Early Music in Central Europe: Collaborated Research, Migrating Sources, Transregional Connections

Early Music in Central Europe: Collaborated Research, Migrating Sources, Transregional Connections

26–27 November 2024, Budapest
HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities Institute for Musicology Bartók Hall

The Early Music in Central Europe: Collaborated Research, Migrating Sources, Transregional Connections 22310209 project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

Programme of the workshop:

Tuesday, 26 November 2024

13.00–13.10 opening words: Péter Halász, Referent for the Director, HUN-REN RCH Institute for Musicology

13:10–14:20 Roundtable I.
Fragmentology in Central Europe. Approaches, methodologies, priorities, contexts
Zsuzsa Czagány: The study of fragments in Central Europe. The “Hungarian” way (introductory remarks)
Hana Studeničová: Some remarks on the research of polyphonic fragments in Slovakia

Eduard Lazorík: Fragment of the office of Saint Thomas Apostle from the Slovak National Library
Eva Veselovská: Sister Fragments: Gradual A/15 from the Kremnica Mint Archives and Sequentiarium K0000/07348 from the Slovak National Museum – Betliar Museum
Dominika Grabiec: Musical-liturgical fragments from the archives of the Polish Dominican Province in Kraków

14:20–14:35 Coffee break

14:35–15:45 Roundtable II.
Reconstructing the Whole. Editions and monographs in progress
Zsuzsa Czagány: Processing fragments on different levels. From short descriptions to comprehensive monographs (introductory remarks)
Gábriel Szoliva OFM: The case of the Breviarium notatum Strigoniense II, pars de sanctis
Mózes Enyedi, Julianna Kônig, Borbála Tóka, László Dávid Varga, Zsuzsa Czagány: The Gyöngyös Project Gabriella Gilányi: From fragments to workshop. Reconstructing a 15 th-century Graduale Strigoniense

15:45–16:00 Coffee break

16:00–17:00 Roundtable III.
Ongoing publications from the Prague workshop Hana Vlhová-Wörner: Presenting the monographs “Vyšší Brod 42. A Unique Music Source from Pre-Hussite Bohemia”; “Music in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia: Between Reform and Identity Building”; “Chant and its Transformations in Bohemia”
Rhianydd Hallas: Offices for the Visitatio BMV – edition and commentary

18:00 Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius
Concert of the Trio Passacaglia with early medieval plainchant, Renaissance vocal polyphony, early Baroque music, and works of contemporary Hungarian composers
Judit Rajk, alto
László Kéringer, tenor
Tamás Zétényi, cello

20.00 Dinner

Wednesday, 27 November 2024

9.00–10.00 Roundtable IV.
Focusing on chant paleography
Gabriella Gilányi: Topics, terms and approaches in Central European research – FAQ (introductory remarks)
Irina Chachulska: Nomenclature challenges in musical paleography
Gabriella Gilányi, Borbála Tóka: The Hungarian Neume Catalogue

10.00–10.15 Coffee break

10.15–11.15 Roundtable V.
Databases and inventories
Paweł Figurski: Liturgica Poloniae+: An online platform for the automatic analysis of liturgical manuscripts
Zsuzsa Czagány & Co.: The databases Fragmenta Manuscriptorum Musicalium Hungariae Mediaevalis and Melodiarium Hungariae Medii Aevi Digitale

11.15–11.30 Coffee break

11.30–12.30 Final discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Excursion to the National Széchényi Library