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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