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Resurrecting Forgotten Sound: Fans and Handbells in Early Modern Italy
Music and sound are ephemeral and immaterial. 'As it is born', wrote Leonardo da Vinci, describing the sense of hearing, 'so it dies, and it is as fleeting in its death as it is in its birth.' While the Western system of musical notation is capable of preserving certain aspects of historical, sonic exeperience, it evolved in order todirect performance, not record musical experience, and was applied to particular types of musical repertory. Unwritten pieces transmitted by ear 'died' with those who had memorised them. In the early modern period such notation obviously recorded only pitched, musical sound. The noises that resonated through the streets, houses, churches and fields of the past are preserved only in rare, and usually fleeting, textual descriptions.
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191-210Pages
342.0Book title
Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its MeaningsPlace of publication
Farnham and Burlington, VTISBN
9780754666370Department affiliated with
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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