Archaeomusica : The Sounds and Music of Ancient Europe
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
: A - Music
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Music
- Output identifier
- 9
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component: Exhibition, Book, Journal Article
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- An international team of archaeologists, musicologists, instrument makers, musicians, composers, sound designers, film-makers and computer artists formed in 2010 to explore 40,000 years of European music from a variety of perspectives. In the resulting European Music Archaeology Project (EMAP; http://www.emaproject.eu/), ten institutions from seven countries collaborated with numerous associated partners from 2013 to 2018, supported by the Culture sub-programme of the European Commission. The project’s research aims were to examine Europe’s common ancient musico-cultural roots, by combining artistic, scientific and sensorial aspects. Some of its findings were presented in Item 1, of which Both was curator, designing and coordinating the development of the exhibition. The exhibition’s catalogue, Item 2, contains two chapters by Both, exploring evidence for early human musicality in surviving material culture. Both reflects on the problems inherent in curating ancient sounds in the exhibition in Item 3. Navigating among the exhibition’s ‘sound isles’, visitors – with the help of rich multimedia guides curated and edited by Both – were able to experience reconstructions of the sounds of the past. The exhibition presented high-quality replicas and reconstructions (both real and virtual) of ancient musical instruments found in various European archaeological sites, using the original materials and production techniques by skilled practitioners including Both. Visitors were able to experience recordings of musical performances using these instruments, drawing upon the latest research in order to make them as faithful as possible to their original acoustic environments. Building on Both’s key contributions, the Archaeomusica exhibition was the first multimedia journey to connect the sounds of ancient music to the their modern-day survivors. It demonstrated our pan-European heritage and the cultural ties which have bound European peoples together for millennia and which transcend current political structures.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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