All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music

This long-running series of seminars, convened by Dr Margaret Bent, considers all aspects of medieval and renaissance music. It runs on Zoom in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms and generally attracts a large international audience. Usually, a presenter speaks for around 30 minutes and then engages with invited discussants for another half an hour. The floor is then open for questions and lively general discussion.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Timing: Selected Thursdays at 5pm
Web Address: https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/all-souls-seminars-medieval-and-renaissance-music
Organising department: Faculty of Music

Talks:

Thursday 30 October 2025

'A cycle of masses for all seasons in the Burgundian court'
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chicago)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

'Theinred of Dover (fl. c. 1300): A new context for him in fourteenth-century music theory'
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Elina Hamilton (University of Hawai’i, Mānoa), Peter Lefferts (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba (Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

'Voice-parts and voice-types in Tudor England'
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Kerry McCarthy
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Editor: Laura Howorth