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Author:   Jeanice Brooks ,  Matthew Stephens ,  Wiebke Thormählen (Royal College of Music, London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.721kg
ISBN:  

9780367237165

ISBN 10:   0367237164
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   31 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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).

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