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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
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Music, Theory, and Their Sources
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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.
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Friday, June 19
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PERFORMANCE-LECTURE
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Rediscovering the Renaissance Violin
David Douglass (Newberry Consort)
Live Presentation
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COMPLEX COUNTERPOINT
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Mean Counterpoint and Temperamental Choices in the Early Baroque
Evan Campbell (SUNY Potsdam)
Live Presentation
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Mensural Rhythm and Misaligned Lovers in Machaut’s Motet 5
Henry Burnam (Yale University)
Precirculated Paper
Tuesday, June 23
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ON KINGS AND QUEENS
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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
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Call to Swarms: Charles Butler’s Bee Song and Colonial Music Theory
Patrick Fitzgibbon (University of Chicago)
Live Presentation
Friday, June 26
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(RE)TRANSMISSION
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The Spanish Lux aeterna
Miriam Wendling (KU Leuven)
Live Presentation
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Re-Instrumentation in ‘Komm, süßes Kreuz’
Cella Westray (Northwestern University)
Live Presentation
THE DIATONIC ACCIDENTAL
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Una nota super A: hodie mi, sed heri fa
Liam Hynes-Tawa (Yale University)
Precirculated Paper
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Gesualdo’s Transgressive Diatonicism
Kyle Adams (Indiana University)
Live Presentation
Tuesday, June 30
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PRACTICAL THEORY, THEORETICAL PRACTICE
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Vitriacan Practice as Theory
Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University)
Precirculated Paper
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(Re-)Reading Music Theory for Guidance on Tempo in the Josquin Generation
Brett Kostrzewski (Boston University)
Precirculated Recording
THEORETICAL DISCOURSE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
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Seventeenth-Century Music Theory and Margaret Cavendish's Discourse on Materialism, 1650–1670
Yujin Jang (University of Pittsburgh)
Live Presentation (video unavailable)
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Complicating the Modal Paradigm with the Music of William Byrd
Megan Kaes Long (Oberlin Conservatory)
Precirculated Recording
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
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Back to the Source
Rob C. Wegman (Princeton University)
Live Presentation
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