Provisional Schedule
of Events
Thursday, 4 November,
2010
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Welcome: James Robinson. Curator, Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum.
Session 1: Science and Conservation of the British Museum Citole
Moderator: James Robinson
9:45-10:15 Susan
la Niece and Caroline Cartwright. Department
of
Conservation and Scientific Research, British Museum, The
Science Behind the Art
10:15-10:45 Philip
Kevin. Department of Conservation and
Scientific
Research, British Museum. Preparing
the Citole for Display in the New Medieval Gallery
10:45-11:15 Chris
Egerton. RCA/V&A Conservation. Head
to Tail: Three Discoveries About The Age, History and Function of the
Citole.
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
Session 2: Art
History: The Art of the British Museum Citole
Moderator: Naomi Speakman
11:45-12:15 Ann
Marie Glasscock. The British Museum
Citole: Iconography and the ‘Horror Vacui’
12:15-12:45 Phillip Lindley. University of Leicester, UK. (title to be confirmed)
12:45-2:15 Lunch
Session 3:
Medieval Citoles in Art and Literature
Moderator: Lewis Jones
2:15-2:45 Mary Remnant. The Citole in English Medieval Art
2:45-3:15 Alice
Margerum. London Metropolitan University, UK.‘Alioquin Deficeret Hic Instrumentum Illud
Multum Vulgare’: A Brief Overview of Citoles
in Art and Literature c.1200-1400
3:15-3:45 Tea break
Session 4: Tuning
and Stringing of Citoles and Related Instruments
Moderator: Daniel Larson
3:45-4:15 John Koster. National Music Museum, University of South Dakota, USA. Strings and Theories of Stringing in the Times of the Citole and Early Cittern
4:15-4:45 Crawford
Young. Schola Cantorum Basiliensis,
Basel, CHE. The Cithara of Mercury: A Well-Tuned
Cetula
4:45-7:00 Dinner Break
Session 5:
Performance Practice for Medieval Citoles
Moderator: Marc Lewon
7:00-7:30 Mauricio
Molina. Conservatorio
de Girona, ESP.‘Li autres la
citole mainne’: Towards a Reconstruction of the Citole’s
Performance Practice
7:30-8:00
Mark
Rimple. West Chester University, PA, USA. Techniques
for the Unaccompanied Performance of Medieval Estampies on a
Reproduction of the British Museum Citole: a lecture-demonstration.
Friday, 5 November,
2010
9:00-9:30 Arrival
Session 1:
Instruments in Medieval Culture and Society
Moderator: Jeremy Montagu
9:30-10:00 Dorota Poplawska. Grazyna Bacewicz Primary and Secondary School of Music, Warsaw, POL. Historical Musical10:00-10:30 Richard
Rastall. University of Leeds, UK. Citolers
in the Late-Medieval English Royal Households
10:30-11:00 Carey
Fleiner. University of Delaware, USA. Heroes
and Villains: The Medieval “Guitarist” in the Middle Ages and Modern Parallels
11:00-11:30 Andrew
Taylor. University of Ottawa, CAN. ‘Citole
i ot’: The Courtly Associations of the Fourteenth-Century Citole
11:30-12:00 Coffee
Session 2: Queen
Elizabeth I, Her Music and Instruments: I
Moderator: Mary Springfels
12:00-12:30 Ben
Hebbert. West Dean College, UK. The Sixteenth-century Additions to the British
Museum
Citole: Their Extent and Importance
12:30-1:00 Katherine
Butler. Royal Holloway,
University of London, UK. ‘Sometime
Singing like an Angel, Sometime
Playing like Orpheus’: Queen Elizabeth I and the Politics of
Musical
Performance
1:00-2:00 Lunch
Session 3: Queen
Elizabeth I, Her Music and Instruments: II
2:00-2:30 Annett C.
Richter. University of Missouri, USA. An
Intimate View of Queen Elizabeth I as a Musician: Sources in Context
2:30-3:00 Kate
Buehler-McWilliams. University of
Minnesota, USA.
Dudley’s Penance: The Gift of a Musical
Instrument at Elizabeth’s Court
3:00-3:30 Tea
Session 4:
Conclusion
3:30-4:30 Roundtable discussion
Friday Evening Event, 5 November 2010
7:30 As a complement to the symposium, there will be a concert at the priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, City of London, EC1A.
Tickets available at the door (cash or cheque only): £15 general admission, £5 concession.