Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group
Mission Statement
The AMS Study Group in Skills and Resources for Early Musics aims to coordinate and energize the study of musical practices from before around 1600 by focusing on the skills necessary to teach and undertake research into musics of the distant past. The term “Early Musics” signals a desire to embrace diverse musical traditions from around the globe, including hybrid practices that emerged from trans-continental, socio-cultural, and commercial movements and routes. Research into early musics continues to be vital, vitally important, and importantly challenging for the future. Members of this group share not only an interest in studying and teaching these musical traditions, but a commitment to facilitating the specialist training and interdisciplinary collaboration upon which so much successful work depends.
By focusing on skills rather than output, the Study Group complements early music sessions at the national meeting of the AMS, creating space to discuss the “how” of early music research. Our goal is to facilitate knowledge of and access to extracurricular opportunities and to act as a central networking hub for scholars, teachers, students, and performers to develop further training opportunities.
Announcements
Medieval Academy of America Summer Skills Workshops
| The MAA is offering three online intensive Summer Skills Workshops for graduate students or advanced undergraduate students. The workshops will focus on Old French, Latin Paleography, or Medieval Latin. These online courses will meet for 6 hours a week for five weeks, but the specific times for each course can be found on the MAA website, linked below. The subsidized workshops cost just $125 each to cover materials. Participation requires application (due April 30), and accepted participants will be notified by May 15. Click here to read course descriptions on the MAA website. Click here to apply. |
A congratulations to 2024 AMS Awardees
The study group congratulates early music specialists Emily Zazulia and Joseph Mason!
Emily Zazulia, Associate Professor (Musicology) at UC Berkeley, has received the Early Music Award for her book Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Joseph Mason is winner of the Roland Jackson Award for his article “Trouver et Partir: The Meaning of Structure in the Old French Jeu-Parti” (Early Music History 40, 2021). Mason is a Lecturer at New College, Oxford.
We extend our congratulations and gratitude to these two scholars for their excellent work in our field!
Gorgeous Color Facsimiles Available
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Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut Manuscript
Eton Choirbook
Dow Partbooks
Henry VIII Manuscript
William Byrd Masses
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Minutes
…….for the Fall 2024 meeting of SREM at AMS Chicago are being formatted and will be available shortly
…….for the Fall 2023 meeting of SREM at AMS Denver can be found here!
Officers
Communications Officer
Suzanna Feldkamp (she/hers)
suzanna.feldkamp@case.edu