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Dr Christian Goursaud
BMus (Hons), MMus, PGCert, PhD, AFHEA
Christian specialises in late medieval and renaissance music and manuscript studies, and has a particular interest in performing from mensural notation. He is a Research Fellow at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he works as part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Interpreting the Mensural Notation of Music: An Expert System Based on the Theory of Johannes Tinctoris’ (2017-2021). He is lead editor of the multi-authored collection Johannes Tinctoris and Music Theory in the Late Fifteenth Century: Essays and Studies (Early Music Theory, forthcoming).
He was awarded his PhD in 2016 for a study of the presentation manuscript sources of Johannes Tinctoris’s music theory, having won a prestigious AHRC-funded studentship attached to the research project ‘The Complete Theoretical Works of Johannes Tinctoris: A New Digital Edition’, supervised by Emeritus Professor
Ronald Woodley and Dr Jeffrey J. Dean. Christian holds a Postgraduate Certificate in
Research Practice (PGCert) from Birmingham City University, an MMus with
distinction in Historical Musicology and a first-class BMus from King's College London.
He received specialist training in
palaeography, codicology, and diplomatic within the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at University
College London, under Professor David D'Avray and Dr Marigold Norbye.
In October 2014,
Christian co-organised the conference 'Johannes Tinctoris and Music
Theory in the
Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance', as a collaboration between Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the
Institute of Musical Research, which took place in the Chancellor’s
Hall, Senate House, University of London.
Conference
Papers
‘Busnoys’s Missa L’homme arme: a New Digital Critical Edition’,
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Edinburgh, 2020
‘The Notation of Busnoys's Missa L'homme arme: An Assessment of the Sources’,
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Basel, 2019.
Chair, ‘Soundscapes and Mythmakers’, Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Basel, 2019.
Chair, ‘Renaissance Theory 1’, Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Sheffield, 2016.
‘Scribal Process
in the Presentation Manuscripts of Tinctoris's Music Theory’
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Sheffield, 2016
‘Visual Decoration in the Presentation Manuscript Sources of
Tinctoris’s Theoretical Works’:
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Brussels, 2015
‘Scripts and Scribes of the
Neapolitan Sources of Johannes Tinctoris’s Theoretical Works’:
Johannes Tinctoris and Music Theory in the Late Middle Ages and Early
Renaissance, London, 2014
‘Johannes Tinctoris and the Order of the Ermine’: Medieval and
Renaissance Music Conference, Certaldo, 2013
Conference
Attendances
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Edinburgh, 2020
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Basel, 2019
Medieval and Renaissance
Music Conference, Sheffield, 2016
Digital Polyphony, CESR Tours, 2016
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Brussels, 2015
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Birmingham, 2014
PMMS 125th Anniversary AGM and Study Day in collaboration with the York Early
Music Festival, 2013
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Certaldo, 2013
The Production and Reading of Music Sources, Warburg Institute, 2013
Medieval Rhetoric and Politics, Warburg Institute, 2013
Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Nottingham, 2012
Professional Memberships
Associate Fellow of the
Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Member of the Royal Musical Association
Member of the Musicians' Union
Member of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society
Student Representative to the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society
(2014–2015)
National Student Representative to the Institute of Musical Research (2012–2014)
Training
Preparing Postgraduate Researchers to Teach in Higher Education
(SEDA-accredited), Birmingham City University, 2016
Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern
Culture, Warburg Institute, 2014
Lectures
'Music in Vienna, c.1750–1909': Victoria & Albert
Museum, 2012.
‘Voicing the City’s Praise: the Christian
Musical Tradition in London’s Life’, part
of the undergraduate module Salvation and the City in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies
at King’s College London,
2012.
Telephone: 07796 033585
Email: enquiries@christiangoursaud.co.uk
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