Keynote lecture by Emma Hornby: Inscribed on the Heart: the Power of Medieval Music
6 pm, Tuesday 18 October 2011
Reception Room, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ

The roots of Western liturgical chant are much older than their earliest surviving notations more than a thousand years ago. What impact would the chant texts have had on pious congregations in the ninth century and even earlier, and how do the existing melodies contribute to that impact? This lecture explores some of the meaning that music can contribute to liturgical text and considers the extent to which we - in our vernacular and secular modern context - can access such resonances now.

The lecture will be accompanied by a 15-strong female student choir.

Free admission, but booking strongly advised. Further details may be found at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/festival/