Sound Heritage

在十八和十九世纪，音乐制作是英国乡村住宅生活中不可或缺的一部分，但遗产的历史在今天基本上是沉默的。传统的训练往往使音乐学家和早期的音乐表演研究人员在处理国内曲目方面装备不足，他们经常缺乏对乡村房屋历史的更广泛的理解。相反，乡村房屋历史学家和遗产专业人士往往缺乏必要的知识来解释历史遗产中的音乐收藏，或者在缺乏音乐收藏时重建房屋的音乐历史。近年来，国内音乐制作受到了越来越多的学术关注，策展人，管理员和游客体验顾问越来越意识到对音乐的关注如何增强对房屋历史的理解，并刺激当今游客的参与。迄今为止的研究涉及一系列独立的项目，然而，每个项目本身都很有价值，但必然只能提供部分观点。这个研究网络将汇集历史，历史音乐学和历史上知情的表演实践的学者与遗产专业人士在策展，保护和游客体验在一个更广泛的合作努力，以获得更丰富的了解音乐在乡村别墅的运作方式。活动将包括三个学习日，每个学习日侧重于乡村音乐制作这一更广泛主题的不同部分。这三个研究日将解决遗产中历史音乐研究的挑战;历史建筑中音乐收藏的研究管理问题;以及今天在遗产中使用的音乐的解释方法。该网络旨在汇集和扩展现有知识，并改善学术界和遗产部门研究人员之间的沟通和伙伴关系。一个更强大的研究基础将反过来刺激创新思想的发展，以实际部署音乐研究的遗产。

Music making was integral to life in English country houses during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet the sounding history of heritage properties is largely silent today. Conventional training often leaves musicologists and early music performance researchers poorly equipped to deal with domestic repertoires, and they frequently lack broader understanding of country house history. Conversely, country house historians and heritage professionals often lack the knowledge necessary to interpret musical holdings in historic properties, or to reconstruct a house's musical history when music collections are lacking. Domestic music making has received increased scholarly attention in recent years, and curators, conservators and visitor experience consultants have become increasingly aware of how attention to music can enhance understanding of a house's history and stimulate engagement from today's visitors. Research to date has involved a series of discrete projects, however, each valuable in its own right but necessarily offering only partial perspectives. This research network will bring together scholars of history, historical musicology, and historically informed performance practice with heritage professionals in curation, conservation and visitor experience in a broader collaborative effort to gain a richer understanding of the way that music functioned in the country house. Activities will include three study days, each focussing on a different strand of the broader theme of country house music making. The three study days will address challenges to historical music research in heritage properties; issues in the research management of music collections in historic houses; and interpretive approaches to music for use in heritage today. The network aims to pool and extend existing knowledge and to improve communication and partnership between academics and heritage sector researchers. A stronger research base will in turn stimulate development of innovative ideas for the practical deployment of musical research in heritage properties.