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DESCRIPTION:Title: “'Double Your Pleasure\, Double Your Fun': Mouthwatering
  Renaissance Duets"\n\nAbstract: Even before plainchant first appeared in n
 eumes\, the ninth-century Musica enchiriadis treatise introduced a special 
 notation to demonstrate how two voices singing at close range could be made
  to sound exquisitely “sweet.” In the ensuing centuries\, two-voice texture
 s continued to spark aesthetic interest. Duets could both enshrine stylisti
 c norms and serve as sites for radical experimentation. Singers and compose
 rs sought to squeeze as much sweetness—and many other flavors—as possible o
 ut of two voices locked in song.\n\nDespite all this\, music that pits one 
 voice against another has taken a historiographical back seat to more compl
 ex polyphonic textures. This paper puts duets back into the limelight. It b
 egins with a tour of two-voice works across six centuries before homing in 
 on some extraordinary cases by an underappreciated aficionado: Josquin des 
 Prez. Working through live music examples sung by Stanford PhD students and
  a visiting artist\, this paper explores the affordances of the most pared-
 down polyphony possible.\n\nJamie Reuland is Assistant Professor of Music a
 t Princeton University. She is the author of Music and the Making of Mediev
 al Venice (Cambridge University Press\, 2023). Her work on the aesthetic an
 d social history of premodern music in Europe and the Mediterranean has bee
 n supported by the ACLS\, Medieval Academy of America\, Fulbright Foundatio
 n in Greece\, and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Articles on a wide arra
 y of topics appear in Modern Philology\, Plainchant & Medieval Music\, New 
 Medieval Literatures\, and the Journal of Musicology. She was last at Stanf
 ord as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities in 2015.\n\nAdmission
  Information\n\nFree admission
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LOCATION:The Knoll\, CCRMA Stage
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SUMMARY:Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology: Jamie Reuland\, Prin
 ceton University
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URL:https://events.stanford.edu/event/alexander-lectures-jamie-reuland
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