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The changing face of sacred chant throughout the centuries has always presented methodological challenges for scholars: from concrete technical work on the cataloguing, evaluation, and digital presentation of sources and their repertoires to the interdisciplinary perspectives afforded by a wide range of disciplines (literary studies, liturgical studies, paleography, codicology, etc.). These methods continue to lead to important and ground-breaking discoveries. Yet, just as chant was transformed and reformed, so, too, do newer methodological approaches examining the broader cultural and historical contexts of musical production and transmission present fresh challenges for the study of cantus planus.
For our next meeting, the Chair and Advisory Board of the Study Group particularly invite proposals for presentations that explore the future of research on cantus planus in newer areas of inquiry. We propose – in addition to the more standard topics (Rome before 800, the Carolingian renewal, tropes and sequences, historiae, local traditions) – the following as examples:
Intersections of major traditions, East and West
Chant and the arts
Chant and ritual
Chant and political history
Chant and children, women, and men
Chant and private devotion
Chant in contemporary global popular culture
Teaching the theory and practice of Western plainchant in history and today
Theory and teaching of Eastern chant
Chant composition and theory after 1100
A history of chant-style(s)
Theory, practice and cataloguing of contrafacta
Chant within polyphony / Cantus firmi
Ecclesiastical and secular recitation-formulas and reading-tones
Printing and chant repertories
Later chant notations
Chant and archival research
Chant and ‘late’ reforms
Chant in Protestant and other reformed liturgies
Submission procedure and Deadline
Proposals must be received before 16 September 2010 12:00 MET.
All proposals must be submitted electronically as email-attachments in text-format, to
cp.chair@hf.ntnu.no
Replies will be sent to all who submit proposals by 1 November 2010. Notification of acceptance will be made by 15 December 2010.
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