Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Literature Alanna Ropchock Tierno, Ph.D., presented the paper, “Commemorating Jan and His Fellow Martyrs: The Brno Choirbook Masses in Confessional and Regional Contexts” at the 59th International Musicological Colloquium held in Brno, Czech Republic, on Nov. 4. The theme of this year’s event was “Music in Funerary and Commemorative Ceremonies  from the End of the Middle Ages to the Dawn of Modernity.”