The Alice Sound: Making New Music and Learning Resources Based On Carroll's Classic Works

该项目建立在ahrc资助的研究基础上，该研究揭示了维多利亚时代对刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝》系列作品的理解和广泛的创造性参与——这些标志性作品继续吸引着英国及其他地区的大众想象力。学术界以外的一系列观众通过活动、媒体报道和在V&A儿童博物馆举行的为期六个月的展览，从研究成果中受益。以创新研究为主导的展览使人们能够深入、持久和创造性地参与卡罗尔的作品及其后世，尤其是英国儿童。虽然该奖学金主要关注维多利亚时代的人对爱丽丝的看法，但带有早期彩色插图的乐谱上的档案工作也使人们能够深入了解她的声音。这为研究作品的声音维度开辟了一条全新的、不可预见的道路，并与作曲家保罗·里斯曼和伦敦交响乐团合作。qmuli资助的试点项目制作了一个新的20分钟的仙境管弦乐组曲，其中包括声乐部分，基于卡罗尔的文本和历史乐谱，于2015年11月在巴比肯首演。这一后续提案借鉴了奖学金研究和试点项目的方法，以应对COVID-19大流行对音乐教育和其他创意活动造成的破坏，为所有儿童提供丰富的跨学科服务的迫切需求。恰逢《爱丽丝镜中奇遇记》出版150周年，该项目将完成并扩大2015年的仙境试点项目，大大扩展其范围和遗产，并积极吸引儿童参与。《仙境组曲》的全新伴奏作品将由里斯曼与PI和儿童合作创作，并将由LSO在巴比肯的参与式学校和家庭音乐会中演出。为了让尽可能多的观众能够欣赏到这些作品的高质量表演，这两部作品的音乐和电影都将被录制下来，并在一个定制的项目网站上永久免费提供。一套有吸引力的、可访问的、跨课程的学习资源来指导和加强对书籍和音乐的参与将是该网站的另一个主要特点。由LSO和QMUL共同制定的营销策略，包括活动、新闻发布和专题以及社交媒体传播，将确保网站在国内和国际上得到最广泛的吸收。LSO的慷慨捐助使所有4场演出得以实现，并支付了总录制费用的三分之一。该应用程序可以委托新的协作和参与性工作，创建网站和学习资源，并涵盖剩余的2/3的记录成本。该项目将产生现实影响：支持LSO实施其最近制定的区域和数字学习战略，并帮助面临紧迫时间压力的教师（在许多情况下，由于缺乏音乐和经典文本的经验而加剧了这一压力），以减轻COVID-19对儿童福祉、学习和创造力的影响。著名作家、前儿童文学奖得主茱莉亚·唐纳森最近表达了她的担忧：“有些孩子长大后不会唱歌。”该项目动员了ahrc资助的研究，使古典音乐和试金石文本的参与成为可能，最终确保英国和其他地区的孩子确实可以唱歌长大。

This project builds on AHRC-funded research which revealed Victorian understanding of, and widescale creative engagement with, Lewis Carrroll's 'Alice' books - landmark works that continue to capture the popular imagination in Britain and beyond. A range of audiences beyond academia benefited from the research findings via events, media coverage and a six-month exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood. The innovative research-led exhibition enabled deep, enduring and creative engagement with Carroll's work and its afterlife, especially on the part of British children. While the fellowship focused primarily on what Alice looked like to the Victorians, archival work on music sheets featuring early coloured illustrations also enabled insights into what she sounded like. This opened up a whole new and unforeseen avenue of research concerning the sonic dimension of the works, and to a collaboration with composer Paul Rissmann and the London Symphony Orchestra [LSO]. The QMUL-funded pilot project produced a new 20-minute Wonderland orchestral suite with vocal parts, based on Carroll's text and the historical music sheets, which premiered at the Barbican in November 2015.This follow-on proposal draws on the fellowship research and the pilot project methodology to respond to the acute need for rich, cross-curricular provision for all children in the face of the ravages on music education and other creative activities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There', this project will complete and scale up the 2015 Wonderland pilot, substantially extending its reach and legacy, and actively involving children throughout. A brand new companion piece to the Wonderland Suite, based on 'Looking Glass', will be created by Rissmann in collaboration with the PI and with children, and will be performed by the LSO in participatory school and family concerts at the Barbican. Enabling access to high-quality performances of these works to the widest audience possible, both pieces of music will be recorded and the films made permanently and freely available on a bespoke project website. A suite of attractive, accessible, cross-curricular learning resources to guide and enhance engagement with the books and the music will be the other key feature of the website. A marketing strategy jointly developed by the LSO and QMUL, involving events, press releases and features and social media dissemination, will ensure the widest possible uptake of the website nationally and internationally.Generous contributions from the LSO make possible all 4 performances and covers 1/3 of the total recording costs. This application enables the commission of the new collaborative and participatory work, the creation of the website and learning resources, and covers the remaining 2/3 of the recording costs. The project will deliver real-world impact: supporting the LSO in its recently developed regional and digital learning strategy, and assisting teachers under acute pressures of time - compounded in many cases by lack of experience with music and classic texts - in order to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on children's well-being, learning and creativity. Renowned author and former children's laureate, Julia Donaldson, recently expressed her concern that 'there would be some children who grow [up] not able to sing'. Mobilising AHRC-funded research, this project enables engagement with classical music and touchstone texts, ensuring, ultimately, that children across the UK and beyond can indeed grow up singing.