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Music and Theology in the European Reformations
Huis van de Polyfonie (KU Leuven)
19–21 September 2012
Each paper (except for the two key-note addresses) runs for thirty
minutes, followed by a ten-minute discussion. Each session is
separated by a refreshment break.
Registration (11:00–1:00)
I Opening (1:00–1.15)
Wednesday 19 September
Peter de Mey (KU Leuven) and Grantley McDonald (KU Leuven)
II (1:15–2:15): Keynote lecture
Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews): Current issues in
the historiography of the European Reformations
III (2:30–3:50): Developments in Biblical exegesis in the sixteenth
century and their musical outcomes
Maarten Wisse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Changing
interpretations of the Johannine prologue and their expression in
renaissance polyphony
Inga Groote (Universität Zurich): Music in David Chytraeus’ In
Deuteronomium Mosis enarratio (1575)
IIII (4.10–6.10): Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer
Miikka Anttila (University of Helsinki): “Geistliche, liebliche Lieder”
– in search for aesthetic criteria of music in Luther’s theology
Mattias Lundberg (Uppsala Universitet): “Vos ad se pueri”:
Exegesis, learning and piety in Lutheran school songs 1521–c.
1650
Daniel Trocmé-Latter (University of Cambridge): Music, heretics,
and reformers
V (6:30–7:30): Keynote lecture
Robin Leaver (Yale University): Melanchthon’s contribution to
Lutheran hymnody

8:00 Dinner
Thursday 20 September
VI (9:00–10:10) The musical impact of the Lutheran Reformation I
Risto Saarinen (University of Helsinki): Emotions and music in
the Lutheran Reformation
Thomas Schmidt (University of Manchester): In search of a
“Lutheran” style of motet composition in mid sixteenth-century
Germany
VII (10:30–12:30) The musical impact of the Calvinist Reformation
Hyun-Ah Kim (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies,
University of Toronto): Singing, prayer, and sacrifice: the neo-
Platonic revival of musica humana in the Calvinist Reformation
Beat Föllmi (Faculty of Protestant Theology, Université
Strasbourg): The Strasbourg Psalter (1537/38): a “missing link”
of European hymnology?
Frank Dobbins (University of Montreal/Goldsmiths College,
University of London): Clément Janequin’s psalms and chansons
spirituels
12:30–1:30 Lunch
VIII (1:30–2:50) The musical impact of the Lutheran Reformation II: the
case of Leonhard Paminger
Grantley McDonald (KU Leuven): Musicians and confessional
division in sixteenth-century Bavaria
David Burn (KU Leuven): Leonhard Paminger as a composer of
liturgical music
IX (3:05–4:25) The musical impact of the Catholic Reformation I
Michael Questier (Queen Mary, University of London): The
political culture of the post-Reformation English Catholic
household
Gioia Filocamo (Università di Bologna): “Canti figurati che
sogliono relassare il spirito et la vera osservanza”: Music in
Italian nunneries after the Council of Trent

X (4:40–6:40) Music and early Christian literature in the sixteenth
century: the Sibylline oracles, the Ancient Theology and the revival of
ancient music
Henk Jan de Jonge (Universiteit Leiden): Sibyls and their
oracles in Christian literature from Hermas to Orlando di Lasso
Marjorie Roth (Nazareth College, Rochester): Sibylline prophecy
as sounding salvation: new light on Orlando di Lasso’s
Prophetiae Sibyllarum
Marie-Alexis Colin (Université libre de Bruxelles): The sibylline
prophecies in French music of the sixteenth century
7:00–8.15 Dinner
XI 8.30–9:00: Katelijne Schiltz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich):
Preconcert talk
9:00 Concert
Friday 21 September
XII (9.00–11:00) Music in Reformation and Counterreformation England
Peter Malisse (KU Leuven): Music and the Henrician
Reformation: blind spot or lasting trace?
Andrew Cichy (Merton College, Oxford): Out of place? The
functions of music in English seminaries during the late
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Emilie Murphy (University of York): ‘Imperfect proxy and deputy’:
Music and the adaptation of post-Reformation English Catholic
piety, c. 1575–c. 1640
XIII (11:20–12:40): Music, liturgy and ritual in the European
Reformations
Nils Holger Petersen (University of Copenhagen): Continuity and
change: the official Danish Lutheran Gradual of Niels Jesperssøn
(1573)
Sarah Davies (New York University): Kirchen Cron or
Baalsfeldzeichen? The organ as a sign of confessional identity,
1560–1660

12:40–2:00 Lunch
XIV (2:00–3.20) Musical Contacts and Interconfessional Tensions
Alanna V. Ropchock (Case Western Reserve University): “Das
ist eine harte Rede; wer kann sie hören?”: the Lutheran copies
of Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua
Stephanie Beghein (Universiteit Antwerpen): Church music and
Counter Reformation in Antwerp, c. 1570–1750
XIV (3:40–5:00) The musical impact of the Catholic Reformation II
Xavier Bisaro (CESR, Tours): New sins for new sounds? A
casuistic point of view on French renaissance music
Elisabeth Giselbrecht (University of Cambridge): One size fits
all? Nikolaus Stein’s publications of Italian music in bi-
confessional Frankfurt
XV (5:00–5:30) Closing
Jos Verheyden (KU Leuven) and David Burn (KU Leuven)