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The “Harpe de melodie” from a fourteenth-
century collection of music theory treatises
(Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 54.1)
EMAIG Biennial Conference
Held virtually on June 19, 23, 26, & 30, 2020
Music, Theory, and Their Sources
The Early Music Analysis Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory is proud to announce their third biennial conference, co-sponsored with the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies.
Friday, June 19
PERFORMANCE-LECTURE
Rediscovering the Renaissance Violin
David Douglass (Newberry Consort)
Live Presentation
COMPLEX COUNTERPOINT
Mean Counterpoint and Temperamental Choices in the Early Baroque
Evan Campbell (SUNY Potsdam)
Live Presentation
Mensural Rhythm and Misaligned Lovers in Machaut’s Motet 5
Henry Burnam (Yale University)
Precirculated Paper
Tuesday, June 23
ON KINGS AND QUEENS
Performing the Harp of King David: An Exegetical and Visual Study of Jacobus Senleches’ La harpe de melodie
Rachel McNellis (Library of Congress)
Precirculated Paper
Call to Swarms: Charles Butler’s Bee Song and Colonial Music Theory
Patrick Fitzgibbon (University of Chicago)
Live Presentation
Friday, June 26
(RE)TRANSMISSION
The Spanish Lux aeterna
Miriam Wendling (KU Leuven)
Live Presentation
Re-Instrumentation in ‘Komm, süßes Kreuz’
Cella Westray (Northwestern University)
Live Presentation
THE DIATONIC ACCIDENTAL
Una nota super A: hodie mi, sed heri fa
Liam Hynes-Tawa (Yale University)
Precirculated Paper
Gesualdo’s Transgressive Diatonicism
Kyle Adams (Indiana University)
Live Presentation
Tuesday, June 30
PRACTICAL THEORY, THEORETICAL PRACTICE
Vitriacan Practice as Theory
Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University)
Precirculated Paper
(Re-)Reading Music Theory for Guidance on Tempo in the Josquin Generation
Brett Kostrzewski (Boston University)
Precirculated Recording
THEORETICAL DISCOURSE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Seventeenth-Century Music Theory and Margaret Cavendish's Discourse on Materialism, 1650–1670
Yujin Jang (University of Pittsburgh)
Live Presentation (video unavailable)
Complicating the Modal Paradigm with the Music of William Byrd
Megan Kaes Long (Oberlin Conservatory)
Precirculated Recording
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Back to the Source
Rob C. Wegman (Princeton University)
Live Presentation