Dr Stephanie Connor awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:15:00 BST
Dr Stephanie Connor has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. This is a three year fellowship from Sept 2016- Sept 2019.
This is her abstract for the research she will be doing:
Although cuneiform writings on clay tablets provide details of a rich musical culture in ancient Mesopotamia and playable replicas of Mesopotamian instruments have been constructed, we do not know how the music sounded; those who wish to play the instruments and/or sing surviving song texts must invent their own subjective impression. The aim of this project is to produce an empirical method for recomposing songs in a ‘Mesopotamian’ style, by combining music archaeology with a comparative study of the relationship between music and text in a range of surviving singing styles. Findings will be disseminated through written and practical outputs.
