In this article, the results of a research project whose objective is to recover the sound of the Hispanic Rite are presented. This rite was the liturgy celebrated in the Iberian Peninsula until its abolition at the end of the eleventh century.
To try to recover the original sound of the Hispanic Rite, virtual acoustic reality technologies have been applied which, through a process called auralisation, allow to reconstruct the sound of any space as long as its geometry and the acoustic characteristics of the materials that form it are known. With this purpose, the existing archaeological documentation has been used to create the digital acoustic models of a group of Hispanic pre-Romanesque churches as they were in their primitive state. In addition, anechoic recordings of various musical pieces of the recovered Mozarabic Chant repertoire have been carried out. Finally, from the digital models and the anechoic recordings, auralisations corresponding to the usual liturgical configurations in this rite have been made.
In this article, the results of a research project whose objective is to recover the sound of the Hispanic Rite are presented. This rite was the liturgy celebrated in the Iberian Peninsula until its abolition at the end of the eleventh century.
To try to recover the original sound of the Hispanic Rite, virtual acoustic reality technologies have been applied which, through a process called auralisation, allow to reconstruct the sound of any space as long as its geometry and the acoustic characteristics of the materials that form it are known. With this purpose, the existing archaeological documentation has been used to create the digital acoustic models of a group of Hispanic pre-Romanesque churches as they were in their primitive state. In addition, anechoic recordings of various musical pieces of the recovered Mozarabic Chant repertoire have been carried out. Finally, from the digital models and the anechoic recordings, auralisations corresponding to the usual liturgical configurations in this rite have been made. Read More


