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Karen Desmond
@karendesmond.bsky.social
Medieval Musicologist. Professor of Music, Maynooth U. 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Music and the moderni, 1300-1350: The ars nova in Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2018). PI, BROKENSONG (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2023-28) https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/karen-desmon
and musical style.

We accept proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes. Please submit a 250-word abstract to <brokensong@mu.ie>
October 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
musical practice and/or the creative process
- The production process for music books (and the roles of individuals, institutions and patrons in the making of music books)
- Documentary/archival evidence for musical communities
- Notational technologies
- Correlations between musical notation
October 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This two-day conference seeks to stimulate discussion centring on the materialities of music-making between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. While BROKENSONG focuses on Insular polyphonic sources, we welcome comparative perspectives that look beyond Britain
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
- Notational technologies
- Correlations between musical notation and musical style
We accept proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes. Please submit a 250-word abstract to <brokensong@mu.ie>
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
, musical practice and/or the creative process
- The production process for music books (and the roles of individuals, institutions and patrons in the making of music books)
- Documentary/archival evidence for musical communities
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
and Ireland and/or draw upon non-polyphonic traditions. We invite proposals that engage with any of the following themes in the period c.1150–c.1350:
- Music fragments, their afterlives, and their reconstruction
- The intervention of literate musical culture in communal ritual activities
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘En plein air’ of course - excuse the unnoticed autocorrect above!! here’s the conference webpage and the full title ‘En Plein Air: Soundscapes of Ritual and Festivity in Europe
and beyond from the Middle Ages to the Present’: www.luigiboccherini.org/2024/09/20/e...
En Plein Air: Soundscapes of Ritual and Festivity in Europe and beyond from the Middle Ages to the Present |
www.luigiboccherini.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I love Hugh Aston - sorry to have missed it!
July 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Totally agree! I learned so much working with you both!
July 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM