Session353
TitleSaving and Transforming Sound Memories: Motivations, Strategies, Techniques
Date/TimeMonday 2 July 2018: 16.30-18.00
 
SponsorHERA Project 'Sound Memories - Uses of the Past'
 
OrganiserDavid Eben, Institute of Musicology, Univerzita Karlova, Praha
 
Moderator/ChairSusan Rankin, Faculty of Music, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
 
Paper 353-a Same Songs, Different Opportunities: How Performance Affects Musical Forms
(Language: English)
Jan Ciglbauer, Institute of Musicology, Univerzita Karlova, Praha
Index Terms: Liturgy; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Music
Paper 353-b Preserving Sound Memories in Central Europe: The Polyphonic Song Martir Christi insignitus
(Language: English)
Antonio Chemotti, Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
Index Terms: Liturgy; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Music
Paper 353-c Re-Fashioning a Repertory: Experimentation and Re-Use in the Musical Culture of 13th-Century Paris
(Language: English)
Adam Mathias, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
Index Terms: Liturgy; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Music
 
AbstractWhat mechanisms were available to musicians and scribes who sought to preserve popular compositions - or particular musical characteristics of compositions - once they became outdated or their performance context changed? What were the motivations for altering or transforming these pieces? How do different polyphonic settings of an older melody reveal different approaches to a musical past?

These kinds of questions form a focus of the HERA Project: 'Sound Memories - Uses of the Past.' In this workshop we would like to investigate some of these issues through three specific types of musical material: various realisations of 13th-century clausulae; a monophonic song of French origin and its different transformations in central European sources; different polyphonic settings of a late medieval song. Live performance within this workshop will enable direct comparison between different musical settings and provide a unique opportunity to assess these changes and to explore their sonic implications.