Jan Herlinger (Derryl and Helen Haymon Professor of Music) is internationally recognized as an authority on music and music theory of the Middle Ages. This summer of 2009 he is attending four conferences in Europe, and conducting research in Berlin. LSU's College of Music and Dramatic Arts was a sponsor of one the conferences (Collazzone, Italy).
International Conference, Certaldo, Italy, June 9-12: "Beyond Fifty Years of Ars Nova Studies at Certaldo, 1959-2009"
chaired session of free papers, with introductory remarks: "Research in Medieval Music Theory: The Next Fifty Years"
International Conference, Collazzone, Italy, June 19-21: "L'opera di Niccolò da Perugia: Aspetti originali della sperimentazione formale, delle tecniche compositive, dei processi di trasmissione e ricezione". He chaired session of papers, presented concluding remarks at end of conference
Medieval-Renaissance Music Conference, Utrecht University, July 1-4
presented paper, "Prosdocimo's Expositiones on the Libellus cantus mensurabilis"
Eleventh Biennial Conference of the Early Book Society, University of Exeter (UK), July 9-12, presented paper, “Marciana, Lat. VIII.85: Well- or Unknown?”
