{"id":7516,"date":"2016-05-17T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2016-05-17T10:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:47:54","slug":"exploring-musical-colour-at-the-gothic-colour-day-ahead-of-the-mems-festival-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/05\/17\/exploring-musical-colour-at-the-gothic-colour-day-ahead-of-the-mems-festival-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring musical colour at the Gothic Colour day ahead of the MEMS Festival next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University&#8217;s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies <strong>MEMS Festival<\/strong> takes place next month, a two-day event highlighting new research, round-table discussions, exhibitions, talks and performances celebrating developments in the field.<\/p>\n<p>A special preview day on <strong>Thursday 16 June<\/strong> at Eastbridge Hospital, <em>Illuminating the Past<\/em>, will explore the making and meaning of Gothic colour, as part of which <strong>Minerva Voices<\/strong> will be singing in the ancient Pilgrim&#8217;s Hospital during a day of interactive workshops and talks.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the day, Your Loyal Correspondent reflects on the idea of colour in music, and reflects on the immediacy of performing ancient music in historic spaces, where song meets stone, over on the event webpage <a href=\"https:\/\/memsfestival.wordpress.com\/preview-day\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7517\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2016\/05\/illum_past_poster.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7517\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2016\/05\/illum_past_poster-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"illum_past_poster\" width=\"650\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2016\/05\/illum_past_poster.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2016\/05\/illum_past_poster-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2016\/05\/illum_past_poster-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Choir will sing music from the period, including a skirling <em>Kyrie <\/em>by Hildegard von Bingen. Find out more about the festival <a href=\"https:\/\/memsfestival.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PRv4jt-7FBY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/05\/17\/exploring-musical-colour-at-the-gothic-colour-day-ahead-of-the-mems-festival-next-month\/&amp;t=Exploring musical colour at the Gothic Colour day ahead of the MEMS Festival next month' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Exploring musical colour at the Gothic Colour day ahead of the MEMS Festival next month%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/05\/17\/exploring-musical-colour-at-the-gothic-colour-day-ahead-of-the-mems-festival-next-month\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/05\/17\/exploring-musical-colour-at-the-gothic-colour-day-ahead-of-the-mems-festival-next-month\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/05\/17\/exploring-musical-colour-at-the-gothic-colour-day-ahead-of-the-mems-festival-next-month\/&amp;title=Exploring musical colour at the Gothic Colour day ahead of the MEMS Festival next month' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/05\/17\/exploring-musical-colour-at-the-gothic-colour-day-ahead-of-the-mems-festival-next-month\/&amp;title=Exploring musical colour at the Gothic Colour day ahead of the MEMS Festival next month' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University&#8217;s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies MEMS Festival takes place next month, a two-day event highlighting new research, round-table discussions, exhibitions, talks and performances celebrating developments in the field. A special preview day on Thursday 16 June at Eastbridge Hospital, Illuminating the Past, will explore the making and meaning of Gothic colour, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/05\/17\/exploring-musical-colour-at-the-gothic-colour-day-ahead-of-the-mems-festival-next-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploring musical colour at the Gothic Colour day ahead of the MEMS Festival next month<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":7518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[151780,151777,151778,151779,119603],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7522,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions\/7522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}