Convenor Dr Jane Hardie

The Symposium, opened by Professor Margaret Clunies Ross, Director of the Centre, included papers by seven prominent musicologists from Spain, Portugal, the USA, Switzerland, and Australia on a range of topics, all related to the central themes of the day. A highlight was the opportunity provided by Neil Boness (Rare Books Librarian) for participants and attendees to see and touch two sixteenth-century manuscripts of Spanish provenance recently acquired by Fisher Library. Following the seven papers, Neil McEwan and the St Laurence Chamber Choir gave a magical concert of music performed for the first time from the research of each of the scholars. Such an integration of musicological research and performance of the results of such research is rare, and really brought the music to life. In addition to students and staff from the University of Sydney, Australian Catholic University, and the Catholic Institute of Sydney, people attending came from Canada, the USA, and Queensland. Two students from St Andrews Cathedral School attended as part of their "transition to University" programme. Jane Hardie hopes that expanded versions of some of the papers presented will be jointly published by the Institute of Mediaeval Music in Ottawa and the Centre for Medieval Studies. The Centre has produced a CD of the concert. The papers given were :

The Road to Compostela : In Search of the Art of Theory
Thomas Connolly (University of Pennsylvania)

Commemoration and Ritual : St Gerald of Braga
Manuel Pedro Ferreira (Universidad de Lisboa)

Performing practice of Trecento music
Dorothea Baumann (University of Zurich)

Commemoration and Ritual : On the Origin of the Christmas villancicos
Maricarmen G�mez (Universidad Aut�noma de Barcelona)

Commemorations of the Light : The Exultet in the Toledo Chant Tradition
Kathleen Nelson (University of Sydney)

Commemorating Christ's Crucifixion: Polyphonic Passions, Devotional Books, and Emotions
Grayson Wagstaff (Catholic University of America)

Salamanca to Sydney : A Newly-Discovered Manuscript of the Lamentations of Jeremiah
Jane Morlet Hardie (University of Sydney)

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