Contrafact in the Middle Ages
Conference Programme
All times are CEST
Monday 23 October
12:00 – Welcome.
12:10 – Session 1: Contrafacture as a Process
Chair: Rhianydd Hallas, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Contrafacta and Related Procedures in Armenian Sacred Music
Haig Utidjian, CESEM – Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Adaptations of Liturgical Song in Modern Performance. A Way of Contrafactum?
Ángel Chirinos, Independent Researcher
Contrafact as Composition: Melodic Processes of Reuse in a Monophonic Song Network
Anya Wilkening, Columbia University
13:45 – Break
14:30 – Session 2: Contrafacta in Sources
Chair: Marianne Gillion, Uppsala University
Plurality of Chant Models in Analysis of Contrafacta: Views on the Inchcolm Chants
Andrew Bull, Independent Researcher
‘Predicat atque studet scriptor.’ Contrafacting as a Dynamic and a Strategy in the Codex Grey
Pieter Mannaerts, Alamire Foundation & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (B)
Covert Contrafacta in the Leuven Chansonnier
Ryan O’Sullivan, Alamire Foundation & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (B)
Two Moravian Manuscripts: Musical Rebels or Evidence of Musicless Contrafact Transmission?
Rhianydd Hallas, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Tuesday 24 October
11:00 – Session 3: Contrafactio as a method: the Italian lauda in a new database
Chair: Jan Hajič, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Introduction to the project
Francesco Zimei, University of Trento
The Lauda catalogue by Annibale Tenneroni (1909), a century later
Matteo Leonardi, University of Trento
How do sources represent contrafactio (or not)
Lucia Marchi, University of Trento
From logical structure of Lauda sources to databases
Giacomo Pirani, University of Trento
Perspectives on the integration of machine learning techniques into musicological research
Federico Simonetta, Gran Sasso Science Institute
An example of contrafactum in the Cortona laudario: the laude ‘Regina sovrana’ and ‘Altissima luce’
Marco Gozzi, University of Trento
12:30 – Break
14:00 – Session 4: Contrafacta in the Liturgy
Chair: Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Contrafaction, Plainchant, and Polyphony in the Rigan Reformation
Marianne Gillion, Uppsala University
Navigating Research Challenges for Liturgical Offices: Insights from “Inmortali laude” in Honor of Catherine of Siena
Kristin Hoefener, University Nova of Lisbon/CESEM
The Power of Song: Contrafacture, Hagiography, and the Medieval Liturgy of St. Nicholas of Myra
Mary Channen Caldwell, University of Pennsylvania
15:45 – Roundtable Discussion
The Use and Reception of Contrafact in Late Medieval Liturgical Chant 