1a. NEMA
Conference schedule
Tuesday 7th July Music Department (Rymer auditorium & 058)
Early Music & History: chair Jo Wainwright
| Time/place |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:30 - 13:45 Music Dept foyer |
Tea & coffee
Arrival and registration |
Lunch (cash sales) available at The Edge (Wentworth)
In foyer: Brian Jordan (books and music) |
| 2:00 Rymer
|
Anthony Rooley |
A Case for the Pickled Larynx? |
| 2:30 Rymer | Bonnie Gordon |
Making Voices |
| 3:00 Rymer | Ed Breen |
David Munrow: Thoughts on vibrato and a glimpse into his record collection |
| 3:30 Rymer (or 058 tbc) |
Elizabeth Dyer |
Vocal ensemble in Jesuit theatre c. 1640-1660 |
| 4:00 |
tea
|
In foyer: Brian Jordan (books and music)
|
| 4:30 058
|
John Potter |
Historically Informed Hyper-reality |
| 5:00 |
discussion
|
Evening Event (with dinner):
7:15 to 8:00 Dinner
8:15 to 10:30 Presentation, masterclass and workshop. French 16th Century Vocal Music, both Sacred and Secular: 'L'espirit, la chanson parisienne, l'humanisme'. Director: Dominique Visse. The masterclass will feature chansons sung by members of the University of York Chamber Choir. The workshop for delegates will feature sections of Brunel's 12-part Missa Et ecce terrae motus (The Earthquake Mass).
Wednesday 8th (NCEM)
Sound and technique: chairs John Potter (am) & Jon Eato (pm)
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:15 |
Martha Feldman |
Hearing the Castrato Voice |
| 9:45 |
Andrew Parrott |
Falsetto: Fact and Fiction |
| 10:15 |
Christine Pollerus |
Singing Coloratura in the 1750s: Regina Mingotti |
| 10:45 |
coffee
|
|
| 11:15 |
Graham O'Reilly & Hugh Keyte |
Allegri 1st workshop |
| 12:15 |
Louise Stein |
Vocal diversity and the profession of the theatrical singer in Spain and its territories c. 1550-1710 |
| 12:45 |
lunch
|
|
| 1:45 |
Laura Moeckli |
Essential Frivolities: The importance of Vocal Ornamentation in 19th Century Italian Opera |
| 2:15 |
Christina Paine |
Voice, image and agency on the early nineteenth-century London stage: the case of Angelica Catalani |
| 2:45 |
Laura Heil |
What Singers of Early Music Can Learn from Jazz Singing Techniques |
| 3:15 |
Robert Toft |
Bel canto: The Unbroken Tradition |
| 3:45 |
Tea
|
|
| 4:15 |
Discussion
|
Evening Event (with dinner):
4:45 Walk to Minster
5:15 Evensong
6:00 After visit to pub or tea shop for refreshments, walk to Guildhall for workshop
7:00-10:00 Workshop for delegates: "An Evening with Thomas Ravenscroft". Directed by Graham Coatman. Featuring Ravenscroft's psalms, anthems, motets, viol fantasia, folk ballads, part songs, rounds, madrigals. Buffet dinner to be available during evening.
Thursday 9th: Music Department (Rymer Auditorium & 058)
Science & perception: chairs David Howard (am) & Martha Elliott (pm)
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:15 |
David Howard/Jude Brereton |
Introduction to science of the singing voice with special reference to techniques for measurement and analysis of vibrato and tuning |
| 10:15 |
Helena Daffern |
Vibrato production and its impact on spectral energy in the performance of early music |
| 10:45 |
coffee
|
In foyer: Brian Jordan (books and music) and laryngograph stall
|
| 11:15 Rymer |
Greta Haenen |
Dolcezza e soavita: vibrato as ornament in 16th century singing |
| 11:45 |
Michael Proctor |
Croce & Chiavette |
| 12:15 |
Martha Elliott |
Vibrato Management and Ornamentation Differentiation in Rossini |
| 12:45 |
lunch
|
In foyer: Brian Jordan (books and music) and laryngograph stall |
| 1:45 058 |
Graham O'Reilly & Hugh Keyte |
Allegri 2nd workshop |
| 2:45 Rymer |
Christopher Allan |
Helping the young soprano bring emotional truth to 17th & 18th C recitative through the use of speech mode |
| 3:15 tbc |
Catherine Gordon-Seifert |
Rhetoric and Expression in the Mid-Seventeeth-Century French Air: a Rationale for Compositional Style and Performance |
| 4:15 |
Tea
|
In foyer: Brian Jordan (books and music)
|
| 4:45 058 |
Graham O'Reilly & Hugh Keyte |
Allegri performance |
| 5:00 |
Discussion |
Evening Event (with formal dinner):
6:00 Bar opens
7:00 Conference Dinner
8:15-10:30 Workshop "The Speech of Gods and Shepherds" for delegates, directed by Philip Thorby, featuring Dixit Dominus primi toni à 16, by Orazio Benevoli
Friday 10th: Music Department (058/Rymer)
Embodied voices: chairs Peter Seymour (am) & Clifford Bartlett (pm)
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:15 058 |
Rosemary Carlton-Willis |
Performing the Private Gesture: Interaction, Metaphor and Motif in the Secular Cantatas of Barbara Strozzi |
| 9:45 058 |
Elizabeth Belgrano |
'Lasciatemi morire' & ' Rochers, vous etes sourds': Interpreting Arianna's tears, sighs and pain, by investigating Italian and French ornaments through vocal practice-based research |
| 10:15 058 |
Katrina Mitchell |
Cloistered nuns of the 17th century: Lucrezia Vizzana's componimenti musicali |
| 10:45 |
coffee
|
In foyer: Brian Jordan (books and music) and laryngograph stall Move to Rymer |
| 11:15 Rymer |
Brook Bryant |
The 17th century as a locus of ut pictura poesis |
| 11:45 Rymer |
Alan Maddox |
Rhetoric and the vocal performance practice of Italian recitative in the 17th & 18th Centuries |
| 12:15 Rymer |
Sally Bradshaw |
Influences that shape our perceptions about appropriate styles and singing |
| 12:45 |
lunch
|
In foyer: Brian Jordan (books and music) and laryngograph stall |
| 1:45 058 |
Sally Drage |
The Performance of Psalmody: 1700 to 1850. Presentation and workshop |
| 2:45 Rymer |
Richard Bethell |
NEMA survey |
| 3:30 |
Clifford Bartlett |
Leads final discussion |
| 4:30 |
Tea & finish
|
Note. Programme details and locations are subject to change.