretismata and kratemata in Byzantine Chant Tradition”, Vassileios Varelas (Uppsala University) v

14.45-15.15: Coffee Break

15.15-16.45: Session 2

  • “Déceler et analyser une situation de chant dans l’iconographie médiévale (XIe-XVe siècles)”, Valérie Nunes-Le Page (Sorbonne Université) p

  • “Dominican Sisters Together in Prayer: Reading and Singing in the Portuguese Observant Reform Literature”, Gilberto Coralejo Moitero (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria) p

  • “Senhoras que cantan y no cantan caresciendo de la theorica y pratica’: Musical Theory and Liturgical Practice in the Monastery of Lorvão”, Mercedes Pérez Vidal (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) p

16.45-17.00: Short Break

17.00-18.00: Session 3

  • “Self-Description and Self-Quotation in Some Later Trouvère Songs”, Nicholas Bleisch (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) p

  • “’I did it my way’: Issues in the Performance of Medieval Melodies”, Manuel Pedro Ferreira (University Nova Lisbon) p

19.30: Conference Dinner

January 27 (Friday): Day 2

9.30-10.30: Session 4

  • “The Sound of Early Modern Leuven: Confraternities and the Demarcation of Urban Space”, Henry

Drummond (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) v

  • “Is a Synagogue Chant from the 18th and 19th Centuries Really an Example of 12th-Century Monody?”, Daniel S. Katz (University of Cologne) p

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-12.30: Session 5

  • “About the Method of Reconstruction of the Liturgical Recitative (On the Example of the Latin Manuscript Epistolary from the Russian State Library in Moscow)”, Julia Moskva (Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory) v

  • “Foray into Unknown Performance Practices: Rubrics in Byzantine Manuscripts (12th-15th c.) Describing the Chanting of Psalms”, Nina-Maria Wanek (University of Vienna) p

  • “Les chants de la ‘Psalmodia Christiana’ (1583) de Bernardino de Sahagún: Vers une reconstruction de leur interprétation musicale”, Julieta Gonzalez-Springer (University of Wrocław) p

12.30-13.30: Closing Discussion

p = present v = virtual

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