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Lectures in Musicology: Graeme Boone, Ohio State

Musicology Lecture
October 22, 2018
All Day
205 18th Ave. Library

Time: 4 p.m.
Event Host: School of Music


Graeme Boone, Ohio State, presents "The Musical World of Jean Gerson (1363–1429)."

One of the most outstanding and also popular public figures of his era, Jean Charlier de Gerson rose from humble origins to become Chancellor of the University of Paris, advisor to French royalty, international diplomat, and a prolific writer whose many tracts, lectures, and sermons fill 5,500 pages in their most recent collected edition. Active in early humanist circles, he was also erudite in intellectual traditions going back to Antiquity; and he represents a key figure in the late-medieval turn toward affective and mystical theology, one whose influence was felt throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among his many enthusiasms, Gerson was particularly attached to music, and his writings on that subject have been discussed in several modern publications, notably Isabelle Fabre's major study, La Doctrine du chant du coeur de Jean Gerson (2005). But while historians have had difficulty understanding the fullness of his musical ideas, musicologists have shown little interest in his broader philosophical and theological ones. By bringing the diverse elements together, we gain a better understanding of his sense of the possibilities of music and of their place in the momentous musical currents taking place during and after his lifetime.

Lectures in Musicology is co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries. This event is free and open to the public. For more information click here

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