Lecture & Choral Performance | Saints Alive! Rediscovering Chant Manuscripts at McGill
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Come and hear a 15th-century chant manuscript brought to life! McGill owns some beautiful chant manuscripts. Prof. Julie Cumming will discuss the role of music in monastic life, and how different kinds of chant enhanced the liturgy. Singers will perform extracts from Manuscript 73, so you can see and hear a choirbook as it was meant to be used.
A special exhibition and light reception will follow the event.
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Hosted by听 ROAAr, McGill Library and the Schulich School of Music. Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada
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Bio
Prof. Julie E. Cumming received her B.A. in Music and Medieval Studies at听Barnard College,听Columbia University听(1980), and her M.A. (1982) and Ph.D (1987) in Music and Medieval Studies at the听University of California at Berkeley. She taught for seven years at听Wellesley College听before moving to听McGill听in 1992. In addition to musicology she has played the recorder professionally, helped run the summer workshop, Amherst Early Music, and conducted the Collegium at听Wellesley College. She was the review editor for听Historical Performance, the journal of Early Music America (1988-92), and review editor for the听Journal of the American Musicological Society听(2004-2008).听
Professor Cumming's major area of expertise is late Medieval and Renaissance polyphony.听Her current work looks at fifteenth- and sixteenth-century compositional process, with emphasis on the connections between historical improvisation and composition.听She is the co-leader (with Ichiro Fujinaga, PI) of a SSHRC Partnership Grant, 鈥淪IMSSA: Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis鈥� (2014-2021;听).
