The Script and Sound Seminar provides a platform for early music research at KBR – Royal Library of Belgium, with particular attention to the sources preserved there. It takes place in the context of the FED-tWIN programme From Script to Sound, which frames a long-term collaboration between KBR and the Alamire Foundation, aimed at studying the musical heritage from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Date: 18 November 2025
Location: Panorama Room, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium). The Panorama Room is located at the sixth floor (follow the signs for the elevators from the main entrance, Mont des Arts 28, 1000 Brussels).

Convenor: Antonio Chemotti (KU Leuven / Alamire Foundation / KBR)
Language: English

Registration
The event is free but registration is required (deadline for registration is 16 November 2025).
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You will receive a link with the login details for the streaming one day before the conference begins.

Program

9.50–10.00
Antonio Chemotti (KU Leuven / Alamire Foundation / KBR),
Welcome Address and Introductory Remarks

10.00–10.30
Deanna Pellerano (KU Leuven / Alamire Foundation),
Hearing the Military Camp in 15th-Century Burgundian Sources

10.30–11.00
Brett Kostrzewski (KU Leuven / Alamire Foundation),
The Identification and Provenance of the Original Bindings in the Alamire Corpus of Music Manuscripts (c. 1500-1535)

11.00–11.30
Romane Massart (University of Liège),
Bourgeois Music Patronage in Antwerp in the Light of Tielman Susato’s Dedications

11.30–12.00: Coffee break

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12.00–12.30
Paul Newton-Jackson (KU Leuven / Alamire Foundation),
Phalèse’s “Allemande Pouloingne” (1568) and the Reception of Polish Dances in the Low Countries

12.30–13.00
Antonio Chemotti (KU Leuven / Alamire Foundation / KBR),
From Antwerp to …: Madrigals in Unexpected Places

13.00–14.30: Lunch break (lunch not provided)

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14.30–15.00
Louisa Hunter-Bradley (King's College London),
The Officina Plantiniana as Agent for Pierre Phalèse and His Heirs

15.00–15.30
Emilie Corswarem (University of Liège),
Navigating a Stylistic In-Between: Léonard de Hodemont’s Armonica recreatione (1627) and Musical Tensions in Seventeenth-Century Liège

15.30–16.00
David Nivarlet (CESR Tours),
Mapping the Collections: Early Modern Musical Prints from the Low Countries in KBR's Manuscripts and Rare Books Department

16.00–17.00
Meet the sources: exposition of the KBR sources discussed