Medieval Latin Song from c. 800 to c. 1200
Saturday 2 July – Old Library , Pembroke College
9:30am Opening Address
Stephen Jaeger- Music of Mankind (Musica Humana) and its Place in Early Medieval Education
Coffee
10:45-12:30pm Carolingian Song
Sam Barrett – The Earliest Songbook from St Gall?
Elaine Stratton Hild-Articulations of Verse and Uses of Notation in Sankt Gallen’s Pedagogical Manuscripts
Susan Rankin – Carolingian Song Notations
Lunch
2-2:30pm- Roundtable: Songs in Unexpected Places
2:45-4:15pm- Nova cantica
David Catalunya – Aquitanian Sources of 11th- and 12th-century Latin Song Reconsidered
Konstantin Voigt – Reconsidering the “New Song”: Traditional verse-forms and the historiographic concept of textual and musical “individuality” in 12th century latin liturgical songs
Tea
4:30-5:15pm
David Ganz – Pneuma: A Word and Its Meanings
7pm Pre-Concert Talk by Sam Barrett
7:30pm Concert by Sequentia: Boethius’ Songs of Consolation