The International Musicological Colloquium begins today

12 October 2015, 4:00
The International Musicological Colloquium begins today

On the premises of the Department of Musicology a jubilee fiftieth International Musicological Colloquium begins today. In connection with the recent discovery of two manuscripts of Renaissance polyphony in the Saint James Church in Brno, this year is dedicated to the 15th and 16th century music culture. A concert of the ensemble Societas Incognitorum will take place within the Colloquium.

Within the next three days more than twenty scholars from seven European countries will give lectures on repertoire and musical practice of the Renaissance period on the premises of the Department of Musicology. The concert of the Societas Incognitorum mentioned above will take place on Tuesday 13th October at 7 p.m. at Saint Joseph’s Church. A truly unique programme will be heard: Lutheran mass in Renaissance Prague by Hans Leo Hassler and Johann Knefl. The languages of communication used within the colloquium are English and German; there is no admission fee to the colloquium and the concert. The colloquium begins today, i.e. on 12th October at 9.30 a.m. in class N21 at the Department of Musicology on Janáček Square in Brno.

Programme:

Monday, 12th October

09.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.15 Opening ceremony

Chair: Jiří Sehnal

10.15-10.45   Veselovská, Eva                   An der Grenze der Kulturen. Böhmische Elemente in den spätmittelalterlichen Musikhandschriften in der Slowakei.

10.45-11.15   Czagány, Zsuzsa                    Böhmische Einflüsse im spätmittelalterlichen Handschriftencorpus der Waradiner Kathedrale

11.15-11.45   Kiss, Gábor                             Mixing Local and Regional, Traditional and Non-traditional Elements: the Case of the Graduale Wladislai

11.45-12.15   Papp, Ágnes                           Der tonus peregrinus in Theorie und Praxis. Gegenüberstellung spätmittelalterlicher musiktheoretischer Kompendien und Choralhandschriften

Chair: Stefan Gasch

14.00-14.30   Červenka, Stanislav           Die einstimmigen lateinischen Messegesänge in der Reformations- und Gegenreformationszeit in Mähren und deren liturgischen Betrieb

14.30-15.00   Škvařil, Lumír                    Liturgical manuscripts with Musical Notation in a Collection from the Church of St. James in Brno

15.00-15.30   Baťová, Eliška                      Lukas von Prag als Begründer der brüderischen Hymnographie

15.30-16.00   Gancarczyk, Paweł             Manuscript CZ-UO A 3: New Dating – New Perspectives

16.15-18.00 Discussion:                             Coexistence and Mutual Inspiration between Plainchant and Polyphony during the 15th and 16th centuries

19.30                                                            Social event / Institute of Musicology

Tuesday, October 13th

Chair: Lenka Hlávková

09.30-10.00   Horyna, Martin                 Mehrstimmige Musik in Böhmen und Mähren in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts im Lichte der nach dem Jahre 1990 neu gefundenen Quellen.

10.00-10.30   Maňas, Vladimír                The Local Context of the Brno Manuscripts: Space, Sources and the Liturgy around 1550

10.30-11.00   Schreurs, Eugeen               An Unknown Mass by Antoine Brumel from Brno?

11.15-11.45   Studeničová, Hana               Antoine und Robert de Fevin: Ihre Messen in Brünner Manuskripts BAM1

11.45-12.15   Kos, Grzegorz                        Arrangements of Mass Sections by Heinrich Finck in Polish Organ Tablatures

Chair: Petr Daněk

14.00-14.30   Leszczynska, Agnieszka    Liturgical Function and Gregorian chant in Music by Paulus Bucenus

14.30-15.00   Hulková, Marta                  Die Messen im Tabulaturbuch von Johann Plotz und ihre Verwendung in der Liturgie des evangelischen Gottesdienstes

15.00-15.30   Schmid, Bernhold                          Das „Gaudeamus omnes“-Zitat in Orlando di Lassos Motette Nunc gaudere licet und sein Kontext – Aspekte der geistlichen Parodie bei Orlando di Lasso

16.15-18.00 Discussion:                             The Reformation and its Impact on Musical Institutions and Performance in Central Europe in the 16th century

19.00                                                                       Concert: Societas Incognitorum. Sacred Works by Hassler and Knöfel / Church of St. Joseph

Wednesday, October 14th

Chairman: Hermann Jung

9.30-10.00   Desmet, Marc                       « Ut omni tempore inservire queant »… 
a reflection on the structure of Jacobus Handl’sOpus Musicumand its link with a liturgical context

10.00-10.30  Baťa, Jan                             Remarks on the Festivities of the Golden Fleece Order in Prague (1585)

10.30-11.00   Bilwachs, Jan                                  Überlieferung der Carl Luythons Motette Bellum insigne in Stimmbücher von Rokycany

11.00-11.30   Žáčková, Michaela              “…questo Bassista è buona persona…” The End of the Imperial Musicians’ Service

11.30-12.00   Edwards, Scott                    Dripping with Honey: Extravagance and Uncertainty in a Set of Early Seventeenth-Century Moravian Partbooks

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