Papers

Coming Soon:

  • Katherine Butler, 'The Life-Cycle of a set of Tudor Partbooks (British Library Add. MSS 30480-4)', RMA 2017, Liverpool (7 September 2017) 

Past:

  • Katherine Butler, 'Music and Musical Education in the Early Elizabethan Church: The Evidence of GB-Lbl: 30480-4', Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Prague (July 2017)
  • Julia Craig-McFeely, 'The work of DIAMM, the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music', PMMS Study Day, Worcester (13 May 2017)
  • Julia Craig-McFeely, Gallery talk on the Digital Reconstruction of the Sadler Partbooks, Christ Church Upper Library (3 June and 18 July 2016)
  • Katherine Butler, Gallery talk on the Digital Reconstruction of the Sadler Partbooks, Christ Church Upper Library (13 June 2016)
  • Daisy Gibbs, 'Singing the French Crown: Two Henrician sources and an antiphon newly attributable to William Cornysh', Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Sheffield (July 2016)
  • Katherine Butler, 'Framing the Music: Borders for Printed Music and Music Paper c. 1560-1600', Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Sheffield (July 2016)
  • Magnus Williamson, 'Presentation and live demonstration of reconstructing anonymous (continental) Confitebor tibi Domine from Baldwin Partbooks', Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Sheffield (July 2016)
  • Julia Craig-McFeely and Katherine Butler, Roundtable on 'Tudor Partbooks: Describing and Identifying Scribal Traits', Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Sheffield (July 2016)
  • Magnus Williamson, Workshop on 'Tudor Partbooks: Polyphonic reconstruction: stylistic freedom, uncertainty and invention,' Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Sheffield (July 2016)
  • Katherine Butler, 'The Tudor Partbooks Project: Creating a Collaborative, Digital Reconstruction of John Sadler’s Partbooks' University of Manchester Music Research Seminar Series (28 April 2016)
  • Julia Craig-McFeely, 'Exultation and Despondency: the digital reconstruction of the lost partbooks of John Sadler', Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, Oxford (5 Feb 2016)
  • Katherine Butler, 'The Cinderella of Complete Elizabethan Partbooks Sets: A New Look at the Hamond Partbooks (GB-Lbl: Add. MSS 30480-4)', Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music, All Souls, Oxford (28 January 2016)
  • Katherine Butler, 'An Elizabethan Perspective on the Benefits of Singing Motets: The Inscriptions in Robert Dow’s Music Partbooks', Cabinet of Curiosities, University of York (9 November 2015)
  • Katherine Butler, 'Singing about Death in Elizabeth England', DEADFriday at Ashmolean Museum (30 October 2015)
  • Magnus Williamson, 'Praying for a safe delivery: Queen Mary, Thomas Tallis and the Chronology of mid-Tudor Music', Tallis Study Day, 16 November
  • Katherine Butler, 'Digitally Restoring John Sadler's Music Partbooks', Digitial Approaches to Early Music Seminar, Goldsmiths (8 October 2015)
  • Owen Rees and Katherine Butler, 'Tudor Partbooks: The Manuscript Legacies of John Sadler, John Baldwin, and their Antecedents', Oxford Alumni Weekend (20 September 2015)
  • Julia Craig-McFeely and Katherine Butler, 'Identifying scribal hands: a methodological toolkit and an Elizabethan case study', Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Brussels (July 2015)
  • Katherine Butler, 'Inscriptions, Motets, and the Praise of Music in Robert Dow’s Partbooks (GB-Och: Mus.984-8)', Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Brussel (July 2015)
  • Magnus Williamson with Stile Antico, 'Making Music in Elizabethan Northamptonshire', public lecture in association with Oundle International Festival (16 July 2015)
  • Julia Craig-McFeely, 'Restoration and revelation: how digital images are far more than simply photographs in the digital medium', Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (22 July 2015)
  • Julia Craig-McFeely, 'Blind alleys, science fiction, redundancy and modernization: how musicology is and isn't evolving in response to the digital world', Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (23 July 2015)
  • Katherine Butler, 'Traces of an Elizabethan Music-Making Community: The Textless Music of the 'Hamond' Partbooks and Orphan Partbook GB-Lbl: Add 47844', Viola da Gamba Society meeting, Birmingham (21 June 2015)
  • Julia Criag-McFeely and Katherine butler, 'Creating Partbooks Facsmilies and the Sadler Restoration Project', as part of the facsimile singing workshop at Oxford Early Music Festival, (May 2015)
  • Magnus Williamson, '"Dyverse other small boks and skrowes": Makeshift Music Books and Workaday Miscellanies in Tudor England', Renaissance Society of America Conference, Berlin (March 2015)
  • Julia Craig-McFeely, 'Digital Restoration for Beginners: Is this for me and how would I get started?', Faculty of Music, Oxford (7 Jan and 12 Feb 2015)
  • Magnus Williamson, 'Praying for a safe delivery: Mary Tudor, Thomas Tallis and the Chronology of Tudor Music', Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music, All Souls, Oxford (Dec 2014)
  • Julia Craig-McFeely, ‘Lute Manuscripts and  their Uses, handwriting, society and artistic culture in 16th- and 17th-century England’ Open University Book History Research Group seminar series, 'Paper, Pen and Ink: Manuscript Cultures in Early Modern England' (Dec 2014)