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
AMS Chicago 2024 Roundtable
The study group for Skills and Resources for Early Musics is preparing a roundtable discussion on the theme of “Ethics and/of Early Music” for this year’s AMS national meeting in Chicago. We will be discussing our field’s obligation to broader concerns about inclusivity, the global Middle Ages, and inequality. Participants might address these issues as they relate to research, teaching, resources, recruitment, etc. We plan to retain the format of approximately 5–10-minute presentations by faculty, unaffiliated scholars, and students.
If you would like to be a roundtable participant, please send an email to study group co-chair Jeannette D. Jones (profdiberjones@gmail.com) stating your name and a couple of sentences about your topic by midnight March 12.
Minutes for the Fall 2023 meeting of SREM at AMS Denver can be found here!
SREM Fundraising Initiative 2023
SREM Fundraising Initiative 2023—Success!!
We wish to express our gratitude to all who contributed to the study group fundraising initiative. Thanks to your generosity, we raised a total of $545 and received an additional $500 in matching funds (the maximum award) from the AMS Study Group Activities Fund to support the following events at the AMS meeting in Denver:
-Travel bursaries for the graduate student presenters in the Early Sacred/Liturgical Musics and Digital Humanities: Skills and Resources session, Thursday, Nov. 9, 8-10pm
-Honorarium for the keynote address by Debra Lacoste, “Harmonizing Content in the Cantus Database and DIAMM” during the Skills and Resources for Early Musics Business Meeting, Friday, Nov. 10, 12:30-2pm
Thank you again, and please mark your calendars! We look forward to seeing you in Denver!
Dan and Catherine
EMPF Grant: $2,000 for Yale-Cornell Historical Notation Bootcamp
We are pleased to share the good news that the study group has received a $2,000 grant from the AMS Early Music Program Fund to help support the re-establishment of the Yale-Cornell Historical Notation Bootcamp summer workshop. This award from the Early Music Program Fund will help to cover the cost of course materials, hiring an experienced graduate student as an associate instructor, and travel grants to defray the cost of attendance for participants who cannot secure funding from their home institutions or who are not yet enrolled in a program.
All our thanks to Drew Hicks and Anna Zayaruznaya for their generous assistance with the proposal and for their continued commitment to the bootcamp! Plans are underway to revive the workshop in the summer of 2023 or 2024. We’ll keep you updated!
Officers
Roundtable Session Committe
AMS Chicago 2024
Karen Cook, session committee chair
Eleanor Price, session committee
Dmitriy Stegall, session committee
Communications Officer
Suzanna Feldkamp (she/hers)
suzanna.feldkamp@case.edu