Podcasts about medingen

Building on the repertoire from our previous workshop, we will add further pieces for Candlemas where everybody is invited to join in by singing the communal response Gregorian chant is an ancient communal song tradition with its roots in the medieval Church, but its calming, meditative effect has made it a surprise hit in lockdown. Sing in the comfort of your own home (where no strangers can hear you!) in this online choir session suitable for the absolute beginner. Medieval researchers will also give a brief introduction to the 15th-century manuscript from the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen where the music is preserved.

In this online choir workshop you will learn to sing along with a simple voice part from the Candlemas Nunc Dimittis and see the 15th-century manuscript from the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen where the music is preserved in the Bodleian Libraries A Gregorian chant workshop based on the 15th-century Manual for the Provost of Medingen (Bodleian Libraries MS. Lat liturg. e. 18.) This event is part of the Manuscripts from German-Speaking Lands Project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation. The Project is a three-year collaboration between the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel to digitize nearly 600 medieval manuscripts. Thanks to St Edmund Hall for their talented singers and the use of the Crypt of St-Peter-in-the-East.

Wir sind zu Gast im Kloster Medingen bei Bad Bevensen und treffen Dr. Kristin Püttmann. Sie ist promovierte Kunsthistorikerin, lehrt an der Leuphana Universität in Lüneburg und ist seit Oktober 2012 Äbtissin, also die Leiterin des Klosters. Ist das Klosterleben in Medingen heute noch so, wie man es sich traditionell vorstellt? Was hat der verheerende Brand von 1781 mit dem schlossähnlichen Erscheinungsbild der alten Gemäuer zu tun und widersprechen sich Glaube und Wissenschaft eigentlich?

Episode 4/5. In 1705, the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach set off from his home in Arnstadt to walk 250 miles to Lübeck, there to meet his hero, the composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude. In the fourth of five "slow-radio" walks in which writer Horatio Clare searches for Bach's footsteps - and his ghost - Horatio Clare searches for his footsteps - and his ghost - the route takes him along the banks of the River Ilmenau from Medingen to Bienebuttel.

For the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony). The manuscripts are now in Oxford, Hildesheim and Wolfenbüttel. More information https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/blog/blog-post-2/

Masterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen. All the manuscripts featured are available via digital.bodleian search 'Medingen' on https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ for more details) O1 Oxford Easter Prayer-Book (c. 1500): Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4 Community: fol. 174v (nuns and lay-people); fol. 28v (prayer for Lüneburg and the Abbess) Printing: fol. 141v (Glued-in maiden); fol. 217v (Glued-in lions); Musical Notation: fol. 90r / 283v-284r / 36v-37r Binding: Early 16th cent. roll with Venus, Prudentius and Lucretia O2 Manual for the Provost (1470s): Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. e. 18 Community: fol. 1r (ownership mark of Medingen); Reworking: fol. 2/2* (added in songs with lay-participation) Musical Notation: 81v-83r / 49v-50r Binding: Late 15th cent. stamps with 19th cent. ownership plaque O4 Oxford Medingen Psalter (1510s-1530s): Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Don. e. 248 Community: fol. 7v (Obiit entry for Abbess Margarete Puffen), 20v-21r (punctus flexus) Reworking: fol. 18 (Low German replacement prayer), plaque in its 19th century setting Musical Notation: fol. 103r / 277v

Multiple presentations from the German Studies Staff Part 6 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.

Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 5 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.

Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 4 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.

Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 3 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.

Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 2 of 6: On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.

Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts Part 1 of 6: Masterclass on the occasion of the Inaugural Lecture of Henrike Lähnemann, held on Friday 22 January 2016 in the Lecture Theatre Weston Library. Website: medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk.

Henrike Lähnemann’s Inaugural Lecture for the Chair in German Medieval Literature and Linguistics. Lecture delivered on Thursday 21 January 2016 in the Taylorian Institute. The subject of the lecture is a new acquisition by the Bodleian Library in Oxford, a psalter written ca. 1500 by the nun Margaret Hopes in the Cistercian convent of Medingen near Lüneburg, MS. Don. e. 248. The hypothesis advanced is that the nuns use the materiality of their prayer-book as the embodiment of their devotion.

Introduction to the Masterclass by Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford. On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.

Introduction to the Masterclass by Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford. On the 22nd January 2016 the Bodleian hosted a masterclass from Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics. The class examined manuscripts made in the Cistercian convent of Medingen during the late 15th century.