[AMS-announce] JOB: Research Fellow, Alamire Foundation

[Announcements for the AMS]

JOB VACANCY: RESEARCH FELLOW, ALAMIRE FOUNDATION, KATHOLIEKE
UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, Belgium

The Alamire Foundation, International Centre for the Study of Music in
the Low Countries, was established in 1991 at the musicology section
of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The Foundation undertakes and
coordinates musicological research into the music history of the Low
Countries during the Ancien Regime.

Description of the research project and vacancy
>From the early Middle Ages until the end of the Ancien Régime
(10th-18th c.), liturgical plainchant was omnipresent in the musical
life of Europe. Even though the Southern Low Countries played a
significant role in the development and dissemination of the chant
repertory, and still keeps an important amount of chant manuscripts, a
complete and reliable inventory of the sources is not available. For
the office chant in particular, however, such an inventory is of prime
importance. Therefore, a new project will undertake the composition of
an inventory of all antiphoner manuscripts kept in Flanders.
Applications are invited for a research fellow to inventory and to
describe the antiphoners according to the international description
standards, to participate in the (selective) digitization of the
earliest and most important antiphoners, and to contribute to making
the results of the project known through lectures, publications, and
workshops.

Job description
- drawing up an overview of antiphoners in Flemish collections on the
basis of extant catalogues, and through contacts with private
manuscript owners
- studying and describing the manuscripts on their locations
- describing each antiphoner in RISM and in the Cantus Source List
- indexing the most important antiphoners for the Cantus Database
- collaborating on the digitization of the most important antiphoners
- consulting researchers on similar projects abroad (RISM, Cantus
Source List and Database, 
)
- presenting the results of the project on an academic level, to
archivists and librarians, to musicians and ensembles, and to the
wider public
- conferring and collaborating with fellow researchers and colleagues
of the Alamire Foundation
- conferring with and reporting to the project promoter

Profile
Candidates should
- hold a master or doctoral degree in musicology (or a similar degree
in history or theology, specialization Middle Ages)
- have a basic knowledge of chant, early music and liturgy, or be
prepared to acquire this basis through study
- have a good knowledge of Latin
- have a fascination for (medieval) manuscripts; by preference,
notions of (music) palaeography and some experience in working with
manuscripts
- be familiar with the most important printed and on line catalogues
for manuscripts and music (RISM, Cantus, library catalogues)
- be communicative, and work autonomously and accurately

We offer
- full-time employment
- immediate commencement of employment
- employment for a period of three years (one year, with two yearly
extensions)

How to apply?
Interested? Please send a full and detailed résumé, accompanied with a
letter of motivation to bart.demuyt at alamirefoundation.be or Bart
Demuyt, Director, Alamire Foundation, Parijsstraat 72B, B-3000 Leuven,
Belgium. Applications are expected before August 26, 2008.

For more information about the project, please contact dr. Pieter
Mannaerts (pieter.mannaerts at arts.kuleuven.be)
For more information about the Alamire Foundation, please see
www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire