Digital archives and music between Italy and Jerusalem
Voices & Knowledge is the online learning strand of JERUS-IT-ARTS, conceived as the digital extension of the project's teaching and research activities. It brings together five multilingual video lectures available to anyone studying, researching, or simply interested in music and digital archives.
The first lecture, “Digital Archives: An Overview on Digitization”, provides the foundational elements of digital archiving, highlighting its role as a fundamental component of cultural-heritage research and preservation.
The second, “Palestinian Music: Between Cultural Identity and Transformation”, is a brief lecture on the history of Palestinian music from 1948 to the present day, reinforcing the project's objective of building a strong cultural bridge between Italy and the Middle East.
The other three short lectures focus on the project intensive activity of research and training on ancient musical instruments:
"A Lost Voice" presents the complex research efforts surrounding the invaluable historic organ, built in the twelfth century, discovered by Franciscan archaeologists in Bethlehem and currently preserved by the Custody of the Holy Land in Jerusalem.
"Playing the Ancient" provides a summary of a masterclass on a reconstruction of the organ depicted in the twelfth-century Stephen Harding Bible.
"Around the Pipes of Jerusalem" highlights new musical repertoires for medieval organs between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries (positive, portable, and large organs) and aims to give new impetus to improvisational practices.
