“Spanish Manuscript Processionals”, Dr David Andrés Fernández (Universidad Austral de Chile)

Date: 15 February, 2016
Time: 11am-12pm
Venue: The University of Sydney, Fisher Library, F03, Seminar Room, Level 2
More information: Dr. Jane Hardie: jane.hardie@sydney.edu.au

Come and hear Spanish scholar David Andrés Fernández discuss some of the music manuscripts held in the University of Sydney Library’s Rare Books collection. David has written extensively on processionals and will be based at Sydney for a short time as a Visiting Scholar at the Medieval and Early Modern Centre. Two of the Spanish processionals David will examine are recent acquisitions with one rumoured to be related to another manuscript already in our collection. Come along and find out whether the rumour is true.

“Plainchant for the Conception BMV: a musical journey from the Middle Ages to the Independence of Chile”, Dr David Andrés Fernández (Universidad Austral de Chile)

Date: 22 February, 2016
Time: 12:30-2:00pm.
Venue: The University of Sydney, Rogers Room (Woolley Building)

Dr. Andrés Fernández will be a Visiting Scholar in the Centre from January 25-February 24 and has been working on Liturgical Music Books in Chile.