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French Piano Repertoire 1870-1920: Faure, Debussy, Ravel and Chabrier |
It's best defined by the key publications involved:
Critical editions of Fauré piano works (Peters Edition, London, ongoing): the first reliable and well-commented musical text for pianists of these important works
Œuvres complètes de Claude Debussy (Editions Durand, Paris, ongoing): completion of the piano works in this series (various editors including myself), and now the production of revised budget paperback offprints from these library volumes
Lifting the lid on French piano music: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier (Yale UP, now being completed). A multi-approach book detail with many aspects of this repertoire through analysis, source study and pianistic matters, including an interactive musical CD-ROM
Gabriel Fauré, 1er Quintette op. 89, édition critique par Roy Howat (Editions Hamelle, Paris): restoring to print one of Fauré's major masterpieces, long obscured by corrupt performing instructions in the now out-of-print original edition. Attempts were made by a musicological source in France to muzzle or change my editorial findings in this edition, resulting in delays to publication (it was due out in 2003); it is hoped this is now resolved and the edition can appear soon.
International understanding of French repertoire has long been obscured by legends, false mists and unreliable editions. All the projects above are designed to clarify these issues and bring this music into appropriately clear perspective.
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The correspondence of Aby Warburg and the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg: an electronic catalogue of the Warburg Institute archive |
The Warburg Institute holds the working papers and correspondence of the Hamburg scholar Aby Warburg, as well as the papers of the institute which he founded and which still bears his name. The project is designed to provide a searchable database and catalogue of Warburg's entire correspondence (some 35,000 letters), with all proper names and major topics identified and recorded. The correspondence is important not just for the study of Warburg himself. It is a major resource for the study of German intellectual history in the first third of the twentieth century, and of links between German scholars and their colleagues in other European countries. When the project started Warburg's papers were in some disarray, and many of his letters are very difficult to decipher. The basic aim of the project is to make this archive accessible to scholars. |
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The Scottish Parliament Project |
The Scottish Parliament Project, based at the University of St Andrews, was set up in 1997 with funding from the Scottish Office, and has since received its funding from the Scottish Executive and a number of academic funding bodies. Its main task has been to create a new online edition of the acts of the pre-1707 Scottish Parliament (c.16,000,000 words), the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS), with a parallel translation of the original Latin, French, Gaelic and Scots into standard searchable English. The final product of this research is a complete record of the Scottish parliament from its origins to its ending in 1707. The inclusion of new parliaments, additional legislation and committee records and minutes makes the final project the most comprehensive and accurate record of Scottish parliamentary proceedings ever available. It is also among the most accessible and technologically advanced record of any European medieval or early modern representative institution.
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Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (UK operations) |
Compilation of bibliographical information and abstracts of all scholarly writings on music published in all formats in the UK. These are sent electronically to RILM head quarters in New York to be added to the international database available by subscription to institutions and individuals. This phase of the project (RILM-UK 1999-2004) has brought the UK coverage of monographs up to date, thereby ensuring that a great part of the strengths and diversity of UK musicology is properly represented within, and made available to, the national and international community. |
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Recovering the Material and Visual Cultures of the Southern Sudan: A Museological Resource |
The cultures of Southern Sudan have been central to anthropological research and teaching since the publication of Evans-Pritchard’s classic works on the Zande and Nuer in the 1930s and 1940s. A number of collections from Evans-Pritchard and other figures in the history of the study of the cultures of the Southern Sudan are represented in the collections of the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Taken as a whole, the Museum’s Southern Sudan collections comprise 1100+ objects—weapons, utensils, domestic goods, ornaments, etc.—and 7500+ historic photographs (negatives, lantern slides, and prints). Such records constitute an extraordinary research resource for extending understanding of a set of complex historic relationships. First, they provide direct evidence of the anthropologists’ interactions with the communities in which they worked. Analysis of objects and photographs can reveal otherwise submerged or masked aspects of anthropologists’ field situations, as well as the ways in which they worked, thought, and reflected on their work. Secondly, they provide direct evidence of historic and contemporary relationships between those communities and the wider world. Analysis of the materials, processes, and types of objects in museum collections and recorded in photographs provides vital evidence of otherwise unrecognized external relationships. Historic collections of objects and photographs provide direct evidence of change and provide the opportunity to shed light on such processes. With developments in ICT, and in the Museum’s own collections management procedures and practices, the opportunity now exists to realise this via the web. |
