{"id":1223,"date":"2025-09-29T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:07:04","slug":"music-class-makes-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2025\/09\/29\/music-class-makes-music\/","title":{"rendered":"music class makes music!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/Chang-class-September-2025-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/Chang-class-September-2025-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/Chang-class-September-2025-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/Chang-class-September-2025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/Chang-class-September-2025-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/Chang-class-September-2025-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/Chang-class-September-2025-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/Chang-class-September-2025-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In block 2 of 2025, Lidia Chang&#8217;s &#8220;Music and Gender in Jane Austen&#8217;s England&#8221; class (with special guest Ofer Ben-Amots) visited Special Collections to look at the way music was copied and distributed in Europe from the medieval period through the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They took a close look at this manuscript leaf showing part of a choral arrangement of Psalm 46, copied probably in the 14th century:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/14thCPsalm46recto-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/14thCPsalm46recto-1-804x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/14thCPsalm46recto-1-804x1024.jpg 804w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/14thCPsalm46recto-1-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/14thCPsalm46recto-1-768x978.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/14thCPsalm46recto-1-1206x1536.jpg 1206w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/14thCPsalm46recto-1-1609x2048.jpg 1609w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/14thCPsalm46recto-1-624x794.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2025\/09\/14thCPsalm46recto-1-scaled.jpg 2011w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And then &#8230; THEY SANG IT! The words are &#8220;Omnes gentes plaudite manibus&#8221; (the fifth line from the top). 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