Rob C. Wegman:
Recent & Forthcoming Public Lectures, Colloquia, and Papers

2009 2 July “Fremin Le Caron and the L’homme armé Tradition”
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Utrecht University, 1-4 July 2009
Abstract and Handout
  5 May Doctoral Seminar Old Music, New Approaches, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
  6-9 April “The Cantus planus Setting and the Art of Improvisation”
“What Is Counterpoint?”
Guest Professor Lectures to be delivered at the International Conference Improvising Music in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Orpheus Institute (Ghent, Belgium).
Handout and Soundclips
  3 April “Alexander Agricola and the Court of Brittany”
Colloquium, Leuven University, Music Department (Leuven, Belgium).
Handout
  5 Feb. Pre-concert lecture, “Johannes Ockeghem: Prince of Music,” Church of St Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014, 7pm.
2008 9 Dec. Guest Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, Music Department (New York, NY).
  29-31 July “Publication Before Printing: How Did Flemish Polyphony Travel in Manuscript Culture?”
Music Sources in Private and Civic Contexts (ca. 1480-1550), Alamire Foundation (Bruges, Belgium).
Abstract

24-27 July “The Last Will of Jehan de Saint Gille”
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, University of Wales at Bangor (Bangor, Wales, UK).
Handout
  20-24 July “Paper Evidence and the Dating of Medieval Music Sources: A Case Study”
IAML Annual Conference, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (Naples, Italy).
Handout

1-5 July “‘Strangeness in the Proportion’ and Musical Taste in the Fifteenth Century”
Proportions, 51e Colloque d'Études humanistes, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François Rabelais (Tours, France).
  14 April “‘’Tis not so sweet now, as it was before’: Origins and Significance of A Musical Topos”
Colloquium, Music Department, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY).
Abstract
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Handout

13 March “The Other Josquin”
Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music, All Souls College (Oxford, UK).
Handout and Soundclips

11 March “Female Musicianship and Heavenly Influence in the
Sixteenth Century”
Colloquium, Music Department, University of Nottingham (Nottingham, UK).

Handout
2007 4 Dec. “The Future of Renaissance Musicology”
Guest Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, Music Department (New York, NY).

8 Nov. The Beach Boys Today
Colloquium, Music Department, Boston University (Boston, MA).

25 Oct. “Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds (1966)”
Guest Seminar, Music Department, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ).

31 Aug.
- 1 Sept.
“The State of the Art”
Keynote Address, Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300-c.1550, conference organized by the Medieval and Early Renaissance Study Program at the University of Edinburgh, in conjunction with the National Trust for Scotland (Edinburgh, UK).
Handout and Soundclips

7-11 Aug. “Ockeghem, Brumel, Josquin: New Documents in Troyes”
Medieval & Renaissance Music Conference 2007 (Vienna, Austria).
Handout

10-15 July “Segovia: The ‘Flemish Hypothesis’ Reconsidered”
Symposium Segovia C Revisited: Eine spanische Renaissance-Handschrift historiographisch neu beleuchtet, at the 18th Congress of the International Musicological Society (Zürich, Switzerland).
Handout

14-17 June “Blowing Bubbles in the Postmodern Era”
Conference The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals IV: Transformations of Discourse (Copenhagen, Denmark).

4-6 May “Roads Taken and Not Taken in Medieval Music: The Case of False Counterpoint”
Symposium Gain and Loss in Music History: In Search of Lost Options (Graz, Austria).
Handout and soundclips

2 April “Selfhood and Self-Expression in Music of the Early Modern Period”
Colloquium Invention, Intention, Persuasion: Forms of Self-Expression in Renaissance Arts and Letters, Clare College, Cambridge & Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (Cambridge, UK).
Handout

29 March “Compositional Practice in the Fifteenth-Century Motet”
International Conference On the relationship of imitation and text treatment? The Motet around 1500 , University of Wales at Bangor (Bangor, UK).
Handout and soundclips
2006   27 Oct. “Agricola and Josquin”
Simposio Internacional Alexander Agricola, Valladolid 1506 (Valladolid, Spain).

  17-20 July “Tinctoris’s Magnum opus
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Handout

  14 April “Johannes Tinctoris and the Art of Listening”
Colloquium, Duke University, Music Department (Durham, NC).
Handout
2005 9-11 Dec. “The Creation of a Musical Élite in Early Modern Europe”
Institutionalisierung als Prozess: Organisationsformen musikalischer Eliten im Europa des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, Istituto Svizzero Italiano (Rome, Italy).

29 Nov. “Renaissance Musicology Today”
CUNY Graduate Center, Music Department (New York, NY).

11 Nov. “Fragments or Modules? The Puzzle of Brian Wilson’s Smile
SMT National Meeting (Boston/Cambridge, MA).
Text and soundclips

29 Oct. “Pater meus agricola est: The Early Years of Alexander Agricola”
AMS National Meeting (Washington, DC).
Handout

1 Sept. Public Lecture on Jacob Obrecht
Holland Early Music Festival (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

26 Aug. “Obrecht and Erasmus”
Keynote Address Jacob Obrecht (1457/8): The Quincentenary Conference (Antwerp, Belgium).
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