Dr Jane Morlet Hardie, The Sydney Conservatorium of Music Free Public Lecture

“About Music: Manuscripts and Music: the Sydney Spanish Liturgical Chant Manuscript Collection”, Dr Jane Morlet Hardie (University of Sydney)

Date: 10 October, 2016
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: Recital Hall West, The Sydney Conservatorium of Music
More information: Christa Jacenyik-Trawöger (scm.research@sydney.edu.au)
Register: Free entry, registrations required. Information on how to register: http://music.sydney.edu.au/events/about-music-jane-hardy-10-10-2016

Over the last ten years the University of Sydney has been building a collection of Spanish Liturgical Chant Manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 18th centuries. While on the surface these books seem to present just a collection of often barely decipherable dots on parchment they all originally had lives of their own, and hidden within them are stories, contexts and meanings. Today, as we take a journey from manuscripts to meanings, with some side trips along the way we will rediscover some music of earlier centuries as we interrogate some of these unique artefacts and uncover
some of their secrets.


Jane Morlet Hardie PhD, FAHA is a musicologist and librarian has published extensively on Spanish sacred polyphony of the Early Modern period. Following postgraduate study in the United States, she taught at the Universities of Michigan and Sydney and was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Harvard where she wrote a book on Spanish sources and music. She is now an elected member of the Directorium of the International Musicological Society, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and attached to the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at the University of Sydney.