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

这个项目建立在AHRC资助的研究，揭示了维多利亚时代的理解，并与刘易斯卡罗尔的“爱丽丝”书的创造性参与-里程碑式的作品，继续捕捉在英国和其他地方的流行想象力。学术界以外的一系列观众通过活动、媒体报道和在V&A童年博物馆举办的为期六个月的展览从研究结果中受益。创新研究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工作及其来世，特别是英国儿童。虽然奖学金主要集中在爱丽丝看起来像什么样的哥伦比亚人，档案工作的乐谱具有早期的彩色插图也使洞察她听起来像。这开辟了一个全新的和不可预见的途径研究有关的声音方面的作品，并与作曲家保罗里斯曼和伦敦交响乐团[LSO]的合作。QMUL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与声乐部分，基于卡罗尔的文本和历史乐谱，于2015年11月在巴比肯首演。面对COVID-19疫情对音乐教育及其他创意活动造成的破坏，我们为所有儿童提供跨课程的服务。恰逢《透过镜子和爱丽丝在那里发现的东西》150周年，该项目将完成并扩大2015年仙境试点项目，大幅扩展其影响范围和遗产，并积极让儿童参与其中。一个全新的伴侣作品的仙境套房，根据'看玻璃'，将创建由里斯曼与PI和儿童合作，并将由LSO在参与性学校和家庭音乐会在巴比肯执行。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，这两段音乐都将被录制下来，电影将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，以指导和加强与书籍和音乐的参与将是该网站的另一个关键功能。由LSO和QMUL共同制定的营销策略，包括活动，新闻稿和特写以及社交媒体传播，将确保网站在国内和国际上得到尽可能广泛的关注。LSO的慷慨捐助使所有4场演出成为可能，并支付总录制费用的1/3。该应用程序使新的合作和参与性工作，网站和学习资源的创建，并支付其余2/3的记录费用的委托。该项目将产生现实世界的影响：支持伦敦交响乐团最近开发的区域和数字学习战略，并协助教师应对严重的时间压力（在许多情况下，由于缺乏音乐和经典文本经验而加剧），以减轻COVID-19对儿童福祉、学习和创造力的影响。著名作家和前儿童奖得主朱莉娅唐纳森最近表达了她的担忧，“有些孩子长大后不会唱歌”。动员AHRC资助的研究，该项目使古典音乐和试金石文本的参与，确保，最终，在英国和超越儿童确实可以长大唱歌。

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.