The University will celebrate its long-held commitment to the art of music with a three-day conference titled "A Sense of Place: Seventy Years of Musicological Scholarship at Yale."

The event, offered as part of the University's Tercentennial celebration, will bring together faculty members, noted music scholars, and current and former students of Yale's various music programs Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9.

The conference is dedicated to the memory of Claude Palisca (1921-2001), who for more than 40 years created and inspired musicological scholarship at Yale.

"For the last 70 years an important part of Yale's musical tradition has been musicological scholarship, as practiced by faculty and students in the School of Music, the Institute of Music and the Department of Music," wrote conference organizers in the brochure for the event. "Important research has been carried out on the lives of the great composers, on major musical manuscripts, on music theory and its history, on music and its relation to the liturgical ritual, and, perhaps most important, on the music of the major cultural institutions in the West.

"In recent years," they continued, "this scholarship has been greatly enhanced by the increasingly rich collection of musical materials housed in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Thus 2001 is an appropriate moment to convene the alumni of Yale to honor these accomplishments
as well as to celebrate the richness of the collections and the splendid surroundings
in which they are housed."

Among the topics to be explored by Yale faculty and guest scholars are "Music in Monasteries and Cathedrals," "Music in Italian Sacred Institutions," "Music in Italian Secular Institutions," "Music in the Churches of the Low Countries and Germany" and "Composers in Nineteenth-Century Vienna." Some of Yale's collections of music-related material will be discussed in a lecture on "Music in the Beinecke Library" by Vincent Giroud, curator of the Beinecke's modern books and manuscripts.

Other Yale affiliates who are participating in the conference include Beekman Cannon, Leon Plantinga, Margot Fassler, Craig

Wright, Frank Tirro, Ellen Rosand, Ronald Rittgers, Kendall Crilly, James Hepokoski, Kristina Muxfeldt and Paul Hawkshaw.

The University's noted tradition in music-making will be celebrated in two concerts offered in conjunction with the conference. The first, a performance by Yale undergraduate performers, will take place on Friday at 9 p.m. in Sudler Hall of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. On Saturday at 8 p.m., Yale organist and faculty member Martin Jean will perform the music of J.S. Bach in an organ concert in Dwight Chapel, 67 High St.

All conference lectures, discussions and concerts are free and open to the public. For a complete schedule, call (203) 432-4057.

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