1st Edition
Sound Heritage Making Music Matter in Historic Houses
1 Introduction: Making Music Matter in Historic Houses
Jeanice Brooks and Wiebke Thormählen
2 All About House Museums
Linda Young
3 Listening Through the Walls: Music Making in the Historic Houses of Rabindranath Tagore
Suddhaseel Sen and Pramantha Tagore
4 Engaging the Musical Imagination in Museums and Historic Houses
Eric de Visscher and Mimi S. Waitzman
5 Case Study Engaging Visitors with Bach's Music: Sound Concepts and Visitor Experience at the Leipzig Bach Museum
Kerstin Wiese
6 Striking a Chord - A Study in Harmony: Music, Musical Instruments and Historic Houses in Practice
Ben Marks
7 Case Study History without Words: Visitors Take Matters into Their Own Hands
Christiane Barth
8 Mapping Historic House Music Collections in the United Kingdom
Katrina Faulds, Jonathan Frank and Christopher Scobie
9 Case study The Dowling Songbook Project
Helen Mitchell, Neal Peres Da Costa and Matthew Stephens
10 A Decorated Tune in a Decorated Room: Interpreting the Musical Palimpsest in Historic House Museums
Matthew Stephens
11 Case Study Multiple Moments at The Vyne
Jeanice Brooks and Matthew Tyler-Jones
12 Music and Stories of Space in the Historic House Museum
Jeanice Brooks
13 Case Study Experiencing Sound: Historical Performance and Digital Technology in French Royal Residences
Vasco Zara
14 Expanding the Narrative: Public History, Music and the Irish Country House
Karol Mullaney-Dignam
15 Case Study Sounds of Hidden Town and the Hidden Town Project
Franklin Vagnone and John Yeagley
16 Telling Stories, Sounding Faith: Exhibiting Religion in Historic House Museums
Wiebke Thormählen
17 Case Study Listening to the Past: The Context for Music at Mugga Mugga
Jennifer Gall
18 Are You Experienced? Intimacy, Authenticity and Emotion in the House Museums of Musicians
Marion Leonard
Biography
Jeanice Brooks is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton (UK). She leads the AHRC-funded research project "Music, Home and Heritage," and directs both the Austen Family Music Books digitisation project and the international Sound Heritage network.
Matthew Stephens is Research Librarian, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums (SLM), and leads the interpretation of the history of domestic music in SLM’s house museums.
Wiebke Thormählen is a musicologist and violinist, and Reader in Music at the Royal College of Music, London. She is co-investigator on the AHRC-funded research project "Music, Home and Heritage," and has previously co-edited the Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-being (Routledge, 2018).
