Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe

This two-day conference explores how people engaged with books containing music in early modern Europe as part of the ongoing project DORMEME: Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe. Its aim is to bring together scholars of music, books, and history to examine divisions between material and textual, visible and audible, and print and manuscript. We will bring the music book into conversation with wider book culture and address the distinction between the music book solely as a tool for performance and as a material text inviting myriad interactions. By looking beyond these artificial distinctions, we hope to advance our knowledge of musical and non-musical literacy, the practical applications of books, and of the people who used them.

A conference dinner will take place at Busaba restaurant in Covent Garden on Monday 11^th May. If you wish to attend the dinner, please reserve a place when you register for the conference, but note that the conference dinner will be charged individually on the night and attendees will be invited to order from the à la carte menu.

This is an in-person conference, but there is an option to audit the papers remotely. Please contact Louisa Hunter-Bradley at louisa.hunter-bradley@kcl.ac.uk before the 13th April if you would like to be able to do so.

Conference registration will close on Sunday 12th April.

Provisional Programme

Monday 11^th May

10.15am Registration

10.45am Welcome

11am Panel 1
Fabio Morabito, ‘Views of the Annotator’
Stefan Gasch, ‘Musical Marginalia and What We Can Learn from Them: Contributions to a Repertoire History of the Sixteenth Century’
Iain Fenlon, ‘A Hidden Sammelband from Seville’

12.30pm Lunch

1.30pm Panel 2
Andrew Woolley, ‘The Use of Instrumental Tablatures in Early Modern Portugal and Spain’
Katherine Butler, ‘Annotations and the Printed Catch Book: Orality and Print in Early Seventeenth-Century Catch-Singing'
Daniel Koplitz, ‘Marking Continental Music Treatises in Tudor England’

3pm Break

3.30pm Panel 3
Matthew Gouldstone and Conor Sinclair, ‘Caelorum Imitatur Concentum: Imitation as Progress’
Nicolò Ferrari and Thomas Schmidt, ‘Printed Music in the Fondo Capella Sistina in the Sixteenth Century’

5pm Break

5.15pm Keynote
Jennifer Richards and Henry Woudhuysen in conversation

7pm Conference dinner

Tuesday 12^th May

9.30am Panel 4
Hennry Drummond, ‘Catholic Printed Music in Calvinist Contexts’
Riccardo Pintus, ‘When in Milan Do as the Milanese Do: Vincenzo Pellegrini’s Requiem Adaptation to the Ambrosian Rite’
Katherine Emery, ‘Liturgical Libraries: A Musical History of the Reformation'

11am Break

11.30am Panel 5
Paul Newton-Jackson, ‘Owning Polyphonic Latin Masses in Post-Reformation Scotland'
Ferran Escrivà Llorca, ‘Diplomatic Passages: Music Books and Material Exchange in the Habsburg World (c. 1570–1620)’
Michael Noone, ‘Corrections, Annotations and Facsimile Repairs in the Printed Choirbooks of Sebastián de Vivanco (+1622)’

1pm Lunch

2pm Panel 6
Ana López Suero, ‘A Psalter for the Spanish Reformation: Users, Practices, and Identities in the Cinquenta Psalmos by Pedro de Coster'
Magnus Williamson, ‘Occupational Musicians Engaging with Printed Books Before the Reformation: The Sarum Processional’
Karl Traugott Goldbach, ‘A Copy of Landgrave Moritz of Hesse's Hymnal Books Belonging to the Village Church in Crumbach’

3.30pm Break

4–5pm Future Directions
RISM and DORMEME teams