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Tears and Faith - Professor Christopher Page

970 views · Published 25 September 2015 · 3:28 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: Gresham College · 2015 · Education

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A tearful response to music was a common sight, according to medieval sources, Professor Page examines this phenomenon:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/music-imagination-and-experience-in-the-medieval-world

Examing both the social mechanics, such  as ideals of masculinity, and the religious mores of medieval society fails to explain why tears are so often the response to music, particularly holy Music. Professor Page will dveot a lecture to this topic in his upcoming series.

Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is an internationally renowned performer and writer, as well as being an experienced presenter through BBC Radio. He holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology..

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-christopher-page

A series of lectures concerned with the place of musical sound and art in medieval imagination and experience: its relation to patterns of fear, delight and awe. The setting for the lectures will be one of the few medieval churches of London to survive the Great Fire of 1666: St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Holborn.

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/music-imagination-and-experience-in-the-medieval-world

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