Music, Home and Heritage: Sounding the Domestic in Georgian Britain

这个项目探讨了在格鲁吉亚时期的英国，听音乐和演奏音乐是如何影响人们对家庭、家庭和家庭空间的理解的。它寻求扩大对格鲁吉亚家庭内部历史的了解，并探索如何将这种理解更充分地融入到今天对历史建筑的遗产解释中。它考虑了表演者和听众在家庭环境中归因于音乐的意义，并探讨了音乐实践在将房屋转变为家庭中的情感或精神方面。它将从公共生活中追踪对家庭生活的日益描绘，并调查这与音乐专业化，阶级结构以及家庭和性别角色的制定的历史叙述如何相交。我们将探讨音乐如何跨越地理和社会空间，特别是通过舞蹈音乐、清唱剧和歌剧，将家庭休闲与公共娱乐形式联系起来。这种对国内音乐实践的加深理解将融入到我们探索新的模式中，让今天的文物参观者看到和听到国内音乐。音乐是许多历史建筑的过去居民的重要日常活动，唤起这一活动可以帮助人们在游客的想象中了解这些房产，同时也为一些观众提供了一种强大的解毒剂，以消除历史环境所传达的静态感。更好地了解音乐在国内建筑、装饰和社会生活中的作用，以及音乐与文物和物品的联系，可以提供强大的新解释工具，并突出物质和非物质遗产之间的联系。通过一系列以实践为主导的解读实验，该项目将为在历史建筑中有效解读音乐提供案例研究，并将通过与遗产行业专业人士的合作，促进该领域最佳实践的进一步合作研究。该项目包括一项雄心勃勃的初步研究计划，包括审议家庭文件（日记、通信、账目、清单）；具有特定房屋和所有者的现存音乐收藏；为国内消费而制作的音乐，包括舞蹈、歌剧和清唱剧的编曲；历史指南和家具目录；和现存的材料设置。历史研究将在音乐学和舞蹈史方面产生学术成果，同时也为遗产研究提供音乐材料。在与大英图书馆的合作下，研究小组将对英国历史建筑的音乐材料进行普查，大大提高现有的研究工具，同时提供国内音乐材料痕迹的第一个概述，可用于今天的遗产解释。在项目合作伙伴悉尼生活博物馆的支持下，该项目将综合现有的关于在历史建筑中使用音乐的研究，并为该领域的未来工作设计框架。对舞蹈的案例研究将产生对这一关键社会活动如何在家庭中部署的新理解，并产生新的舞蹈音乐录音，供历史舞蹈公司和遗产部门使用。与项目合作伙伴The National Trust合作，我们将在Erddig构建一个案例研究，提供房屋中音乐制作的详细历史，并设计一种方法，通过音乐讲述房屋及其居住者的更大故事。在鲍顿宫，与布克鲁奇生活遗产信托基金会合作进行的一个案例研究将探讨国内舞台音乐消费如何构建对私人和公共空间以及社会身份的理解；展览和表演将把这些不同领域的物体和声音聚集在一起，为它们之间的关系创造一种新的解释。

This project asks how listening to and performing music figured in understandings of home, family and domestic space in Georgian Britain. It seeks both to expand knowledge of the sounding history of Georgian domestic interiors and to explore how to integrate this understanding more fully into heritage interpretations of historic houses today. It considers the meanings that performers and listeners attributed to music in domestic settings, and explores how emotional or spiritual aspects of musical practice figured in the transformation of houses into homes. It will track the increasing delineation of domesticity from public life, and investigate how this intersects with historical narratives on the professionalisation of music, on class structures and on the formulation of family and gender roles. We will probe how music traversed geographical and social space, particularly through dance music, oratorio and opera, which linked familial leisure with forms of public entertainment. This enhanced understanding of domestic musical practice will be integrated into our exploration of new models for making domestic music visible and audible for heritage visitors today. Music was an important daily activity for many past residents of historic houses, and evoking this activity can help to people the properties in visitors' imaginations, while at the same time providing a powerful antidote to the static sense that historical settings convey for some audiences. Better knowledge of the role of music in domestic architecture, decoration and social life, and of musical links to artefacts and objects, can provide powerful new interpretive tools and highlight connections between tangible and intangible heritage. Through a series of practice-led interpretation experiments, this project will result in case studies for effective interpretation of music in historic houses, and it will contribute to further collaborative research on best practice in the field through partnership with heritage sector professionals. The project includes an ambitious plan of primary research, including consideration of family papers (diaries, correspondence, accounts, inventories); extant music collections identified with specific houses and owners; music produced for domestic consumption, including arrangements of dance, opera and oratorio; historic guidebooks and furniture catalogues; and extant material settings. The historical research will lead to scholarly outputs in musicology and dance history, while also providing the musical materials underpinning the heritage studies research. In collaboration with the British Library, the research team will conduct a census of musical materials in UK historic houses, substantially enhancing existing research tools while providing the first overview of the material traces of domestic music available for use in heritage interpretation today. With the support of project partner Sydney Living Museums, the project will synthesise existing research on the use of music in historic house interpretation, and devise frameworks for future work in the field. A case study on dance will generate new understandings of how this key social activity was deployed in the home, and result in new recordings of dance music for use by historic dance companies and within the heritage sector. With project partners The National Trust, we will construct a case study at Erddig, providing a detailed history of music making in the house and devising a method for telling the larger story of the property and its occupants through and with music. At Boughton House, a case study mounted in collaboration with the Buccleuch Living Heritage Trust will explore how domestic consumption of stage music worked to construct understandings of private and public space and social identities; an exhibit and performance will bring together objects and sounds from these different realms to create a new interpretation of their relationship.