Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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Sipping From the Fire Hose: Finding and Managing Early Music Research Tools and Resources
Session Topics: Antiquity–1500
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Sipping From the Fire Hose: Finding and Managing Early Music Research Tools and Resources Organized by the AMS Early Musics Skills and Resources Study Group. This Study Group roundtable session invites musicologists, performers, librarians, archivists, and scholars in related disciplines to reflect on the strategies that shape how we discover, evaluate, and mobilize research tools and resources in the study of early music. As the ecosystem of music scholarship expands, from major digital databases and digitized manuscript collections to archives and digital repositories, researchers must continually refine their approaches to navigating abundance, fragmentation, and uneven access. How do scholars, teachers, and students cultivate resource literacy across different stages of training and career paths? What practices support efficient yet critically engaging searches for early music sources, and how do we teach these methods to students encountering research infrastructures for the first time? Participants in the panel will share concrete methodologies, pedagogical models, and reflective accounts that illuminate the intellectual work behind successful archival and database research. Panelists bring expertise spanning music theory, manuscript studies, plainchant, polyphonic repertories, and digital humanities, and represent institutions across North America and Europe. Their collective endeavors encompass the development of searchable databases for theoretical treatises as well as repertorial and textual corpora, computational approaches to musical analysis, the digitization and cataloguing of medieval and Renaissance sources, and the integration of digital tools into graduate and undergraduate pedagogy. Together, they represent a breadth of methodological orientations, ranging from archival and codicological research to data-driven and computational musicology, that mirrors the interdisciplinary nature of the field itself. Roundtable topics to be discussed include interactive tutorials for newly developed databases focused on searching the writings of music theorists, and searching different monophonic and polyphonic repertories; ongoing digitization efforts and their research possibilities; and the use of digital and analog sources in research and in the classroom. The session at this online meeting of the AMS aims to generate a practical conversation across the many sub-fields of early music studies about research fluency in pre-1600 music. | |