Aural Histories: Coventry 1451-1642

听觉历史：考文垂 1451-1642

• 批准号: AH/W010186/1
• 负责人: Jamie Savan
• 金额: $ 90.99万
• 依托单位: Birmingham City University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW010186%2F1
• 关键词: Aural; Histories; Coventry; 1451; 1642

Aural Histories: Coventry 1451-1642 is an interdisciplinary project that seeks new insights into the experience of music in the City of Coventry during a period of immense cultural change. Taking the visit of King Henry VI to Coventry in 1451 as its starting point, the project will map the changing musical experiences of those living and performing in the city onto the socio-economic, historical, and religious-political landscape of this important provincial location, informed by a rich but under-researched seam of fragmentary primary sources. Medieval Coventry has been the subject of intense scholarly interest by art historians, archaeologists, and social historians due to its status as an important trading centre throughout the fifteenth century, but the musical culture which undoubtedly thrived, as documents suggest, in a city well provided with religious institutions, civic guilds, and royal patronage, has not received scholarly attention until now. Furthermore, archival evidence hints at continuing civic and ecclesiastical performance traditions that persisted into the seventeenth century, spanning the Reformation and counter-Reformation movements that contributed to the outbreak of the English Civil Wars. No attempt has yet been made to place the trends and practices hinted at by Coventry's historical records in this later period into their wider national context.This project combines expertise in musicology, architecture, acoustics, historical performance, and practice-led research to fill these gaps in knowledge. By addressing the relationship between Coventry's historic buildings, the spaces between them, and the music with which they were filled, we will situate the multi-sensory experience of the listener at the centre of our research. We will construct case studies around key points of change through the project's timeline, asking what music might have been heard, how it might have been performed, and how it might have sounded in its material and spatial context, advancing our understanding of the cultural experiences that defined lives across the social spectrum during this period. Some of Coventry's historic buildings - most notably St Michael's Cathedral, ruined in the Blitz of 1940 - are fragmentary or have been altered considerably over time. We will use established VR architectural and acoustic modelling techniques to rebuild these spaces as virtual research environments. We will add specially recorded audio of relevant historical repertoires to our VR models and use emergent 3D audio technology to model changing listener and performer perspectives within VR historical spaces for the first time. We will use archival evidence of architectural changes, such as the addition of rood screens in churches, the use of wall hangings and tapestries in civic spaces, which often reflect the prevailing religious-political sentiment of the day, to manipulate our VR space and assess the effect on the listener of material changes as they occurred over time.On a technical level, this project will advance the use of combined VR and 3D-audio processes as tools for creating research environments, shedding considerable new light on the day-to-day effects of shifting cultural practices on the listening and performing public of late-Medieval and Reformation Coventry. The methods we develop will also have significant potential application for historical performance research in other locations in the future. Additionally, we will assess the potential for an immersive VR user experience based on our research for use by the heritage sector, adding a novel interactive sonic dimension to existing VR technologies for connecting people with history. The practice-led research methods our project embraces involve extensive community participation as part of the research process, with impacts and benefits for academic and community stakeholders alike as we involve local people in research about the place in which they live.

听觉历史：考文垂1451-1642是一个跨学科的项目，旨在探索考文垂市在巨大的文化变革时期的音乐体验。以国王亨利六世1451年对考文垂的访问为起点，该项目将把在这座城市生活和表演的人们不断变化的音乐体验映射到这个重要省份的社会经济、历史和宗教政治景观上，并通过丰富但研究不足的零碎原始资料提供信息。中世纪的考文垂一直是艺术史学家、考古学家和社会历史学家的研究对象，因为它在整个15世纪都是一个重要的贸易中心。但是，正如文献所显示的那样，考文垂的音乐文化无疑在一个拥有宗教机构、民间行会和皇家赞助的城市中蓬勃发展，直到现在才受到学术界的关注。此外，档案证据表明，持续到17世纪的民间和教会表演传统，跨越了导致英国内战爆发的宗教改革和反宗教改革运动。考文垂的历史记录暗示了这一时期的趋势和实践，但尚未尝试将其置于更广泛的国家背景中。该项目结合了音乐学，建筑学，声学，历史表演和实践主导的研究方面的专业知识，以填补这些知识的空白。通过解决考文垂的历史建筑之间的关系，它们之间的空间，以及它们充满的音乐，我们将把听众的多感官体验置于我们研究的中心。我们将通过项目的时间轴围绕变化的关键点构建案例研究，询问可能听到的音乐，它可能是如何执行的，以及它在其材料和空间背景下可能听起来如何，推进我们对定义这一时期整个社会范围内生活的文化体验的理解。考文垂的一些历史建筑-最著名的是圣迈克尔大教堂，在1940年的闪电战中被毁-是支离破碎的，或者随着时间的推移已经发生了很大的变化。我们将使用已建立的VR建筑和声学建模技术，将这些空间重建为虚拟研究环境。我们将在VR模型中添加相关历史曲目的特别录制音频，并首次使用新兴的3D音频技术在VR历史空间中模拟不断变化的听众和表演者视角。我们将使用建筑变化的档案证据，例如在教堂中增加十字架屏幕，在公民空间中使用壁挂和挂毯，这些通常反映了当时流行的宗教政治情绪，以操纵我们的VR空间并评估随着时间的推移发生的材料变化对听众的影响。在技术层面上，该项目将推动使用VR和3D音频流程作为创建研究环境的工具，为中世纪晚期和宗教改革时期考文垂的聆听和表演公众的日常文化实践带来相当多的新影响。我们开发的方法也将在未来的历史性能研究在其他地方有显着的潜在应用。此外，我们将根据我们的研究评估沉浸式VR用户体验的潜力，供遗产部门使用，为现有的VR技术增加一个新的交互式声音维度，将人们与历史联系起来。实践为主导的研究方法，我们的项目拥抱涉及广泛的社区参与作为研究过程的一部分，与学术和社区利益相关者的影响和利益一样，因为我们涉及当地人在他们居住的地方的研究。