| FA-57954-14 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Barbara Haggh-Huglo | Of Abbeys and Aldermen: Music in Ghent to 1559 | 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 | $50,400.00 | Barbara | | Haggh-Huglo | | | | University of Maryland, College Park | College Park | MD | 20742-5141 | USA | 2013 | Music History and Criticism | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
In a three-part book, the first comprehensive study of music in pre-modern Ghent, I demonstrate that profound changes in European history occurred with unusual intensity there, with music an essential ingredient. A first part on the two Benedictine abbeys traces their music from Carolingian reforms to the adoption of the Roman liturgy at St. Bavo's, transformed into a cathedral. A second part assesses hundreds of records of benefactions for music in the virtually complete run of Ghent city council registers, with analyses of benefactors, their musical preferences, locations of performance, performers, and cost, and statistics showing the rise and fall in use of different music. This nearly complete reconstruction of church music in late medieval Ghent will be made freely available as an online interactive database. Part three describes the "soundscape" of the city's churches and streets, using local music identified in manuscripts or through archives. |