Organizers

• Cynthia Cyrus (Chair), Vanderbilt University, cynthia.cyrus@vanderbilt.edu
  
• Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul University elias@cs.uchicago.edu;
• William Mahrt, Stanford University mahrt@stanford.edu

Business Meeting

All interested scholars are welcome.

Session I: Medieval Music Institutions
Saturday May 4, 10:00 AM, Schneider 1225

Presider: William Mahrt, Stanford University

• Questions about scientia musica in the Thirteenth Century

  Joseph Dyer, Independent Scholar Abstract

• Music in Medieval Libraries

  Margaret Wieszczek, Laurie Music Library, Rutgers University Abstract

• The Wykehamist Colleges and Their Choirs: Rethinking the Relationship

  Beth Lee-De Amici, University of Virginia Abstract

Session II: External Influences on Performance
Saturday May 4, 1:30 PM, Bernhard 211

Presider: Elizabeth Randell Upton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

• Acoustics, Liturgy and Architecture in Medieval English cathedrals

  William. Peter Mahrt, Stanford University Abstract

• "Singing in Tune with our Creator": Reflections on Communal Performance of Amish and Gregorian Chant

  Hilde Binford, Moravian College Abstract

• What's in the "Tool Kit"? A Sociology of Music, and the Feast of Corpus Christi

  Barbara R. Walters, Kingsborough C.C., City University of New York Abstract

Session III: Text and Music in Cultural Context
Saturday May 4, 10:00 AM, Scneider 1225

Presider: Mitchell Brauner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• The Trecento Madrigal's Early Pastoral Landscape

  Nora Beck, Lewis and Clark College Abstract

• When the Story is a Song: Connections of Romances and Villancicos in Fifteenth-Century Spain

  Deborah Lawrence, Peabody Institute Abstract

• Politics and Intertextuality in English Motets of the Early 15^th Century

  J. Michael Allsen, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Abstract

• Mundy's Vox patris caelestis and the Assumption of the Virgin

  Kerry McCarthy, Stanford University Abstract

Session IV: Politics and Spirituality in Thirteenth-Century Sacred Music
Sunday May 5, 10:30 AM, Bernard 211

Presider: Cathy Ann Elias

• The Eve/Mary Parallel: The Missing Link in the Montpellier Codex”

  Kristina Lobenhofer Peabody Institute Abstract

• Li Abai de Pensee: The Imagery and Origins of the Montpellier Codex

  Catherine Parsoneault, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Abstract

• The Office in the Rheinland in the 12^th and 13^th Century

  Michael McGrade, Brandeis University Abstract

This is an informal compilation. We apologize for any omissions.

The International Machaut Society has 3 sessions at Kalamazoo. Session 235, Friday 10:00 AM Machaut and His Intellectual Milieu, Session 296, Friday 1:30: Machaut and Dissonance, and Session 356 Friday 3:30PM Teaching Machaut.

The Wednesday, Thursday and Friday music and film sessions. For details, see the conference program

Session 29: Thursday 10:00AM, Fetzer 1010. The Music of the Liturgical Office: Directions in Research. Program.

Session 115: Thursday 1:30PM Bernhard 208 . Medieval Song. Program.

Session 179: Thursday 3:30PM Bernhard 179. So You Bought a Chant Leaf, Now What? A Workshop on Medieval Music for the Non-Specialist Program.

Session 231: Friday 10:00AM Schneider 1160 The Beauvais Daniel: a Roundtable Discussion. Program.

Session 329: Friday 3:30PM Sangren 3217 How Did Songs of the Troubadours Come Down to Us? A Roundtable Discussion of Compilatio: Lyric Texts and Prose Commentaries in Troubadour Manuscript H(Vat. Lat. 3207) by Elizabeth W. Poe. Program.

Fri. 5:30 P.M. Fetzer 1055: Sacred Sound/Sacred Healing
Healing with the Chants of Hildegard von Bingen: A Live Demonstration Norma Gentile, Soprano and Sound Healer

Session 399: Saturday 10:00AM Fetzer 1005. Hidegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum. Program

Session 517: Saturday 3:30PM Fetzer 2030. Tristan in the Arts. Program

Session 546: Sunday 10:00AM Fetzer 1045 Hans Sachs and His Time Meister, Schaenke, Theater II Program.

Cynthia Cyrus will give a talk at Session 179 on Looking at (and Making Sense of) Medieval Music

Cathy Ann Elias will give a talk at Session 491 Giovanni Sercambi: Between Chronicle and Novella on Musical Performances in Sercambi's Novelliere and Chronicle.