Event Programme

On the relationship of imitation and text treatment? The Motet around 1500

International Musicological Conference, Bangor University

Thursday 29 March

14:00 Opening remarks

On the relationship between imitation and text treatment – some general questions

Chair: tba

14:15       Julie Cumming (Montreal)
Text Setting and Imitative Technique in Petrucci’s First Five Motet Prints
14:50       Sean Gallagher (Harvard)
Petrucci’s Motetti a cinque and the Five-Voice Motet circa 1500
15:25       Jeffrey Dean (Manchester)
The Incomprehensibilia Composer and the Invention of the Subject
16:00     Coffee break

Text declamation

Chair: tba

16:30       Warwick Edwards (Glasgow)
Text Treatment and the Humanistic Fallacy
17:05       Stephen Rice (Oxford)
Reverse Accentuation
17:40       Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford)
The Latin Texts of Regis’ Motets
18:45     Reception

Friday 30 March

Composer studies I: Burgundy and the Low Countries

Chair: tba

9:00         Rob Wegman (Princeton)
The Motets of Matheus Pipelare
9.35       Mary Natvig (Bowling Green)
Imitation in the Motets of Antoine Busnoys
10.10       Philip Weller (Nottingham)
Some Ways of the Motet – Obrecht and Others
10.45     Coffee break
11:15     Keynote Address:
Joshua Rifkin (Boston)
A Black Hole? The Problem of the Motet Around 1500

12.30     Lunch

Josquin Desprez

Chair: tba

14:00       Bonnie Blackburn (Oxford)
New Thoughts on Josquin’s Huc me sydereo
14.35       John Milsom (Oxford)
Virgo salutiferi and the Combinative Impulse
15:10       Paula Higgins (Nottingham)
Of Mice and Manhood: Discourses of Aesthetic Excess in the Reception of Planxit autem David
15.45       Jaap Van Benthem (Utrecht)
A Triumph of Symbiosis: Angelo Poliziano, Josquin des Prez, and the Motet O Virgo prudentissima

16.20 Coffee break

On the periphery?

Chair: tba

16.45 Lenka Mračkova (Prague)
Motet Style and Structure in Central Europe around 1490. Some Remarks on selected Pieces from the Codex Speciálník
17:20 Kenneth Kreitner (Memphis)
Spain Discovers the Motet

20:00 Concert: The Brabant Ensemble,
dir. Stephen Rice
St Mary’s Church, Caernarfon

Saturday 31 March

Composer studies II: France

Chair: tba

9:30         John T. Brobeck (Tucson)
Antoine de Févin and the Origins of the “Parisian Motet”
10:05       David Fallows (Manchester)
Pierre Moulu’s Mater floreat florescat
10:40       Marie-Alexis Colin (Montreal)
The Motets of Mathieu Gascongne

11:15     Coffee Break

Composer studies III: Italy and Germany

Chair: tba

11:45       Daniele Filippi (Cremona)
Text, Form and Style in Franchino Gaffurio’s Motets
12:20       Adam Gilbert (Los Angeles)
Ludwig Senfl’s Motet Sancte pater divumque and his Musical Patrimony

13:00     Lunch

Text and context

Chair: tba

14:30       Jane Hatter (Montreal)
Reflecting on the Rosary: Marian Motets in the Early Sixteenth Century
15:05       Remi Chiu (Montreal)
You have wounded my heart! Song of Songs, Motets, and the Wound of Desire
15:40       Melanie Wald (Zürich)
Semantics of the cantus firmus

16:15     Coffee break

Influence and Intertextuality

Chair: tba

16:40       Murray Steib (Muncie)
The Old Guard Goes to School: Josquin’s Influence on Johannes Martini
17:15       Jennifer Thomas (Gainesville)
The Quem dicunt homines Complex: A Case Study in imitatio
17:50       Christian Thomas Leitmeir (Bangor)
Josquin and Mouton

20:00 Conference Dinner: location tba

Sunday 1 April

Technical Questions

Chair: tba

9:30         Patrick Macey (Rochester)
Aspects of Dissonance Treatment in Motets for Five and Six Voices, ca. 1500
10:05       Timothy Pack (Eugene)
Ostinato-Tenor Motet Composition, ca. 1500
10:40       Stefano Mengozzi (Ann Arbor)
Josquin and the Hexachord: A View from Ut Phoebi radiis

11:15     Coffee break

Outlooks

Chair: tba

11:40       Richard Wexler (College Park)
The Repertory in the Medici Codex
12:15       Laura Youens (Washington)
A Re-Examination Of The Motet-Chanson

12:50       Closing Remark

For registration and further information please contact:-

Professor Thomas Schmidt-Beste
School of Music
Bangor University
Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2DG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1248-382181

Email:mus205@bangor.ac.uk