Sound and Image in the Middle Ages: Iconography, Sound Studies and Digital Humanities
20 October 2020, 11:30 AM -1:00 PM (Eastern Time), 4:30-6:00 pm (Greenwich Mean Time)
Susan Boynton, Columbia University Chair: Emma Hornby
Online
Medieval images of music reflect cultural values associated with musical performance and experience. Recent research in this field encompasses a broad and steadily expanding range of approaches, including musical iconography (the description of images depicting musical performance, instruments, and other forms of sound), interpretation of the physical and historical context of musical images (for instance, their functions in particular built spaces), and computer-assisted analysis of a corpus of examples.
I will conclude with examples from the Musiconis database, a metabase focusing on medieval images of music and sound.
Contact information
Please contact Sarah Hibberd at sarah.hibberd@bristol.ac.uk for a Zoom invitation (if you are not a member of the Department of Music).