Thursday 7th September
9:00 Welcome
Session I Conductus, Motet, Cantio
Chair: Catherine A. Bradley (University of Oslo)
9:10–9:50 Mark Everist (University of Southampton)
The Benedicamus Domino and the Conductus: Distribution, History and Structure
9:50–10:30 Melanie Shaffer (Radboud University)
Benedicamus Domino and the Ordering of Conducti in F-Pn lat. 15139
10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–11:40 Joshua Stutter (University of Glasgow)
Organal Motets, Organum Prosulae, Polyphonic Tropes, Motet-Likes: The Universalisation of the Motet
11:40–12:20 Jan Ciglbauer (Charles University)
Benedicamus or Cantio? Distinctive Endings of Central European Cantiones and their Testimony of Tradition and Use
12:20–14:00 Lunch
Session II Conceptual, Political, and Hagiographical Contexts
Chair: Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chicago)
14:00–14:40 Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn (University of Bristol)
“The Heart’s Cry is its Understanding”: The Augustinian Concept of Iubilus in Medieval Liturgical Theology
14:40–15:20 Sam Barrett (University of Cambridge)
Splendor patris, Stimmtausch, and Ways of Making Benedicamus Domino Songs in the Early Twelfth Century
15:20–16:00 Mary Channen Caldwell (University of Pennsylvania)
St. Nicholas and the Benedicamus Domino: Songs of an Advent Saint
16:00–16:30 Coffee
Session III Female Communities
Chair: Manon Louviot (University of Oslo)
16:30–17:10 David Merlin (University of Padova)
Echoes from a Viennese Nunnery: Situating Benedicamus Domino Chants between Shared Traditions and Local Practice
17:10–17:50 Laine Tabora (Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music)
The Unique Selection of Benedicamus Domino Melodies from Medieval Riga
19:30 Dinner (Café Tekethopa)
Friday 8th September
Session IV England
Chair: Nicholas David Yardley Ball (University of Oslo)
9:00–9:40 Samuel Cardwell (University of Toronto)
When did the Benedicamus enter the English liturgy?
9:40–10:20 Thomas Phillips (University of Bristol)
Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 4: New Insights into the Benedicamus Domino Tradition at St. Albans in the Twelfth Century
10:20–10:50 Coffee
10:50–11:20 James Tomlinson (University of Oslo)
Polyphonic Settings of the Benedicamus Domino and Deo gratias in Late Medieval English Sources
11:20–12:00 Kalina Tomova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Some Thoughts on Faburden and Fauxbourdon in the Fifteenth-Century Carol
12:00–14:00 Lunch
Session V Renaissance Polyphony in Italy and Spain
Chair: Johanna Thöne (University of Oslo)
14:00–14:40 Antonio Calvia (University of Pavia) & Anne Stone
(CUNY, Graduate Center)
A Newly-Discovered Polyphonic Benedicamus Domino in Milan
14:40–15:20 Michael O’Connor (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
Juan de Esquivel and the Polyphonic Benedicamus Domino in Late Renaissance Spain
15:20–16:00 Coffee
Session VI Lightning Papers
Chair: Alessandra Ignesti (University of Oslo)
16:00–16:20 Marit Høye (Independent)
Early Plainchant for the Benedicamus: Relationships with Kyrie Source Melodies
16:20–16:40 Giovanni Cunego (University of Pavia)
A Two-Voice Benedicamus Domino Versicle in an Eleventh-Century Source from the Capitular Library of Verona?
16:40–17:00 Martha Culshaw (University of Toronto)
Benedicamus Domino and the Order of St. Clare in Fourteenth-Century Brussels
17:00–17:20 Lucia Denk (Princeton University)
Fragmentary Benedicamus Dominos in an Early Modern Spanish Manuscript