Medieval History
- First Performance In 400 Years For Medieval Passover Music
Jewish high school students in Toronto, Canada, will sing two pieces of medieval music from the Passover Seder at their ?Sounds of Spring? Musical Concert. This is probably the first time in almost four hundred years that the music has been performed....
- Father James Boyce Passes Away At Age 60
Father James Boyce, an important scholar of medieval liturgy and music, has passed away after an illness. He was 60 years old. He was the chair of the Department of Music and Art History and a professor of music at Fordham University. Father Boyce began...
- Cfp: Music & Liturgy: In Memory Of Clyde Brockett; Music Analysis; Music, Text, And Image; Musical Sources And Materiality; Music And The Medieval Soundscape
The program committee for Musicology at Kalamazoo (Anna Kathryn Grau, Cathy Ann Elias, Daniel DiCenso) invites abstracts for the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 12-15, 2016. The topics include: Music & Liturgy: In Memory of Clyde...
- 3rd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium On Manuscript Studies In The Digital Age
3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE November 19-20, 2010 Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department...
- 3rd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium On Manuscript Studies In The Digital Age
3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE November 19-20, 2010 Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department...
Medieval History
?In Search of Lost Sound: Recovering Musical Experience from the Medieval Past
The UCLA Department of Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series is pleased to announce a talk by Professor Elizabeth Randell Upton, Assistant Professor of Musicology, UCLA.
?In Search of Lost Sound: Recovering Musical Experience from the Medieval Past?
Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 4:00pm
1440 Schoenberg Music Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Reception to follow in the SMB Green Room.
Abstract:
In her new book, Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2012), Professor Elizabeth Randell Upton asks how we can learn about the experience of music in the past even in the absence of explicit contemporary documents. Traditionally, polyphonic songs have been treated as purely aesthetic creations, and musicologists have looked for information about performance context primarily in non-musical historical documents rather than in the notated manuscript scores of the songs. In this talk Professor Upton explains how by re-conceptualizing these scores as preserving the material traces of a cultural process involving composer, performers, and listeners, they can be analyzed to reveal heretofore overlooked evidence of the negotiated transactions between these different actors. This evidence can then be used to illuminate the original performance context of the songs, as well as adding to our reconstruction of lost sounding phenomena.
The Distinguished Lecture Series is organized by graduate students in the Department of Musicology. Each year, we invite a number of outstanding scholars from this country and abroad to participate. Sponsored by the Musicology Graduate Student Society, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the Department of Musicology, the content of lectures reflects the interests of visitors, faculty, and students, and has embraced diverse subjects pertaining to the study of music. For more information and to find out about upcoming lectures, please visit our website: http://uclamusicologydls.wordpress.com or email us at uclamusicologydls(at)gmail.com. You can also find us on Facebook.
We hope you will join us on the 24th.
- First Performance In 400 Years For Medieval Passover Music
Jewish high school students in Toronto, Canada, will sing two pieces of medieval music from the Passover Seder at their ?Sounds of Spring? Musical Concert. This is probably the first time in almost four hundred years that the music has been performed....
- Father James Boyce Passes Away At Age 60
Father James Boyce, an important scholar of medieval liturgy and music, has passed away after an illness. He was 60 years old. He was the chair of the Department of Music and Art History and a professor of music at Fordham University. Father Boyce began...
- Cfp: Music & Liturgy: In Memory Of Clyde Brockett; Music Analysis; Music, Text, And Image; Musical Sources And Materiality; Music And The Medieval Soundscape
The program committee for Musicology at Kalamazoo (Anna Kathryn Grau, Cathy Ann Elias, Daniel DiCenso) invites abstracts for the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 12-15, 2016. The topics include: Music & Liturgy: In Memory of Clyde...
- 3rd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium On Manuscript Studies In The Digital Age
3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE November 19-20, 2010 Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department...
- 3rd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium On Manuscript Studies In The Digital Age
3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE November 19-20, 2010 Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department...