COMPEL Omeka Dev

Ghosts of Cluny

Item

Title

Ghosts of Cluny

Description

The Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, established in 910 by William I of Aquitaine, was the leading center of monasticism in the Middle Ages and boasted the largest church in Christendom prior to the 16th-century reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.  Today only the bell tower of the church and a fraction of the great abbey remain, having been devastated by plundering during the French Revolution.  Otherworldly echoes of the millennium-old ruins resound in Ghosts of Cluny, a piece which evokes both the sacredness and the immense acoustic space of the former monastery.

The work was realized in the IMPACT Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and was named a Finalist in the International Composition Competition “Città di Udine,” ninth edition.

Creator

Date

2010

Instrumentation

fixed media

Duration

5:12

Citation

Timothy Roy, “Ghosts of Cluny,” COMPEL Omeka Dev, accessed November 22, 2024, https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/254.

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