Hearing the Past: Metrical Psalm Singing and the Early Modern Soundscape

Image of choir, in robes, singing, with text: Hearing the Past: Metrical Psalm Singing and the Early Modern Soundscape
Concert
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King's College Chapel, 6350 Coburg Rd, Halifax

<p>How do we hear the past when sound is ephemeral?&nbsp; This event, a collaboration between St Francis Xavier University SSHRC postdoctoral fellow&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Jacqueline Wylde </strong>(StFX English)&nbsp;and the King’s chapel choir under the direction of&nbsp;<a href="https://ukings.ca/people/neil-cockburn/">Dr. Neil Cockburn</a>, asks this question by bringing the long forgotten English metrical psalms to contemporary ears.</p>

<p>Dr. Wylde offers a sonic investigation into the cultural meaning of the congregationally-sung psalms in post-Reformation England, considering how their shifts in meaning through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are both reflected in, and changed by, the sound of the psalms.</p>

<p>The choir will vocally enact this research, and experiment with the ways in which the psalms were sung, while the audience will be invited to participate through singing.</p>

<p>All welcome. Reception to follow.</p>

<p>See also:&nbsp;https://ukings.ca/events/hearing-the-past/</p&gt;

<p>Funding for this event has been generously provided by RSC Atlantic and the Canada Research Chairs program.</p>

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