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.

This year’s edition places particular emphasis on issues of performance, showcasing the different types of sources preserved in modern libraries that make it possible to reconstruct its history and understand its cultural impact. These include not only manuscripts and prints that enable us to recover the music of the past, but also concert programmes, liner notes, and album covers that reveal its modern significance.

Date: 26 November 2026, 4:15–6:30 p.m (CET)
Location: The 2026 edition of the seminar will exceptionally take place online only
Convenor: Antonio Chemotti (KU Leuven / Alamire Foundation / KBR)
Language: English

Registration

The event is free but registration for virtual attendance is required. Register here by 24 November 2026. You will receive a link with the login details for the streaming one day before the seminar begins.

Programme

• 4.15–4.30 p.m.

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

• 4.30–5.00 p.m.

Tim Braithwaite (Cappella Pratensis / Amsterdam Conservatory),
The Golden Mass: Performing Dufay's Missa Ecce Ancilla Domini from B-Br MS 5557

• 5.00–5.30 p.m.

Grantley McDonald (University of Vienna),
Polyphony, Print and Piety: The Lofzangen (1515) as Political Program

• 5.30–6.00 p.m.

Benjamin Ory (KU Leuven / Alamire Foundation),
Programming the Past: Belgium and the Early Music Performance Tradition

• 6.00–6.30 p.m.

Bartłomiej Gembicki (IS PAN Warsaw),
From Performance to Product: Packaging Polyphony Today