University of Aberdeen
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Aberdeen
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Programme

Musical, Cultural and Religious Networks in Early Modern Europe: in Celebration of Peter Philips's 450th Anniversary

Tuesday 1 March

Time	Venue	Event
14:30	Johnston	CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
15:30	051	TEA
16:00	051	INTRODUCTION
16:00	051	David J. Smith (University of Aberdeen) The interconnection of religious, social and musical networks: creating a context for the keyboard music of Peter Philips and its dissemination
18:30	Johnston	RECEPTION
19:30	Chapel	RECITAL
19:30	Chapel	Pieter Dirksen (organ and harpsichord) Recital: Sweelinck and Philips

Wednesday 2 March

Time	Venue	Event
09:30	051	SESSION 1: PHILIPS, SWEELINCK AND RELIGION (Chair: David J. Smith)
		Anne E. Lyman (The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma) The pious Mr. Philips and his few-voiced motets at Isabella's Confraternity of Our Lady
		Jaap den Hertog (Utrecht University) Jan Pietersz Sweelinck, musician in the transition from Roman Catholic to Reformed culture
10:45	051	COFFEE
11:15	Chapel	SESSION 2: SWEELINCK LECTURE RECITAL
11:15	Chapel	Julia Dokter (McGill University, Montreal) Sweelinck Psalm settings
12:15	051	LUNCH
13.30	055	SESSION 3: ENGLAND (Chair: Sarah Davies)

		Paul Gameson (University of York) Henri Du Mont and the English connection
		John Bryan (University of Huddersfield) 'Full of Art, and Profundity': the five-part consort pavan as a medium for sophisticated musical expression and compositional cross-reference in late Renaissance England
14:45	055	TEA
15:15	051	SESSION 4: ENGLAND and GERMANY, 1 (Chair: John Bryan)
		Sarah Davies Vater unser: English and Italian influences on German intabulations, fantasies and variations, 1575-1635
		Arne Spohr (Bowling Green State University) "A cause of great rivalry among princes" – William Brade's career in Denmark and Germany, 1594-1630
17:15	Chapel	RECITAL
17:15	Chapel	Hank Knox (harpsichord) Recital of music by Sweelinck
20:00	Bishops Table (Crombie)	CONFERENCE MEAL

Thursday 3 March

Time	Venue	Paper/Recital
09:30	055	SESSION 5: ENGLISH RECUSANT NETWORKS (Chair: Rachelle Taylor)
		Jane Flynn (Leeds) John Heywood's circle and Mary's Spanish marriage: divisions within a Catholic Network
		Hector Sequera (University of Birmingham) Practice and dissemination of music in the recusant network as suggested by the music collection of Edward Paston (1550-1630)
10:45	055	COFFEE
11:15	055	SESSION 6: ENGLAND and GERMANY – Scheidt (Chair: Ralph Stelzenmüller)
		Dan McCoy (The Liszt School of Music, Weimar) Uncovering Samuel Scheidt's 'Fortune' in contemporary lute tablatures
		Steffen Voss (Saxon State and University Library Dresden) "Imitatio Paduan Philippi": Samuel Scheidt and his 3- and 4-part instrumental ensemble music based English models
12:15	055	LUNCH
13:10	Chapel	RECITAL
13:10	Chapel	Rose Consort Recital of music by Philips
14:30	055	SESSION 7: ITALY and SICILY, I (Chair: Pieter Dirksen)
		Ilaria Grippaudo (Sapienza University of Rome) Musical activity of Sicilian composers in the ecclesiastical institutions of Palermo (1569-1655)
		Abigail Ballantyne (University of Oxford) Social networking in seventeenth-century Italy: the 'Harmonious Letters' of a monk-musician
		Naomi J Barker The ear of the lynx: the musical legacy of the Academia dei Lincei
16:00	055	Tea



19:30	Chapel	Concert: The Travels and Music of Peter Philips Rachelle Taylor (harpsichord), David J. Smith (organ/harpsichord), Rose Consort of Viols and Choir of King's College Chapel, Aberdeen

Friday 4 March

Time	Venue	Paper/Recital
09:30	Chapel	SESSION 9: KEYBOARD SOURCES (Chair: Frauke Jürgensen)
		Emilie Corswarem (University of Liège) The Liber fratrum cruciferorum leodiensium or the organ's repertoire in the Low Countries
		Pieter Dirksen (The Netherlands) Orlando Gibbons's Keyboard Music - The Continental Perspective.

10:30	Chapel	SESSION 10: ANALYSIS (Chair: David J. Smith)
		Peter van Kranenburg and Johan Zoutendijk A pattern recognition approach to the attribution of early seventeenth-century keyboard compositions using repeating melodic patterns in diminutions in solo parts
		Frauke Jürgensen (University of Aberdeen) and Rachelle Taylor (McGill University, Montreal) The Passamezzo pavans by Byrd and Philips: the history and the theory behind friendly emulation
11.30		Farewell!