From the first lines of Gregorian chant in the ninth and tenth centuries to the movable type of the sixteenth, the desire to spread musical repertories beyond the moment of performance sat at the heart of why music was written down and remembered. How far was it possible for music to spread across both geographical terrain and chronological time in the pre-modern world? Which technologies supported its dissemination beyond the moment of performance? To what extent do the oral and the textual coalesce? How did cross-cultural exchange influence musical performance? And how did networks of transmission alter with changing socio-political contexts?

Moving Music is a two-day conference that brings together scholars from several different disciplines to explore how, when, where, and by whom music and sound was transmitted during the medieval and early modern periods. The conference will be hosted by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and generously funded by British Academy, CRASSH, and the Trevelyan Fund. The keynote paper – 'From Arras to Alexandria: Uncovering the Musical Lives of Poets and Their Works, 1100-1300' – will be given by Dr Alice Hicklin, Dr Betty Rosen, and Dr Geneviève Young from the project Musical Lives: Towards an Historical Anthropology of French Song, 1100-1300 (MUSLIVE) at King's College London. As part of the conference, attendees are invited to a concert of early music at Emmanuel College Chapel.

Registration fee includes refreshments for both days.

The full programme is available at: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46073/