The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

READING AND WRITING THE PEDAGOGY OF THE RENAISSANCE

1470-1650

A Three-Day International Conference

June 2-June 4, 2005

Thursday, June 2

Morning (Peabody/Mt. Vernon)

9:30-10:30 Walking Tour of Mt. Vernon with Anne Garside, Peabody Institute (Meet at Visitor’s Desk, Mt Vernon Entrance)

11:00 -12 noon Private Tour of Manuscripts with Will Noel, The Walters Art Museum (5 West Mount Vernon—ticket required)

Thursday Afternoon (Homewood Campus, The Johns Hopkins University)

12:00-2:00 Registration (Mudd Hall)

2:00-3:30 Welcome, Elizabeth Arndt, Program Officer, The National Endowment for the Humanities

Keynote Address: James Haar (University of North Carolina) “Musical Pedagogy: Some Introductory Remarks” (Mudd Auditorium)

4:00-5:30: Paper Sessions:

The Materials of Teaching: Treatises and Musical Sources (Mudd Auditorium)

Chair: Elizabeth Rodini (Johns Hopkins University, The Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art)

Janet Pollack (University of Puget Sound) "Parthenia, England's Early Music Pedagogy"

Deborah Lawrence (St. Mary's College of Maryland)"The Spanish Vihuela Prints as Commonplace Books"

Candace Bailey (North Carolina Central University) "Elizabeth Rogers hir virginall book as Pedagogy: Teaching Women in Early Modern Britain"

Pedagogy: Teaching Specific Topics (AMR 2)

Chair: Suhnne Ahn (Peabody Conservatory of Music)

Blake Wilson (Dickinson College) "Isaac the Teacher: Pedagogy and Literacy in Laurentian Florence"

Timothy McGee (Ontario, Canada) "Teaching Vocal Ornamentation in Italy at the End of the 16th Century"

Peter Schubert (McGill University) "Commonplaces for Renaissance Polyphony"

6:00 Reception, Hosted by the University of Delaware (Wolman Hall)

8:00-10:00 Roundtable: Other Arts, Other Pedagogies (Mudd Auditorium)

Chair: Peter Lukehart (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)

Participants: Elizabeth Rodini, Griffith Mann, William Noel, John Buchtel, Leopoldine Prosperetti, Andrew Morrall, Peter Lukehart, Stephen Nichols

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Friday, June 3 (The Peabody Conservatory)

7:30 Registration/Breakfast (Bank of America Lounge)

8:30-10:30 Paper Sessions:

Contextual Matters: Teaching's Role and Place (Cohen Davison Family Theatre)

Chair: Suzanne Burton (University of Delaware)

Pamela Starr (University of Nebraska) "'A Great Ornament and Pleasure': The Place of Music in the Educational Formation of Early Modern English Society"

Dietrich Helms (Institut für Musik und ihre Didaktik, Universität Dortmund) "Henry VIII's Book: Teaching Music to Noble Children"

Pilar Ramos (Universidad de Gerona) "Eiximenis and Vives on Music and Music Education"

Respondent: Linda Austern (Northwestern University)

Teachers and Learners: Theorist and Composers as Teachers (Goodwin Hall)

Chair: Margaret Bent (All Souls College)

Adam Gilbert (Stanford University) "Children of Tubalcain: Heinrich Isaac and his Students"

Stefano Mengozzi (University of Michigan) "The Pedagogical Agenda of Gafori's Practica musicae"

John Griffiths (The University of Melbourne) "Juan Bermudo, Self-instruction and the Amateur Instrumentalist"

Respondent: Ann Moyer (University of Pennsylvania)

10:30-10:45 Break (Bank of America Lounge)

10:45-12:15 Roundtable: Performance and/as Pedagogy (Griswold Hall)

Chair: Adam Gilbert (Stanford University)

Participants: Tina Chancey, Mark Cudek, Ronn McFarlane, Mary Anne Ballard, Webb Wiggins, Victor Coelho, Larry Lipkis, Adam Gilbert, Gwyn Roberts

12:30-1:45 Lunch (Bank of American Lounge--ticket required)

2:00-4:00 Paper Sessions:

The Materials of Teaching: (Re)Using the Printed Page (Cohen Davison Family Theatre)

Chair: Allan Atlas (City University of New York)

Sarah Davies (New York University) "Ohne Meister, Ohne Gesang: Aims of the Printed Lute and Keyboard Tablature Tutor in the German Renaissance"

Jane Flynn (Leeds, England) "Instruction in the Chant called Descant on the Monochord, Clavichord and Organ"

Susan F. Weiss (The Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University) "Vandalism in Renaissance Books: Marginalia, Graffiti and other Evidence of Musical Literacy"

Royston Gustavson (The Australian National University) "Learning Mensural Music in the German Latin Schools in the Sixteenth Century: Evidence from their Music Holdings and User-made Markings to Music Surviving from their Collections"

The Materials of Teaching: Treatises and Musical Sources (Goodwin Hall)

Chair: Alexander Silbiger (Duke University)

Mark Janello (The Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University) "Improvisation for Dummies, ca. 1675: The Nova Instructio of Spridion a Monte Carmelo"

Ken Kreitner (University of Memphis) "The Segovia Manuscript and the Education of Prince Juan"

Ralph Lorenz (Kent State University) " Coclico's Compendium musices : A Pseudo-Josquin Approach to Aural Theory"

Ross Duffin (Case Western Reserve University) "Benedetti and the Just Tuning Conundrum"

4:00-4:30 Break (Bank of America Lounge)

4:30-5:30 Remarks, Robert Sirota, Director, The Peabody Institute

Keynote Address: Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) “How Renaissance Students Learned to Read the Classics: Visions, Techniques, Memories” (Griswold Hall)

6:00-8:00 Exhibition: Art, Science, Spirit, Soul: Mastering Music in the Renaissance. Presented by The Sheridan Library of the Johns Hopkins University, The Walters Art Museum, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and The Library of Congress. (The George Peabody Library)

6:00-8:00 Reception, Hosted by Venable, LLP (The Peabody Mews Gallery)

8:00-10:00 Roundtable: Learning in the Medieval Era (Cohen Davison Family Theatre)

Chair: Dolores Pesce (Washington University)

Participants: Charles Atkinson, Susan Boynton, Dolores Pesce

8:00 and 10:00 Jazz at An die Musik (409 North Charles Street, ticket required)

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Saturday, June 4 (Homewood Campus, The Johns Hopkins University)

7:30 Registration/Breakfast (Glass Pavilion)

8:30-10:00 Paper Sessions:

The Institutions: Institutions and their Teachers (Mudd Auditorium)

Chair: Ronald Walters (Johns Hopkins University)

John Kmetz (Holtz Rubenstein Reminick LLP, New York) "Bring on the Girls: Music at St. Martin's Mädchenschule, Basel, c. 1534"

Kristine Forney (California State University, Long Beach) "Teaching Music in Renaissance Antwerp"

Gordon Munro (The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) "'Sang Schwylls' to 'Music Schools': Musical Education in Scotland, 1560–1650"

The Institutions: Women as Teachers and Students (AMR 2)

Chair: Charles Atkinson (Ohio State University)

Cynthia J. Cyrus (Vanderbilt University) "The Educational Practices of Benedictine Nuns: A Salzburg Abbey Case Study"

Colleen Baade (Lincoln, NE) "Spanish Nun Musicians as Students and Teachers"

Respondent: Susan Boynton (Columbia University)

10:00-10:30 Break (Mudd Hall)

10:30-12:00 Short Plenary Session: Learning in Renaissance Augsburg (Mudd Auditorium)

Chair: Griffith Mann (The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD)

Andrew Morrall (Bard College) "Craftsmen, Mathematics and Princely Education"

Leopoldine Prosperetti (The Johns Hopkins University) "Letitia inanis, devotum gaudium, celestis harmonia: Petrarch's Lesson on How to Think About Music and its Visualization by an Augsburg Printmaker"

12:00-12:45 Lunch (Glass Pavilion--ticket required)

1:00-3:30 Paper Sessions:

Philosophy and Pedagogy: The Goals of the Teacher (Mudd Auditorium)

Chair: Dolores Pesce (Washington University)

Jeffrey Dean (Manchester, England) "Josquin in Cambrai: his Teaching and its Influence"

Gary Towne (University of North Dakota) "The Good Maestro: Pietro Cerone on the Pedagogical Relationship"

Christopher R. Wilson (The University of Reading) "Campion's Music Treatise (c.1614): Its Aims and Readership"

Philosophy and Pedagogy: Pedagogy in Action (AMR 2)

Chair: William Prizer (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Cristle Collins Judd (University of Pennsylvania) "Learning to Compose in the 1540s: Gioseffo Zarlino's Si bona suscepimus and a Complex of Motets and Masses"

Russell E. Murray, Jr. (University of Delaware) "Zacconi as Teacher: A Pedagogical Style in Words and Deeds"

Respondent: Honey Meconi (University of Rochester/Eastman School of Music)

3:30-4:00 Break (Mudd Hall)

4:00-5:00 Closing Remarks, Steven Knapp, Provost, The Johns Hopkins University

Keynote Address: Jessie Ann Owens (Brandeis University) “You Can Tell a Book by its Cover: Reflections on Format in Music Treatises” (Mudd Auditorium)

5:15 Closing Reception, Hosted by The Office of the Dean, The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University (Shriver Hall Lobby)

8:00 Concert: The Baltimore Consort (Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory--ticket required)

*All events are included in registration fee unless otherwise noted