From 6 to 9 July 2024, the annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen) took place in Granada, Spain.
The organisers decided to honour the memory of our dear colleague Lenka Hlávková and supported a proposal for three sessions devoted to topics close to her research. The initiative for the realization of these sections came from Paweł Gancarczyk from the Instytut Sztuki PAN, to whom great thanks are due for the dramaturgical arrangement and organization.
All sessions saw exceptional interest and lively discussion. It is the year 2017 that remains in the memory of many colleagues, when this conference was held at the Convent of Saint Agnes in Prague, thanks to the enthusiasm of Lenka Hlávková.
July 7th, 9-11 AM: Central Europe I: Liturgy and Latin Songs: In memoriam Lenka Hlávková
Chair: Inga Mai Groote
- Jan Ciglbauer: Liturgy and Songs in the Fifteenth Century: Singing New Music in Central European Churches
- Manon Louviot: Between Regional Tradition and Individual Agency: Collecting Benedicamus Domino Melodies in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts from Southern Central Europe
- Pavel Kodýtek: The Life of a Late Medieval Cantio: The Multifaceted Transformations of Cedit hiems eminus
- Ute Evers: Auroram lucis visitat Gabriel: A Cantio Melody’s Journey onto the Phonograph and to America
July 7th, 4-6 PM: Central Europe II: Isaac, Josquin and Others: In memoriam Lenka Hlávková
Chair: Emilio Ros-Fábregas
- Bernhold Schmid: Heinrich Isaac’s Mass Movements on Cantus Fractus Melodies
- Paweł Gancarczyk: From Flanders and Italy to Central Europe: Du Fay and Josquin in the Lviv Fragments
- David Burn: The Anonymous Missa dominicalis in The Czech National Library, Ms. 59 R 5117
- Bartłomiej Gembicki: From ‘The Lion’s Ear’ to ‘Insect Songs’: Narrating Josquin through Discs
July 9th, 4-6:30 PM: Central Europe III: Collectors and Readers: In memoriam Lenka Hlávková
Chair: Antonio Chemotti
- Fiona Kizzie Lee: The Shadows Behind the Early Tablatures
- Agnieszka Leszczyńska: Scripta ab amicis: Georg Wolff von Huldschönau’s Musical Friendships
- Scott L. Edwards: Body and Soul: Musical Inscriptions in the Pilgrimage Books of Francisco Guerrero and Kryštof Harant
This year’s MedRen saw also the introduction of the Award in Memory of Lenka Hlávková (1974–2023) for the most promising paper given by an early-career scholar. This prize was awarded by popular acclaim to James R. Tomlinson, at the time a member of the ERC Benedicamus project at the University of Oslo, for his paper Music and Book Exchange in Medieval Oxford: Reassessing Durham, Barker Research Library, MS C.I.20. In it he presented a convincing argument for situating the manuscript in the university environment and not in the Cathedral of Durham, as traditionally assumed.
