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Heated Exchanges: Ritual and Domestic Transformations at Burnt Mound sites in the Northern Isles.
Lauren Doughton (University of Manchester, UK)
Playing with clay: Pots as bodily representations at Malleiten bei Bad Fischau, Austria
Sandy Budden (University of Southampton, UK)
From Ancient Harmoniai to Reliqiuae Romanae: How the Greek tradition inspired the music of Baroque Rome
Erin Headley (University of Southampton, UK)
In the 17th century Italian scholars and musicians continued the study of Greek thought and culture that had earlier been pursued by their Renaissance predecessors and those in previous centuries.
In Renaissance and early Baroque Florence, attempts to translate and retranslate Greek music theory (modes, ancient harmonies, tunings),
and to reinvent Greek musical recitation and the chorus, were all
devised to inform and improve the Italians' own 'modern music'. Their
poets drew on myths (Orpheus, Ulysses, Euridice) for their texts, and
Presenting the Past: historicism and authenticity in multidisciplinary interpretations
Ros King (University of Southampton; r.king@soton.ac.uk)
