Wednesday, 13 November: 12:00pm–6:00pm CST
Thursday, 14 November: 9:00am–11:30am CST
Clark 5

This symposium will facilitate dialogue between established approaches to contrafacture in historical European repertoires and in global cultural contexts in which contrafacture is a thriving, living musical practice. The symposium will delve into the shared epistemological functions of musical borrowing, re-creation, and interpolation beyond circumstances of time, place, community, and/or musical genre. In each session, presenters will deliver 10-minute lightning talks, leaving time ample time for discussion of these techniques with attendees.

Additionally, the symposium proudly features an invited performance by ANIMA Early Music, a “metamorphosing ensemble” specializing in “new works of text and music that are in conversation with early sources and soundworlds.”

For the detailed schedule of events, speaker list, presentation titles and abstracts, please click the button below to view the complete Symposium program. Please direct any questions to the Beyond Contrafacts program committee at contrafactsymposium@gmail.com.

The Beyond Contrafacts pre-conference is organized by Kaylee Feller-Simmons, Paul Feller-Simmons, and Kendall Winter Hatch.