Description du projet
Méthodes innovantes pour retrouver les sons de la liturgie hispanique médiévale
Le plain-chant, chant sacré chrétien, représente le plus ancien corpus occidental de notation musicale. Avant la liturgie grégorienne, des familles liturgiques distinctes ont développé leurs propres répertoires de chants. Des manuscrits datant de 700 à 1300 documentent la liturgie hispanique, tant au niveau du texte que de la musique. Cependant, les sources de la liturgie n’offrent que des informations sur les cérémonies et les textes, ce qui rend leurs mélodies injouables et indéchiffrables. Le projet RESOUND, financé par le CER, vise à ressusciter les sons des chants hispaniques. Il combine des outils issus de la bio-informatique, de la génétique, de l’analyse informatique, de la restauration virtuelle de sons et d’images, de l’architecture auditive et des sciences humaines, y compris l’interprétation musicale. L’objectif global est d’acquérir de nouvelles connaissances sur la dynamique générative et évolutive des répertoires de plain-chant européens.
Objectif
Plainchant, the sacred Christian chant, is the most ancient Western corpus preserved in musical notation. Before the unifying adoption of the Gregorian liturgy throughout Europe in the 9th century, a number of liturgical families each one with its own chant repertoire emerged in the ancient Western Roman provinces. Among them, the Hispanic liturgy was recorded text and music in manuscripts between ca. 700 and ca. 1300. These sources allow us to know the liturgys ceremonies and texts, but not the melodies themselves. In fact, notational signs do not indicate the specific intervals between the notes, since they were written prior to the use of a notational system in which each individual sign contains precise pitch information. As a consequence, the Hispanic musical notation is considered indecipherable and its thousands of melodies still remain silent.
RESOUND aims to achieve what has so far been considered an impossible task: bringing to life the sounds of Hispanic chant. To accomplish this goal, we will use tools from the fields of bioinformatics, genetics, computational analysis, aural architecture and virtual restoration of sound and images, along with tools from the humanities, including musical performance. Computational analysis aside, these tools have never been used in the study of medieval chant, let alone in combination. By recovering the sounds of Hispanic chant and establishing these innovative methods, we will be able to offer new understandings of the generative and evolutionary dynamics of the European plainchant repertoires. In this way, we will not only recuperate the Hispanic melodies, but also restore a significant part of the soundscape of medieval Europe. Thus, by reversing the standard approach via focusing on a territory considered peripheral, we will shed new light on the process of cultural creation in the European Middle Ages.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
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Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
28040 Madrid
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