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    Liminal Encounters between Literature and Music in Contemporary British Women's Short Stories.

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    Política de acceso abierto tomada de: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/book-policiesThis chapter examines how the short story offers a fertile ground not just for the depiction of the crossing of national, ethnic, and cultural boundaries, but also for the challenge to the barriers traditionally dividing different arts and discourses. It aims to approach liminality as the overlapping of artistic boundaries, articulated in terms of the cross-fertilisation between the short story and music. These interartistic encounters are analysed in a selection of narratives by contemporary British women that explore gender relationships through the musical referent. By doing so, the chapter addresses the implications of the intersection between gender and genre in the liminal space of the short story in its interaction with music

    Multimodality and Memory in the Mise en page of Guillaume de Machaut's Mass

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    Guillaume de Machaut’s mass survives in only five manuscripts, which all form part of the surprisingly homogeneous ‘complete works’ set of Machaut manuscripts. In this contribution, I argue that the details of mise en page in these manuscripts are reflective both of scribal memorial processes and multimodality in action: in this work where one of the major modes (image) is absent, the musical notation itself takes on an additional aesthetic role, that of visual beauty. In these manuscripts, the mass takes its place within the music section, surrounded there by lays, motets, virelais, and rondeaux, these surrounded (or preceded) by courtly ‘dits’ and lyrics not set to music. Four of these five manuscripts are illuminated, and all provide musical notation: all, therefore, are overtly multimodal. Despite the lavish illumination in the manuscripts, the mass is never adorned with a miniature, nor is it mentioned in Machaut’s ‘Prologue’ to his works. The aesthetic beauty of the mise en page of the mass, therefore, is derived from the musical notation, while the text-music setting shows a distinct divide between the two contrasting compositional techniques of the mass

    The migration of musical instruments: on the socio-technological conditions of musical evolution

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    Music technologies reflect the most advanced human technologies in most historical periods. Examples range from 40 thousand years old bone flutes found in caves in the Swabian Jura, through ancient Greek water organs or medieval Arabic musical automata, to today’s electronic and digital instruments with deep learning. Music technologies incorporate the musical ideas of a time and place and they disseminate those ideas when adopted by other musical cultures. This article explores how contemporary music technologies are culturally conditioned and applies the concept of ethno-organology to describe the nature of migration of instruments between musical cultures
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