Monday 28 May (Day 1)

9.15-9.30 Welcome and Conference Opening
Karl Kügle (Utrecht and Oxford)

9.30-11 Session 1: A Changing Sense of History? Constructing the Past in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Chair: Susan Rankin (Cambridge)
Sarah Hamilton (Exeter) Recording or creating tradition? The evidence of the early excommunication rites
Adam Mathias (Cambridge) Collecting the musical past. Clausulae before W1 and F
Jan Ciglbauer (Prague) ‎From tolerated addition to tradition keepers. Latin Songs in central Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries

11-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.30 Session 2: Reforming the Present, Using the Past
Chair: Christine Roth (Zurich)
Ruxandra Marinescu (Utrecht) Re-reading Fauvel, one generation later. Manuscript Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale 525, and the motet O bicornix/A tous iourz/Virgo dei genitrix
Manon Louviot (Utrecht) How to reform chant? Investigations into Johannes Busch’s methods of “reforming by doing”

12.30-14.30 Lunch break

14.30-16 Session 3: Liturgical Soundscapes and the Mining of the Past
Chair: Lenka Hlávková (Prague)
Christine Roth (Zurich) The role of the past in Lutheran music and liturgy – A commentary on David Chytraeus’ agenda of 1578
Antonio Chemotti (Warsaw) Regionalism, musical past, and the cult of the saints in early modern Silesia: Valentin Triller’s Gar nichts schedlichs noch
Daniele V. Filippi (Basel) Operation Libroni: Gaffurius, the Sforza, and the Construction of a Repertory for Milan’s Duomo

16-16.30 Coffee break

17-18 Conference Concert: Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz – Contrasting Visions of the Past
Performances by Bastarda (Warsaw), La Morra (Basel)
Moderators: Paweł Gancarczyk (Warsaw), Karl Kügle (Utrecht and Oxford)

Tuesday 29 May (Day 2)

10-11 Session 4: Shadows of the Past, Ghosts of the Present
Chair: Daniele V. Filippi (Basel)
Judith Pollmann (Leiden) topic TBA
Bartłomiej Gembicki (Warsaw) The memory of meaning(s). Polychorality in Venice and its/our myths

11-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13 Session 5: The Past in the Present: Performance-based Research 1
Demo-workshop 1: Musical performance as a heuristic tool
Ulrike Hascher-Burger (Utrecht) and Trigon Ensemble (Leiden): Music of the Amsterdam Beguines in the early 17th century. Ave Maria - O suyver maecht - O Maria Maria

Roundtable 1: Musical performance as a heuristic tool: Possibilities and limitations
Chair: Antonio Chemotti (Warsaw)
Participants: Rebekah Ahrendt (Utrecht), David Eben (Prague), Margot Fassler (Notre Dame), Michał Gondko (La Morra), Margot Kalse (Trigon Ensemble), Paweł Szamburski (Bastarda)

13-14 Lunch break

14-15.15 Session 6: Sound, Space, Music: Performance-based Research 2
Demo-workshop 2: Laudes salvatori/Christ is upstanden – an interactive immersion experience
David Eben (Prague), Ulrike Hascher-Burger (Utrecht), Adam Mathias (Cambridge), Trigon Ensemble (Leiden), volunteers from the audience

15.15-15.45 Coffee break

15.45-16.45 Session 7: Uses of the Past and Present-Day Culture and Politics
Roundtable 2: Researching late-medieval and early-modern music today – does it matter?
Chair: Karl Kügle (Utrecht and Oxford)
Participants: Paweł Gancarczyk (Warsaw), Inga Mai Groote (Zurich), Ruxandra Marinescu (Utrecht), Judith Pollmann (Leiden), Floris Schuiling (Utrecht), Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht), Andreas Zielke (Berlin)

16.45-17.00 Concluding remarks