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Anne Boleyn’s Music Book and its Court Contexts
September 25, 2015 at 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
$25
REGISTRATION / CHECK-IN WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 8:30AM TO 12:00PM OUTSIDE ROOM 119
Emmanuel College Room 119 (75 Queen’s Park Crescent), 8:30 am to 5:30 pm
This one-day colloquium focuses on Royal College of Music MS 1070, a music manuscript that belonged to Anne Boleyn and is associated with her time, as a child and teenager, at the courts of Margaret of Austria and Claude de France. Local and international scholars will present papers on the manuscript and on the musical, religious, political, and artistic cultures associated with these courts. Organized by Deanne Williams, Associate Professor of English, York University
James Carley, University of Kent
Jane Hatter, University of Utah
Ethan Matt Kavaler, University of Toronto
Michael O’Connor, University of Toronto
David Skinner, Cambridge University
Lisa Urkevich, American University of Kuwai
Deanne Williams, York University
Click here for conference program
The colloquium will conclude with a concert of music from Anne Boleyn’s manuscript performed by the Musicians in Ordinary.
This colloquium was generously sponsored by St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, York University Department of English, York University Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University Vice President Research and Innovation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
From David Skinner’s media page:
ALAMIRE: Anne Boleyn’s Songbook: https://youtu.be/UBlUlId85ss
David Skinner on Front Row (BBC Radio 4)
David Skinner on Classic FM
