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The Faerie Queene Liturgy Project

in Academic Service - Archive by admin on April 14th, 2010

Event Date: Wednesday 14 April 2010
St George’s House, Windsor Castle

The Faerie Queene Liturgy Project seeks to create new liturgical texts and solidarity-building rituals for contemporary society inspired by the quest for holiness in Book 1 of Edmund Spenser’s now neglected epic poem. The scholar and writer Ewan Fernie will work in conjunction with major contemporary poets Jo Shapcott and Michael Symmons Roberts, as well as with the theologian Andrew Shanks, who has made a case for ‘shaken poetry’ as a source of religious renovation. This team will prepare two extraordinary, inclusive events for the two very different environments of Manchester Cathedral and St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, working in each case with an impressive group of consultants including scholars, artists and theologians. The culminating event in Windsor will feature Andrew Motion and form part of the Windsor Spring Festival, 2011. The event in Manchester, on May the 8th, 2011, will be preceded by a procession, through the city streets, with Catalan-style ‘gegants’, giant puppet figures, representing Spenserian figures.

This recording is of the inaugural meeting of The Faerie Queene Liturgy Project in St George’s House, Windsor Castle. The Windsor group includes: Ewan Fernie; Andrew Shanks; Jo Shapcott; Michael Symmons Roberts; Sarah Apetrei (Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology, Keble College, Oxford and expert in early modern female spirituality); David Fuller (Emeritus Professor of English, Durham, former University Orator and co-author of *Signs of Grace*); Graham Holderness (Professor of English, Hertfordshire, poet, novelist, and critic of early modern/religious literature); Kevin Morris (Vicar of St Michaels and All Angels, Chiswick); Andrew Taylor (University chaplain, arts administrator, parish priest); Salley Vickers (bestselling novelist and advisor to the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England); Monawar Hussain (Muslim Tutor at Eton College); Ben Quash ( Professor of Christianity and the Arts, King’s College, London and formerly Academic Convenor of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme), and David Ruiter ( Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Texas, El Paso).

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Ewan Fernie/Andrew Shanks: Introduction

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Monawar Hussain/Jo Shapcott/David Ruiter

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David Fuller/Andrew Taylor/Sarah Apetrei

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Morning Discussion

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Graham Holderness/Kevin Morris/Salley Vickers

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Afternoon Discussion

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The HEIF (Higher Education Innovation Fund) has awarded the The Faerie Queene Liturgy Project money which has enabled the project to commission new music from the composer Tim Garland. Garland will compose four original ‘Faerie Queene Canticles’ for jazz trio Acoustic Triangle and the Royal Holloway College Choir. These canticles will set part of the original text inspired by The Faerie Queene that is produced by the project. The project is seeking further funding to support this new musical dimension of its work.

The Faerie Queene Liturgy Project is part of the broader AHRC / ESRC Faerie Queene Now Project. A sister Fable and Drama Project led by Co-I Simon Palfrey is working with schools and the Globe Theatre to trial and evolve new conceptions of virtue using Spenser as springboard.

For more details of The Faerie Queene Now project and notification of associated public events, please see the project website

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Words and Music: second session

in Academic Service - Archive by admin on March 3rd, 2010

The Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London

Event Date: 3rd March 2010

Organized By Professor Terence Cave (St. John’s College, Oxford)

Abstract:
The complex relations between music and language have been explored by poets, musicians, musicologists, literary critics and historians, psychologists, neuroscientists and many others across the disciplines. Thinking about the interaction betwen words and music in vocal music, and about the ways in which their joint effect is perceived by listeners and performers, may help us better to understand the differences and similarities, the compatibilities and incompatibilities, of these two fundamental forms of human expression and communication.

The two half-day sessions of the seminar “Words and Music” will set up a dialogue between speakers specialising in different aspects of this question, including a musicologist, an audio scientist, a practising poet, a composer, and literary specialists.

The discussions in both sessions will thus be cross-disciplinary. The issues they will explore bear on fundamental questions such as interpretation, aesthetic form and the way it is experienced, cognitive processes and strategies, and the nature of communication. We hope that our audience will represent a wide range of disciplines, including literary studies, musicology, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science and related subjects, and that it will make an important contribution to our discussions. In order to achieve this aim, the numbers of those attending will be limited and advance registration will be required.

Second session: Wednesday 3 March 2010

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Opening remarks Terrence Cave / Ahuvia Kahane

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Jo Shapcott (poet, RHUL) and John Woolrich (composer) in conversation

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David Owen Norris (Musical Performance, University of Southampton) “Parallel Universes”

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