The Mechelen Choirbook was produced in the workshop of the important Low Countries music-scribe Petrus Alamire in the early sixteenth century, c. 1508-1516, for a member of the ruling Habsburg family. The choirbook is among the most finely illuminated manuscripts by Alamire, and one of the largest that he ever produced. The book is still held in Mechelen, the city where it was made.
On the occasion of the publication by the Alamire Foundation of a facsimile of the Mechelen Choirbook, panelists will discuss the manuscript from the perspectives of historical musicology, music performance, and art history.
Introduction
- David J. Burn, KU Leuven
- Bart Demuyt, Alamire Foundation
Speakers
- Anne Margreet As-Vijvers, Illuminare scribendo,
- Stratton Bull, Alamire Foundation and Cappella Pratensis,
- Honey Meconi, University of Rochester,
- Thomas Schmidt, University of Manchester
Welcome Remarks
- Yves Wantens, General Representative of the Government of Flanders in the United States,
- Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History, Columbia University
This event is sponsored by the European Institute and the Studies of the Dutch-speaking World at Columbia University, The Alamire Foundation, & The Delegation of Flanders to the USA.
