The "MedRen" is considered worldwide as the central place for exchanging current research results in the field of the musical culture of the Middle Ages and the early modern era. Accordingly, it is an important meeting place for both renowned researchers and young scholars. The conference is organised every year by varying university locations; in 2023, it takes place in Germany again for the first time in 20 years. It is organised jointly by the Institute of Musicology of the LMU Munich, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (BAdW) and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

A programme has been drawn up for the whole week at the BAdW and the Instituto Cervantes: Individual papers, project presentations, round tables and workshops take place in parallel in five rooms. From palaeography to analyses and questions of performance practice and on to digital methods, different perspectives on the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance are introduced, as well as their musicological assessment. Like the researchers themselves, the corpus of works addressed is international and diverse. One central component of the conference is the big poster session on Wednesday afternoon, where scholars present their research results, with the three best contributions being awarded a prize.

Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
Date: Monday, 24 July, to Friday, 28 July 2023
Programme:  https://medren2023.com/schedule-2/

Event locations

• Central conference locations: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Instituto Cervantes
• Reception: Altes Rathaus
• Concerts: Altes Rathaus, Allerheiligenhofkirche
• Exhibition: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Cooperative organisation

• Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich – Institute of Musicology
• Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – Department of Music

Framework programme
There is a comprehensive framework programme that accompanies the scholarly conference, comprising concerts and an exhibition, and being directed not only at experts, but at everybody interested in music.

Concerts

• Monday, 24 July 2023, 18:00, Altes Rathaus
  Per-Sonat: REISELIEDER. [SONGS OF TRAVEL.] Autobiographic and invented songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein and others (internal event)
• Tuesday, 25 July 2023, 19:00, Allerheiligen-Hofkirche
  Ensemble Phoenix Munich: CANCIONERO DE LA SABLONARA. Spanish court music of the 17th century (remaining tickets at the box office)
• Wednesday, 26 July 2023, 19:00, Allerheiligen-Hofkirche
  Singer Pur: Lust hab ich ghabt zur Musica – Senfl, Lasso & Buus (I felt like making music – Senfl, Lasso & Buus; remaining tickets at the box office)

For further information go to:
https://medren2023.com/concerts/

Exhibition: Highlights of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek from the late Middle Ages to the end of Renaissance
On the occasion of the music conference, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek showcases five of its most important music manuscripts. The music-historical holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek go back to the collections of the court library founded in 1558 and of the Bavarian court music ensemble, which were expanded systematically under the aegis of Duke William IV and Ludwig Senfl as of 1523. In the course of the secularisation in the 19th century further valuable holdings from Bavarian monasteries came to the library in Munich. These partly go back to the beginnings of the written tradition of music. The manuscripts on display in the Treasure Vault represent the large bandwidth of unique music treasures from the Middle Ages and Renaissance: The famous Carmina Burana, the Codex St. Emmeram, the organ book from Buxheim, the Renaissance choir book of Count Palatine Ottheinrich and the Spanish manuscript Cancionero de la Sablonara from the early 17th century.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Treasure Chamber
Ludwigstrasse 16 | 80539 Munich
Monday, 24 – Friday, 28 July 2023 (11:00 – 19:00)
Admission is free
Further Information:
https://medrenconference.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/music_manuscripts_on_display.pdf

Press release for download
Press release  (PDF, 125 KB)

Contact MedRen 2023
Tabea Umbreit, M. A.
Head of the Organising Office of the MedRen 2023
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich | Institute of Musicology
+49 89 2180-2364
medren2023@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
https://medren2023.com/