The world of Reformation Britain: seen and heard in the Wode Psalter

2011年爱丁堡国际艺术节期间，《诗篇》中幸存的八部部分将首次从华盛顿、都柏林、伦敦和爱丁堡运来，在展览中一起展出。《诗篇》也将被听到：《诗篇》的音乐选段将在两场音乐会中演出，并录制在唱片上。这些音乐手稿为反映宗教改革时期英国的多面世界提供了一面理想的镜子。除了音乐之外，它们还揭示了对宗教崇拜和奉献、诗歌、绘画、赞助和物质文化的新见解，并提供了苏格兰女王玛丽、詹姆斯六世和一世统治期间写的带插图的日记。部分书籍由圣安德鲁斯教区牧师托马斯·沃德（Thomas Wode）在1562年至1592年间编纂，包含了四部分的韵律诗篇，尽管也添加了其他歌曲和器乐。沃德的努力使苏格兰成为欧洲改革宗唱诗传统的一部分；他还帮助保存了英国激进改革者的文学和音乐作品，这些作品被英国国教所拒绝。手稿的主要音乐意义，提供了他们的大部分内容的唯一来源，长期以来一直被认可，但乔治城大学部分书直到最近才为人所知，其音乐并未完全纳入。然而，其他学科的学者在发掘《诗篇》中丰富多彩的宝藏方面进展缓慢。因此，《诗篇》为学术努力提供了一个优秀的多学科重点，并将来自不同机构背景的研究人员团结在一起。它还提供了一个理想的媒介，让公众与英国宗教改革的世界接触，让人们以实物和电子形式看到和听到它。在展览之前，一个虚拟的研究论坛将为《诗篇》的研究议程的编制提供便利，并将其纳入其解释框架。该论坛设置在项目网站的密码保护区域，将邀请有兴趣研究《诗篇》的学者和实践者加入这个专门创建的学术网络。四个在线研讨会将使用部分书籍中的数字图像和委托撰写的短文来激发讨论，研究《诗篇》的宗教、文学和音乐方面以及沃德的“插图日记”。最后一个研讨会将全面考虑《诗篇》。虽然展览和音乐会将是暂时的，但该项目的遗产将是永久的。《诗篇》的音乐CD将在市场上出售，这样人们就可以继续听到部分书籍，也可以通过展览小册子看到《诗篇》的印刷形式。在线遗产将包括一个教育包，包括一个以托马斯·沃德和他的“音乐日记”为主题的研究技能在线研讨会。项目网站的开放访问区域还将托管特别设计的永久可用网页，其中包含从《诗篇》中选择的数字图像以及从展览和虚拟研究论坛中提取的材料。通过这些不同的方式，《圣咏》将使宗教改革时期的英国再次被看到和听到。

For the very first time the eight surviving Part-books that comprise the Wode Psalter will be brought from Washington, Dublin, London and Edinburgh to be seen together in exhibition during the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival. The Psalter will also be heard: a selection of music from the Psalter will be performed in two concerts and recorded on disc. These music manuscripts offer an ideal mirror for reflecting the multi-faceted world of Reformation Britain. In addition to their music, they reveal new insights about religious worship and devotion, poetry, painting, patronage and material culture as well as providing an illustrated diary written during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots, and James VI and I. The Part-books were compiled between 1562 and 1592 by Thomas Wode, vicar of St Andrews, to contain four-part settings of metrical psalms, though other songs and instrumental music were also added. Wode's efforts placed Scotland within the strong European Reformed tradition of psalm-singing; he also helped preserve the literary and musical compositions of English radical reformers which were rejected within the established Church of England.The major musical significance of the manuscripts, which provide the sole source for most of their contents, has long been recognised but the Georgetown University Part-book has only recently become known and its music not fully incorporated. However, scholars from other disciplines have been slow to exploit the Psalter's many and varied treasures. As a consequence, the Wode Psalter presents an excellent multi-disciplinary focus for scholarly endeavour and one that unites researchers from different institutional backgrounds. It also offers an ideal medium for public engagement with the world of Reformation Britain, allowing it to be seen and heard in physical and electronic formats.Prior to the exhibition and feeding into its interpretative framework, a virtual research forum will facilitate the compilation of a research agenda for the Psalter. The forum mounted on the password-protected area of the project website will call upon the scholars and practitioners interested in working with the Psalter who have been brought into the specially-created academic network. Four online workshops using digital images from the Part-books and short commissioned articles to stimulate discussion will examine the Psalter's religious, literary and musical aspects and Wode's 'illustrated diary'. A final workshop will consider the Psalter in its entirety. Though the exhibition and concerts will be transitory, the project's legacy will be permanent. A CD of the Psalter's music will be commercially available so the Part-books can continue to be heard and the Psalter seen in printed form through the exhibition booklet. The online legacy will include an educational pack consisting of a research-skills online seminar on the theme of Thomas Wode and his 'musical diary'. The open access area of the project website will also host the specially-designed permanently available webpages containing a selection of digital images from the Psalter and material drawn from the exhibition and the virtual research forum. In these varied ways the Wode Psalter will allow the world of Reformation Britain to be seen and heard once again.