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The Healing Power of Chant - Professor Christopher Page

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Channel: Gresham College · 2015 · Education

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Medieval history is full of stories about miracles and cures. Professor Page discusses the importance of Chant to people seeking miracles:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/music-imagination-and-experience-in-the-medieval-world

For the medieval audience, the power of chant went far beyond the aesthetic. The devout believed that chant had miraculous powers of healing; that listening to chant might cause God to straighten limbs or restore sight. Professor Page has come across many accounts of this in the sources, and here he relates a choice few.

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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