Sound Heritage

Jeanice Brooks is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton (UK). She leads the AHRC-funded research project "Music, Home and Heritage," and directs both the Austen Family Music Books digitisation project and the international Sound Heritage network.Matthew Stephens is Research Librarian, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums (SLM), and leads the interpretation of the history of domestic music in SLM’s house museums.Wiebke Thormählen is a musicologist and violinist, and Reader in Music at the Royal College of Music, London. She is co-investigator on the AHRC-funded research project "Music, Home and Heritage," and has previously co-edited the Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-being (Routledge, 2018).

• 1 Introduction: Making Music Matter in Historic Houses Jeanice Brooks and Wiebke Thormählen2 All About House Museums Linda Young 3 Listening Through the Walls: Music Making in the Historic Houses of Rabindranath TagoreSuddhaseel Sen and Pramantha Tagore4 Engaging the Musical Imagination in Museums and Historic Houses Eric de Visscher and Mimi S. Waitzman5 Case Study Engaging Visitors with Bach's Music: Sound Concepts and Visitor Experience at the Leipzig Bach Museum Kerstin Wiese6 Striking a Chord - A Study in Harmony: Music, Musical Instruments and Historic Houses in Practice Ben Marks7 Case Study History without Words: Visitors Take Matters into Their Own Hands Christiane Barth8 Mapping Historic House Music Collections in the United Kingdom Katrina Faulds, Jonathan Frank and Christopher Scobie9 Case study The Dowling Songbook Project Helen Mitchell, Neal Peres Da Costa and Matthew Stephens10 A Decorated Tune in a Decorated Room: Interpreting the Musical Palimpsest in Historic House Museums Matthew Stephens 11 Case Study Multiple Moments at The Vyne Jeanice Brooks and Matthew Tyler-Jones12 Music and Stories of Space in the Historic House MuseumJeanice Brooks13 Case Study Experiencing Sound: Historical Performance and Digital Technology in French Royal Residences Vasco Zara 14 Expanding the Narrative: Public History, Music and the Irish Country HouseKarol Mullaney-Dignam15 Case Study Sounds of Hidden Town and the Hidden Town Project Franklin Vagnone and John Yeagley 16 Telling Stories, Sounding Faith: Exhibiting Religion in Historic House Museums Wiebke Thormählen17 Case Study Listening to the Past: The Context for Music at Mugga MuggaJennifer Gall18 Are You Experienced? Intimacy, Authenticity and Emotion in the House Museums of Musicians Marion Leonard

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