UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

A CMRS Ahmanson Conference
“Music and the Technology of the Written Text: A New Codicology for the Middle Ages”

Friday, November 6, 2009
Royce Hall 314, UCLA

1 pm - Welcoming Remarks
Brian P. Copenhaver, Director, UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Elizabeth Upton (Musicology, UCLA)

1:15 pm - Ardis Butterfield (University College London)
“Note on a Note”

2:00 pm - Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University / Dumbarton Oaks)
“Vergil, Peter Abelard, and the End of Neumes”

2:45 pm - Break

3:00 pm - Cynthia Cyrus (Vanderbilt University)
“We Call Them Sources . . .”

3:45 pm - Jane Alden (Wesleyan University)
“Rhetorical Voices: Secretarial Dialogue in Fifteenth-Century Chansonniers”

4:30 pm - Break

4:45 pm - Concert by UCLA Sounds Early Music Ensemble
“Scales Secret: Notation, Notation, Notation”
Martha Cowan (UCLA, CMRS), Director

Saturday, November 7, 2009
Royce Hall 314, UCLA

8:30 am - Coffee

9:00 am - Jennifer Saltzstein (University of Oklahoma)
“Masters of Song: Clerical Identity in Songbooks from Thirteenth-Century Artois”

9:45 am - Alison Stones (University of Pittsburgh)
“Some Thirteenth-Century French Music Manuscripts and their Artistic Context”

10:30 am - Break

10:45 am - Judith Peraino (Cornell University)
“Changing the Subject: The Lyric Voice in the Chansonnier de Noailles”

11:30 am - Anne D. Hedeman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“Advising France Through the Example of England: Visual Narrative in the Livre de la prinse et mort du roy Richart (British Library Harley 1319)”

12:15 pm- Lunch break

1:30 pm - Dorothy Kim (Vassar College)
“Making English Notes in Thirteenth-Century Multilingual Miscellanies”

2:15 pm - Anne Bagnall Yardley (Drew University)
“What Difference Does Music Make? Chant in the Book of Hours”

3:00 pm - Break

3:15 pm - Jennifer Miller (UC Berkeley)
“The cantus of Thomas of Hales”

4:00 pm - Matthew Fisher (UCLA)
“Taunts, Tail-Rhyme, and Thomas Wright: Reconsidering the Politics of Song in England”

4:45 pm - Closing Remarks

Advance registration is not required. No admission fee. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.