Icons of Sound Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art Music and Visual Culture Series
Coordonnateur : Pentcheva Bissera
Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound. The chapters encompass a wide geographic and historical range, from the fifth to the fifteenth century, and from Armenia and Byzantium to Venice, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Contributors offer nuanced explorations of the intangible sonic aura produced in these places by the ritual music and harness the use of digital technology to reconstruct historical aural environments.
Rooted in a decade-long interdisciplinary research project at Stanford University, Icons of Sound expands our understanding of the inherently intertwined relationship between medieval chant and liturgy, the acoustics of architectural spaces, and their visual aesthetics. Together, the contributors provide insights that are relevant across art history, sound studies, musicology, and medieval studies.
Introduction
Bissera V. Pentcheva
1. Singing Doors: Images, Space, and Sound in the Santa Sabina Narthex
Ivan Foletti
2. Sights and Sounds of the Armenian Night Office, as Performed at Ani: A Collation of the Archaeological, Historical, and Liturgical Evidence
Christina Maranci
3. The Glittering Sound of Hagia Sophia and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross in Constantinople
Bissera V. Pentcheva
4. Transcendent Visions: Voice and Icon in the Byzantine Imperial Chapels
Bissera V. Pentcheva
5. Echoes and Silences of Liturgy: Liturgical Inscriptions and the Temporality of Medieval Rituals
Vincent Debiais
6. Sound, Space, and Sensory Perception: The Easter Mass in the Liturgy of San Marco, Venice
Deborah Howard
7. The Marble Tempest: Material Imagination, the Echoes of Nostos, and the Transfiguration of Myth in Romanesque Sculpture
Francisco Prado-Vilar
Epilogue: A Voice from beyond the Grave: Tintoretto among the Art Historians
Alexander Nemerov
Bissera V. Pentcheva is Professor of Art History at Stanford University.
Date de parution : 05-2022
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 11-2020
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes d’Icons of Sound :
Mots-clés :
Cathedral Rite; Fieldwork Archives; medieval art; Byzantine Chant; medieval music; Della; medieval architecture; Acoustic Model; medieval chant; Emperor Leo VI; medieval religion; Leo VI; chant; Santiago Cathedral; vocal music; Majestas Domini; sound studies; National Library; voice studies; Kars Region; music and visual culture; Santiago De Compostela; music and art; Jacopo Sansovino; music and architecture; Codex Calixtinus; sound studies and art; Night Office; sound studies and architecture; Theodore Psalter; medieval church; Night Service; medieval churches; Syrophoenician Woman; Palace Chapel; Byzantine church; Easter Mass; Byzantine art; Dino Compagni; Byzantine music; Jacopo Robusti; Latin chant; Tintoretto; church music; Hortus Deliciarum; soundscape; Palatine Chapels; Hagia Sophia; Romanesque sculpture; Armenian church; church liturgy; medieval liturgy; Church of San Marco; digital humanities; Santa Sabina; aurality; acoustics; Architectural spaces; Iconostasis