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‘The Sounds of Stonehenge’
A one-day workshop at the Department of Music, Bristol University, in
association with CHOMBEC (Centre for the History Of Music in Britain,
the Empire and Commonwealth).
VICTORIA ROOMS
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2008
11.30-16.00 hrs
Fee: £22 (coffee, lunch and tea provided).
Friends of CHOMBEC: £12
Coffee from 1100; lunch at 1300; tea at 1600
To book: phone 0117 954 5032 or email [log in to unmask], stating
any dietary
restrictions.
Book by 20 November.
Hardy’s Tess encounters it unseen, as nocturnal sound, the humming of
an aeolian harp. What other soundscapes has Stonehenge generated,
suggested or inspired in the 5000 years since construction began? Come
to this workshop and explore the cultural history of Stonehenge, from
the acoustics and musical instruments of Neolithic England to the
representation of megaliths in 20th-century British art music,
Stonehenge’s film music, and its rock music - in the most recent sense.
The following speakers will contribute:
• Ronald Hutton: ‘The cultural history of Stonehenge’.
• Tim Darvill: ‘Stonehenge in rock’.
• Aaron Watson and John Crewdson: ‘Instruments of ritual’, a
multimedia presentation of music and visuals.
• Simon Wyatt: ‘Soul music: instruments in an animistic age’.
• Guido Heldt: ‘Stonehenge and its film music’.
• Stephen Banfield: ‘Megaliths in 20th-century English art music’.
• Joshua Pollard: ‘Stonehenge: notes towards an acoustic archaeology’.
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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Lecturer in Music
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, Great Britain
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/jpeh-s.html
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