Music in medieval metropolises
The Department of Musicology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is organizing a conference on music in medieval metropolises using the cities of Cologne and Mainz in the period from around 900 to 1400 AD as an example.
Sacred and secular music played a prominent role in the Middle Ages for the cultural profiling, urban identity formation and representation of the ecclesiastical electoral seats of Cologne and Mainz, but this has hardly been studied in detail to date. In conjunction with other forms of external and internal urban representation, such as architecture, music was a highly relevant factor.
Around thirty renowned experts from the USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Germany are expected to attend the international conference "Music of the Medieval Metropolis: Spaces, Identities and Contexts of Music in Cologne and Mainz ca. 900-1400" from October 15 to 18, 2014, meeting for the first two days in Mainz and then for two more days in Cologne.
Therese Bruggisser-Lanker, who works at the University of Zurich, gives a lecture on music, visionary
Liturgy and scriptural exegesis in Rupert von Deutz. A lecture ("Networks Cologne - Paris: Johannes de Grocheo's Ars musicae in the manuscript of the Karthause St. Barbara") will also be given by Inga Mai Groote, who is currently moving from the University of Zurich to the University of Freiburg.
