Lost & Found: Traces of Early Music

An International Colloquium on Fragmentology

Cascais, Portugal  | 19-22 July 2023

Programme

Day 1 - Wednesday, 19 July

17:00 - 18:00   Opening session

18:00 - 19:00   Keynote 1

Susan Rankin

Fragment Opportunities

   19:00          Reception cocktail


Day 2 - Thursday, 20 July

09:30 - 11:00   Session 1

Zsuzsa Czagány

Fragments at a Crossroad of Disciplines. Traces of Lost Music Manuscripts from Medieval Hungary

Aleksandra Pister

Tiny Fragments of a Huge Celebration: Uniate Chants from 17th-Century Vilnius

Francesca Mignogna

Baroque Work as a Virtual Work. A Linguistic-Based Analytical Theory as a Tool for Reconstructing and Re-Actualizing Polyphonic Works

11:00 - 11:30   Refreshments

11:30 - 13:00   Session 2

Bernadette Nelson

Contextualising a Polyphonic Fragment: The Salve regina by ‘Dom Bento’ in Coimbra MM 12

João Pedro d'Alvarenga

Fragmentary Motets in Coimbra Sources from the 1570s

David Hackston

The Magnificats from P-Cug MM 31: Towards a Reconstruction

13:00 - 15:00   Lunch break

15:00 - 16:00   Keynote 2

Owen Rees

Extrapolating from Fragments: A Portuguese Case Study

16:00 - 16:30   Refreshments

16:30 - 18:30   Session 3

Eszter Göbölösné Gaál

Musical-Liturgical Fragments in the Ráday Collection in Budapest

Anna de Bakker

Reflected and Refracted: A Fragment Collection from Trier

Giulio Minniti

How Does a ‘Book of Fragments’ Look Like? Reflections on Vatican City, Vat. Lat. 10645

Giovanni Varelli

Eighteenth-Century Musical Fragmentology and Early-Modern Musical Historiography

   20:00          Colloquium dinner

Day 3 - Friday, 21 July

10:00 - 11:00   Session 4

Peter Urquhart

Recovering the 4-ex-2 Canon

Pedro Sousa Silva

The Negative Canon – Resolving a 4-Part Canon by Brumel

11:00 - 11:30   Refreshments

11:30 - 13:00   Session 5

David Fallows

The Lost Years of the Virelai: How Fragments Help to Fill the Gap

Andrew Woolley

When Musical Fragments Are Not Fragments: On the Extracting and Recombining of Sections from Existing Instrumental Compositions in P-Cug MM 242 and Luis Venegas de Henestrosa’s Libro de Cifra Nueva (1557)

Nuno de Mendonça Raimundo and Ana Silva Sousa

A Proposed New Approach for the Reconstitution of Missing Voice-Parts in Seventeenth-Century Polyphonic Music

13:00 - 15:00   Lunch break

15:00 - 16:00   Keynote 3

Debra Lacoste

Lost, then Found in Canada

16:00 - 16:30   Refreshments

16:30 - 18:30   Session 6

Manuel Pedro Ferreira

Fragments and Places: Establishing Connections

Giulio Minniti

Rare Iberian Responsory Verses in Portuguese Fragments

Diogo Alte da Veiga

New Insights into a 13th-Century Fragmentary Breviary: The Case of Porto 1151

Carla Crespo

Ordinary Chants in Portuguese Fragments: Kyrie and Sanctus Tropes

   21:30          Concert at Igreja da Misericórdia de Cascais

Arte Minima ensemble directed by Pedro Sousa Silva


Day 4 - Saturday, 22 July

09:30 - 11:00   Session 7 (on Zoom)

Kathleen Nelson

Fragments of the Lamentations on the Margins

Giorgio Peloso Zantaforni

The Stammbuch as a Biographical Tool: The Case of Christoph Buel and Christoph Thomas Walliser

Bernardo Illari

Tiny Remains of the Most Brilliant Day: Jesuit-Guarani Music Fragments, Communication, and the Amerindian Self

11:00 - 11:30   Refreshments

11:30 - 13:00   Session 8

Elsa De Luca and Ainoa Castro Correa

A Newly Discovered Source of Old Hispanic Notation

Gabriella Gilányi

The Earliest Plainchant Fragments of Hungarian Provenance? Interpreting Two 12th-Century Troper-Proser Leaves from Šibenik

David Merlin

Vestiges from the Time Before the Reformation of Melk

13:00 - 15:00   Lunch break

15:00 - 16:00   Session 9

Alberto Medina de Seiça

Iberian Liturgical Offices Celebrating Military Successes: Echoes of Victory in a Plainchant Fragment (Coimbra, Biblioteca Municipal, B60-36)

Inês Thomas Almeida

From Fragmentary Sources to Musical Inventory: Musicological Challenges in the Making of the RELIT-Rom Catalogue

16:00 - 16:30   Refreshments

16:30 - 18:00   Discussion panel and closing session

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