Musical Interactions, 1400–1650 Conference dates: 14-17 September 2022 Conference location: Prague CFP deadline: 1 April 2022 Organizing committee: David Burn (KU Leuven), Lenka Hlávková (Charles University, Prague), Alessandra Ignesti (KU Leuven) Musical interaction is a common topic in scholarly literature, yet the notion itself is still not fully theorized. Narrow approaches to it have often […]

The collective monograph Sounding the Past. Music as History and Memory is a joint work by all researchers involved in the European HERA project “Sound Memories: The Musical Past in Late–Medieval and Early–Modern Europe” (www.soundme.eu), which ran from 2016 to 2019 at five academic institutions (Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, University of Cambridge, Charles University, Polish Academy of […]

Carmina Clericorum: Sacred Latin Songs from the 14th and 15th centuries in the Central European University and School milieu, the fourth volume of the series Monumenta Liturgica Bohemica (L. Marek Publishing) was published. The edition was prepared by Jan Ciglbauer, in collaboration with philologists and medievists Martin Bažil, Adéla Ebersonová, and Henry Howard. The volume […]

11 June 2021 will see the publication of Septem Dies: Music at Prague University = Music at Prague University 1360-1460, which was born out of the Sound Memories project. It was co-authored by members of our Institute, Jan Ciglbauer, David Eben and Lenka Hlávková. The musical realization is the work of Schola Gregoriana Pragensis and […]

The Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. (the project Old Myths, New Facts: Czech Lands in Centre of 15th–Century Music Developments; co-hosted at the Institute of Musicology) opens a position for a doctoral student for a 1–3 year duration, starting on 1. 4. 2020 or 1. 10. 2020 (0.5 position). Full information here: https://www.mua.cas.cz/en/novinky/doctoral-student-position-for-music-and-music-culture-in-15th-century-bohemia-in-a-broader-european-context-1982

The members of the research project Old Myths, New Facts: Czech Lands in the Centre of 15th century Music Developments invite all interested colleagues to the international conference Music in Bohemia around 1400: Crossroads of traditions which will take place on 21st-22nd November 2019 at Vila Lanna, Prague. The musical culture of the Czech Lands […]

The virtual exhibition “…and the Word became Music” invites you to the world of books made many centuries ago to record the musical ideas of the people of that era. A unique concept combining facsimile pictures of manuscripts, transcriptions and recordings was created by the members and students from Department of Musicology, Charles University and […]