Workshop 1:
September 20-22, 2019
McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada
View programIn attendance: Jennifer Bain, Julie Cumming, Ichiro Fujinaga, Andrew Hankinson, Kate Helsen, Emily Hopkins, Debra Lacoste, Jimmy Maiello, Fallen Matthews, Cory McKay, Néstor Nápoles López, Michael Norton, Rebecca Shaw, Gabriel Vigliensoni.
Workshop 2 [COVID CANCELLATION]: July 20, 2020
Prague, Czech Republic
Workshop 3 (moved online):December 15, 2020
Hosted from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
View programIn attendance on Zoom: Jennifer Bain, Inga Behrendt, Lisa Binkley, David Burn, Irina Chachulska, Julia Craig-McFeely, Ilaria Culshaw FoH, Julie Cumming, Zsuzsa Czagány, Lisa Fagin Davis, Anna de Bakker, Elsa De Luca, Judy Dietz, Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Ichiro Fujinaga, Marianne Gillion, Richard Haefer, Barbara Haggh-Huglo, Andrew Hankinson, Kate Helsen, Alessandra Ignesti, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Andrea Klassen, Jan Koláček, Debra Lacoste, Sarah Ann Long, Jimmy Maiello, Fallen Matthews, Michael Norton, Brayden Olson, Gustavo Polins Pedro, Cindy Preece, Rebecca Shaw, Barbara Swanson, Janice Tulk, Eva Veselovská, Gabriel Vigliensoni, Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Junhao Wang, David Watt.
June 2, 2019SIMSSA Workshop XVIII, at the Music Encoding ConferenceVienna, Austria
Jennifer Bain, “Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission.”
March 5-6, 2020Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I “Session I: Early music databases, encoding, analysing and OMR”
Masaryk Institute, Prague
Presentations and hands-on workshops led by Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University) and Debra Lacoste (
Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant).
planned for May 7, 2020 [COVID CANCELLATION / POSTPONEMENT]International Congress on Medieval StudiesWestern Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
“Fragments and the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (A Panel Discussion)”
A panel discussion with Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa), and Debra Lacoste (
Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant). Chair: Michael Norton.
planned for June 2, 2020 [COVID CANCELLATION / POSTPONEMENT]Canadian Society of MedievalistsWestern University, London, Ontario, Canada
Session: “Liturgical Fragments”
Papers by Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Kate Steiner and Debra Lacoste (University of Waterloo), and Meredith Bacola (University of Manitoba).
planned for July 1-4, 2020 [COVID CANCELLATION / POSTPONEMENT]MedRen (Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference)The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Jennifer Bain, Panelist, “Notated Fragments from Medieval Europe: Transregional Research and Digital Technologies”
planned for July 15-19, 2020 [COVID CANCELLATION / POSTPONEMENT]Cantus Planus Study Group of the International Musicological SocietyTelč, Czech Republic
- William Duba (Fragmentarium), Workshop session: “Dispersal Reversed? Uploading Your Manuscript Fragment Images and Cataloguing them Online”
- Jennifer Bain, Paper: “Traces of Liturgy: Analysing Manuscript Fragments from the Binding of the Riesencodex (D-WI1 2)”
- Debra Lacoste and Jennifer Bain, Poster Session: “The DACT Project, Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission”
planned for October 22, 2020 - March 13, 2021 [COVID CANCELLATION / POSTPONEMENT]Musée des Arts Anciens, Namur, Belgium
Exhibition: Centuries of Silence: the Discovery of the Salzinnes Antiphonal
In partnership with the Société archéologique de Namur, an exhibition featuring the Salzinnes Antiphonal (owned by Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) in Namur, Belgium, its place of origin.
planned for October 24, 2020 [COVID CANCELLATION / POSTPONEMENT]Namur University, Belgium
“Salzinnes Symposium”
A one-day symposium of papers and panel discussions by international scholars on topics related to the Salzinnes Antiphonal, developments in digital technology, and manuscript studies. Includes a tour through the “Centuries of Silence” exhibition at the Musée des Arts Anciens and a concert of some of the music contained in the manuscript.
May 2021International Congress on Medieval Studiesonline through Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
“Fragments and the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (A Panel Discussion)”
A panel discussion with Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa), and Debra Lacoste (
Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant). Chair: Michael Norton.
June 2021Canadian Society of MedievalistsSession: “Liturgical Fragments”
Papers by Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University), Kate Steiner and Debra Lacoste (University of Waterloo), and Meredith Bacola (University of Manitoba).
2022-2023Musée des Arts Anciens, Namur, Belgium
Exhibition: Centuries of Silence: the Discovery of the Salzinnes Antiphonal
In partnership with the Société archéologique de Namur, an exhibition featuring the Salzinnes Antiphonal (owned by Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) in Namur, Belgium, its place of origin.
Fall 2022Namur University, Belgium
“Salzinnes Symposium”
A one-day symposium of papers and panel discussions by international scholars on topics related to the Salzinnes Antiphonal, developments in digital technology, and manuscript studies. Includes a tour through the “Centuries of Silence” exhibition at the Musée des Arts Anciens and a concert of some of the music contained in the manuscript.
