Public Research Seminar: Stephen Rose
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Workshop 2
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
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Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England’s County Record Offices
Stephen Rose - Royal Holloway, University of London
Music, Heritage, Place is a collaborative project led by Royal Holloway and Newcastle University, investigating the notated musical sources between c.1550 and c.1850 preserved in England’s local archives. We are cataloguing these sources in RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales) and using insights from them to develop a decentralised history of England’s music.
This presentation introduces the project via case-studies from Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Shropshire. The music manuscripts preserved in local archives are rooted in the early modern communities that made and produced them; they document the performance styles in different locations, with distinctive patterns of scoring and ornamentation. Stephen Rose argues that music in English regions at this time was translocal - grounded in people’s experiences of place, yet also appropriated by different communities.
Stephen Rose is Professor and Head of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on German and English music from the 16th to 18th centuries. His books include The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach and Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach.
He has led collaborative projects with the British Library and is co-editor of the journal Early Music. He leads the project Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England’s County Record Offices, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
Running time approx. one hour and 30 minutes
Seminars are in RBC Workshop 2 and can also be accessed online via Zoom. A link to view the seminar via Zoom will be emailed ahead of the session.
Real and virtual doors will open around 3.25pm, the seminar begins at 3.30pm and discussion will conclude around 4.55pm.