The genetics of works: in the labyrinth of written traces

The Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles is pleased to welcome the Belgian Society for Music Analysis to its premises for its 8th biennial conference.

Programme:

Thursday 9 October
9.30am: welcome
10am: lecture I – Nicolas Meeùs: What does notation note?
11am: lecture II – Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans: The erased work: A reconstruction of Antoine de Févin's motet Sancta Trinitas
12:00 p.m: Break
12:15 p.m: Lecture III – Michel Lambert: Franz Joseph HAYDN (1732-1809) Made in England! When organological characteristics influence the formal design of a work
1:15 p.m: Lunch
2:00 p.m: Two parallel workshops
Harold Noben: The different possibilities of a sketch, or how the initial creative angle can determine a musical profile.
Jean-Marie Rens: The workshop proposes to work on sketches of one or two pieces (signs) from Stockhausen's Tierkreis cycle and to see how these can help, or even effectively complement, analytical investigation. 
3:15 p.m: Break
3:30 p.m: Lecture IV – Jean-Pierre Bartoli: Theme to be defined
4:30 p.m: Lecture V – François Delécluse: Analysing Debussy's La Mer through his sketches. Current situation and prospects.

Friday, 10 October
9:30 a.m: Welcome
10 a.m: Lecture VI – Pascal Decroupet: Sketches versus theories: how the reconstruction of the genesis of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kontakte informs both the musical work and the composer's writings.
11 a.m: Lecture VII – Thérèse Malengreau 
12 p.m: Break
12:15 p.m: Lecture VIII – Yannick Schyns: The emergence of symmetrical octave division in 1960s jazz
1:30 p.m: Lunch
2:30 to 4:30 p.m: Profiles of a work.
This new session will take place in person and via videoconference. The work analysed will be Tierkreis by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles
Joseph Jongen Auditorium
17 rue du Chêne - 1000 Brussels

Free entrance, without reservation