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VIRTUAL Music Futures: Science and Sound reading group 3

05 April 2022, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm

S. Morland (1672) Tuba Stentooro-Phonica: An Instrument of Excellent Use, as Well ar Sea, as at Land; Invented and Variously Experimented in the Year 1670 and Humbly Presented to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty Charles II in the Year 1671, London: W. Go

Science and Sound will explore recent research at the interface of STS, music and sound and use its sessions to bring together academics, museum curators and performers.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Cathy Lucas

Join the event via Zoom here

The Science and Sound reading group, part of Music Futures, will meet again on Zoom on 5th April, from 4-5.30pm. Please join using the link https://ucl.zoom.us/j/94545894737

We will be reading 'Don’t Choose the Nightingale: Timbre, Index, and Birdsong in Respighi’s Pini di Roma'

Arman Schwartz

The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

Edited by Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190637224-e-18

For a recording of Respighi’s Pini Di Roma by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBcNFcMZmEg

The nightingale recording appears around 15m30s in towards the end of the 3rd movement. 

Please feel free to contact catherine.lucas.19@ucl.ac.uk if you have any questions or if you are having trouble getting hold of the text.

We are looking forward to another lively session! 

Chiara, Maria, Cathy and Elena (UCL Science and Technology Studies) 

Image credit: S. Morland (1672) Tuba Stentooro-Phonica: An Instrument of Excellent Use, as Well ar Sea, as at Land; Invented and Variously Experimented in the Year 1670 and Humbly Presented to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty Charles II in the Year 1671, London: W. Godbid