[Mediaevistik] JOB Vacancy: Research Fellow, Alamire Foundation, K.U.Leuven (Belgium)

[Pieter Mannaerts]

JOB VACANCY: RESEARCH FELLOW, ALAMIRE FOUNDATION, KATHOLIEKE  
UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (BELGIUM)

   The Alamire Foundation, International Centre for the Study of Music  
in the Low Countries, was established in 1991 at the musicology  
section of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The Foundation  
undertakes and coordinates musicological research into the music  
history of the Low Countries during the Ancien Regime.

   The Alamire Foundation?s rationale lies in localizing,  
inventorizing, preserving and examining the musical heritage of  
Flanders. In a natural continuation of this, it aims to make its  
results accessible to the widest possible public.

DESCRIPTION OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT AND VACANCY

   From the early Middle Ages until the end of the Ancien Régime  
(10th-18th c.), liturgical plainchant was omnipresent in the musical  
life of Europe. Even though the Southern Low Countries played a  
significant role in the development and dissemination of the chant  
repertory, and still keeps an important amount of chant manuscripts, a  
complete and reliable inventory of the sources is not available. For  
the office chant in particular, however, such an inventory is of prime  
importance. Therefore, a new project will undertake the composition of  
an inventory of all antiphoner manuscripts kept in Flanders.

   Applications are invited for a research fellow to inventory and to  
describe the antiphoners according to the international description  
standards, to participate in the (selective) digitization of the  
earliest and most important antiphoners, and to contribute to making  
the results of the project known through lectures, publications, and  
workshops.

   Job description

   -         - drawing up an overview of antiphoners in Flemish  
collections on the basis of extant catalogues, and through contacts  
with private manuscript owners

   -          - studying and describing the manuscripts on their locations

   -          - describing each antiphoner in RISM and in the Cantus  
Source List

   -         -  indexing the most important antiphoners for the Cantus Database

   -          - collaborating on the digitization of the most  
important antiphoners

   -         - consulting researchers on similar projects abroad  
(RISM, Cantus Source List and Database, ?)

        - presenting the results of the project on an academic level,  
to archivists and librarians, to musicians and ensembles, and to the  
wider public

   -          - conferring and collaborating with fellow researchers  
and colleagues of the Alamire Foundation

   -          - conferring with and reporting to the project promoter

    

PROFILE

   Candidates should

   -          - hold a master or doctoral degree in musicology (or a  
similar degree in history or theology, specialization Middle Ages)

   -          - have a basic knowledge of chant, early music and  
liturgy, or be prepared to acquire this basis through study

   -          - have a good knowledge of Latin

   -          - have a fascination for (medieval) manuscripts; by  
preference, notions of (music) palaeography and some experience in  
working with manuscripts

   -          - be familiar with the most important printed and on  
line catalogues for manuscripts and music (RISM, Cantus, library  
catalogues)

   -          - be communicative, and work autonomously and accurately

   We offer

   -          - full-time employment

   -          - immediate commencement of employment

   -          - employment for a period of three years (one year, with  
two yearly extensions)

   How to apply?

   Interested? Please send a full and detailed résumé, accompanied  
with a letter of motivation to

   bart.demuyt at alamirefoundation.be[1] or Bart Demuyt, Director,  
Alamire Foundation, Parijsstraat 72B, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.  
Applications are expected before August 26, 2008.

   For more information about the project, please contact dr. Pieter  
Mannaerts (pieter.mannaerts at arts.kuleuven.be[2]). For more information  
about the Alamire Foundation, please see www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire

    
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Dr. Pieter Mannaerts
Research Fellow FWO-Flanders
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Research Unit Musicology | Alamire Foundation
Parijsstraat 72B | room 03.22 | post box 3380
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
T  +32 16 32 99 63
F  +32 16 32 99 53
M  pieter.mannaerts at arts.kuleuven.be[3]
W  www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire[4]
TAV-n°: BE 0419.052.173



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[1] mailto:bart.demuyt at alamirefoundation.be
[2] mailto:pieter.mannaerts at arts.kuleuven.be
[3] mailto:pieter.mannaerts at arts.kuleuven.be
[4] http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire



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