Musical Text as Ritual Object

1. Sacred Ritual and Encoding of Meanings Hanna Liss, The Torah Scroll and Its Function as Ritual Object in Jewish Culture, Jonathan Glixon, Performing Vows: Rituals of Transition in the Nunneries of Early Modern Venice, Gregory Barnett, The Symbolism of Modal Design, Janina Karolewski, Ritual Texts and Music in Turkish Alevism: Dimensions of Transmission and Bearers of Knowledge 2. Manuscripts and the Ritual of Roman Cantata Arnaldo Morelli, Seventeenth-Century Roman Cantata Manuscripts as a Source for a Material History, Christine Jeanneret, The Roman Cantatas Manuscripts (1640-1680): A Musical Cabinet of Curiosities, Alessio Ruffatti, French Sources of Roman Cantatas: The European Dissemination, Margaret Murata, The Score on the Shelf: Valuing the Anonymous and Unheard 3. Ritual and Drama Karin Polit, Rhythm, Agency and Divine Presence in the Garhwal Himalayas, Tim Carter, Every Friday evening music is performed in the Hall of Mirrors... Claudio Monteverdi and the Rituals of Courtly Exchange in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy, Norbert Dubowy, Collecting Opera Scores in the 17th Century - Ritual Aspects, Antje Tumat, Performance Sources: Incidental Music on the Nineteenth-Century German Stage, Christa Brustle, Texts of Musical Practice - Sources for Interpretation and Fragments of Performances 4. Ritual Text as Historical Document Andreas Pries, Ancient Egyptian Ritual Texts or How to Understand an Instruction Manual without Knowing the Specific Subject it Was Written About?, Christof Zotter, Text as Ritual Object in Hindu Initiation, Hendrik Schulze, Ritualistic vs. Transcendental Work Concept: Editing Operatic Texts