Dear all,

may I bring to your attention the following workshop an Newcastle 
University, 9/10 April, which on Wednesday will discuss some 
approaches to the digital edition of musical notations in late 
medieval (German) manuscripts.

As some of you will know, in Newcastle, we are currently working on a 
digital edition of the extant manuscripts from the medieval library 
of the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen (near Hannover, Germany), some 
which do include musical notations. (For a first glance of the 
project see http://research.ncl.ac.uk/medingen/, though at the moment 
we can't make the material available online due to copyright issues).


Andres.



>Sacred Voices< 
A Workshop of German@Newcastle
'Sacred Voices' are to be understood as an expression of faith and 
devotion, ranging from God's voice to the response of the 
congregation and the discourse of individual worship.
This workshop-style symposium aims to make audible those utterances 
of belief in two main areas in which the 'Sacred Voices' are featured 
in the medieval manuscripts: staged dialogues and musical notation. 
The workshop will encompass both close readings of individual texts 
and the presentation of leading approaches in recent research.
Organized in cooperation with the Early Modern Studies @ Newcastle 
Group and other colleagues from the Faculty of Humanities and Social 
Sciences, this workshop is the launch event for the Newcastle 'Sacred 
Voices'-project, led by Elizabeth Andersen and Henrike Lähnemann.

Wednesday, 9 April 2008


15.30	Digital Editing	
Paper 1: Introduction and Presentation 
of the Medingen Project 
(Henrike LÄHNEMANN/Andres LAUBINGER)

Paper 2: Digital Music Edition (DiMusEd) - 
challenge and chance. The Tübingen Project
(Stefan MORENT)

Paper 3: Editing the Rostock Songbook
(Anna PINSKE)


Thursday, 10 April 2008



10.00	Meditations& Dialogue	
Paper 1: Meditation & Drama. 
Scenes of the Nativity in devotional texts 	
(Elizabeth ANDERSEN)

Paper 2: Body & Soul. 
Debates in late medieval German manuscripts 
(Emily RICHARDS) 

Paper 3: Dialogue in a Carthusian monastery 
(Andres LAUBINGER)

Paper 4: Between iubilus and canticum. 
The role of music in meditations of the Devotio moderna
(Ulrike HASCHER-BURGER)



15.00	Liturgy
Paper 1: In search of the Corvey Antiphonar. 
The liturgy of the Bursfelde Reform
(Hartmut MÖLLER)

Paper 2: Service books from late medieval England 
(Magnus WILLIAMSON) 

16.45	Final discussion / Perspectives




http://research.ncl.ac.uk/medingen/sacredvoices/


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Andres Laubinger
Research Assistant
Newcastle University
School of Modern Languages
Old Library Building, Room 6.5b
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU 

Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 5053 
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http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/