PMMS Annual Conference
Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, 10 March 2012
Music and Death before 1650
We are delighted to invite you to the 2012 Conference and Annual General Meeting, to be held in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, on 10 March 2012. The fee will be £20/£10 concessions, with free entry for members of the Society.
Schedule
10.00 - Chant (John Harper, chair)
Alexander Lingas, 'Commemoration of the Dead in Medieval Byzantine Chant'
Matthew Cheung Salisbury, 'The Office of the Dead in Late Medieval England: Sources, Variants, Performance'
11.00 - Tea and Coffee
11.30 - Laments, Death Songs, Elegies (Lisa Colton, chair)
Leofranc Holford-Strevens, 'The Tombeau before the Tombeau: Laments for the Death of Musicians'
Katherine Butler, 'Singing about Death in Elizabethan Court Culture'
12.30 - Lunch
14.00 - Annual General Meeting
15.00 - Tea and Coffee
15.30 - Polyphony (Thomas Schmidt-Beste, chair)
Margaret Bent, 'Ockeghem's Requiem'
Fabrice Fitch, 'The "Motet Chanson": Death and/of a Genre'
Owen Rees, 'Victoria's Officium defunctorum and the Exequies of the Empress Maria of Austria'
Registration in advance of the day should be carried out online, at the link which follows. Payment can be made on the day upon registration.
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