Invisible Music: Hearing and Listening in the Early Modern World
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Invisible Music : Hearing and Listening in the Early Modern World. / Jeanneret, Christine.
In: Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies , Vol. 18, 2022, p. 221-234.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Invisible Music
T2 - Hearing and Listening in the Early Modern World
AU - Jeanneret, Christine
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - At Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, Christian IV used two of his favouriteartforms, music and architecture, to create his invisible music, a sonictechnology that left his visitors astonished. This surprising listeningexperience gives historians and sensory and performance studies scholars theperfect tool to study early modern hearing and listening practices. Thedissociation of sound from its source was experienced as a marvellous soundtechnology. The diffusion of music through sonic vents in the castle created aspatialization of music that required the perambulation of the listeners,creating a full bodily experience. The staging and performativity of thisextraordinary listening experience also brings new insights into court andprivacy studies.
AB - At Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, Christian IV used two of his favouriteartforms, music and architecture, to create his invisible music, a sonictechnology that left his visitors astonished. This surprising listeningexperience gives historians and sensory and performance studies scholars theperfect tool to study early modern hearing and listening practices. Thedissociation of sound from its source was experienced as a marvellous soundtechnology. The diffusion of music through sonic vents in the castle created aspatialization of music that required the perambulation of the listeners,creating a full bodily experience. The staging and performativity of thisextraordinary listening experience also brings new insights into court andprivacy studies.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
SP - 221
EP - 234
JO - Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies
JF - Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies
SN - 2597-0143
ER -
ID: 300378055