Sound Heritage is the first study of music in the historic house museum, featuring contributions from both music and heritage scholars and professionals in a richly interdisciplinary approach to central issues. It examines how music materials can be used to create narratives about past inhabitants and their surroundings - including aspects of social and cultural life beyond the activity of music making itself - and explores how music as sound, material, and practice can be more consistently and engagingly integrated into the curation and interpretation of historic houses.
The volume is structured around a selection of thematic chapters and a series of shorter case studies, each focusing on a specific house, object or project. Key themes include:
Different types of historic house, including the case of the composer or musician house; what can be learned from museums and galleries about the use of sound and music and what may not transfer to the historic house setting
Musical instruments as part of a wider collection; questions of restoration and public use; and the demands of particular collection types such as sheet music
Musical objects and pieces of music as storytelling components, and the use of music to affectively colour narratives or experiences.
This is a pioneering study that will appeal to all those interested in the intersection between Music and Museum and Heritage Studies. It will also be of interest to scholars and researchers of Music History, Popular Music, Performance Studies and Material Culture.
Edited by:
Jeanice Brooks,
Matthew Stephens,
Wiebke Thormählen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032129839
ISBN 10: 1032129832
Series: Routledge Research in Music
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1 Introduction: Making Music Matter in Historic Houses Jeanice Brooks and Wiebke Thormählen 2 All About House Museums Linda Young 3 Listening Through the Walls: Music Making in the Historic Houses of Rabindranath Tagore Suddhaseel Sen and Pramantha Tagore 4 Engaging the Musical Imagination in Museums and Historic Houses Eric de Visscher and Mimi S. Waitzman 5 Case Study Engaging Visitors with Bach's Music: Sound Concepts and Visitor Experience at the Leipzig Bach Museum Kerstin Wiese 6 Striking a Chord - A Study in Harmony: Music, Musical Instruments and Historic Houses in Practice Ben Marks 7 Case Study History without Words: Visitors Take Matters into Their Own Hands Christiane Barth 8 Mapping Historic House Music Collections in the United Kingdom Katrina Faulds, Jonathan Frank and Christopher Scobie 9 Case study The Dowling Songbook Project Helen Mitchell, Neal Peres Da Costa and Matthew Stephens 10 A Decorated Tune in a Decorated Room: Interpreting the Musical Palimpsest in Historic House Museums Matthew Stephens 11 Case Study Multiple Moments at The Vyne Jeanice Brooks and Matthew Tyler-Jones 12 Music and Stories of Space in the Historic House Museum Jeanice Brooks 13 Case Study Experiencing Sound: Historical Performance and Digital Technology in French Royal Residences Vasco Zara 14 Expanding the Narrative: Public History, Music and the Irish Country House Karol Mullaney-Dignam 15 Case Study Sounds of Hidden Town and the Hidden Town Project Franklin Vagnone and John Yeagley 16 Telling Stories, Sounding Faith: Exhibiting Religion in Historic House Museums Wiebke Thormählen 17 Case Study Listening to the Past: The Context for Music at Mugga Mugga Jennifer Gall 18 Are You Experienced? Intimacy, Authenticity and Emotion in the House Museums of Musicians Marion Leonard
"Jeanice Brooks is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton (UK). She leads the AHRC-funded research project ""Music, Home and Heritage,"" and directs both the Austen Family Music Books digitisation project and the international Sound Heritage network. Matthew Stephens is Research Librarian, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums (SLM), and leads the interpretation of the history of domestic music in SLM’s house museums. Wiebke Thormählen is a musicologist and violinist, and Reader in Music at the Royal College of Music, London. She is co-investigator on the AHRC-funded research project ""Music, Home and Heritage,"" and has previously co-edited the Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-being (Routledge, 2018)."
