IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 630: Perceiving Angels in the Medieval West, II: Angelic Music
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | School of History, University of East Anglia |
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| Organiser: | Sophie Alexandra Sawicka-Sykes, School of History, University of East Anglia |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gudrun Warren, Norwich Cathedral Library |
| Paper 630-a | Hermits and Angelic Song up to 1350 (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Music, Religious Life |
| Paper 630-b | The Hypothetical Song: Angels in Medieval Music Theory (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Music, Philosophy, Religious Life |
| Paper 630-c | Teaching Music through Art: Reinterpreting Depictions of Musical Angels in Italian Devotional Images, c. 1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Education, Lay Piety, Music |
| Abstract | While angels have long been considered musical creatures, few studies have thoroughly investigated the treatment of angelic song or instrumental performance as a religious and scientific phenomenon in medieval sources. This interdisciplinary panel considers a number of questions that vexed and stimulated thinkers from across medieval Christendom between late antiquity and the 16th century: how did angels sing? Who was able to perceive it? What was its pedagogic function? The three papers explore the perception of medieval music in settings as diverse as the wilderness, the university, and the household. |