[AMS-announce] CONF: City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music (in honor of Thomas Forrest Kelly), Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Oct 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music
Friday-Sunday, October 2-4, 2009

A conference in honor of Thomas Forrest Kelly

Registration: http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/chant.html

Cultural landscape and geography have transformed the history of Western music from its earliest manifestations to the present day. The conference City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music brings together 17 major scholars and
performers to explore ways that space, urban life, landscape, and time revolutionized plainchant and other musical forms. The conference honors and builds upon Thomas Forrest Kelly's work in keeping cultural, geographic, and
political factors close to the heart of the musicology of chant, early music, and beyond. Two papers complement Kelly's scholarly and pedagogical interests by investigating the role of the city in the premieres of works composed long after the end of the Middle Ages.

Keynote Address: Craig Wright, "Looking Back (and Forward) to the Middle Ages"

Presenters: Peter Bloom, Susan Boynton, Virginia Brown, Marie-Noel Collette, Iain Fenlon, Barbara Haggh-Huglo, Andreas Haug, David Hiley, Michel Huglo, Arni Heimir Ingolfsson, Katarina Livljanic, Matthew Peattie, Andreas Pfisterer, Alejandro Planchart, Susan Rankin, and Dom Daniel Saulnier.

Conference registration required. Details at

http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/chant.html

Questions? contact musicdpt at fas.harvard.edu