topography
Schedule

City, Chant, & the Topography of Early Music

Friday - Sunday, October 2-4, 2009
A conference in honor of Thomas Forrest Kelly

Department of Music
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-2791 musicdpt@fas.harvard.edu

Conference Schedule of Events
All events take place in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall unless otherwise noted.

Friday, October 2, 2009

1:00-4:00
Registration

 Paine Hall lobby
2:00 Introduction Christoph Wolff
2:15 Keynote:
Looking Back (and Forward) to the Middle Ages		 Craig Wright
3:00 Break: Coffee Taft Lounge
First Nights: Early Music in Paris and Rome
3:30-4:15 A First Night in Baroque Rome Iain Fenlon
4:20-5:05 Berlioz's First Nights Peter Bloom
5:10-5:30

Musical Postlude
Faure
Piano Quartet No. 1 in c minor, Op. 15
Allegro molto moderato; Scherzo, Allegro vivace; Adagio/Allegro molto
Eugene Lee '10, violin
Elizabeth Adams '10, viola
Shoshanna Fine '10, cello
Christopher Lim '10, piano

  

Saturday, October 3 2009

8:15-12:00
Registration

 Paine Hall lobby
8:15-9:00 Coffee Taft Lounge
Performance and Interpretation
9:00-9:40 Genealogies in Dalmatia and Issues in Performance Katarina Livljanic
9:45-10:25 The Contribution of Dom Jean Claire in Modal and Liturgical Studies Daniel Saulnier
10:25 Coffee Taft Lounge
The Musical Traditions of Benevento
11:00-11:40 Surge, Petre! Sets of Chants for St Peter in Benevento, Peterborough, and Some Places In Between David Hiley
11:45-12:25 Beneventan Music and Gregorian Modality Matthew Peattie
12:30 Lunch - on your own  
Chant on the Italian Peninsula
2:15-2:55 Easter Vigil Canticles from Italy Andreas Pfisterer
3:00-3:40 The Geography of Proper Tropes in Northern Italy Alejandro Planchart
3:40 Cold Drinks/Coffee Taft Lounge
The Persistence of Chant and of "Medieval" Music
4:05-4:40 Echoes from the Periphery: Rask 98, Modal Change and Oral Transmission in 17th-Century Iceland Arni Ingolfsson
4:40-5:20 Reproducing the Middle Ages in Eighteenth-Century Toledo Susan Boynton
     


Sunday, October 4 2009

8:15 Breakfast Taft Lounge
Origins of Forms and of Ideas
9:00-9:40 Ways of Singing Hexameter in Tenth Century Europe Andreas Haug
9:45-10:30 Beyond the Boundaries of Roman-Frankish Chant: Alcuin's De laude Dei and Other Early Sources Susan Rankin
10:35 Coffee Taft Lounge
French Music in the Middle Ages
10:50-11:30 The Topography of Music Theory in Paris, 900-1400

Barbara Haggh-Huglo
Michel Huglo
11:35-12:00 Closing Remarks