Schedule

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote

Naturally International: French Song in the Early Thirteenth Century

Sarah Kay (New York University)

10:45 – 11:45 Birds & Desire:

The Wings of Desire

Eliza Zingesser (Columbia University)

Imagining Nightingales in Old French Narrative and Song: Sound and Image

Morgan Dickson (Université de Picardie)

12 – 1 Performing Desire:

Music, Dance, and Desire in Thirteenth-Century French Narrative and Society

Matthew P Thomson (University College, Dublin)

Singing ‘en haut’ in the thirteenth-century crusades

Joseph W. Mason (University of Oxford)

1:45 – 2:45 Song in Literature

Translating the Bible as French Romance or Geste: Performance as a Mode of Cultural Mediation

Laura Chuhan Campbell (Durham University)

« le primer vers noter par chant »: Gaimar, Davit and sung narrative in the early 12th c.

Tricia Postle (University of Cambridge)

3 – 4 Reception of French Song

‘si videlte ir stampenîe, leiche und sô vremediu notelîn...in franzoiser wîse’:
French fiddles and German leiche c.1200 - c.1300
Richard Robinson (University of Cambridge)

Listening to Therapy: The Remède de Fortune, Embodied Performance and Structure

Uri Smilansky (University of Oxford)

4:15 – 5:15 Chansonniers and Lost Songs

Empty Staves as Traces of Lost Vernacular Songs and Sources

Nicholas Bleisch (Universiteit Leuven)

A poet between two homelands: the vernacular tradition of Philippe de Rémi's songs in 13th century France and Britain

Anna Arató (Ecole normale supérieur, BN Paris)

5:30 – 6 Towards Performance

Imagining the rhythms of French medieval narrative and song:
what some notationless musical traditions of today can tell us
Warwick Edwards (University of Glasgow)