Medieval musical iconography 4012-057C-OG

Program:
1. The rudiments of contemporary classification of musical instruments, methods of cataloguing musical iconography.
2. The development of musical instruments in the Middle Ages, the most popular types of instruments in iconography, classification of instruments in Medieval musical treatises. Problems with identifying instruments and the most frequent mistakes (criticism of publications).
3. The contexts in which instruments appear in the Bible. The Vulgata and the development of Medieval organological terminology. The influence of the Septuaginta and variants of musical instrument names in the first translations of the Bible into vernacular languages.
4. The first exegetes touching on the issue of biblical musical instruments and their influence on iconography. St. Augustine, Isidore of Seville, the apocrypha (Pseudo-Hieronymus).
5.-6. The image of music in the written works of theoreticians. Musica mundana, humana, instrumentalis in iconography. Macrobius and his influence on portrayals of the Universum. Inventores musicae in iconography. The ancient heritage in Medieval musical iconography: the intertwining of ancient and biblical themes. Portrayals of the personification of church tones in Romanesque art (Cluny, Autun), portrayals of the personification of music.
7. David: king, prophet and musician. The first images: David-Orpheus as a figura Christi, David's instrument as a figura Crucis, David's musicians. Portrayals of David playing music up to the year 1000: Carolingian art (Dagulf Psalter, Utrecht Psalter), Greek influences, insular iconography, portrayals from Ottonian times.
8. Portrayals of David in book paintings: the development of an iconographic model. Initials of the Psalms with David and musicians.
9. David's instrument: rotte, lyre, harp, bells. Changes in iconography and their source. The symbolic meaning of individual instruments.
10. Music scenes in biblical scenes: David's welcome, Jephtha's daughter, crossing the Red Sea
11. Music in architectural sculpture. Portrayal of musicians in portal sculptures, on consoles and capitals - lay motifs in decorating sacred buildings. David and the donkey playing music.
12. Devilish and caricatural music - drôleries, book paintings, borders, ludic scenes and charivari (e.g. Roman de Fauvel), bestiaries.
13-14. Lay music: the Manesse code, lay motifs in biblical scenes (Maciejowski Bible, St. Louis Psalter). Literary images (chanson de geste, romances, the poetry of troubadours and trouvers) vs. iconography.
15. Iconography and performance practice: can we reconstruct Medieval instruments and performance techniques on the basis of iconography?

Type of course

general courses

Bibliography

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J. Chailley, Les huit tons de la musique et l'ethos des modes aux chapiteaux de Cluny, "Acta Musicologica", 57, 1, 1985, s. 73-94.
R. Hammerstein, Diabolus in Musica: Studien zur Ikonographie der Musik im Mittelalter, Bern-Münich, 1974.
R. Hammerstein, Instrumenta Hieronymi, "Archiv für Musikwissenschaft", 16, 1/2, 1959, s. 117-134.
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M. Van Schaik, The Harp in the Middle Ages. The Symbolism of a Musical Instrument, Amsterdam-Atlanta 1992.

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