Title: Notes from the archive: a tour through pre-modern music in Lambeth Palace Library.

Dr Joseph Mason will give a short paper to introduce the exhibition 'Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'. In particular, he will discuss a newly discovered piece of medieval polyphony found in Lambeth Palace Library's foundational printed collections. These two leaves, which date to the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, contain four motets of English provenance, all but one of which were heretofore unknown to us. He will contextualize these new discoveries with the rest of the items in the exhibition.

About the speaker: Dr Joseph Mason is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Music in Cambridge and an Official Fellow at Clare Hall. Prior to joining Clare Hall, Joseph was Weston Junior Research Fellow in Music at New College, Oxford, and a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. Joseph’s research centres on the music and culture of thirteenth-century France. He is especially interested in questions of musical meaning, and his work combines music analysis with historical work, critical theory, and manuscript studies. In addition to his academic work, Joseph is also active as a singer, organist, and harpsichordist.

All are welcome, but those wishing to attend should book a ticket or email archives@churchofengland.org no later than Wednesday 30 July.

There will be a private viewing of the exhibition after the lecture, please email archives@churchofengland.org letting us know if you would like to attend and any dietary requirements.

Please note that tickets must be booked individually for security purposes.