Mapping the Post Tridentine Motet

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Mapping the Post Tridentine Motet

With this conference we aim to re-open the discussion on the immense corpus of polyphonic and polychoral motets produced and performed all over Europe in the period ca. 1560 to ca. 1610.

Invited speakers will include:
KERRY MCCARTHY (Independent scholar, Oregon): In search of the English motet
NOEL O’REGAN (The University of Edinburgh): A mid-life compositional summary? Palestrina’s three motet books of 1569-1575
CHRISTIAN LEITMEIR (Bangor University): Beyond the confessionalisation paradigm: The motet as denomination practice in the late 16th century
DAVID CROOK (University of Wisconsin at Madison): Proper to the day: Calendrical ordering in post-Tridentine motet books

There will also be two discussion panels, one on the influence of the Council of Trent on the late-16th century motet (led by Noel O'Regan and Christian Leitmeir) and the other on performance practice (led by Owen Rees and with the participation of the ensemble ‘Espérance and friends’, who will be giving a lecture recital of English motet music).

For more information email Esperanza Rodriguez-Garcia, James Cook, Daniele V Filippi, and Juan Ruiz Jiménez at ptmotetconference@gmail.com or visit the website here: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/humanities/music/motet2015/index.aspx