Medieval Latin Song from c.800 to c.1200

Old Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge

A one-day interdisciplinary conference dedicated to Latin song not routinely performed in the liturgy from the Carolingian era through to the New Song repertories recorded from c. 1100 onwards. The opening address is given by Professor C. Stephen Jaeger and the concluding paper by Professor David Ganz. Invited papers will be given by scholars of medieval music based at the Universities of Cambridge and Würzburg.

In the evening from 7:30pm, a concert of recently reconstructed songs from Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy will be given by Benjamin Bagby, Hanna Marti and Norbert Rodenkirchen. A pre-concert talk on the processes of reconstruction will by given by Sam Barrett at 7pm.

Programme

9:30am: Opening Address

Stephen Jaeger – 'Music of Mankind (Musica Humana) and its Place in Early Medieval Education'

Coffee

10:45-12:30pm: Carolingian Song

Sam Barrett – 'The Earliest Songbook from St Gall?'

Elaine Stratton Hild – 'Articulations of Verse and Uses of Notation in Sankt Gallen’s Pedagogical Manuscripts'

Susan Rankin – 'Carolingian Song Notations'

Lunch

2:00-2:30pm: Roundtable: Songs in Unexpected Places

2:45-4:15pm – Nova cantica

David Catalunya – 'Aquitanian Sources of 11th- and 12th-century Latin Song Reconsidered'

Konstantin Voigt – 'Reconsidering the “New Song”: Traditional verse-forms and the historiographic concept of textual and musical “individuality” in 12th century latin liturgical songs'

Tea

4:30-5:15pm             

David Ganz – 'Pneuma: A Word and Its Meanings'

7:00pm  Pre-Concert Talk by Sam Barrett

7:30pm  Concert by Sequentia: Boethius’ Songs of Consolation