The Practice of Editing Music: History, Challenges and New Directions. A two-day symposium in honour of Professor Graham Salder Colour Code
Room RBC Main Reception Area RBC Recital Hall RBC Workshop 3 RBC Organ Studio RBC East Side Jazz Club RBC Café area
Friday 30 October 2026 Registration Desk Open Tea / Coffee (RBC Café)
09:30 onwards 10:00 10:45
Introduction and Welcome 10:45 - 11:00 Welcome Address: 10:45 - 10:55 Housekeeping: 10:55 - 11:00
Shirley Thompson (Vice Principal (Music)) - Welcome to Birmingham, RBC and to this three-day symposium Adrian Powney - tickets for pre-concert talk, concert and lunches, fire evacuation procedures, photography and social media publicising (#PracticeofEditing)
Time 11:00 - 12:30
RBC Recital Hall Session: Editorial principles in music, dance and text Chair Speaker Title 1. Michael Talbot Notational style in eighteenth-century music: TBC Some ideas and hints for editors 2. Rebecca Harris-Warrick From the stage to the page: How dance research informs the preparation of critical editions
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch (RBC Café area)
Time
RBC Recital Hall Session: Changing editorial practices over time: Publishing practices and the formation of editorial principles in edition series
3. Julien Dubruque
13:30- 15:00
Chair
Down with textual fetishism!
Speaker 1. Nathalie Berton-Blivet and Thomas Soury
Title The Opera Omnia Rameau: a critical edition à la française?
2. Maciej Jochymczyk
Editing early music in Poland: The Fontes Musicae in Polonia series between tradition and future perspectives
3. Roberta Collingwood
From performing materials to critical editions: The transformation of editorial culture at Casa Ricordi, 1808–1970
15:00 - 15:30
Tea / Coffee (RBC Café area)
Time 15:30 - 16:45
RBC Recital Hall Session: Managing sources that conceal multiple performances and possibilities Chair Speaker Title