Research Colloquium
The Early music department of the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles organises an annual research colloquium, under the direction of Marc Vanscheeuwijck. This colloquium is sometimes linked with the musical instrument fairs, also organised by the department.
Most of the colloquium is given by students, based on the information which they draw from primary and secondary sources (treatises and method texts, critical texts, articles, iconographies, organologies, scores…) with the aim of contributing to a "good interpretation" of a score.
There are plenary sessions and class workshops where students present their own research: summaries of articles, classification of scores, analysis - and putting into perspective - instrumental and musical techniques as well as organology, not forgetting the possibility to listen to instruments as well.
During the event a series of questions are also prepared which are then discussed in workshops. These workshops rely on students preparing in advance, so that they are ready for the public presentation
The events then close with a plenary session, and presentation of conclusions, and then run into musical sessions, with the (re)discovered scores.
The subject of the colloquium in the 2019-2020 school year is Listening and execution contexts of music in the Baroque period.
Past colloquia
2018 I 2019
Listening and execution contexts of music in the Baroque period
2017 I 2018
The diminution of instruments from the Renaissance until 1741
William Dongois, Tiago Simas Freire, Marc Vanscheeuwijck…
Historical wind instruments
Claire Sécordel, Johannes Skorupa, Paul van der Linden, Inês de Avena Braga, Benny Aghassi…
2016 I 2017
The development of instrumental music in Bologna and Venice between 1680 and 1750
Marc Vanscheeuwijck, Alberto Grazzi, Paolo Grazzi, Susanne Scholz
+ Study trips to Venice and Bologna
2015 I 2016
The influence of Italian musicians on the music of England at the start of the eighteenth century
Marc Vanscheeuwijck
2014 I 2015
The French school of cello, violin and oboe between 1700 and 1760
Marc Vanscheeuwijck
2013 I 2014
Historical wind instruments
Jan de Winne, Martin Mürner, Claude Maury, Eric Hoeprich, Jean Tubery...
+ wind instrument fair
The Neapolitan school of cello
Marc Vanscheeuwijck
2012 I 2013
The history of lute-making: from the Renaissance to baroque
The "belle danse" and the cello suites of Bach
What have the eighteenth and nineteenth century made us forget about earlier lute-making?
Marc Vanscheeuwijck and Tormod Daelen
+ Fair of plucked string instruments
2011 I 2012
General approach to the diverse music teaching in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Musicians and their concerts in the baroque era
Which instruments, and which instrumental techniques, for the solo "violoncello" repertoire from before 1740 ?
Marc Vanscheeuwijck
+ Fair of plucked string instruments
2010 I 2011
From the medieval Vielle to the seventeenth century violin, with a look at orginal instruments and reproductions
Marc Vanscheeuwijck and Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans