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Music and Material Culture: Music and Material Culture


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Music and Material Culture provides a new platform for methodological innovations in research on the relationship between music and its objects. In a sense, musicology has always dealt with material culture; the study of manuscripts, print sources, instruments and other physical media associated with the production and reception of music is central to its understanding. Recent scholarship within the humanities has increasingly shifted its focus onto the objects themselves and there is now a particular need for musicology to be part of this broader ‘material turn’. A growing reliance on digital and online media as sources for the creation and consumption of music is changing the way we experience music by increasingly divorcing it from tangible matter. This is rejuvenating discussion of our relationship with music’s objects and the importance of such objects both as a means of understanding past cultures and negotiating current needs and social practices. Broadly interdisciplinary in nature, this series seeks to examine critically the materiality of music and its artefacts as an explicit part of culture rather than simply an accepted means of music-making. Proposals are welcomed on the material culture of music from any period and genre, particularly on topics within the fields of cultural theory, source studies, organology, ritual, anthropology, collecting, archiving, media archaeology, new media and aesthetics.

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Material Cultures of Music Notation New Perspectives on Musical Inscription

Material Cultures of Music Notation: New Perspectives on Musical Inscription

1st Edition

Edited By Floris Schuiling, Emily Payne
January 29, 2024

Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore a fundamental question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural context? Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches...

Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe

Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Grantley McDonald
January 09, 2023

This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across Western and Northern Europe. Chapters consider dimensions of music printing in Britain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, ...

Late Medieval Liturgies Enacted The Experience of Worship in Cathedral and Parish Church

Late Medieval Liturgies Enacted: The Experience of Worship in Cathedral and Parish Church

1st Edition

Edited By Sally Harper, P Barnwell, Magnus Williamson
March 07, 2019

This book critically explores ways in which our understanding of late medieval liturgy can be enhanced through present-day enactment. It is a direct outcome of a practice-led research project, led by Professor John Harper and undertaken at Bangor University between 2010 and 2013 in partnership with...

Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music

Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music

1st Edition

By Michael Fleming, John Bryan
February 05, 2019

Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, ...

Senza Vestimenta: The Literary Tradition of Trecento Song

Senza Vestimenta: The Literary Tradition of Trecento Song

1st Edition

By Lauren Jennings
September 18, 2018

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand out for their tendency to blur the distinction between speaking and singing, between poetry and song, a certain degree of semantic slippage extends ...

Early Music Printing in German-Speaking Lands

Early Music Printing in German-Speaking Lands

1st Edition

Edited By Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Elisabeth Giselbrecht, Grantley McDonald
March 21, 2018

The book draws upon the rich information gathered for the online database Catalogue of early German printed music / Verzeichnis deutscher Musikfrühdrucke (vdm), the first systematic descriptive catalogue of music printed in the German-speaking lands between c. 1470 and 1540, allowing precise ...

Media, Materiality and Memory Grounding the Groove

Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove

1st Edition

By Elodie A. Roy
October 09, 2015

Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and memory in relation to a range of independent record labels, including Sarah Records, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers. Moving from Edison’s phonograph to digital music files, from ...

Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music

Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music

1st Edition

By David Greer
August 07, 2015

Who were the first owners of the music published in England in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? Who went to ‘the dwelling house of … T. East, by Paules wharfe’ and bought a copy of Byrd’s Psalmes, sonets, & songs when it appeared in 1588? Who purchased a copy of Dowland’s First ...

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