History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image, and Media

James Cook is Senior Lecturer in Early Music at the University of Edinburgh. Alexander Kolassa is a Lecturer in Music at the Open University, UK. Alexander Robinson is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the CESR, Tours, France. Adam Whittaker is Head of Pedagogy at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire,UK.

Introduction – James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, Alexander Robinson, Adam Whittaker I. Using and Misusing Early Music 1. ‘Official’ (televisual) History, Music and the Reinforcement of Popular Imagination: the Case of David Starkey’s Monarchy - Alexander Robinson (Independent Scholar) 2. Damon Albarn, Dr Dee, and situation specific medievalism: An ephemeral fantasy or a disposable commodity?- Ralph Corrigan (Independent Scholar) 3.Shakespeare, the early modern, and period song in the American silent cinema - Kendra Leonard 4. Early Music in the 'Early Game'- Jennifer Smith (University of Huddersfield) 5. A masked ritual and backwards priests: Aural and visual corruption in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut - Daniel Trocmé-Latter (University of Cambridge) II. Early music, immersive media, and virtual histories 6. Audiovisual Interaction in Virtual Worlds: Seeing Sound and Hearing Objects in Visual Cultures - James Cook (University of Edinburgh) 7. Half-real worlds? Immersion and the representation of musical pasts in virtual reality- Adam Whittaker (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) 8. Authenticity in sound design for virtual reality - Stephen Tatlow (Royal Holloway University of London) III. Early music out of time and space 9. Haunted by the Past: Music and Folk Horror in Children of the Stones - Alexander Kolassa (The Open University) 10. Pixels et al.: Multi-layered representation of past(s) in theaudio, visual, and ludic elements of Shovel Night and other screen media - Dean Chalmers (University of Edinburgh) 11. The endless knot: Turning the seasons in Harrison Birtwistle’s Gawain (1991) and David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) - George K. Haggett 12. A Jolly Good Thirteenth -Century Romp: Galavant architextuality, and the intertextual performance of race, gender, and social class in a medievalist musical comedy for television - William A. Everett (University of Missouri)