Introduction Program from ACTA 17 Concert 1. Ars Musica as Ars Cantica in a Twelfth-Century ProseCharles M. Atkinson, Ohio State University 2. “Chantword Indexes”: A Tool for Plainsong ResearchAndrew Hughes, University of Toronto 3. “The Voice and the Letter”: On Singing in the VernacularMargaret Switten, Mount Holyoke College 4. “Juan Ruiz’ Oral Performance as Minstrel”: the Poet-Singer in Fourteenth-Century SpainRoberto J. González-Casanovas, The Catholic University of America 5. Reading Composers ReadingDon M. Randel, Cornell University 6. English Poetry and the Expansion of the Concept of Song in the Fifteenth-CenturyEdith Borroff, Binghamton University 7. “John Bennet and the Directional Convention”: An Introduction to MadrigalismIrving Godt, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Paul R. Laird, Elizabeth Sallinger, USA) Laird, Paul R. (University of Kansas, USA) Sallinger, Elizabeth (University of Connecticut, Paul R Laird, Robert Gordon, Emilio Méndez
Mary Jo Lodge, Paul R. Laird, Lafayette College) Lodge, Mary Jo (Associate Professor of Theater, Associate Professor of Theater, University of Kansas) Laird, Paul R. (Professor of Musicology, Professor of Musicology