Proposal a) The soundscape of battle between reality and enactment. Pictorial and tonal representations of military signal music
The choice and the military function of musical instruments in hostile conflicts has been variously investigated. However, the transition between their role as signal call and a ritual or ceremonial character has not received much attention to date, nor have the played sounds. The correlation between music(theatrical) representations of battles in the early modern period and the associated question of their degree of reality or symbolism will be one focus of this project, as will the transported images of war and their function within a festive and representational culture.
Proposal b) Sung commemoration of war. The Office in honour of military saints and its reception
The veneration of military saints in the liturgy of the hours provides us with information about the importance of the military side of the stylisation, in comparison for example to iconographical and hagiographical traditions. Continuing from research on the role of liturgical music as a medium of political articulation, which focussed among others on the transformation of Merovingian Mauritius Offices in the Carolingian period, a suitable object for research would be for example the Gereons-Offizium.