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.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2021

ISBN

9781000473599

Edition

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Music

Cover Page
Half-Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Contributors
Preface
1 Introduction: Making music matter in historic houses
2 All about house museums
3 Case study—Listening through the walls: Music-making in the historic houses of Rabindranath Tagore
4 Engaging the musical imagination in museums and historic houses
5 Case study—Engaging visitors with Bach’s music: Sound concept and visitor experience at the Leipzig Bach Museum
6 Striking a chord—a study in harmony: Music, musical instruments, and historic houses in practice
7 Case study—History without words: Visitors take matters into their own hands
8 Mapping historic house music collections in the United Kingdom
9 Case study—The Dowling Songbook Project
10 A decorated tune in a decorated room: Interpreting the musical palimpsest in historic house museums
11 Case study—Multiple moments at the Vyne
12 Music and stories of space in the historic house museum
13 Case study—Experiencing sound: Historical performance and digital technology in French royal residences
14 Expanding the narrative: Public history, music, and the Irish country house
15 Case study—Sounds of Hidden Town and the Hidden Town Project
16 Telling stories, sounding faith: Exhibiting religion in historic house museums
17 Case study—Listening to the past: The context for music at Mugga Mugga Cottage
18 Are you experienced? Intimacy, authenticity, and emotion in house museums of musicians
Index