Medieval Art and Music between Heritage, Modernity, and Multi-Media
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 2933
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute an article for the special issue of the journal Arts entitled Medieval Art and Music between Heritage, Modernity, and Multi-Media.
This special issue of Arts explores the role of multi-disciplinary scholarship in uncovering and communicating the multi-media nature of medieval art. The focus is on the eleventh-century golden statue of Sainte-Foy at Conques and its public worship. This is the earliest surviving sculpture found in the ground from the Latin West at a site of rich artistic production of architecture, art, poetry and music. What makes this place unique is that most of this artistic production has survived to this day, and it is at the highest level of quality, yet barely studied in modern times. The chants written for the feast of Sainte-Foy (October 6) have not been performed for over a thousand years. Stanford’s “Enchanted Images” (http://enchantedimages.stanford.edu) project is the first to transcribe, translate, and perform this corpus of music and explore the visual art through its aural envelopment. This volume of Arts engages with the results of this research project and engages with the first live performance of Sainte-Foy’s medieval Office featured in the Stanford Live program on February 10, 2023. Art historians, curators, and musicologists of international reputation are invited to contribute articles.
Medieval art does not fit modern art historical categories. The field’s secular, atheistic bent has put aside interest in the study of this tradition, excised religion, and prioritized an engagement with the modern and contemporary. However, is medieval art distant and irrelevant to our times? Is it also art? Should this tradition be placed on the slide between modern and heritage? Medieval images and architecture were not designed as art but as a medium through which to reach the metaphysical. Heritage lives with us, continuously tapping into both the past and future and staying with us in the present, giving us identity. How can the performance of medieval art and its installation in museums strengthen heritage and the relevance of this tradition to contemporary audiences? These are some of the questions the art historians and curators will address. We hope that musicologists will engage with the issue of performance and will also uncover the importance of Aquitanian chant for our understanding of the development of medieval music.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Bissera Pentcheva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Medieval art
- music
- poetry
- acoustics
- liturgy
- worship
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