RESILIENCE Training Prototype: Hearing Beyond What You Hear
The second day of the RESILIENCE training prototype in Rome was full of music, which as well as documents and artifacts is a source for the study of religion.
Late Medieval Music
The second day of the RESILIENCE training prototype in Rome was full of music. Prof. Gioia Filocamo (Conservatorio di musica di Terni –Università di Parma) introduced us to the fascinating world of late medieval music and treated the participants with some examples from the sources, helping them to hear beyond what they heard. She not only managed to have all participants actually sing the chorus of a medieval hymn, but made above all clear that the study of this music reveals so much about religion in daily life in those days. Since research into this field still has quite some open questions, the cooperation between IT-possibilities and scrutinizing the physical documents is very welcome.
Friezenkerk
The afternoon was again quite musical. The instruction given in the Friezenkerk ended with a tour of that church building and there the trainers shared how old fashioned physical research in the form of just measuring the organ, made clear that this was the organ Mozart played when he visited Rome.
Biblioteca Vallicelliana
After the Friezenkerk the participants walked to the Biblioteca Vallicelliana. This impressive library is in itself a hidden treasure, but it also contains treasures as Dr. Chiara Gironi (responsible for education). One of the unique pieces ofthe collection is a medieval hymnbook that spontaneously was taken out of the archive right after Dr. Gironi heard about the morning session. She also explained why digitization of books can never replace working with and doing research on physical copies.
Evaluations
The day full of music ended with the assignment to the participants to write down their evaluations which will be discussed on the third day and last day of this training.
