Conference on Medieval Song

The Faculty of Music, St Aldate’s, Oxford
on Saturday, 28 April 2007, 10 am to 5 pm

10 – 10.15	Arrival and Registration
10.15 – 11.15	Emma Hornby, ‘Genre definitions as knowledge construction in liturgical and non-liturgical repertories’ Sam Barrett, ‘Ways of singing Boethian metra in the early Middle Ages: the case of Si quantas rapidis’
	~ Coffee ~
11.45 – 12.45	Andreas Bücker, ‘Reichenau saints tropes and 10th-century theology’ Manuel Pedro Ferreira, ‘Understanding the Cantigas: preliminary steps’
	~ Break for lunch ~
2.15 – 3.15	Elizabeth Eva Leach, ‘Motet, balade and compositional authority: Machaut’s polytextual songs’ Mary O’Neill, ‘From book to song: semiotics, rhetoric and performance in medieval vernacular song’
	~ Tea ~
3.45 – 4.45	Mark Everist, ‘Motets, French tenors and the polyphonic chanson c1300’ Round Table (chair: Helen Deeming), ‘The future of medieval song scholarship’
4.45	Closing remarks

The conference will be followed at 5pm by the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society AGM.

For further information, please contact Helen Deeming (h.deeming(at)soton.ac.uk)