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| Centre International de Musique Médiévale | |
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| Name | Centre International de Musique Médiévale |
| Established | 1980s |
| Location | France |
| Type | Research and performance centre |
Centre International de Musique Médiévale is an institution devoted to the study, performance, and dissemination of medieval music, encompassing repertoires from the Gregorian chant tradition to secular songbooks such as the Codex Calixtinus and the Chansonnier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Based in France, it connects scholars, performers, and institutions including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Conservatoire de Paris, and the University of Paris to promote renewed understanding of repertoires associated with figures like Guillaume de Machaut, Hildegard of Bingen, and the anonymous trouvères and troubadours represented in the Chansonniers tradition. The Centre interacts with festivals and ensembles such as Ensemble Organum, Hespèrion XXI, The Tallis Scholars, Early Music Consort, and international research bodies including the Royal Musical Association.
The Centre emerged amid late 20th-century revival movements tied to projects at the Société française de musicologie, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and collaborative initiatives with the École pratique des hautes études, reflecting earlier scholarship by figures associated with the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique and performance trends led by Jordi Savall, Philippe Herreweghe, Nigel North, Christopher Hogwood, and David Munrow. Its founding drew on archival resources such as the Chartres Cathedral manuscripts, the Abbey of Saint Gall codices, the Monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat collections, and editions influenced by editors like Gustav Reese and Claude Palisca. Over decades the Centre forged partnerships with the Festival d'Ambronay, the Festival de Chaillol, the Biennale de musique ancienne de Lyon, the European Early Music Network, and university departments at Oxford University, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
The Centre's mission integrates scholarly research, historically informed performance, and public engagement, aligning with projects from the International Musicological Society, the American Musicological Society, the Royal Academy of Music, and heritage agencies such as the Ministry of Culture (France). Activities span palaeography workshops referencing the Winchester Troper, performance practice seminars grounded in treatises by Guido of Arezzo, Johannes de Grocheio, and Johannes Ciconia, and editorial work in the tradition of the Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae and the Monuments of French Sacred Music. Collaboration extends to archives like the Vatican Library, the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, the Bibliothèque de Genève, and museums including the Musée de Cluny.
Educational offerings include masterclasses with guest artists from Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens Lyriques, The Hilliard Ensemble, and pedagogues linked to the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Royal College of Music, Juilliard School, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Short courses address notation systems such as neumes found in the Antiphonale Missarum and techniques of instrumental accompaniment informed by sources like the Roberto de Firenze manuscripts and treatises by Tinctoris and Agricola (musician). Summer schools collaborate with institutions like the Sainte-Chapelle choral programs, the Festival de Saintes, and the Institut de musique ancienne de Villecroze.
Research outputs include critical editions, facsimile projects of the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, analytical studies in journals allied with the Revue de Musicologie, Early Music History, and series comparable to the Monuments of Renaissance Music. The Centre publishes conference proceedings in partnership with presses such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Brepols Publishers, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and hosts symposia attended by scholars from King's College London, University of Chicago, Columbia University, University of Toronto, and Australian National University. Projects engage with digital humanities initiatives exemplified by the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music and collaborative databases used by the International Medieval Music Database.
The Centre curates concert series and festivals interfacing with the Festival d'Ambronay, the Festival de Saintes, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the Festival de Sablé, and venues such as the Opéra Garnier, Notre-Dame de Paris, and the Sainte-Chapelle (Paris). Performances have featured repertoire linked to manuscripts like the Carmina Burana, the Piae Cantiones, and liturgical cycles from the Sarum Rite and the Use of Rome, often staged by ensembles including The Boston Camerata, Fontenay, Dialogos (ensemble), and soloists trained at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
Faculty and collaborators have included musicologists, performers, and directors associated with Guillaume Dufay scholarship, performers from Gautier Capuçon's circle, and academics connected to the University of Cambridge's early music programs, such as alumni who joined Ensemble Gilles Binchois, La Nef, Sequentia (ensemble), Les Musiciens du Louvre, and orchestras like Orchestre de Paris. Visiting scholars have come from the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, the Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, the British Library, and the Royal Library of Belgium.
Facilities encompass rehearsal spaces modelled on performance practice rooms at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, a reference library with holdings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and facsimiles of the Codex Las Huelgas, and archival access to collections from the Archives nationales (France), the Biblioteca Nacional de España, and the Vatican Library. Instrument collections include period clavichords, hurdy-gurdies, psalteries, and replicas made by luthiers connected to workshops in Cremona, Salamanca, and Padua, and the Centre maintains recording facilities used in productions released by labels such as Harmonia Mundi, Glossa Music, Deutsche Grammophon, and Archiv Produktion.
Category:Medieval music Category:Music research institutes